there's a new ptrace arch level feature in .28:
config X86_PTRACE_BTS
bool "Branch Trace Store"
it has broken fork() handling: the old DS area gets copied over into
a new task without clearing it.
Fixes exist but they came too late:
c5dee61: x86, bts: memory accounting
bf53de9: x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
and are queued up for v2.6.29. This shows that the facility is still not
tested well enough to release into a stable kernel - disable it for now and
reactivate in .29. In .29 the hardware-branch-tracer will use the DS/BTS
facilities too - hopefully resulting in better code.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
flush_tlb_mm's "optimized" uniprocessor case of allocating a new
context for userspace is exposing a race where we can suddely return
to a syscall with the protection id and space id out of sync, trapping
on the next userspace access.
Debugged-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When deleting an edac device, we have to wait for its edac_dev.work to be
completed before deleting the whole edac_dev structure. Since we have no
idea which work in current edac_poller's workqueue is the work we are
conerned about, we wait for all work in the edac_poller's workqueue to be
proceseed. This is done via flush_cpu_workqueue() which inserts a
wq_barrier into the tail of the workqueue and then sleeping on the
completion of this wq_barrier. The edac_poller will wake up sleepers when
it is found.
EDAC core creates only one kernel worker thread, edac_poller, to run the
works of all current edac devices. They share the same callback function
of edac_device_workq_function(), which would grab the mutex of
device_ctls_mutex first before it checks the device. This is exactly
where edac_poller and rmmod would have a great chance to deadlock.
In below call trace of rmmod > ... >
edac_device_del_device >
edac_device_workq_teardown > flush_workqueue > flush_cpu_workqueue,
device_ctls_mutex would have already been grabbed by
edac_device_del_device(). So, on one hand rmmod would sleep on the
completion of a wq_barrier, holding device_ctls_mutex; on the other hand
edac_poller would be blocked on the same mutex when it's running any one
of works of existing edac evices(Note, this edac_dev.work is likely to be
totally irrelevant to the one that is being removed right now)and never
would have a chance to run the work of above wq_barrier to wake rmmod up.
edac_device_workq_teardown() should not be called within the critical
region of device_ctls_mutex. Just like is done in edac_pci_del_device()
and edac_mc_del_mc(), where edac_pci_workq_teardown() and
edac_mc_workq_teardown() are called after related mutex are released.
Moreover, an edac_dev.work should check first if it is being removed. If
this is the case, then it should bail out immediately. Since not all of
existing edac devices are to be removed, this "shutting flag" should be
contained to edac device being removed. The current edac_dev.op_state can
be used to serve this purpose.
The original deadlock problem and the solution have been witnessed and
tested on actual hardware. Without the solution, rmmod an edac driver
would result in below deadlock:
root@localhost:/root> rmmod mv64x60_edac
EDAC DEBUG: mv64x60_dma_err_remove()
EDAC DEBUG: edac_device_del_device()
EDAC DEBUG: find_edac_device_by_dev()
(hang for a moment)
INFO: task edac-poller:2030 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
edac-poller D 00000000 0 2030 2
Call Trace:
[df159dc0] [c0071e3c] free_hot_cold_page+0x17c/0x304 (unreliable)
[df159e80] [c000a024] __switch_to+0x6c/0xa0
[df159ea0] [c03587d8] schedule+0x2f4/0x4d8
[df159f00] [c03598a8] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xa0/0x174
[df159f40] [e1030434] edac_device_workq_function+0x28/0xd8 [edac_core]
[df159f60] [c003beb4] run_workqueue+0x114/0x218
[df159f90] [c003c674] worker_thread+0x5c/0xc8
[df159fd0] [c004106c] kthread+0x5c/0xa0
[df159ff0] [c0013538] original_kernel_thread+0x44/0x60
INFO: task rmmod:2062 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
rmmod D 0ff2c9fc 0 2062 1839
Call Trace:
[df119c00] [c0437a74] 0xc0437a74 (unreliable)
[df119cc0] [c000a024] __switch_to+0x6c/0xa0
[df119ce0] [c03587d8] schedule+0x2f4/0x4d8
[df119d40] [c03591dc] schedule_timeout+0xb0/0xf4
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If cgroup_get_rootdir() failed, free_cg_links() will be called in the
failure path, but tmp_cg_links hasn't been initialized at that time.
I introduced this bug in the 2.6.27 merge window.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
During test of the w1-gpio driver i found that in "w1.c:679
w1_slave_found()" the device id is converted to little-endian with
"cpu_to_le64()", but its not converted back to cpu format in "w1_io.c:293
w1_reset_select_slave()".
