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Heinrich Schuchardt ff691f6e03 kernel/fork.c: new function for max_threads
PAGE_SIZE is not guaranteed to be equal to or less than 8 times the
THREAD_SIZE.

E.g.  architecture hexagon may have page size 1M and thread size 4096.
This would lead to a division by zero in the calculation of max_threads.

With this patch the buggy code is moved to a separate function
set_max_threads.  The error is not fixed.

After fixing the problem in a separate patch the new function can be
reused to adjust max_threads after adding or removing memory.

Argument mempages of function fork_init() is removed as totalram_pages is
an exported symbol.

The creation of separate patches for refactoring to a new function and for
fixing the logic was suggested by Ingo Molnar.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-17 09:04:06 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 1dcf58d6e6 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge first patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - arch/sh updates

 - ocfs2 updates

 - kernel/watchdog feature

 - about half of mm/

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (122 commits)
  Documentation: update arch list in the 'memtest' entry
  Kconfig: memtest: update number of test patterns up to 17
  arm: add support for memtest
  arm64: add support for memtest
  memtest: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses
  mm: move memtest under mm
  mm, hugetlb: abort __get_user_pages if current has been oom killed
  mm, mempool: do not allow atomic resizing
  memcg: print cgroup information when system panics due to panic_on_oom
  mm: numa: remove migrate_ratelimited
  mm: fold arch_randomize_brk into ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
  mm: split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR
  s390: redefine randomize_et_dyn for ELF_ET_DYN_BASE
  mm: expose arch_mmap_rnd when available
  s390: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  powerpc: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  mips: extract logic for mmap_rnd()
  arm64: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  x86: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  arm: factor out mmap ASLR into mmap_rnd
  ...
2015-04-14 16:49:17 -07:00
Toshi Kani 0ddab1d2ed lib/ioremap.c: add huge I/O map capability interfaces
Add ioremap_pud_enabled() and ioremap_pmd_enabled(), which return 1 when
I/O mappings with pud/pmd are enabled on the kernel.

ioremap_huge_init() calls arch_ioremap_pud_supported() and
arch_ioremap_pmd_supported() to initialize the capabilities at boot-time.

A new kernel option "nohugeiomap" is also added, so that user can disable
the huge I/O map capabilities when necessary.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Robert Elliott <Elliott@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-14 16:49:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 078838d565 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - changes permitting use of call_rcu() and friends very early in
     boot, for example, before rcu_init() is invoked.

   - add in-kernel API to enable and disable expediting of normal RCU
     grace periods.

   - improve RCU's handling of (hotplug-) outgoing CPUs.

   - NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE fixes.

   - tiny-RCU updates to make it more tiny.

   - documentation updates.

   - miscellaneous fixes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits)
  cpu: Provide smpboot_thread_init() on !CONFIG_SMP kernels as well
  cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler
  rcu: Associate quiescent-state reports with grace period
  rcu: Yet another fix for preemption and CPU hotplug
  rcu: Add diagnostics to grace-period cleanup
  rcutorture: Default to grace-period-initialization delays
  rcu: Handle outgoing CPUs on exit from idle loop
  cpu: Make CPU-offline idle-loop transition point more precise
  rcu: Eliminate ->onoff_mutex from rcu_node structure
  rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period start
  rcu: Move rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() to common code
  rcu: Rework preemptible expedited bitmask handling
  rcu: Remove event tracing from rcu_cpu_notify(), used by offline CPUs
  rcutorture: Enable slow grace-period initializations
  rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period initialization
  rcu: Detect stalls caused by failure to propagate up rcu_node tree
  rcu: Eliminate empty HOTPLUG_CPU ifdef
  rcu: Simplify sync_rcu_preempt_exp_init()
  rcu: Put all orphan-callback-related code under same comment
  rcu: Consolidate offline-CPU callback initialization
  ...
2015-04-14 13:36:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d0bbe0dd35 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual trivial tree updates.  Nothing outstanding -- mostly printk()
  and comment fixes and unused identifier removals"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  goldfish: goldfish_tty_probe() is not using 'i' any more
  powerpc: Fix comment in smu.h
  qla2xxx: Fix printks in ql_log message
  lib: correct link to the original source for div64_u64
  si2168, tda10071, m88ds3103: Fix firmware wording
  usb: storage: Fix printk in isd200_log_config()
  qla2xxx: Fix printk in qla25xx_setup_mode
  init/main: fix reset_device comment
  ipwireless: missing assignment
  goldfish: remove unreachable line of code
  coredump: Fix do_coredump() comment
  stacktrace.h: remove duplicate declaration task_struct
  smpboot.h: Remove unused function prototype
  treewide: Fix typo in printk messages
  treewide: Fix typo in printk messages
  mod_devicetable: fix comment for match_flags
2015-04-14 09:50:27 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 00df35f991 cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler
Currently, smpboot_unpark_threads() is invoked before the incoming CPU
has been added to the scheduler's runqueue structures.  This might
potentially cause the unparked kthread to run on the wrong CPU, since the
correct CPU isn't fully set up yet.

