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  1. Oct 06, 2016
    • Al Viro's avatar
      new iov_iter flavour: pipe-backed · 241699cd
      Al Viro authored
      
      
      iov_iter variant for passing data into pipe.  copy_to_iter()
      copies data into page(s) it has allocated and stuffs them into
      the pipe; copy_page_to_iter() stuffs there a reference to the
      page given to it.  Both will try to coalesce if possible.
      iov_iter_zero() is similar to copy_to_iter(); iov_iter_get_pages()
      and friends will do as copy_to_iter() would have and return the
      pages where the data would've been copied.  iov_iter_advance()
      will truncate everything past the spot it has advanced to.
      
      New primitive: iov_iter_pipe(), used for initializing those.
      pipe should be locked all along.
      
      Running out of space acts as fault would for iovec-backed ones;
      in other words, giving it to ->read_iter() may result in short
      read if the pipe overflows, or -EFAULT if it happens with nothing
      copied there.
      
      In other words, ->read_iter() on those acts pretty much like
      ->splice_read().  Moreover, all generic_file_splice_read() users,
      as well as many other ->splice_read() instances can be switched
      to that scheme - that'll happen in the next commit.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      241699cd
  2. Oct 04, 2016
  3. Sep 26, 2016
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 4.8-rc8 · 08895a8b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      08895a8b
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'trace-v4.8-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace · 4c04b4b5
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull tracefs fixes from Steven Rostedt:
       "Al Viro has been looking at the tracefs code, and has pointed out some
        issues.  This contains one fix by me and one by Al.  I'm sure that
        he'll come up with more but for now I tested these patches and they
        don't appear to have any negative impact on tracing"
      
      * tag 'trace-v4.8-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
        fix memory leaks in tracing_buffers_splice_read()
        tracing: Move mutex to protect against resetting of seq data
      4c04b4b5
    • Dave Chinner's avatar
      fault_in_multipages_readable() throws set-but-unused error · 90b75db6
      Dave Chinner authored
      When building XFS with -Werror, it now fails with:
      
        include/linux/pagemap.h: In function 'fault_in_multipages_readable':
        include/linux/pagemap.h:602:16: error: variable 'c' set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
          volatile char c;
                        ^
      
      This is a regression caused by commit e23d4159
      
       ("fix
      fault_in_multipages_...() on architectures with no-op access_ok()").
      Fix it by re-adding the "(void)c" trick taht was previously used to make
      the compiler think the variable is used.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      90b75db6
    • Lorenzo Stoakes's avatar
      mm: check VMA flags to avoid invalid PROT_NONE NUMA balancing · 38e08854
      Lorenzo Stoakes authored
      The NUMA balancing logic uses an arch-specific PROT_NONE page table flag
      defined by pte_protnone() or pmd_protnone() to mark PTEs or huge page
      PMDs respectively as requiring balancing upon a subsequent page fault.
      User-defined PROT_NONE memory regions which also have this flag set will
      not normally invoke the NUMA balancing code as do_page_fault() will send
      a segfault to the process before handle_mm_fault() is even called.
      
      However if access_remote_vm() is invoked to access a PROT_NONE region of
      memory, handle_mm_fault() is called via faultin_page() and
      __get_user_pages() without any access checks being performed, meaning
      the NUMA balancing logic is incorrectly invoked on a non-NUMA memory
      region.
      
      A simple means of triggering this problem is to access PROT_NONE mmap'd
      memory using /proc/self/mem which reliably results in the NUMA handling
      functions being invoked when CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING is set.
      
      This issue was reported in bugzilla (issue 99101) which includes some
      simple repro code.
      
      There are BUG_ON() checks in do_numa_page() and do_huge_pmd_numa_page()
      added at commit c0e7cad9 to avoid accidentally provoking strange
      behaviour by attempting to apply NUMA balancing to pages that are in
      fact PROT_NONE.  The BUG_ON()'s are consistently triggered by the repro.
      
      This patch moves the PROT_NONE check into mm/memory.c rather than
      invoking BUG_ON() as faulting in these pages via faultin_page() is a
      valid reason for reaching the NUMA check with the PROT_NONE page table
      flag set and is therefore not always a bug.
      
      Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99101
      
      
      Reported-by: default avatarTrevor Saunders <tbsaunde@tbsaunde.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      38e08854
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus · 831e45d8
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull MIPS fixes from Ralf Baechle:
       "A round of 4.8 fixes:
      
        MIPS generic code:
         - Add a missing ".set pop" in an early commit
         - Fix memory regions reaching top of physical
         - MAAR: Fix address alignment
         - vDSO: Fix Malta EVA mapping to vDSO page structs
         - uprobes: fix incorrect uprobe brk handling
         - uprobes: select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
         - Avoid a BUG warning during PR_SET_FP_MODE prctl
         - SMP: Fix possibility of deadlock when bringing CPUs online
         - R6: Remove compact branch policy Kconfig entries
         - Fix size calc when avoiding IPIs for small icache flushes
         - Fix pre-r6 emulation FPU initialisation
         - Fix delay slot emulation count in debugfs
      
        ATH79:
         - Fix test for error return of clk_register_fixed_factor.
      
        Octeon:
         - Fix kernel header to work for VDSO build.
         - Fix initialization of platform device probing.
      
        paravirt:
         - Fix undefined reference to smp_bootstrap"
      
      * 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus:
        MIPS: Fix delay slot emulation count in debugfs
        MIPS: SMP: Fix possibility of deadlock when bringing CPUs online
        MIPS: Fix pre-r6 emulation FPU initialisation
        MIPS: vDSO: Fix Malta EVA mapping to vDSO page structs
        MIPS: Select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
        MIPS: Octeon: Fix platform bus probing
        MIPS: Octeon: mangle-port: fix build failure with VDSO code
        MIPS: Avoid a BUG warning during prctl(PR_SET_FP_MODE, ...)
        MIPS: c-r4k: Fix size calc when avoiding IPIs for small icache flushes
        MIPS: Add a missing ".set pop" in an early commit
        MIPS: paravirt: Fix undefined reference to smp_bootstrap
        MIPS: Remove compact branch policy Kconfig entries
        MIPS: MAAR: Fix address alignment
        MIPS: Fix memory regions reaching top of physical
        MIPS: uprobes: fix incorrect uprobe brk handling
        MIPS: ath79: Fix test for error return of clk_register_fixed_factor().
      831e45d8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'powerpc-4.8-7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux · 751b9a5d
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull one more powerpc fix from Michael Ellerman:
       "powernv/pci: Fix m64 checks for SR-IOV and window alignment from
        Russell Currey"
      
      * tag 'powerpc-4.8-7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
        powerpc/powernv/pci: Fix m64 checks for SR-IOV and window alignment
      751b9a5d
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      radix tree: fix sibling entry handling in radix_tree_descend() · 8d2c0d36
      Linus Torvalds authored
      The fixes to the radix tree test suite show that the multi-order case is
      broken.  The basic reason is that the radix tree code uses tagged
      pointers with the "internal" bit in the low bits, and calculating the
      pointer indices was supposed to mask off those bits.  But gcc will
      notice that we then use the index to re-create the pointer, and will
      avoid doing the arithmetic and use the tagged pointer directly.
      
      This cleans the code up, using the existing is_sibling_entry() helper to
      validate the sibling pointer range (instead of open-coding it), and
      using entry_to_node() to mask off the low tag bit from the pointer.  And
      once you do that, you might as well just use the now cleaned-up pointer
      directly.
      
      [ Side note: the multi-order code isn't actually ever used in the kernel
        right now, and the only reason I didn't just delete all that code is
        that Kirill Shutemov piped up and said:
      
          "Well, my ext4-with-huge-pages patchset[1] uses multi-order entries.
           It also converts shmem-with-huge-pages and hugetlb to them.
      
           I'm okay with converting it to other mechanism, but I need
           something.  (I looked into Konstantin's RFC patchset[2].  It looks
           okay, but I don't feel myself qualified to review it as I don't
           know much about radix-tree internals.)"
      
        [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160915115523.29737-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
        [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147230727479.9957.1087787722571077339.stgit@zurg
      
       ]
      
      Reported-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
      Cc: Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8d2c0d36
    • Matthew Wilcox's avatar
      radix tree test suite: Test radix_tree_replace_slot() for multiorder entries · 62fd5258
      Matthew Wilcox authored
      
      
      When we replace a multiorder entry, check that all indices reflect the
      new value.
      
      Also, compile the test suite with -O2, which shows other problems with
      the code due to some dodgy pointer operations in the radix tree code.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      62fd5258
    • Al Viro's avatar
      fix memory leaks in tracing_buffers_splice_read() · 1ae2293d
      Al Viro authored
      
      
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      1ae2293d
  4. Sep 25, 2016
  5. Sep 24, 2016