Based on a patch created by Andreas Hummel.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded cast]
Reported-by: Andreas Hummel <andi_hummel@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch for the rtc-isl1208 driver makes it reject invalid dates.
Signed-off-by: Chris Elston <celston@katalix.com>
[a.zummo@towertech.it: added comment explaining the check]
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Hebert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix a NULL pointer dereference that would occur if the video decoder tied to
the em28xx supports the VIDIOC_INT_RESET call (for example: the cx25840 driver)
Signed-off-by: Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
This check was introduced with the logic the wrong way around.
Fixes regression: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12216
Tested-by: François Valenduc <francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
In each case, if the NULL test is necessary, then the dereference should be
moved below the NULL test.
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@@
type T;
expression E;
identifier i,fld;
statement S;
@@
- T i = E->fld;
+ T i;
... when != E
when != i
if (E == NULL) S
+ i = E->fld;
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Thanks to Troy Kisky <troy.kisky@boundarydevices.com> for noticing.
- DSP_A format has 1-bit data delay which corresponds to SSM6202 submode 2
- DSP_B has 0-bit data delay which corresponds to submode 1
- Currently driver sets them opposite so swap the submode setting
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@nokia.com>
Cc: Cliff Cai <cliff.cai@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
- OMAP McBSP DAI driver claims to support DSP_A format which has 1-bit data
delay but configures link for 0-bit data delay which is in fact DSP_B
- Fix this by changing format from DSP_A to DSP_B
- Fix also TLV320AIC23 codec and OSK5912 machine drivers since the same
error is populated also there
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Arun KS <arunks@mistralsolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
The way the code is written it was assuming dshd has the function of a
hypothetical dshw instruction ...
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Add check to determine if dinput_mux is set by any of patch_stac*() functions,
otherwise a invalid pointer my be referenced causing gibberish to mixer values.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ranostay <mranostay@embeddedalley.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Impact: Prevent kernel crash with posix timer clockid CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW
commit 2d42244ae7 (clocksource:
introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW) introduced a new clockid, which is only
available to read out the raw not NTP adjusted system time.
The above commit did not prevent that a posix timer can be created
with that clockid. The timer_create() syscall succeeds and initializes
the timer to a non existing hrtimer base. When the timer is deleted
either by timer_delete() or by the exit() cleanup the kernel crashes.
Prevent the creation of timers for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW by setting the
posix clock function to no_timer_create which returns an error code.
Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
fs/9p: change simple_strtol to simple_strtoul
9p: convert d_iname references to d_name.name
9p: Remove potentially bad parameter from function entry debug print.
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: fix resume (S2R) broken by Intel microcode module, on A110L
x86 gart: don't complain if no AMD GART found
AMD IOMMU: panic if completion wait loop fails
AMD IOMMU: set cmd buffer pointers to zero manually
x86: re-enable MCE on secondary CPUS after suspend/resume
AMD IOMMU: allocate rlookup_table with __GFP_ZERO
Added the missing __devexit annotation to wm8350_codec_remove():
sound/soc/codecs/wm8350.c:1546: warning: 'wm8350_codec_remove' defined but not used
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Impact: fix deadlock
This is in response to the following bug report:
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12100
Subject : resume (S2R) broken by Intel microcode module, on A110L
Submitter : Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Date : 2008-11-25 08:48 (19 days old)
Handled-By : Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
[ The deadlock scenario has been discovered by Andreas Mohr ]
I think I might have a logical explanation why the system:
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12100)
might hang upon resuming, OTOH it should have likely hanged each and every time.
(1) possible deadlock in microcode_resume_cpu() if either 'if' section is
taken;
(2) now, I don't see it in spec. and can't experimentally verify it (newer
ucodes don't seem to be available for my Core2duo)... but logically-wise, I'd
think that when read upon resuming, the 'microcode revision' (MSR 0x8B) should
be back to its original one (we need to reload ucode anyway so it doesn't seem
logical if a cpu doesn't drop the version)... if so, the comparison with
memcmp() for the full 'struct cpu_signature' is wrong... and that's how one of
the aforementioned 'if' sections might have been triggered - leading to a
deadlock.
Obviously, in my tests I simulated loading/resuming with the ucode of the same
version (just to see that the file is loaded/re-loaded upon resuming) so this
issue has never popped up.
I'd appreciate if someone with an appropriate system might give a try to the
2nd patch (titled "fix a comparison && deadlock...").
In any case, the deadlock situation is a must-have fix.
Reported-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
