linux/lib, branch v4.5

list: kill list_force_poison()

2016-03-09T23:43:42Z

Given we have uninitialized list_heads being passed to list_add() it will always be the case that those uninitialized values randomly trigger the poison value. Especially since a list_add() operation will seed the stack with the poison value for later stack allocations to trip over. For example, see these two false positive reports: list_add attempted on force-poisoned entry WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:34 [..] NIP [c00000000043c390] __list_add+0xb0/0x150 LR [c00000000043c38c] __list_add+0xac/0x150 Call Trace: __list_add+0xac/0x150 (unreliable) __down+0x4c/0xf8 down+0x68/0x70 xfs_buf_lock+0x4c/0x150 [xfs] list_add attempted on force-poisoned entry(0000000000000500), new->next == d0000000059ecdb0, new->prev == 0000000000000500 WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:33 [..] NIP [c00000000042db78] __list_add+0xa8/0x140 LR [c00000000042db74] __list_add+0xa4/0x140 Call Trace: __list_add+0xa4/0x140 (unreliable) rwsem_down_read_failed+0x6c/0x1a0 down_read+0x58/0x60 xfs_log_commit_cil+0x7c/0x600 [xfs] Fixes: commit 5c2c2587b132 ("mm, dax, pmem: introduce {get|put}_dev_pagemap() for dax-gup") Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Reported-by: Eryu Guan Tested-by: Eryu Guan Cc: Ross Zwisler Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

lib/ucs2_string: Correct ucs2 -> utf8 conversion

2016-02-16T12:49:05Z

The comparisons should be >= since 0x800 and 0x80 require an additional bit to store. For the 3 byte case, the existing shift would drop off 2 more bits than intended. For the 2 byte case, there should be 5 bits bits in byte 1, and 6 bits in byte 2. Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek Cc: Peter Jones Cc: Matthew Garrett Cc: "Lee, Chun-Yi" Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming

Merge tag 'efi-urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi into x86/urgent

2016-02-16T12:14:57Z

Pull EFI fixes from Matt Fleming: * Prevent accidental deletion of EFI variables through efivarfs that may brick machines. We use a whitelist of known-safe variables to allow things like installing distributions to work out of the box, and instead restrict vendor-specific variable deletion by making non-whitelist variables immutable (Peter Jones) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'driver-core-4.5-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2016-02-14T20:34:53Z

Pull driver core fix from Greg KH: "Here is one driver core, well klist, fix for 4.5-rc4. It fixes a problem found in the scsi device list traversal that probably also could be triggered by other subsystems. The fix has been in linux-next for a while with no reported problems" * tag 'driver-core-4.5-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: klist: fix starting point removed bug in klist iterators

vsprintf: kptr_restrict is okay in IRQ when 2

2016-02-12T02:35:48Z

The kptr_restrict flag, when set to 1, only prints the kernel address when the user has CAP_SYSLOG. When it is set to 2, the kernel address is always printed as zero. When set to 1, this needs to check whether or not we're in IRQ. However, when set to 2, this check is unneccessary, and produces confusing results in dmesg. Thus, only make sure we're not in IRQ when mode 1 is used, but not mode 2. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ubsan: cosmetic fix to Kconfig text

2016-02-12T02:35:48Z

When enabling UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL, the kernel image size gets increased significantly (~3x). So, it sounds better to have some note in Kconfig. And, fixed a typo. Signed-off-by: Yang Shi Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-4.5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2016-02-10T19:04:05Z

Pull workqueue fixes from Tejun Heo: "Workqueue fixes for v4.5-rc3. - Remove a spurious triggering of flush dependency warning. - Officially break local execution guarantee of unbound work items and add a debug feature to flush out usages which depend on it. - Work around CPU -> NODE mapping becoming invalid on CPU offline. The branch is young but pushing out early as stable kernels are being affected" * 'for-4.5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: handle NUMA_NO_NODE for unbound pool_workqueue lookup workqueue: implement "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" debug feature workqueue: schedule WORK_CPU_UNBOUND work on wq_unbound_cpumask CPUs Revert "workqueue: make sure delayed work run in local cpu" workqueue: skip flush dependency checks for legacy workqueues

lib/ucs2_string: Add ucs2 -> utf8 helper functions

2016-02-10T13:19:03Z

This adds ucs2_utf8size(), which tells us how big our ucs2 string is in bytes, and ucs2_as_utf8, which translates from ucs2 to utf8.. Signed-off-by: Peter Jones Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi Acked-by: Matthew Garrett Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming

workqueue: implement "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" debug feature

2016-02-09T22:59:38Z

Workqueue used to guarantee local execution for work items queued without explicit target CPU. The guarantee is gone now which can break some usages in subtle ways. To flush out those cases, this patch implements a debug feature which forces round-robin CPU selection for all such work items. The debug feature defaults to off and can be enabled with a kernel parameter. The default can be flipped with a debug config option. If you hit this commit during bisection, please refer to 041bd12e272c ("Revert "workqueue: make sure delayed work run in local cpu"") for more information and ping me. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

scatterlist: fix a typo in comment block of sg_miter_stop()

2016-02-08T18:15:17Z

Fix the doubled "started" and tidy up the following sentences. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds