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  1. Jun 15, 2016
  3. Jun 06, 2016
    • Mike Danese's avatar
      security: tomoyo: simplify the gc kthread creation · 40d27378
      Mike Danese authored 
      

The code is doing the equivalent of the kthread_run macro.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Danese <mikedanese@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
      40d27378
    • Tyler Hicks's avatar
      net: Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions · d6e0d306
      Tyler Hicks authored 
      The capability check should not be audited since it is only being used
to determine the inode permissions. A failed check does not indicate a
violation of security policy but, when an LSM is enabled, a denial audit
message was being generated.

The denial audit message caused confusion for some application authors
because root-running Go applications always triggered the denial. To
prevent this confusion, the capability check in net_ctl_permissions() is
switched to the noaudit variant.

BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1465724



Signed-off-by: default avatarTyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSerge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
      d6e0d306
    • Tyler Hicks's avatar
      kernel: Add noaudit variant of ns_capable() · 98f368e9
      Tyler Hicks authored 
      

When checking the current cred for a capability in a specific user
namespace, it isn't always desirable to have the LSMs audit the check.
This patch adds a noaudit variant of ns_capable() for when those
situations arise.

The common logic between ns_capable() and the new ns_capable_noaudit()
is moved into a single, shared function to keep duplicated code to a
minimum and ease maintainability.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSerge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
      98f368e9
    • Casey Schaufler's avatar
      LSM: Fix for security_inode_getsecurity and -EOPNOTSUPP · 2885c1e3
      Casey Schaufler authored 
      

Serge Hallyn pointed out that the current implementation of
security_inode_getsecurity() works if there is only one hook
provided for it, but will fail if there is more than one and
the attribute requested isn't supplied by the first module.
This isn't a problem today, since only SELinux and Smack
provide this hook and there is (currently) no way to enable
both of those modules at the same time. Serge, however, wants
to introduce a capability attribute and an inode_getsecurity
hook in the capability security module to handle it. This
addresses that upcoming problem, will be required for "extreme
stacking" and is just a better implementation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
      2885c1e3
    • Serge E. Hallyn's avatar
      MAINTAINERS: update Serge Hallyn's email address · 39baa7e6
      Serge E. Hallyn authored 
      

Author: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Date:   Thu May 19 23:37:05 2016 -0500

    Update email address

    My canonical.com email address will soon stop working.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>

Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
      39baa7e6
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 4.7-rc2 · af8c34ce
      Linus Torvalds authored
      af8c34ce
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'parisc-4.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux · 5975b2c0
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:

 - Fix printk time stamps on SMP systems which got wrong due to a patch
   which was added during the merge window

 - Fix two bugs in the stack backtrace code: Races in module unloading
   and possible invalid accesses to memory due to wrong instruction
   decoding (Mikulas Patocka)

 - Fix userspace crash when syscalls access invalid unaligned userspace
   addresses.  Those syscalls will now return EFAULT as expected.
   (tagged for stable kernel series)

* 'parisc-4.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Move die_if_kernel() prototype into traps.h header
  parisc: Fix pagefault crash in unaligned __get_user() call
  parisc: Fix printk time during boot
  parisc: Fix backtrace on PA-RISC
      5975b2c0
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security · d834502e
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull key handling update from James Morris:
 "This alters a new keyctl function added in the current merge window to
  allow for a future extension planned for the next merge window"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
  KEYS: Add placeholder for KDF usage with DH
      d834502e
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      devpts: Make each mount of devpts an independent filesystem. · eedf265a
      Eric W. Biederman authored 
      

The /dev/ptmx device node is changed to lookup the directory entry "pts"
in the same directory as the /dev/ptmx device node was opened in.  If
there is a "pts" entry and that entry is a devpts filesystem /dev/ptmx
uses that filesystem.  Otherwise the open of /dev/ptmx fails.

The DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES configuration option is removed, so that
userspace can now safely depend on each mount of devpts creating a new
instance of the filesystem.

Each mount of devpts is now a separate and equal filesystem.

Reserved ttys are now available to all instances of devpts where the
mounter is in the initial mount namespace.

A new vfs helper path_pts is introduced that finds a directory entry
named "pts" in the directory of the passed in path, and changes the
passed in path to point to it.  The helper path_pts uses a function
path_parent_directory that was factored out of follow_dotdot.

