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  1. Mar 05, 2011
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of... · 971a967b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge branch 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
      
      * 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
        ARM: mach-shmobile: mackerel: modify LCDC clock divider value
        ARM: mach-shmobile: ap4evb: modify LCDC clock divider value
        ARM: mach-shmobile: mackerel: fixup memory initialize for zboot
        ARM: mach-shmobile: ap4evb: fixup memory initialize for zboot
        ARM: mach-shmobile: Add sh73a0 MIPI-CSI and CEU clocks
        ARM: mach-shmobile: AG5EVM MIPI-DSI LCD reset delay fix
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 · f0678f32
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
        sh: Change __nosave_XXX symbols to long
        sh: Flush executable pages in copy_user_highpage
        sh: Ensure ST40-300 BogoMIPS value is consistent
        sh: sh7750: Fix incompatible pointer type
        sh: sh7750: move machtypes.h to include/generated
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 · be91bfeb
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
        drm/nouveau: allocate kernel's notifier object at end of block
      be91bfeb
    • Neil Horman's avatar
      nfs4: Ensure that ACL pages sent over NFS were not allocated from the slab (v3) · e9e3d724
      Neil Horman authored
      
      
      The "bad_page()" page allocator sanity check was reported recently (call
      chain as follows):
      
        bad_page+0x69/0x91
        free_hot_cold_page+0x81/0x144
        skb_release_data+0x5f/0x98
        __kfree_skb+0x11/0x1a
        tcp_ack+0x6a3/0x1868
        tcp_rcv_established+0x7a6/0x8b9
        tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x2a/0x2fa
        tcp_v4_rcv+0x9a2/0x9f6
        do_timer+0x2df/0x52c
        ip_local_deliver+0x19d/0x263
        ip_rcv+0x539/0x57c
        netif_receive_skb+0x470/0x49f
        :virtio_net:virtnet_poll+0x46b/0x5c5
        net_rx_action+0xac/0x1b3
        __do_softirq+0x89/0x133
        call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
        do_softirq+0x2c/0x7d
        do_IRQ+0xec/0xf5
        default_idle+0x0/0x50
        ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
        default_idle+0x29/0x50
        cpu_idle+0x95/0xb8
        start_kernel+0x220/0x225
        _sinittext+0x22f/0x236
      
      It occurs because an skb with a fraglist was freed from the tcp
      retransmit queue when it was acked, but a page on that fraglist had
      PG_Slab set (indicating it was allocated from the Slab allocator (which
      means the free path above can't safely free it via put_page.
      
      We tracked this back to an nfsv4 setacl operation, in which the nfs code
      attempted to fill convert the passed in buffer to an array of pages in
      __nfs4_proc_set_acl, which gets used by the skb->frags list in
      xs_sendpages.  __nfs4_proc_set_acl just converts each page in the buffer
      to a page struct via virt_to_page, but the vfs allocates the buffer via
      kmalloc, meaning the PG_slab bit is set.  We can't create a buffer with
      kmalloc and free it later in the tcp ack path with put_page, so we need
      to either:
      
      1) ensure that when we create the list of pages, no page struct has
         PG_Slab set
      
       or
      
      2) not use a page list to send this data
      
      Given that these buffers can be multiple pages and arbitrarily sized, I
      think (1) is the right way to go.  I've written the below patch to
      allocate a page from the buddy allocator directly and copy the data over
      to it.  This ensures that we have a put_page free-able page for every
      entry that winds up on an skb frag list, so it can be safely freed when
      the frame is acked.  We do a put page on each entry after the
      rpc_call_sync call so as to drop our own reference count to the page,
      leaving only the ref count taken by tcp_sendpages.  This way the data
      will be properly freed when the ack comes in
      
      Successfully tested by myself to solve the above oops.
      
      Note, as this is the result of a setacl operation that exceeded a page
      of data, I think this amounts to a local DOS triggerable by an
      uprivlidged user, so I'm CCing security on this as well.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
      CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      CC: security@kernel.org
      CC: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e9e3d724
    • Dave Kleikamp's avatar
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Mark ptrace_{traceme,attach,detach} static · e3e89cc5
      Linus Torvalds authored
      
      
      They are only used inside kernel/ptrace.c, and have been for a long
      time.  We don't want to go back to the bad-old-days when architectures
      did things on their own, so make them static and private.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e3e89cc5
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