Skip to content
  1. Jun 11, 2013
    • Matthew Garrett's avatar
      Modify UEFI anti-bricking code · f8b84043
      Matthew Garrett authored
      This patch reworks the UEFI anti-bricking code, including an effective
      reversion of cc5a080c and 31ff2f20
      
      . It turns out that calling
      QueryVariableInfo() from boot services results in some firmware
      implementations jumping to physical addresses even after entering virtual
      mode, so until we have 1:1 mappings for UEFI runtime space this isn't
      going to work so well.
      
      Reverting these gets us back to the situation where we'd refuse to create
      variables on some systems because they classify deleted variables as "used"
      until the firmware triggers a garbage collection run, which they won't do
      until they reach a lower threshold. This results in it being impossible to
      install a bootloader, which is unhelpful.
      
      Feedback from Samsung indicates that the firmware doesn't need more than
      5KB of storage space for its own purposes, so that seems like a reasonable
      threshold. However, there's still no guarantee that a platform will attempt
      garbage collection merely because it drops below this threshold. It seems
      that this is often only triggered if an attempt to write generates a
      genuine EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES error. We can force that by attempting to
      create a variable larger than the remaining space. This should fail, but if
      it somehow succeeds we can then immediately delete it.
      
      I've tested this on the UEFI machines I have available, but I don't have
      a Samsung and so can't verify that it avoids the bricking problem.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
      Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Y <jlee@suse.com> [ dummy variable cleanup ]
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      f8b84043
  2. May 14, 2013
    • Lee, Chun-Yi's avatar
      x86, efi: initial the local variable of DataSize to zero · eccaf52f
      Lee, Chun-Yi authored
      
      
      That will be better initial the value of DataSize to zero for the input of
      GetVariable(), otherwise we will feed a random value. The debug log of input
      DataSize like this:
      
      ...
      [  195.915612] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
      [  195.915819] efi: size: 18446744071581821342
      [  195.915969] efi:  size': 18446744071581821342
      [  195.916324] efi: size: 18446612150714306560
      [  195.916632] efi:  size': 18446612150714306560
      [  195.917159] efi: size: 18446612150714306560
      [  195.917453] efi:  size': 18446612150714306560
      ...
      
      The size' is value that was returned by BIOS.
      
      After applied this patch:
      [   82.442042] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
      [   82.442202] efi: size: 0
      [   82.442360] efi:  size': 1039
      [   82.443828] efi: size: 0
      [   82.444127] efi:  size': 2616
      [   82.447057] efi: size: 0
      [   82.447356] efi:  size': 5832
      ...
      
      Found on Acer Aspire V3 BIOS, it will not return the size of data if we input a
      non-zero DataSize.
      
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      eccaf52f
    • Seiji Aguchi's avatar
      efivar: fix oops in efivar_update_sysfs_entries() caused by memory reuse · d51df2c5
      Seiji Aguchi authored
      
      
      The loop in efivar_update_sysfs_entries() reuses the same allocation for
      entries each time it calls efivar_create_sysfs_entry(entry).  This is
      wrong because efivar_create_sysfs_entry() expects to keep the memory it
      was passed, so the caller may not free it (and may not pass the same
      memory in multiple times).  This leads to the oops below.  Fix by
      getting a new allocation each time we go around the loop.
      