That causes a sporadic, hard to debug boot crash triggering on some
systems, reported by Borislav Petkov, and bisected down to:

  2a442c9c64 ("x86: Use common outgoing-CPU-notification code")

This patch places smpboot_unpark_threads() in a CPU hotplug
notifier with priority set so that these kthreads are unparked just after
the CPU has been added to the runqueues.

Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-13 08:25:16 +02:00
Frans Klaver fc454fdc10 init/main: fix reset_device comment
Fix incorrect spelling of situation.

Signed-off-by: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-03-06 23:12:43 +01:00
Zefan Li 695df2132c cpuset: initialize cpuset a bit early
Now we call ss->bind() in cgroup_init(), so cgroup_init() will
call cpuset_bind() and then the latter will access top_cpuset's
cpumask, which is NULL, because cpuset_init() is called after
cgroup_init()

The simplest fix is to swap cgroup_init() and cpuset_init().

Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Fixes: 295458e672 ("cgroup: call cgroup_subsys->bind on cgroup subsys initialization")
Reported by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
2015-03-05 08:05:20 -05:00
Andy Lutomirski 5125991c9a init: remove CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK
CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK adds config bloat without an obvious use case that
makes it worth keeping around.  Delete it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-13 21:21:42 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner 30b8b0066c init: Get rid of x86isms
The UP local API support can be set up from an early initcall. No need
for horrible hackery in the init code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150115211703.827943883@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-01-22 15:10:56 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 603ba7e41b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs pile #2 from Al Viro:
 "Next pile (and there'll be one or two more).

  The large piece in this one is getting rid of /proc/*/ns/* weirdness;
  among other things, it allows to (finally) make nameidata completely
  opaque outside of fs/namei.c, making for easier further cleanups in
  there"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  coda_venus_readdir(): use file_inode()
  fs/namei.c: fold link_path_walk() call into path_init()
  path_init(): don't bother with LOOKUP_PARENT in argument
  fs/namei.c: new helper (path_cleanup())
  path_init(): store the "base" pointer to file in nameidata itself
  make default ->i_fop have ->open() fail with ENXIO
  make nameidata completely opaque outside of fs/namei.c
  kill proc_ns completely
  take the targets of /proc/*/ns/* symlinks to separate fs
  bury struct proc_ns in fs/proc
  copy address of proc_ns_ops into ns_common
  new helpers: ns_alloc_inum/ns_free_inum
  make proc_ns_operations work with struct ns_common * instead of void *
  switch the rest of proc_ns_operations to working with &...->ns
  netns: switch ->get()/->put()/->install()/->inum() to working with &net->ns
  make mntns ->get()/->put()/->install()/->inum() work with &mnt_ns->ns
  common object embedded into various struct ....ns
2014-12-16 15:53:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds a7c180aa7e Merge tag 'trace-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "As the merge window is still open, and this code was not as complex as
  I thought it might be.  I'm pushing this in now.

  This will allow Thomas to debug his irq work for 3.20.

  This adds two new features:

  1) Allow traceopoints to be enabled right after mm_init().