In the implementation of devpts:
 - devpts_mnt is killed as it is no longer meaningful if all mounts of
   devpts are equal.
 - pts_sb_from_inode is replaced by just inode->i_sb as all cached
   inodes in the tty layer are now from the devpts filesystem.
 - devpts_add_ref is rolled into the new function devpts_ptmx.  And the
   unnecessary inode hold is removed.
 - devpts_del_ref is renamed devpts_release and reduced to just a
   deacrivate_super.
 - The newinstance mount option continues to be accepted but is now
   ignored.

In devpts_fs.h definitions for when !CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS are removed as
they are never used.

Documentation/filesystems/devices.txt is updated to describe the current
situation.

This has been verified to work properly on openwrt-15.05, centos5,
centos6, centos7, debian-6.0.2, debian-7.9, debian-8.2, ubuntu-14.04.3,
ubuntu-15.10, fedora23, magia-5, mint-17.3, opensuse-42.1,
slackware-14.1, gentoo-20151225 (13.0?), archlinux-2015-12-01.  With the
caveat that on centos6 and on slackware-14.1 that there wind up being
two instances of the devpts filesystem mounted on /dev/pts, the lower
copy does not end up getting used.

Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      eedf265a
  5. Jun 05, 2016
    • Helge Deller's avatar
      parisc: Move die_if_kernel() prototype into traps.h header · 58f1c654
      Helge Deller authored 
      

Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
      58f1c654
    • Helge Deller's avatar
      parisc: Fix pagefault crash in unaligned __get_user() call · 8b78f260
      Helge Deller authored 
      

One of the debian buildd servers had this crash in the syslog without
any other information:

 Unaligned handler failed, ret = -2
 clock_adjtime (pid 22578): Unaligned data reference (code 28)
 CPU: 1 PID: 22578 Comm: clock_adjtime Tainted: G  E  4.5.0-2-parisc64-smp #1 Debian 4.5.4-1
 task: 000000007d9960f8 ti: 00000001bde7c000 task.ti: 00000001bde7c000

      YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI
 PSW: 00001000000001001111100000001111 Tainted: G            E
 r00-03  000000ff0804f80f 00000001bde7c2b0 00000000402d2be8 00000001bde7c2b0
 r04-07  00000000409e1fd0 00000000fa6f7fff 00000001bde7c148 00000000fa6f7fff
 r08-11  0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 00000000fac9bb7b 000000000002b4d4
 r12-15  000000000015241c 000000000015242c 000000000000002d 00000000fac9bb7b
 r16-19  0000000000028800 0000000000000001 0000000000000070 00000001bde7c218
 r20-23  0000000000000000 00000001bde7c210 0000000000000002 0000000000000000
 r24-27  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001bde7c148 00000000409e1fd0
 r28-31  0000000000000001 00000001bde7c320 00000001bde7c350 00000001bde7c218
 sr00-03  0000000001200000 0000000001200000 0000000000000000 0000000001200000
 sr04-07  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000

 IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 00000000402d2e84 00000000402d2e88
  IIR: 0ca0d089    ISR: 0000000001200000  IOR: 00000000fa6f7fff
  CPU:        1   CR30: 00000001bde7c000 CR31: ffffffffffffffff
  ORIG_R28: 00000002369fe628
  IAOQ[0]: compat_get_timex+0x2dc/0x3c0
  IAOQ[1]: compat_get_timex+0x2e0/0x3c0
  RP(r2): compat_get_timex+0x40/0x3c0
 Backtrace:
  [<00000000402d4608>] compat_SyS_clock_adjtime+0x40/0xc0
  [<0000000040205024>] syscall_exit+0x0/0x14

This means the userspace program clock_adjtime called the clock_adjtime()
syscall and then crashed inside the compat_get_timex() function.
Syscalls should never crash programs, but instead return EFAULT.

The IIR register contains the executed instruction, which disassebles
into "ldw 0(sr3,r5),r9".
This load-word instruction is part of __get_user() which tried to read the word
at %r5/IOR (0xfa6f7fff). This means the unaligned handler jumped in.  The
unaligned handler is able to emulate all ldw instructions, but it fails if it
fails to read the source e.g. because of page fault.

The following program reproduces the problem:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>

int main(void) {
        /* allocate 8k */
        char *ptr = mmap(NULL, 2*4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
        /* free second half (upper 4k) and make it invalid. */
        munmap(ptr+4096, 4096);
        /* syscall where first int is unaligned and clobbers into invalid memory region */
        /* syscall should return EFAULT */
        return syscall(__NR_clock_adjtime, 0, ptr+4095);
}

To fix this issue we simply need to check if the faulting instruction address
is in the exception fixup table when the unaligned handler failed. If it
is, call the fixup routine instead of crashing.