      ---[ end trace ba4907d5c519d111 ]---
      BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
      IP: [<ffffffff8142f81f>] efivar_entry_find+0x14f/0x2d0
      PGD 0
      Oops: 0000 [#2] SMP
      Modules linked in: oops(OF+) ebtable_nat ebtables xt_CHECKSUM [...]
      CPU: 0 PID: 301 Comm: kworker/0:2 Tainted: GF     D    O 3.9.0+ #1
      Hardware name: LENOVO 4291EV7/4291EV7, BIOS 8DET52WW (1.22 ) 09/15/2011
      Workqueue: events efivar_update_sysfs_entries
      task: ffff8801955920c0 ti: ffff88019413e000 task.ti: ffff88019413e000
      RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8142f81f>]  [<ffffffff8142f81f>] efivar_entry_find+0x14f/0x2d0
      RSP: 0018:ffff88019413fa48  EFLAGS: 00010006
      RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880195d87c00 RCX: ffffffff81ab6f60
      RDX: ffff88019413fb88 RSI: 0000000000000400 RDI: ffff880196254000
      RBP: ffff88019413fbd8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8800dad99037
      R10: ffff880195d87c00 R11: 0000000000000430 R12: ffffffff81ab6f60
      R13: fffffffffffff7d8 R14: ffff880196254000 R15: 0000000000000000
      FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88019e200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
      CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
      CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000001a0b000 CR4: 00000000000407f0
      DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
      DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
      Stack:
       ffff88019413fb78 ffff88019413fb88 ffffffff81e85d60 03000000972b5c00
       ffff88019413fa29 ffffffff81e85d60 ffff88019413fbfb 0000000197087280
       00000000000000fe 0000000000000001 ffffffff81e85dd9 ffff880197087280
      Call Trace:
       [<ffffffff81254371>] ? idr_get_empty_slot+0x131/0x240
       [<ffffffff8125b6d2>] ? put_dec+0x72/0x90
       [<ffffffff81158e40>] ? cache_alloc_refill+0x170/0x2f0
       [<ffffffff81430420>] efivar_update_sysfs_entry+0x150/0x220
       [<ffffffff8103dd29>] ? efi_call2+0x9/0x70
       [<ffffffff8103d787>] ? virt_efi_get_next_variable+0x47/0x1b0
       [<ffffffff8115a8df>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1af/0x1c0
       [<ffffffff81430033>] efivar_init+0x2c3/0x380
       [<ffffffff814302d0>] ? efivar_delete+0xd0/0xd0
       [<ffffffff8143111f>] efivar_update_sysfs_entries+0x6f/0x90
       [<ffffffff810605f3>] process_one_work+0x183/0x490
       [<ffffffff81061780>] worker_thread+0x120/0x3a0
       [<ffffffff81061660>] ? manage_workers+0x160/0x160
       [<ffffffff8106752e>] kthread+0xce/0xe0
       [<ffffffff81067460>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70
       [<ffffffff81543c5c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
       [<ffffffff81067460>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70
      Code: 8d 55 b0 48 8d 45 a0 49 81 ed 28 08 00 00 48 89 95 78 fe [...]
      RIP  [<ffffffff8142f81f>] efivar_entry_find+0x14f/0x2d0
       RSP <ffff88019413fa48>
      CR2: 0000000000000000
      ---[ end trace ba4907d5c519d112 ]---
      
      Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
      Cc: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSeiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      d51df2c5
    • Lingzhu Xiang's avatar
      efivarfs: Never return ENOENT from firmware again · 3fab70c1
      Lingzhu Xiang authored
      Previously in 1fa7e69 efi_status_to_err() translated firmware status
      EFI_NOT_FOUND to -EIO instead of -ENOENT for efivarfs operations to
      avoid confusion. After refactoring in e14ab23d
      
      , it is also used in other
      places where the translation may be unnecessary.
      
      So move the translation to efivarfs specific code. Also return EOF
      for reading zero-length files, which is what users would expect.
      
      Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
      Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
      Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      3fab70c1
  3. May 12, 2013
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 3.10-rc1 · f722406f
      Linus Torvalds authored
      f722406f
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace · 26b840ae
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull tracing/kprobes update from Steven Rostedt:
       "The majority of these changes are from Masami Hiramatsu bringing
        kprobes up to par with the latest changes to ftrace (multi buffering
        and the new function probes).
      
        He also discovered and fixed some bugs in doing so.  When pulling in
        his patches, I also found a few minor bugs as well and fixed them.
      
        This also includes a compile fix for some archs that select the ring
        buffer but not tracing.
      