     By passing in the trace_event= kernel command line parameter,
     tracepoints can be enabled at boot up.  For debugging things like
     the initialization of interrupts, it is needed to have tracepoints
     enabled very early.  People have asked about this before and this
     has been on my todo list.  As it can be helpful for Thomas to debug
     his upcoming 3.20 IRQ work, I'm pushing this now.  This way he can
     add tracepoints into the IRQ set up and have users enable them when
     things go wrong.

  2) Have the tracepoints printed via printk() (the console) when they
     are triggered.

     If the irq code locks up or reboots the box, having the tracepoint
     output go into the kernel ring buffer is useless for debugging.
     But being able to add the tp_printk kernel command line option
     along with the trace_event= option will have these tracepoints
     printed as they occur, and that can be really useful for debugging
     early lock up or reboot problems.

  This code is not that intrusive and it passed all my tests.  Thomas
  tried them out too and it works for his needs.

   Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214201609.126831471@goodmis.org"

* tag 'trace-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Add tp_printk cmdline to have tracepoints go to printk()
  tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after rcu_init()
2014-12-16 12:53:59 -08:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5f893b2639 tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after rcu_init()
Enabling tracepoints at boot up can be very useful. The tracepoint
can be initialized right after RCU has been. There's no need to
wait for the early_initcall() to be called. That's too late for some
things that can use tracepoints for debugging. Move the logic to
enable tracepoints out of the initcalls and into init/main.c to
right after rcu_init().

This also allows trace_printk() to be used early too.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412121539300.16494@nanos
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214164104.307127356@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-12-15 10:16:50 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 67e2c38838 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security layer updates from James Morris:
 "In terms of changes, there's general maintenance to the Smack,
  SELinux, and integrity code.

  The IMA code adds a new kconfig option, IMA_APPRAISE_SIGNED_INIT,
  which allows IMA appraisal to require signatures.  Support for reading
  keys from rootfs before init is call is also added"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (23 commits)
  selinux: Remove security_ops extern
  security: smack: fix out-of-bounds access in smk_parse_smack()
  VFS: refactor vfs_read()
  ima: require signature based appraisal
  integrity: provide a hook to load keys when rootfs is ready
  ima: load x509 certificate from the kernel
  integrity: provide a function to load x509 certificate from the kernel
  integrity: define a new function integrity_read_file()
  Security: smack: replace kzalloc with kmem_cache for inode_smack
  Smack: Lock mode for the floor and hat labels
  ima: added support for new kernel cmdline parameter ima_template_fmt
  ima: allocate field pointers array on demand in template_desc_init_fields()
  ima: don't allocate a copy of template_fmt in template_desc_init_fields()
  ima: display template format in meas. list if template name length is zero
  ima: added error messages to template-related functions
  ima: use atomic bit operations to protect policy update interface
  ima: ignore empty and with whitespaces policy lines
  ima: no need to allocate entry for comment
  ima: report policy load status
  ima: use path names cache
  ...
2014-12-14 20:36:37 -08:00
Joonsoo Kim eefa864b70 mm/page_ext: resurrect struct page extending code for debugging
When we debug something, we'd like to insert some information to every
page.  For this purpose, we sometimes modify struct page itself.  But,
this has drawbacks.  First, it requires re-compile.  This makes us
hesitate to use the powerful debug feature so development process is
slowed down.  And, second, sometimes it is impossible to rebuild the
kernel due to third party module dependency.  At third, system behaviour
would be largely different after re-compile, because it changes size of
struct page greatly and this structure is accessed by every part of
kernel.  Keeping this as it is would be better to reproduce errornous
situation.

This feature is intended to overcome above mentioned problems.  This
feature allocates memory for extended data per page in certain place
rather than the struct page itself.  This memory can be accessed by the
accessor functions provided by this code.  During the boot process, it
checks whether allocation of huge chunk of memory is needed or not.  If
not, it avoids allocating memory at all.  With this advantage, we can
include this feature into the kernel in default and can avoid rebuild and
solve related problems.

Until now, memcg uses this technique.  But, now, memcg decides to embed
their variable to struct page itself and it's code to extend struct page
has been removed.  I'd like to use this code to develop debug feature, so
this patch resurrect it.

To help these things to work well, this patch introduces two callbacks for
clients.  One is the need callback which is mandatory if user wants to
avoid useless memory allocation at boot-time.  The other is optional, init
callback, which is used to do proper initialization after memory is
allocated.  Detailed explanation about purpose of these functions is in
code comment.  Please refer it.

