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Allow taint flags to be set from userspace by writing to
/proc/sys/kernel/tainted, and add a new taint flag, TAINT_USER, to be used
when userspace has potentially done something dangerous that might
compromise the kernel. This will allow support personnel to ask further
questions about what may have caused the user taint flag to have been set.
For example, they might examine the logs of the realtime JVM to see if the
Java program has used the really silly, stupid, dangerous, and
completely-non-portable direct access to physical memory feature which MUST
be implemented according to the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ).
Sigh. What were those silly people at Sun thinking?
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Use prototypes in headers
Don't define panic_on_unrecovered_nmi for all architectures
Cc: dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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GCC emits a call to a __stack_chk_fail() function when the stack canary is
not matching the expected value.
Since this is a bad security issue; lets panic the kernel rather than limping
along; the kernel really can't be trusted anymore when this happens.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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To quote Alan Cox:
The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is to
continue operation. For many environments such as scientific computing
it is preferable that the box is taken out and the error dealt with than
an uncorrected parity/ECC error get propogated.
A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons
such as power management so the default is unchanged. In other respects
the new proc/sys entry works like the existing panic controls already in
that directory.
This is separate to the edac support - EDAC allows supported chipsets to
handle ECC errors well, this change allows unsupported cases to at least
panic rather than cause problems further down the line.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Remove an unintended console_verbose() side-effect from add_taint().
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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kernel/panic.c: In function 'add_taint':
kernel/panic.c:176: warning: implicit declaration of function 'debug_locks_off'
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Disable lockdep debugging in two situations where the integrity of the
kernel no longer is guaranteed: when oopsing and when hitting a
tainting-condition. The goal is to not get weird lockdep traces that don't
make sense or are otherwise undebuggable, to not waste time.
Lockdep assumes that the previous state it knows about is valid to operate,
which is why lockdep turns itself off after the first violation it reports,
after that point it can no longer make that assumption.
A kernel oops means that the integrity of the kernel compromised; in
addition anything lockdep would report is of lesser importance than the
oops.
All the tainting conditions are of similar integrity-violating nature and
also make debugging/diagnosing more difficult.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Implement the scheduled unexport of panic_timeout.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe. There is no
protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
chain is in use. The issues were discussed in this thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2
We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
classes:
"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;
"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.
We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API. Therefore
this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
really just the old API under a new name). New kinds of data structures are
used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
registration, unregistration, and calling a chain. The three APIs are
explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
kernel/sys.c.
With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
entries being added or removed. For raw chains the implementation provides no
guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections. (The
idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
handle these things in their own way.)
There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with. For
atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem. Also, a
callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
entries on its own chain. (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
had to be changed to avoid it.)
Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
spinlocks for synchronization. Instead we use RCU. The overhead falls almost
entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
less frequent that calling a chain.
Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications. None
of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.
ATOMIC CHAINS
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arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: i386die_chain
arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c: ia64die_chain
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c: powerpc_die_chain
arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c: sparc64die_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: die_chain
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: xaction_notifier_list
kernel/panic.c: panic_notifier_list
kernel/profile.c: task_free_notifier
net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: hci_notifier
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_chain
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_expect_chain
net/ipv6/addrconf.c: inet6addr_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_expect_chain
net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_chain
BLOCKING CHAINS
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arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c: pSeries_reconfig_chain
arch/s390/kernel/process.c: idle_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c idle_notifier
drivers/base/memory.c: memory_chain
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/adb.c: adb_client_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c wf_client_list
drivers/usb/core/notify.c usb_notifier_list
drivers/video/fbmem.c fb_notifier_list
kernel/cpu.c cpu_chain
kernel/module.c module_notify_list
kernel/profile.c munmap_notifier
kernel/profile.c task_exit_notifier
kernel/sys.c reboot_notifier_list
net/core/dev.c netdev_chain
net/decnet/dn_dev.c: dnaddr_chain
net/ipv4/devinet.c: inetaddr_chain
It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong. If they are,
please let us know or submit a patch to fix them. Note that any chain that
gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
(However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
atomic.)
The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
Morton.
[jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Attempt to fix the problem wherein people's oops reports scroll off the screen
due to repeated oopsing or to oopses on other CPUs.
If this happens the user can reboot with the `pause_on_oops=<seconds>' option.
It will allow the first oopsing CPU to print an oops record just a single
time. Second oopsing attempts, or oopses on other CPUs will cause those CPUs
to enter a tight loop until the specified number of seconds have elapsed.
The patch implements the infrastructure generically in the expectation that
architectures other than x86 will find it useful.
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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When panic_timeout is zero, suppress triggering a nested panic due to soft
lockup detection.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Sanitize some s390 Kconfig options. We have ARCH_S390, ARCH_S390X,
ARCH_S390_31, 64BIT, S390_SUPPORT and COMPAT. Replace these 6 options by
S390, 64BIT and COMPAT.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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We know the system is in trouble so there is no question if this
is an emergecy :)
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Makes kexec_crashdump() take a pt_regs * as an argument. This allows to
get exact register state at the point of the crash. If we come from direct
panic assertion NULL will be passed and the current registers saved before
crashdump.
This hooks into two places:
die(): check the conditions under which we will panic when calling
do_exit and go there directly with the pt_regs that caused the fatal
fault.
die_nmi(): If we receive an NMI lockup while in the kernel use the
pt_regs and go directly to crash_kexec(). We're probably nested up badly
at this point so this might be the only chance to escape with proper
information.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch introduces the architecture independent implementation the
sys_kexec_load, the compat_sys_kexec_load system calls.
Kexec on panic support has been integrated into the core patch and is
relatively clean.