While looking at the unaligned handler I found another issue as well: The
target register should not be modified if the handler was unsuccessful.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      8b78f260
    • Helge Deller's avatar
      parisc: Fix printk time during boot · 0032c088
      Helge Deller authored 
      

Avoid showing invalid printk time stamps during boot.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
      0032c088
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      parisc: Fix backtrace on PA-RISC · be24a897
      Mikulas Patocka authored 
      

This patch fixes backtrace on PA-RISC

There were several problems:

1) The code that decodes instructions handles instructions that subtract
from the stack pointer incorrectly. If the instruction subtracts the
number X from the stack pointer the code increases the frame size by
(0x100000000-X).  This results in invalid accesses to memory and
recursive page faults.

2) Because gcc reorders blocks, handling instructions that subtract from
the frame pointer is incorrect. For example, this function
	int f(int a)
	{
		if (__builtin_expect(a, 1))
			return a;
		g();
		return a;
	}
is compiled in such a way, that the code that decreases the stack
pointer for the first "return a" is placed before the code for "g" call.
If we recognize this decrement, we mistakenly believe that the frame
size for the "g" call is zero.

To fix problems 1) and 2), the patch doesn't recognize instructions that
decrease the stack pointer at all. To further safeguard the unwind code
against nonsense values, we don't allow frame size larger than
Total_frame_size.

3) The backtrace is not locked. If stack dump races with module unload,
invalid table can be accessed.

This patch adds a spinlock when processing module tables.

Note, that for correct backtrace, you need recent binutils.
Binutils 2.18 from Debian 5 produce garbage unwind tables.
Binutils 2.21 work better (it sometimes forgets function frames, but at
least it doesn't generate garbage).

Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
      be24a897
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'drm-fixes-for-v4.7-rc2' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux · 049ec1b5
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull drm fixes from Dave Airlie:
 "A bunch of ARM drivers got into the fixes vibe this time around, so
  this contains a bunch of fixes for imx, atmel hlcdc, arm hdlcd (only
  so many combos of hlcd), mediatek and omap drm.

  Other than that there is one mgag200 fix and a few core drm regression
  fixes"

* tag 'drm-fixes-for-v4.7-rc2' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (34 commits)
  drm/omap: fix unused variable warning.
  drm: hdlcd: Add information about the underlying framebuffers in debugfs
  drm: hdlcd: Cleanup the atomic plane operations
  drm/hdlcd: Fix up crtc_state->event handling
  drm: hdlcd: Revamp runtime power management
  drm/mediatek: mtk_dsi: Remove spurious drm_connector_unregister
  drm/mediatek: mtk_dpi: remove invalid error message
  drm: atmel-hlcdc: fix a NULL check
  drm: atmel-hlcdc: fix atmel_hlcdc_crtc_reset() implementation
  drm/mgag200: Black screen fix for G200e rev 4
  drm: Wrap direct calls to driver->gem_free_object from CMA
  drm: fix fb refcount issue with atomic modesetting
  drm: make drm_atomic_set_mode_prop_for_crtc() more reliable
  drm/sti: remove extra mode fixup
  drm: add missing drm_mode_set_crtcinfo call
  drm/omap: include gpio/consumer.h where needed
  drm/omap: include linux/seq_file.h where needed
  Revert "drm/omap: no need to select OMAP2_DSS"
  drm/omap: Remove regulator API abuse
  OMAPDSS: HDMI5: Change DDC timings
  ...
      049ec1b5
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'vfio-v4.7-rc2' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio · f2c6b9e4
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull VFIO fixes from Alex Williamson:
 "Fix irqfd shutdown ordering, build warning, and VPD short read"

* tag 'vfio-v4.7-rc2' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio:
  vfio/pci: Allow VPD short read
  vfio/type1: Fix build warning
  vfio/pci: Fix ordering of eventfd vs virqfd shutdown
      f2c6b9e4
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'mmc-v4.7-rc1-2' of git://git.linaro.org/people/ulf.hansson/mmc · 95b46aeb
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull MMC fixes from Ulf Hansson:
 "MMC core:
   - Fix/restore behaviour when selecting bus width for (e)MMC

  MMC host:
   - sunxi: Fix eMMC HS-DDR modes on Allwinner A80"