Others are completely same with previous extension code in memcg.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-13 12:42:48 -08:00
Al Viro 707c5960f1 Merge branch 'nsfs' into for-next 2014-12-10 21:31:59 -05:00
Al Viro e149ed2b80 take the targets of /proc/*/ns/* symlinks to separate fs
New pseudo-filesystem: nsfs.  Targets of /proc/*/ns/* live there now.
It's not mountable (not even registered, so it's not in /proc/filesystems,
etc.).  Files on it *are* bindable - we explicitly permit that in do_loopback().

This stuff lives in fs/nsfs.c now; proc_ns_fget() moved there as well.
get_proc_ns() is a macro now (it's simply returning ->i_private; would
have been an inline, if not for header ordering headache).
proc_ns_inode() is an ex-parrot.  The interface used in procfs is
ns_get_path(path, task, ops) and ns_get_name(buf, size, task, ops).

Dentries and inodes are never hashed; a non-counting reference to dentry
is stashed in ns_common (removed by ->d_prune()) and reused by ns_get_path()
if present.  See ns_get_path()/ns_prune_dentry/nsfs_evict() for details
of that mechanism.

As the result, proc_ns_follow_link() has stopped poking in nd->path.mnt;
it does nd_jump_link() on a consistent <vfsmount,dentry> pair it gets
from ns_get_path().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-12-10 21:30:20 -05:00
Andy Lutomirski 6ef4536e2f init: allow CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK=n to disable defaults if init= fails
If a user puts init=/whatever on the command line and /whatever can't be
run, then the kernel will try a few default options before giving up.  If
init=/whatever came from a bootloader prompt, then this is unexpected but
probably harmless.  On the other hand, if it comes from a script (e.g.  a
tool like virtme or perhaps a future kselftest script), then the fallbacks
are likely to exist, but they'll do the wrong thing.  For example, they
might unexpectedly invoke systemd.

This adds a config option CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK.  If unset, then a failure
to run the specified init= process be fatal.

The tentative plan is to remove CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK for 3.20.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10 17:41:12 -08:00
Johannes Weiner 1306a85aed mm: embed the memcg pointer directly into struct page
Memory cgroups used to have 5 per-page pointers.  To allow users to
disable that amount of overhead during runtime, those pointers were
allocated in a separate array, with a translation layer between them and
struct page.

There is now only one page pointer remaining: the memcg pointer, that
indicates which cgroup the page is associated with when charged.  The
complexity of runtime allocation and the runtime translation overhead is
no longer justified to save that *potential* 0.19% of memory.  With
CONFIG_SLUB, page->mem_cgroup actually sits in the doubleword padding
after the page->private member and doesn't even increase struct page,
and then this patch actually saves space.  Remaining users that care can
still compile their kernels without CONFIG_MEMCG.

     text    data     bss     dec     hex     filename
  8828345 1725264  983040 11536649 b00909  vmlinux.old
  8827425 1725264  966656 11519345 afc571  vmlinux.new

[mhocko@suse.cz: update Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10 17:41:09 -08:00
James Morris a6aacbde40 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity into next 2014-11-19 21:36:07 +11:00
Dmitry Kasatkin c9cd2ce2bc integrity: provide a hook to load keys when rootfs is ready
Keys can only be loaded once the rootfs is mounted. Initcalls
are not suitable for that. This patch defines a special hook
to load the x509 public keys onto the IMA keyring, before
attempting to access any file. The keys are required for
verifying the file's signature. The hook is called after the
root filesystem is mounted and before the kernel calls 'init'.

Changes in v3:
* added more explanation to the patch description (Mimi)

Changes in v2:
* Hook renamed as 'integrity_load_keys()' to handle both IMA and EVM
  keys by integrity subsystem.
* Hook patch moved after defining loading functions

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-11-17 23:12:01 -05:00
Daniel Thompson 3438cf549d param: fix crash on bad kernel arguments
Currently if the user passes an invalid value on the kernel command line
then the kernel will crash during argument parsing. On most systems this
is very hard to debug because the console hasn't been initialized yet.

