It was introduced by "vsprintf: add support for '%pS' and '%pF' pointer
formats" in commit 0fe1ef24f7. However,
the current way its coded doesn't work on parisc64. For two reasons: 1)
parisc isn't in the #ifdef and 2) parisc has a different format for
function descriptors
Make dereference_function_descriptor() more accommodating by allowing
architecture overrides. I put the three overrides (for parisc64, ppc64
and ia64) in arch/kernel/module.c because that's where the kernel
internal linker which knows how to deal with function descriptors sits.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When running a 31-bit ptrace, on either an s390 or s390x kernel,
reads and writes into a padding area in struct user_regs_struct32
will result in a kernel panic.
This is also known as CVE-2008-1514.
Test case available here:
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/tests/ptrace-tests/tests/user-area-padding.c?cvsroot=systemtap
Steps to reproduce:
1) wget the above
2) gcc -o user-area-padding-31bit user-area-padding.c -Wall -ggdb2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -m31
3) ./user-area-padding-31bit
<panic>
Test status
-----------
Without patch, both s390 and s390x kernels panic. With patch, the test case,
as well as the gdb testsuite, pass without incident, padding area reads
returning zero, writes ignored.
Nb: original version returned -EINVAL on write attempts, which broke the
gdb test and made the test case slightly unhappy, Jan Kratochvil suggested
the change to return 0 on write attempts.
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
When a CPU is offlined, we leave the timer interrupts disabled
because fixup_irqs() does not explicitly take care of that case.
Fix this by invoking tick_ops->disable_irq().
Based upon analysis done by Paul E. McKenney.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6:
avr32: pm_standby low-power ram bug fix
avr32: Fix lockup after Java stack underflow in user mode
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
powerpc: Fix rare boot build breakage
powerpc/spufs: Fix possible scheduling of a context to multiple SPEs
powerpc/spufs: Fix race for a free SPU
powerpc/spufs: Fix multiple get_spu_context()
On 32-bit, at least the generic nops are fairly reasonable, but the
default nops for 64-bit really look pretty sad, and the P6 nops really do
look better.
So I would suggest perhaps moving the static P6 nop selection into the
CONFIG_X86_64 thing.
The alternative is to just get rid of that static nop selection, and just
have two cases: 32-bit and 64-bit, and just pick obviously safe cases for
them.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The second HPC3 could be found only on Guiness systems (Challenge-S),
but not on fullhouse (Indigo2) systems.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
A make -j20 powerpc kernel build broke a couple of months ago saying:
In file included from arch/powerpc/boot/gunzip_util.h:13,
from arch/powerpc/boot/prpmc2800.c:21:
arch/powerpc/boot/zlib.h:85: error: expected ‘:’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘}’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
arch/powerpc/boot/zlib.h:630: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘Byte’
arch/powerpc/boot/zlib.h:630: error: expected ‘;’, ‘,’ or ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
It happened again yesterday: too rare for me to confirm the fix, but
it looks like the list of dependants on gunzip_util.h was incomplete.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
We currently have a race when scheduling a context to a SPE -
after we have found a runnable context in spusched_tick, the same
context may have been scheduled by spu_activate().
This may result in a panic if we try to unschedule a context that has
been freed in the meantime.
This change exits spu_schedule() if the context has already been
scheduled, so we don't end up scheduling it twice.
Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch@br.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: cpu_init(): fix memory leak when using CPU hotplug
x86: pda_init(): fix memory leak when using CPU hotplug
x86, xen: Use native_pte_flags instead of native_pte_val for .pte_flags
x86: move mtrr cpu cap setting early in early_init_xxxx
x86: delay early cpu initialization until cpuid is done
x86: use X86_FEATURE_NOPL in alternatives
x86: add NOPL as a synthetic CPU feature bit
x86: boot: stub out unimplemented CPU feature words
Exception stacks are allocated each time a CPU is set online.
But the allocated space is never freed. Thus with one CPU hotplug
offline/online cycle there is a memory leak of 24K (6 pages) for
a CPU.
Fix is to allocate exception stacks only once -- when the CPU is
set online for the first time.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
pda->irqstackptr is allocated whenever a CPU is set online.
But it is never freed. This results in a memory leak of 16K
for each CPU offline/online cycle.
Fix is to allocate pda->irqstackptr only once.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Krzysztof Helt found MTRR is not detected on k6-2
root cause:
we moved mtrr_bp_init() early for mtrr trimming,
and in early_detect we only read the CPU capability from cpuid,
so some cpu doesn't have that bit in cpuid.
So we need to add early_init_xxxx to preset those bit before mtrr_bp_init
for those earlier cpus.
this patch is for v2.6.27
Reported-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move early cpu initialization after cpu early get cap so the
early cpu initialization can fix up cpu caps.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Geert Uytterhoeven
Linus Torvalds
Prarit Bhargava
James Bottomley
Jarod Wilson
David S. Miller
Thomas Bogendoerfer
Hugh Dickins
Andre Detsch
Andreas Herrmann
Eduardo Habkost
Yinghai Lu
Krzysztof Helt