        I based this off of the last patch you took from me that fixed the
        merge conflict error, as that was the commit that had all the changes
        I needed for this set of changes."
      
      * tag 'trace-fixes-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
        tracing/kprobes: Support soft-mode disabling
        tracing/kprobes: Support ftrace_event_file base multibuffer
        tracing/kprobes: Pass trace_probe directly from dispatcher
        tracing/kprobes: Increment probe hit-count even if it is used by perf
        tracing/kprobes: Use bool for retprobe checker
        ftrace: Fix function probe when more than one probe is added
        ftrace: Fix the output of enabled_functions debug file
        ftrace: Fix locking in register_ftrace_function_probe()
        tracing: Add helper function trace_create_new_event() to remove duplicate code
        tracing: Modify soft-mode only if there's no other referrer
        tracing: Indicate enabled soft-mode in enable file
        tracing/kprobes: Fix to increment return event probe hit-count
        ftrace: Cleanup regex_lock and ftrace_lock around hash updating
        ftrace, kprobes: Fix a deadlock on ftrace_regex_lock
        ftrace: Have ftrace_regex_write() return either read or error
        tracing: Return error if register_ftrace_function_probe() fails for event_enable_func()
        tracing: Don't succeed if event_enable_func did not register anything
        ring-buffer: Select IRQ_WORK
      26b840ae
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.10-rc0-tag-two' of... · 607eeb0b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.10-rc0-tag-two' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
      
      Pull Xen bug-fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
       - More fixes in the vCPU PVHVM hotplug path.
       - Add more documentation.
       - Fix various ARM related issues in the Xen generic drivers.
       - Updates in the xen-pciback driver per Bjorn's updates.
       - Mask the x2APIC feature for PV guests.
      
      * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.10-rc0-tag-two' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
        xen/pci: Used cached MSI-X capability offset
        xen/pci: Use PCI_MSIX_TABLE_BIR, not PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK
        xen: clear IRQ_NOAUTOEN and IRQ_NOREQUEST
        xen: mask x2APIC feature in PV
        xen: SWIOTLB is only used on x86
        xen/spinlock: Fix check from greater than to be also be greater or equal to.
        xen/smp/pvhvm: Don't point per_cpu(xen_vpcu, 33 and larger) to shared_info
        xen/vcpu: Document the xen_vcpu_info and xen_vcpu
        xen/vcpu/pvhvm: Fix vcpu hotplugging hanging.
      607eeb0b
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'scsi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi · 4c444501
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull second SCSI update from James "Jaj B" Bottomley:
       "This is the final round of SCSI patches for the merge window.  It
        consists mostly of driver updates (bnx2fc, ibmfc, fnic, lpfc,
        be2iscsi, pm80xx, qla4x and ipr).
      
        There's also the power management updates that complete the patches in
        Jens' tree, an iscsi refcounting problem fix from the last pull, some
        dif handling in scsi_debug fixes, a few nice code cleanups and an
        error handling busy bug fix."
      
      * tag 'scsi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (92 commits)
        [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update firmware link in Kconfig file.
        [SCSI] iscsi class, qla4xxx: fix sess/conn refcounting when find fns are used
        [SCSI] sas: unify the pointlessly separated enums sas_dev_type and sas_device_type
        [SCSI] pm80xx: thermal, sas controller config and error handling update
        [SCSI] pm80xx: NCQ error handling changes
        [SCSI] pm80xx: WWN Modification for PM8081/88/89 controllers
        [SCSI] pm80xx: Changed module name and debug messages update
        [SCSI] pm80xx: Firmware flash memory free fix, with addition of new memory region for it
        [SCSI] pm80xx: SPC new firmware changes for device id 0x8081 alone
        [SCSI] pm80xx: Added SPCv/ve specific hardware functionalities and relevant changes in common files
        [SCSI] pm80xx: MSI-X implementation for using 64 interrupts
        [SCSI] pm80xx: Updated common functions common for SPC and SPCv/ve
        [SCSI] pm80xx: Multiple inbound/outbound queue configuration
        [SCSI] pm80xx: Added SPCv/ve specific ids, variables and modify for SPC
        [SCSI] lpfc: fix up Kconfig dependencies
        [SCSI] Handle MLQUEUE busy response in scsi_send_eh_cmnd
        [SCSI] sd: change to auto suspend mode
        [SCSI] sd: use REQ_PM in sd's runtime suspend operation
        [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix iocb_cnt calculation in qla4xxx_send_mbox_iocb()
        [SCSI] ufs: Correct the expected data transfersize
        ...
      4c444501
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux · ac4e0109
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull idle update from Len Brown:
       "Add support for new Haswell-ULT CPU idle power states"
      
      * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux:
        intel_idle: initial C8, C9, C10 support
        tools/power turbostat: display C8, C9, C10 residency
      ac4e0109
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit · c4cc75c3
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull audit changes from Eric Paris:
       "Al used to send pull requests every couple of years but he told me to
        just start pushing them to you directly.
      
        Our touching outside of core audit code is pretty straight forward.  A
        couple of interface changes which hit net/.  A simple argument bug
        calling audit functions in namei.c and the removal of some assembly
        branch prediction code on ppc"
      
      * git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (31 commits)
        audit: fix message spacing printing auid
        Revert "audit: move kaudit thread start from auditd registration to kaudit init"
        audit: vfs: fix audit_inode call in O_CREAT case of do_last
        audit: Make testing for a valid loginuid explicit.
        audit: fix event coverage of AUDIT_ANOM_LINK
        audit: use spin_lock in audit_receive_msg to process tty logging
        audit: do not needlessly take a lock in tty_audit_exit
        audit: do not needlessly take a spinlock in copy_signal
        audit: add an option to control logging of passwords with pam_tty_audit
        audit: use spin_lock_irqsave/restore in audit tty code
        helper for some session id stuff
        audit: use a consistent audit helper to log lsm information
        audit: push loginuid and sessionid processing down
        audit: stop pushing loginid, uid, sessionid as arguments
        audit: remove the old depricated kernel interface
        audit: make validity checking generic
        audit: allow checking the type of audit message in the user filter
        audit: fix build break when AUDIT_DEBUG == 2
        audit: remove duplicate export of audit_enabled
        Audit: do not print error when LSMs disabled
        ...
      c4cc75c3
  4. May 11, 2013
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-3.10' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux · 2dbd3cac
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull nfsd fixes from Bruce Fields:
       "Small fixes for two bugs and two warnings"
      
      * 'for-3.10' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
        nfsd: fix oops when legacy_recdir_name_error is passed a -ENOENT error
        SUNRPC: fix decoding of optional gss-proxy xdr fields
        SUNRPC: Refactor gssx_dec_option_array() to kill uninitialized warning
        nfsd4: don't allow owner override on 4.1 CLAIM_FH opens
      2dbd3cac
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://cavan.codon.org.uk/platform-drivers-x86 · a77c0058
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull x86 platform drivers from Matthew Garrett:
       "Small set of updates, mainly trivial bugfixes and some small updates
        to deal with newer hardware.
      
        There's also a new driver that allows qemu guests to notify the
        hypervisor that they've just paniced, which seems useful."
      
      * 'for_linus' of git://cavan.codon.org.uk/platform-drivers-x86:
        Add support for fan button on Ideapad Z580
        pvpanic: pvpanic device driver
        asus-nb-wmi: set wapf=4 for ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. X75A
        drivers: platform: x86: Use PTR_RET function
        sony-laptop: SVS151290S kbd backlight and gfx switch support
        hp-wmi: add more definitions for new event_id's
        dell-laptop: Fix krealloc() misuse in parse_da_table()
        hp_accel: Ignore the error from lis3lv02d_poweron() at resume
        dell: add new dell WMI format for the AIO machines
      a77c0058
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal · 3644bc2e
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull stray syscall bits from Al Viro:
       "Several syscall-related commits that were missing from the original"
      