This is a regression due to commit 51e158c12a ("param: hand arguments
after -- straight to init") which, in response to the systemd debug
controversy, made it possible to explicitly pass arguments to init. To
achieve this parse_args() was extended from simply returning an error
code to returning a pointer. Regretably the new init args logic does not
perform a proper validity check on the pointer resulting in a crash.

This patch fixes the validity check. Should the check fail then no arguments
will be passed to init. This is reasonable and matches how the kernel treats
its own arguments (i.e. no error recovery).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-11-11 17:03:19 +10:30
Geert Uytterhoeven 63a12d9d01 kernel/param: consolidate __{start,stop}___param[] in <linux/moduleparam.h>
Consolidate the various external const and non-const declarations of
__start___param[] and __stop___param in <linux/moduleparam.h>.  This
requires making a few struct kernel_param pointers in kernel/params.c
const.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-14 02:18:28 +02:00
Linus Torvalds faafcba3b5 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Optimized support for Intel "Cluster-on-Die" (CoD) topologies (Dave
     Hansen)

   - Various sched/idle refinements for better idle handling (Nicolas
     Pitre, Daniel Lezcano, Chuansheng Liu, Vincent Guittot)

   - sched/numa updates and optimizations (Rik van Riel)

   - sysbench speedup (Vincent Guittot)

   - capacity calculation cleanups/refactoring (Vincent Guittot)

   - Various cleanups to thread group iteration (Oleg Nesterov)

   - Double-rq-lock removal optimization and various refactorings
     (Kirill Tkhai)

   - various sched/deadline fixes

  ... and lots of other changes"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (72 commits)
  sched/dl: Use dl_bw_of() under rcu_read_lock_sched()
  sched/fair: Delete resched_cpu() from idle_balance()
  sched, time: Fix build error with 64 bit cputime_t on 32 bit systems
  sched: Improve sysbench performance by fixing spurious active migration
  sched/x86: Fix up typo in topology detection
  x86, sched: Add new topology for multi-NUMA-node CPUs
  sched/rt: Use resched_curr() in task_tick_rt()
  sched: Use rq->rd in sched_setaffinity() under RCU read lock
  sched: cleanup: Rename 'out_unlock' to 'out_free_new_mask'
  sched: Use dl_bw_of() under RCU read lock
  sched/fair: Remove duplicate code from can_migrate_task()
  sched, mips, ia64: Remove __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW
  sched: print_rq(): Don't use tasklist_lock
  sched: normalize_rt_tasks(): Don't use _irqsave for tasklist_lock, use task_rq_lock()
  sched: Fix the task-group check in tg_has_rt_tasks()
  sched/fair: Leverage the idle state info when choosing the "idlest" cpu
  sched: Let the scheduler see CPU idle states
  sched/deadline: Fix inter- exclusive cpusets migrations
  sched/deadline: Clear dl_entity params when setscheduling to different class
  sched/numa: Kill the wrong/dead TASK_DEAD check in task_numa_fault()
  ...
2014-10-13 16:23:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds d6dd50e07c Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - changes related to No-CBs CPUs and NO_HZ_FULL

   - RCU-tasks implementation

   - torture-test updates

   - miscellaneous fixes

   - locktorture updates

   - RCU documentation updates"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (81 commits)
  workqueue: Use cond_resched_rcu_qs macro
  workqueue: Add quiescent state between work items
  locktorture: Cleanup header usage
  locktorture: Cannot hold read and write lock
  locktorture: Fix __acquire annotation for spinlock irq
  locktorture: Support rwlocks
  rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods
  locktorture: Document boot/module parameters
  rcutorture: Rename rcutorture_runnable parameter
  locktorture: Add test scenario for rwsem_lock
  locktorture: Add test scenario for mutex_lock
  locktorture: Make torture scripting account for new _runnable name
  locktorture: Introduce torture context
  locktorture: Support rwsems
  locktorture: Add infrastructure for torturing read locks
  torture: Address race in module cleanup
  locktorture: Make statistics generic
  locktorture: Teach about lock debugging
  locktorture: Support mutexes
  locktorture: Add documentation
  ...
2014-10-13 15:44:12 +02:00