In addition the hopefully architecture independent option
crashkernel=size@location has been docuemented. It's purpose is to reserve
space for the panic kernel to live, and where no DMA transfer will ever be
setup to access.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch is incredibly trivial, but it does resolve some of the user
confusion as to what "L1-A" actually is.
Clarify printk message to refer to Stop-A (L1-A).
Gentoo has a virtually identical patch in their kernel sources.
Signed-off-by: Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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panic() doesn't flush the filesystem cache anymore. The comment above the
function still claims it does.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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At unload i8042 sets panic_blink to 0. This will cause problems if kernel
panics later as it will just use it assuming that the pointer is correct.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch readds the panic blinking that was in 2.4 to 2.6. This is
useful to see when you're in X that the machine has paniced
It addresses previously criticism.
It should work now when the keyboard interrupt is off.
It doesn't fully emulate the handler, but has a timeout
for this case.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Hugh and I both thought this would be generally useful.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This taint didn't appear to be reported.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch adds machine check tainting. When a handled machine check
occurs the oops gets a new 'M' flag. This is useful to ignore machines
with hardware problems in oops reports.
On i386 a thermal failure also sets this flag.
Done for x86-64 and i386 so far.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I found that the prototypes for sys_waitid and sys_fcntl in
<linux/syscalls.h> don't match the implementation. In order to keep all
prototypes in sync in the future, now include the header from each file
implementing any syscall.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Various people have reported deadlocks and it has aways seemed a bit risky
to try to sync the filesystems at this stage anyway.
"I have seen panic failing two times lately on an SMP system. The box
panic'ed but was running happily on the other cpus. The culprit of this
failure is the fact, that these panics have been caused by a block device
or a filesystem (e.g. using errors=panic). In these cases the likelihood
of a failure/hang of sys_sync() is high. This is exactly what happened in
both cases I have seen. Meanwhile the other cpus are happily continuing
destroying data as the kernel has a severe problem but its not aware of
that as smp_send_stop happens after sys_sync."
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Add syscalls.h, which contains prototypes for the kernel's system calls.
Replace open-coded declarations all over the place. This patch found a
couple of prior bugs. It appears to be more important with -mregparm=3 as we
discover more asmlinkage mismatches.
Some syscalls have arch-dependent arguments, so their prototypes are in the
arch-specific unistd.h. Maybe it should have been asm/syscalls.h, but there
were already arch-specific syscall prototypes in asm/unistd.h...
Tested on x86, ia64, x86_64, ppc64, s390 and sparc64. May cause
trivial-to-fix build breakage on other architectures.
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
In some cases panic can be called with interrupts off. Don't trigger the
NMI watchdog in this case when a panic= parameter is specified.
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depending on undefined preprocessor symbols evaluating to zero.
Make panic.c use proper function prototypes.
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Change sysrq sync/remount from a magic bdflush hook to proper pdflush
operations. The sync operation reuses most of the regular sys_sync path now
instead of implementing it's own superblock walking and (broken) local disk
detection, the remount implementation has been moved to super.c, cleaned up
and updated for the last two years locking changes. It also shares some code
with the regular remount path now.
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From: Russell Miller <rmiller@duskglow.com>
A BUG or an oops will often leave a machine in a useless state. There is no
way to remotely recover the machine from that state.
The patch adds a /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_oops sysctl which, when set, will
cause the x86 kernel to call panic() at the end of the oops handler. If the
user has also set /proc/sys/kernel/panic then a reboot will occur.
The implementation will try to sleep for a while before panicing so the oops
info has a chance of hitting the logs.
The implementation is designed so that other architectures can easily do this
in their oops handlers.
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This implements EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and MODULE_LICENSE properly (so
restrictions are enforced). Also fixes "proprietory" spelling.
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Make people use the proper cli/sti replacements
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This is a massive cleanup of the IRQ subsystem. It's losely based on
Linus' original idea and DaveM's original implementation, to fold our
various irq, softirq and bh counters into the preemption counter.
with this approach it was possible:
- to remove the 'big IRQ lock' on SMP - on which sti() and cli() relied.
- to streamline/simplify arch/i386/kernel/irq.c significantly.
- to simplify the softirq code.
- to remove the preemption count increase/decrease code from the lowlevel
IRQ assembly code.
- to speed up schedule() a bit.
Global sti() and cli() is gone forever on SMP, there is no more globally
synchronizing irq-disabling capability. All code that relied on sti()
and cli() and restore_flags() must use other locking mechanisms from now
on (spinlocks and __cli()/__sti()).
obviously this patch breaks massive amounts of code, so only limited
.configs are working at the moment (UP is expected to be unaffected, but
SMP will require various driver updates).
The patch was developed and tested on SMP systems, and while the code is
still a bit rough in places, the base IRQ code appears to be pretty
robust and clean.
while it boots already so the worst is over, there is lots of work left:
eg. to fix the serial layer to not use cli()/sti() and bhs ...
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This is needed for things running on the host which want to know when UML
panics, and what the panic message was.
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Newer Athlons have means of checking if they are SMP capable or not.
This code adds checks that printk a warning on systems not intended
for SMP, and set the taint flag that modutils is already aware of.
The taint code is also improved to use defines instead of magic numbers.
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- me/Al Viro: fix bdget() oops with block device modules that don't
clean up after they exit
- Alan Cox: continued merging (drivers, license tags)
- David Miller: sparc update, network fixes
- Christoph Hellwig: work around broken drivers that add a gendisk more
than once
- Jakub Jelinek: handle more ELF loading special cases
- Trond Myklebust: NFS client and lockd reclaimer cleanups/fixes
- Greg KH: USB updates
- Mikael Pettersson: sparate out local APIC / IO-APIC config options
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- Neil Brown: md cleanups/fixes
- Andrew Morton: console locking merge
- Andrea Arkangeli: major VM merge
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