linux/Documentation/core-api, branch v5.2

lib: Move mathematic helpers to separate folder

2019-05-15T02:52:49Z

For better maintenance and expansion move the mathematic helpers to the separate folder. No functional change intended. Note, the int_sqrt() is not used as a part of lib, so, moved to regular obj. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190323172531.80025-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Thierry Reding Cc: Lee Jones Cc: Daniel Thompson Cc: Ray Jui [mchehab+samsung@kernel.org: fix broken doc references for div64.c and gcd.c] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/734f49bae5d4052b3c25691dfefad59bea2e5843.1555580999.git.mchehab+samsung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2019-05-08T19:42:50Z

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: - Lots of work on the Chinese and Italian translations - Some license-rules clarifications from Christoph - Various build-script fixes - A new document on memory models - RST conversion of the live-patching docs - The usual collection of typo fixes and corrections" * tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (140 commits) docs/livepatch: Unify style of livepatch documentation in the ReST format docs: livepatch: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: detect broken :doc:`foo` scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: don't parse Next/ dir LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses docs: Don't reference the ZLib license in license-rules.rst docs/vm: Minor editorial changes in the THP and hugetlbfs docs/vm: add documentation of memory models doc:it_IT: translation alignment doc: fix typo in PGP guide dontdiff: update with Kconfig build artifacts docs/zh_CN: fix typos in 1.Intro.rst file docs/zh_CN: redirect CoC docs to Chinese version doc: mm: migration doesn't use FOLL_SPLIT anymore docs: doc-guide: remove the extension from .rst files doc: kselftest: Fix KBUILD_OUTPUT usage instructions docs: trace: fix some Sphinx warnings docs: speculation.txt: mark example blocks as such docs: ntb.txt: add blank lines to clean up some Sphinx warnings ...

Merge tag 'printk-for-5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk

2019-05-07T16:18:12Z

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - Allow state reset of printk_once() calls. - Prevent crashes when dereferencing invalid pointers in vsprintf(). Only the first byte is checked for simplicity. - Make vsprintf warnings consistent and inlined. - Treewide conversion of obsolete %pf, %pF to %ps, %pF printf modifiers. - Some clean up of vsprintf and test_printf code. * tag 'printk-for-5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: lib/vsprintf: Make function pointer_string static vsprintf: Limit the length of inlined error messages vsprintf: Avoid confusion between invalid address and value vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers vsprintf: Factor out %pO handler as kobject_string() vsprintf: Factor out %pV handler as va_format() vsprintf: Factor out %p[iI] handler as ip_addr_string() vsprintf: Do not check address of well-known strings vsprintf: Consistent %pK handling for kptr_restrict == 0 vsprintf: Shuffle restricted_pointer() printk: Tie printk_once / printk_deferred_once into .data.once for reset treewide: Switch printk users from %pf and %pF to %ps and %pS, respectively lib/test_printf: Switch to bitmap_zalloc()

vsprintf: Avoid confusion between invalid address and value

2019-04-26T14:21:03Z

We are able to detect invalid values handled by %p[iI] printk specifier. The current error message is "invalid address". It might cause confusion against "(efault)" reported by the generic valid_pointer_address() check. Let's unify the style and use the more appropriate error code description "(einval)". Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417115350.20479-10-pmladek@suse.com To: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Tobin C . Harding" Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek

vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers

2019-04-26T14:20:43Z

We already prevent crash when dereferencing some obviously broken pointers. But the handling is not consistent. Sometimes we print "(null)" only for pure NULL pointer, sometimes for pointers in the first page and sometimes also for pointers in the last page (error codes). Note that printk() call this code under logbuf_lock. Any recursive printks are redirected to the printk_safe implementation and the messages are stored into per-CPU buffers. These buffers might be eventually flushed in printk_safe_flush_on_panic() but it is not guaranteed. This patch adds a check using probe_kernel_read(). It is not a full-proof test. But it should help to see the error message in 99% situations where the kernel would silently crash otherwise. Also it makes the error handling unified for "%s" and the many %p* specifiers that need to read the data from a given address. We print: + (null) when accessing data on pure pure NULL address + (efault) when accessing data on an invalid address It does not affect the %p* specifiers that just print the given address in some form, namely %pF, %pf, %pS, %ps, %pB, %pK, %px, and plain %p. Note that we print (efault) from security reasons. In fact, the real address can be seen only by %px or eventually %pK. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417115350.20479-9-pmladek@suse.com To: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Tobin C . Harding" Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek

ia64/tlb: Eradicate tlb_migrate_finish() callback

2019-04-03T08:33:04Z

Only ia64-sn2 uses this as an optimization, and there it is of questionable correctness due to the mm_users==1 test. Remove it entirely. No change in behavior intended. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

docs: core-api: Drop reference to flexible-arrays

2019-04-02T13:59:56Z

This file doesn't exist anymore. Fixes: 586187d7de71 ("Drop flex_arrays") Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2019-03-12T17:39:53Z

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: - a few misc things - the rest of MM - remove flex_arrays, replace with new simple radix-tree implementation * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (38 commits) Drop flex_arrays sctp: convert to genradix proc: commit to genradix generic radix trees selinux: convert to kvmalloc md: convert to kvmalloc openvswitch: convert to kvmalloc of: fix kmemleak crash caused by imbalance in early memory reservation mm: memblock: update comments and kernel-doc memblock: split checks whether a region should be skipped to a helper function memblock: remove memblock_{set,clear}_region_flags memblock: drop memblock_alloc_*_nopanic() variants memblock: memblock_alloc_try_nid: don't panic treewide: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*() swiotlb: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*() init/main: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*() mm/percpu: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*() sparc: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*() ia64: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*() arch: don't memset(0) memory returned by memblock_alloc() ...

Drop flex_arrays

2019-03-12T17:04:03Z

All existing users have been converted to generic radix trees Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181217131929.11727-8-kent.overstreet@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Acked-by: Dave Hansen Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Al Viro Cc: Eric Paris Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Neil Horman Cc: Paul Moore Cc: Pravin B Shelar Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: Stephen Smalley Cc: Vlad Yasevich Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

generic radix trees

2019-03-12T17:04:02Z

Very simple radix tree implementation that supports storing arbitrary size entries, up to PAGE_SIZE - upcoming patches will convert existing flex_array users to genradixes. The new genradix code has a much simpler API and implementation, and doesn't have a hard limit on the number of elements like flex_array does. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181217131929.11727-5-kent.overstreet@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Al Viro Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Eric Paris Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Neil Horman Cc: Paul Moore Cc: Pravin B Shelar Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: Stephen Smalley Cc: Vlad Yasevich Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds