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Linus Torvalds
59005b0c59 Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull GCC plugin updates from Kees Cook:
 "The big part is the randstruct plugin infrastructure.

  This is the first of two expected pull requests for randstruct since
  there are dependencies in other trees that would be easier to merge
  once those have landed. Notably, the IPC allocation refactoring in
  -mm, and many trivial merge conflicts across several trees when
  applying the __randomize_layout annotation.

  As a result, it seemed like I should send this now since it is
  relatively self-contained, and once the rest of the trees have landed,
  send the annotation patches. I'm expecting the final phase of
  randstruct (automatic struct selection) will land for v4.14, but if
  its other tree dependencies actually make it for v4.13, I can send
  that merge request too.

  Summary:

  - typo fix in Kconfig (Jean Delvare)

  - randstruct infrastructure"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  ARM: Prepare for randomized task_struct
  randstruct: Whitelist NIU struct page overloading
  randstruct: Whitelist big_key path struct overloading
  randstruct: Whitelist UNIXCB cast
  randstruct: Whitelist struct security_hook_heads cast
  gcc-plugins: Add the randstruct plugin
  Fix English in description of GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
  compiler: Add __designated_init annotation
  gcc-plugins: Detail c-common.h location for GCC 4.6
2017-07-05 11:46:59 -07:00
Kees Cook
313dd1b629 gcc-plugins: Add the randstruct plugin
This randstruct plugin is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's code
in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my understanding
of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are mine and
don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

The randstruct GCC plugin randomizes the layout of selected structures
at compile time, as a probabilistic defense against attacks that need to
know the layout of structures within the kernel. This is most useful for
"in-house" kernel builds where neither the randomization seed nor other
build artifacts are made available to an attacker. While less useful for
distribution kernels (where the randomization seed must be exposed for
third party kernel module builds), it still has some value there since now
all kernel builds would need to be tracked by an attacker.

In more performance sensitive scenarios, GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE
can be selected to make a best effort to restrict randomization to
cacheline-sized groups of elements, and will not randomize bitfields. This
comes at the cost of reduced randomization.

Two annotations are defined,__randomize_layout and __no_randomize_layout,
which respectively tell the plugin to either randomize or not to
randomize instances of the struct in question. Follow-on patches enable
the auto-detection logic for selecting structures for randomization
that contain only function pointers. It is disabled here to assist with
bisection.

Since any randomized structs must be initialized using designated
initializers, __randomize_layout includes the __designated_init annotation
even when the plugin is disabled so that all builds will require
the needed initialization. (With the plugin enabled, annotations for
automatically chosen structures are marked as well.)

The main differences between this implemenation and grsecurity are:
- disable automatic struct selection (to be enabled in follow-up patch)
- add designated_init attribute at runtime and for manual marking
- clarify debugging output to differentiate bad cast warnings
- add whitelisting infrastructure
- support gcc 7's DECL_ALIGN and DECL_MODE changes (Laura Abbott)
- raise minimum required GCC version to 4.7

Earlier versions of this patch series were ported by Michael Leibowitz.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2017-06-22 16:15:45 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
41a2901e7d rcu: Remove SPARSE_RCU_POINTER Kconfig option
The sparse-based checking for non-RCU accesses to RCU-protected pointers
has been around for a very long time, and it is now the only type of
sparse-based checking that is optional.  This commit therefore makes
it unconditional.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2017-06-08 18:52:41 -07:00
Kees Cook
0aa5e49c68 compiler: Add __designated_init annotation
This allows structure annotations for requiring designated initialization
in GCC 5.1.0 and later:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html

The structure randomization layout plugin will be using this to help
identify structures that need this form of initialization.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2017-05-28 10:23:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
86292b33d4 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few MM remainders

 - misc things

 - autofs updates

 - signals

 - affs updates

 - ipc

 - nilfs2

 - spelling.txt updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (78 commits)
  mm, x86: fix HIGHMEM64 && PARAVIRT build config for native_pud_clear()
  mm: add arch-independent testcases for RODATA
  hfs: atomically read inode size
  mm: clarify mm_struct.mm_{users,count} documentation
  mm: use mmget_not_zero() helper
  mm: add new mmget() helper
  mm: add new mmgrab() helper
  checkpatch: warn when formats use %Z and suggest %z
  lib/vsprintf.c: remove %Z support
  scripts/spelling.txt: add some typo-words
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "followings" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "therfore" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "overwriten" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "overwritting" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "deintialize(d)" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "disassocation" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "omited" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "explictely" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "applys" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "configuartion" pattern and fix typo instances
  ...
2017-02-27 23:09:29 -08:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
7d134b2ce6 kprobes: move kprobe declarations to asm-generic/kprobes.h
Often all is needed is these small helpers, instead of compiler.h or a
full kprobes.h.  This is important for asm helpers, in fact even some
asm/kprobes.h make use of these helpers...  instead just keep a generic
asm file with helpers useful for asm code with the least amount of
clutter as possible.

Likewise we need now to also address what to do about this file for both
when architectures have CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES, and when they do not.  Then
for when architectures have CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES but have disabled
CONFIG_KPROBES.

Right now most asm/kprobes.h do not have guards against CONFIG_KPROBES,
this means most architecture code cannot include asm/kprobes.h safely.
Correct this and add guards for architectures missing them.
Additionally provide architectures that not have kprobes support with
the default asm-generic solution.  This lets us force asm/kprobes.h on
the header include/linux/kprobes.h always, but most importantly we can
now safely include just asm/kprobes.h on architecture code without
bringing the full kitchen sink of header files.

Two architectures already provided a guard against CONFIG_KPROBES on its
kprobes.h: sh, arch.  The rest of the architectures needed gaurds added.
We avoid including any not-needed headers on asm/kprobes.h unless
kprobes have been enabled.

In a subsequent atomic change we can try now to remove compiler.h from
include/linux/kprobes.h.

During this sweep I've also identified a few architectures defining a
common macro needed for both kprobes and ftrace, that of the definition
of the breakput instruction up.  Some refer to this as
BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION.  This must be kept outside of the #ifdef
CONFIG_KPROBES guard.

[mcgrof@kernel.org: fix arm64 build]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAB=NE6X1WMByuARS4mZ1g9+W=LuVBnMDnh_5zyN0CLADaVh=Jw@mail.gmail.com
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup for kprobes declarations moving]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170214165933.13ebd4f4@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170203233139.32682-1-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-27 18:43:45 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
79b17ea740 Merge tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release has no new tracing features, just clean ups, minor fixes
  and small optimizations"

* tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (25 commits)
  tracing: Remove outdated ring buffer comment
  tracing/probes: Fix a warning message to show correct maximum length
  tracing: Fix return value check in trace_benchmark_reg()
  tracing: Use modern function declaration
  jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key
  tracing/probe: Show subsystem name in messages
  tracing/hwlat: Update old comment about migration
  timers: Make flags output in the timer_start tracepoint useful
  tracing: Have traceprobe_probes_write() not access userspace unnecessarily
  tracing: Have COMM event filter key be treated as a string
  ftrace: Have set_graph_function handle multiple functions in one write
  ftrace: Do not hold references of ftrace_graph_{notrace_}hash out of graph_lock
  tracing: Reset parser->buffer to allow multiple "puts"
  ftrace: Have set_graph_functions handle write with RDWR
  ftrace: Reset fgd->hash in ftrace_graph_write()
  ftrace: Replace (void *)1 with a meaningful macro name FTRACE_GRAPH_EMPTY
  ftrace: Create a slight optimization on searching the ftrace_hash
  tracing: Add ftrace_hash_key() helper function
  ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables
  ftrace: Expose ftrace_hash_empty and ftrace_lookup_ip
  ...
2017-02-27 13:26:17 -08:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
134e6a034c tracing: Show number of constants profiled in likely profiler
Now that constants are traced, it is useful to see the number of constants
that are traced in the likely/unlikely profiler in order to know if they
should be ignored or not.

The likely/unlikely will display a number after the "correct" number if a
"constant" count exists.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-01-19 08:57:14 -05:00
Kees Cook
c61f13eaa1 gcc-plugins: Add structleak for more stack initialization
This plugin detects any structures that contain __user attributes and
makes sure it is being fully initialized so that a specific class of
information exposure is eliminated. (This plugin was originally designed
to block the exposure of siginfo in CVE-2013-2141.)

Ported from grsecurity/PaX. This version adds a verbose option to the
plugin and the Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2017-01-18 12:02:35 -08:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
d45ae1f704 tracing: Process constants for (un)likely() profiler
When running the likely/unlikely profiler, one of the results did not look
accurate. It noted that the unlikely() in link_path_walk() was 100%
incorrect. When I added a trace_printk() to see what was happening there, it
became 80% correct! Looking deeper into what whas happening, I found that
gcc split that if statement into two paths. One where the if statement
became a constant, the other path a variable. The other path had the if
statement always hit (making the unlikely there, always false), but since
the #define unlikely() has:

  #define unlikely() (__builtin_constant_p(x) ? !!(x) : __branch_check__(x, 0))

Where constants are ignored by the branch profiler, the "constant" path
made by the compiler was ignored, even though it was hit 80% of the time.

By just passing the constant value to the __branch_check__() function and
tracing it out of line (as always correct, as likely/unlikely isn't a factor
for constants), then we get back the accurate readings of branches that were
optimized by gcc causing part of the execution to become constant.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-01-17 15:13:05 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
9ffc66941d Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
2016-10-15 10:03:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
84d69848c9 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.

   This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
   checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
   working on a patch to fix this.

   Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
   change prototypes.

 - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
   Piggin

 - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.

 - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
   -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections

 - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell

 - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
  initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
  ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
  powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
  kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
  kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
  kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
  kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
  kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
  kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
  fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
  ia64: move exports to definitions
  sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
  [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
  sparc: move exports to definitions
  ppc: move exports to definitions
  arm: move exports to definitions
  s390: move exports to definitions
  m68k: move exports to definitions
  alpha: move exports to actual definitions
  x86: move exports to actual definitions
  ...
2016-10-14 14:26:58 -07:00
Emese Revfy
0766f788eb latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and
variables.  If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for
gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then
the plugin will initialize it with random contents.  The variable must
be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields.

These specific functions have been selected because they are init
functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable
times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of
latent entropy.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
[kees: expanded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-10-10 14:51:45 -07:00
Nicholas Piggin
b67067f117 kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
Introduce LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION option for architectures to
select to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, and link
with --gc-sections. It requires some work (documented) to ensure all
unreferenced entrypoints are live, and requires toolchain and build
verification, so it is made a per-arch option for now.

On a random powerpc64le build, this yelds a significant size saving,
it boots and runs fine, but there is a lot I haven't tested as yet, so
these savings may be reduced if there are bugs in the link.

    text      data        bss        dec   filename
11169741   1180744    1923176	14273661   vmlinux
10445269   1004127    1919707	13369103   vmlinux.dce

~700K text, ~170K data, 6% removed from kernel image size.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-09-09 10:47:00 +02:00
Johannes Berg
d7127b5e5f locking/barriers: Don't use sizeof(void) in lockless_dereference()
My previous commit:

  112dc0c806 ("locking/barriers: Suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference()")

caused sparse to complain that (in radix-tree.h) we use sizeof(void)
since that rcu_dereference()s a void *.

Really, all we need is to have the expression *p in here somewhere
to make sure p is a pointer type, and sizeof(*p) was the thing that
came to my mind first to make sure that's done without really doing
anything at runtime.

Another thing I had considered was using typeof(*p), but obviously
we can't just declare a typeof(*p) variable either, since that may
end up being void. Declaring a variable as typeof(*p)* gets around
that, and still checks that typeof(*p) is valid, so do that. This
type construction can't be done for _________p1 because that will
actually be used and causes sparse address space warnings, so keep
a separate unused variable for it.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kbuild-all@01.org
Fixes: 112dc0c806 ("locking/barriers: Suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472192160-4049-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-09-05 11:50:42 +02:00
Johannes Berg
112dc0c806 locking/barriers: Suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference()
After Peter's commit:

  331b6d8c7a ("locking/barriers: Validate lockless_dereference() is used on a pointer type")

... we get a lot of sparse warnings (one for every rcu_dereference, and more)
since the expression here is assigning to the wrong address space.

Instead of validating that 'p' is a pointer this way, instead make
it fail compilation when it's not by using sizeof(*(p)). This will
not cause any sparse warnings (tested, likely since the address
space is irrelevant for sizeof), and will fail compilation when
'p' isn't a pointer type.

Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 331b6d8c7a ("locking/barriers: Validate lockless_dereference() is used on a pointer type")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470909022-687-2-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-08-18 15:36:13 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
f0c98ebc57 Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm
Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:

 - Replace pcommit with ADR / directed-flushing.

   The pcommit instruction, which has not shipped on any product, is
   deprecated.  Instead, the requirement is that platforms implement
   either ADR, or provide one or more flush addresses per nvdimm.

   ADR (Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) flushes data in posted write buffers
   to the memory controller on a power-fail event.

   Flush addresses are defined in ACPI 6.x as an NVDIMM Firmware
   Interface Table (NFIT) sub-structure: "Flush Hint Address Structure".
   A flush hint is an mmio address that when written and fenced assures
   that all previous posted writes targeting a given dimm have been
   flushed to media.

 - On-demand ARS (address range scrub).

   Linux uses the results of the ACPI ARS commands to track bad blocks
   in pmem devices.  When latent errors are detected we re-scrub the
   media to refresh the bad block list, userspace can also request a
   re-scrub at any time.

 - Support for the Microsoft DSM (device specific method) command
   format.

 - Support for EDK2/OVMF virtual disk device memory ranges.

 - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (41 commits)
  libnvdimm-btt: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "__nd_device_register"
  nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error
  nfit: move to nfit/ sub-directory
  nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand
  libnvdimm: register nvdimm_bus devices with an nd_bus driver
  pmem: clarify a debug print in pmem_clear_poison
  x86/insn: remove pcommit
  Revert "KVM: x86: add pcommit support"
  nfit, tools/testing/nvdimm/: unify shutdown paths
  libnvdimm: move ->module to struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor
  nfit: cleanup acpi_nfit_init calling convention
  nfit: fix _FIT evaluation memory leak + use after free
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add manufacturing_{date|location} dimm properties
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add virtual ramdisk range
  acpi, nfit: treat virtual ramdisk SPA as pmem region
  pmem: kill __pmem address space
  pmem: kill wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: use nvdimm_flush() for namespace I/O writes
  fs/dax: remove wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: flush posted-write queues on shutdown
  ...
2016-07-28 17:38:16 -07:00
Dan Williams
7a9eb20666 pmem: kill __pmem address space
The __pmem address space was meant to annotate codepaths that touch
persistent memory and need to coordinate a call to wmb_pmem().  Now that
wmb_pmem() is gone, there is little need to keep this annotation.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-07-12 19:25:38 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
7cb45c0fe9 locking/barriers: Move smp_cond_load_acquire() to asm-generic/barrier.h
Since all asm/barrier.h should/must include asm-generic/barrier.h the
latter is a good place for generic infrastructure like this.

This also allows archs to override the new smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-14 11:55:14 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
33ac279677 locking/barriers: Introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep()
Introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(), this construct is not
uncommon, but the lack of this barrier is.

Use it to better express smp_rmb() uses in WRITE_ONCE(), the IPC
semaphore code and the qspinlock code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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>
2016-06-14 11:55:14 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
1f03e8d291 locking/barriers: Replace smp_cond_acquire() with smp_cond_load_acquire()
This new form allows using hardware assisted waiting.

Some hardware (ARM64 and x86) allow monitoring an address for changes,
so by providing a pointer we can use this to replace the cpu_relax()
with hardware optimized methods in the future.

Requested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-14 11:54:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
331b6d8c7a locking/barriers: Validate lockless_dereference() is used on a pointer type
Use the type to validate the argument @p is indeed a pointer type.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160522104827.GP3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-08 14:22:47 +02:00
Rasmus Villemoes
d64e85d3e1 compiler.h: add support for malloc attribute
gcc as far back as at least 3.04 documents the function attribute
__malloc__.  Add a shorthand for attaching that to a function
declaration.  This was also suggested by Andi Kleen way back in 2002
[1], but didn't get applied, perhaps because gcc at that time generated
the exact same code with and without this attribute.

This attribute tells the compiler that the return value (if non-NULL)
can be assumed not to alias any other valid pointers at the time of the
call.

Please note that the documentation for a range of gcc versions (starting
from around 4.7) contained a somewhat confusing and self-contradicting
text:

  The malloc attribute is used to tell the compiler that a function may
  be treated as if any non-NULL pointer it returns cannot alias any other
  pointer valid when the function returns and *that the memory has
  undefined content*.  [...] Standard functions with this property include
  malloc and *calloc*.

(emphasis mine). The intended meaning has later been clarified [2]:

  This tells the compiler that a function is malloc-like, i.e., that the
  pointer P returned by the function cannot alias any other pointer valid
  when the function returns, and moreover no pointers to valid objects
  occur in any storage addressed by P.

What this means is that we can apply the attribute to kmalloc and
friends, and it is ok for the returned memory to have well-defined
contents (__GFP_ZERO).  But it is not ok to apply it to kmemdup(), nor
to other functions which both allocate and possibly initialize the
memory with existing pointers.  So unless someone is doing something
pretty perverted kstrdup() should also be a fine candidate.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/57172
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56955

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
8bc6782fe2 Merge commit 'fixes.2015.02.23a' into core/rcu
Conflicts:
	kernel/rcu/tree.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-15 09:01:06 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
39a1142dbb Merge tag 'v4.5-rc6' into locking/core, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-29 09:55:22 +01:00