* tag 'mmc-v4.7-rc1-2' of git://git.linaro.org/people/ulf.hansson/mmc:
  mmc: sunxi: Re-enable eMMC HS-DDR modes on Allwinner A80
  mmc: sunxi: Fix DDR MMC timings for A80
  mmc: fix mmc mode selection for HS-DDR and higher
      95b46aeb
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs · b2d5ad82
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull btrfs fixes from Chris Mason:
 "The important part of this pull is Filipe's set of fixes for btrfs
  device replacement.  Filipe fixed a few issues seen on the list and a
  number he found on his own"

* 'for-linus-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs:
  Btrfs: deal with duplciates during extent_map insertion in btrfs_get_extent
  Btrfs: fix race between device replace and read repair
  Btrfs: fix race between device replace and discard
  Btrfs: fix race between device replace and chunk allocation
  Btrfs: fix race setting block group back to RW mode during device replace
  Btrfs: fix unprotected assignment of the left cursor for device replace
  Btrfs: fix race setting block group readonly during device replace
  Btrfs: fix race between device replace and block group removal
  Btrfs: fix race between readahead and device replace/removal
      b2d5ad82
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client · a3021a59
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull Ceph fixes from Sage Weil:
 "We have a few follow-up fixes for the libceph refactor from Ilya, and
  then some cephfs + fscache fixes from Zheng.

  The first two FS-Cache patches are acked by David Howells and deemed
  trivial enough to go through our tree.  The rest fix some issues with
  the ceph fscache handling (disable cache for inodes opened for write,
  and simplify the revalidation logic accordingly, dropping the
  now-unnecessary work queue)"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client:
  ceph: use i_version to check validity of fscache
  ceph: improve fscache revalidation
  ceph: disable fscache when inode is opened for write
  ceph: avoid unnecessary fscache invalidation/revlidation
  ceph: call __fscache_uncache_page() if readpages fails
  FS-Cache: make check_consistency callback return int
  FS-Cache: wake write waiter after invalidating writes
  libceph: use %s instead of %pE in dout()s
  libceph: put request only if it's done in handle_reply()
  libceph: change ceph_osdmap_flag() to take osdc
      a3021a59
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'acpi-4.7-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm · eb10a7b7
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull ACPI fixes from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Two fixes for problems introduced recently (ACPICA and the ACPI
  backlight driver) and one fix for an older issue that prevents at
  least one system from booting.

  Specifics:

   - Fix an incorrect check introduced by recent ACPICA changes which
     causes problems with booting KVM guests to happen, among other
     things (Lv Zheng).

   - Fix a backlight issue introduced by recent changes to the ACPI
     video driver (Aaron Lu).

   - Fix the ACPI processor initialization which attempts to register an
     IO region without checking if that really is necessary and
     sometimes prevents drivers loaded subsequently from registering
     their resources which leads to boot issues (Rafael Wysocki)"

* tag 'acpi-4.7-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  ACPI / processor: Avoid reserving IO regions too early
  ACPICA / Hardware: Fix old register check in acpi_hw_get_access_bit_width()
  ACPI / Thermal / video: fix max_level incorrect value
      eb10a7b7
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'pm-4.7-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm · 50163203
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull power management fixes from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Two fixes for problems introduced recently in the cpufreq core and the
  intel_pstate driver.

  Specifics:

   - Fix a silly mistake related to the clamp_val() usage in a function
     added by a recent commit (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Reduce the log level of an annoying message added to intel_pstate
     during the recent merge window (Srinivas Pandruvada)"

* tag 'pm-4.7-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  cpufreq: Fix clamp_val() usage in cpufreq_driver_fast_switch()
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Downgrade print level for _PPC
      50163203
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) · d46d0256
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Merge various fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "10 fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
  mm, page_alloc: recalculate the preferred zoneref if the context can ignore memory policies
  mm, page_alloc: reset zonelist iterator after resetting fair zone allocation policy
  mm, oom_reaper: do not use siglock in try_oom_reaper()
  mm, page_alloc: prevent infinite loop in buffered_rmqueue()
  checkpatch: reduce git commit description style false positives
  mm/z3fold.c: avoid modifying HEADLESS page and minor cleanup
  memcg: add RCU locking around css_for_each_descendant_pre() in memcg_offline_kmem()
  mm: check the return value of lookup_page_ext for all call sites
  kdump: fix dmesg gdbmacro to work with record based printk
  mm: fix overflow in vm_map_ram()
      d46d0256
  7. Jun 04, 2016