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
        switch compat_sys_sysctl to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
        unicore32: just use mmap_pgoff()...
        unify compat fanotify_mark(2), switch to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
        x86, vm86: fix VM86 syscalls: use SYSCALL_DEFINEx(...)
      3644bc2e
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'ecryptfs-3.10-rc1-ablkcipher' of... · 6fad8d02
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge tag 'ecryptfs-3.10-rc1-ablkcipher' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs
      
      Pull eCryptfs update from Tyler Hicks:
       "Improve performance when AES-NI (and most likely other crypto
        accelerators) is available by moving to the ablkcipher crypto API.
        The improvement is more apparent on faster storage devices.
      
        There's no noticeable change when hardware crypto is not available"
      
      * tag 'ecryptfs-3.10-rc1-ablkcipher' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs:
        eCryptfs: Use the ablkcipher crypto API
      6fad8d02
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'for-linus-20130509' of git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/random-2.6 · f741df1f
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull misc fixes from David Woodhouse:
       "This is some miscellaneous cleanups that don't really belong anywhere
        else (or were ignored), that have been sitting in linux-next for some
        time.  Two of them are fixes resulting from my audit of krealloc()
        usage that don't seem to have elicited any response when I posted
        them, and the other three are patches from Artem removing dead code."
      
      * tag 'for-linus-20130509' of git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/random-2.6:
        pcmcia: remove RPX board stuff
        m68k: remove rpxlite stuff
        pcmcia: remove Motorola MBX860 support
        params: Fix potential memory leak in add_sysfs_param()
        dell-laptop: Fix krealloc() misuse in parse_da_table()
      f741df1f
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'kvm-3.10-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm · c67723eb
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull kvm fixes from Gleb Natapov:
       "Most of the fixes are in the emulator since now we emulate more than
        we did before for correctness sake we see more bugs there, but there
        is also an OOPS fixed and corruption of xcr0 register."
      
      * tag 'kvm-3.10-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
        KVM: emulator: emulate SALC
        KVM: emulator: emulate XLAT
        KVM: emulator: emulate AAM
        KVM: VMX: fix halt emulation while emulating invalid guest sate
        KVM: Fix kvm_irqfd_init initialization
        KVM: x86: fix maintenance of guest/host xcr0 state
      c67723eb
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'dm-3.10-changes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm · ec667158
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull device-mapper updates from Alasdair Kergon:
       "Allow devices that hold metadata for the device-mapper thin
        provisioning target to be extended easily; allow WRITE SAME on
        multipath devices; an assortment of little fixes and clean-ups."
      
      * tag 'dm-3.10-changes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm: (21 commits)
        dm cache: set config value
        dm cache: move config fns
        dm thin: generate event when metadata threshold passed
        dm persistent metadata: add space map threshold callback
        dm persistent data: add threshold callback to space map
        dm thin: detect metadata device resizing
        dm persistent data: support space map resizing
        dm thin: open dev read only when possible
        dm thin: refactor data dev resize
        dm cache: replace memcpy with struct assignment
        dm cache: fix typos in comments
        dm cache policy: fix description of lookup fn
        dm: document iterate_devices
        dm persistent data: fix error message typos
        dm cache: tune migration throttling
        dm mpath: enable WRITE SAME support
        dm table: fix write same support
        dm bufio: avoid a possible __vmalloc deadlock
        dm snapshot: fix error return code in snapshot_ctr
        dm cache: fix error return code in cache_create
        ...
      ec667158
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid · f755407d
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull HID fixes from Jiri Kosina:
      
       - fix usage of sleeping lock in atomic context from Jiri Kosina
      
       - build fix for hid-steelseries under certain .config setups by Simon Wood
      
       - simple mismerge fix from Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
      
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
        HID: debug: fix RCU preemption issue
        HID: hid-steelseries fix led class build issue
        HID: reintroduce fix-up for certain Sony RF receivers
      f755407d
  5. May 10, 2013