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Christoph Hellwig
21cb2559eb mconsole: switch to kernel_read
Instead of playing with address limits.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-09-04 19:05:16 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
4ecd4ff55a Merge branch 'for-linus-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml
Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger:
 "Mostly fixes for UML:

   - First round of fixes for PTRACE_GETRESET/SETREGSET

   - A printf vs printk cleanup

   - Minor improvements"

* 'for-linus-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml:
  um: Correctly check for PTRACE_GETRESET/SETREGSET
  um: v2: Use generic NOTES macro
  um: Add kerneldoc for userspace_tramp() and start_userspace()
  um: Add kerneldoc for segv_handler
  um: stub-data.h: remove superfluous include
  um: userspace - be more verbose in ptrace set regs error
  um: add dummy ioremap and iounmap functions
  um: Allow building and running on older hosts
  um: Avoid longjmp/setjmp symbol clashes with libpthread.a
  um: console: Ignore console= option
  um: Use os_warn to print out pre-boot warning/error messages
  um: Add os_warn() for pre-boot warning/error messages
  um: Use os_info for the messages on normal path
  um: Add os_info() for pre-boot information messages
  um: Use printk instead of printf in make_uml_dir
2017-07-15 10:49:33 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
745a600cf1 um: console: Ignore console= option
Ignore linux kernel's console= option at uml's console
option handler. Since uml's con= option is only for
setting up new console, and Linux kernel's console=
option specify to which console kernel output its
message, we can use both option for different purpose.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2017-07-05 23:18:48 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
2a842acab1 block: introduce new block status code type
Currently we use nornal Linux errno values in the block layer, and while
we accept any error a few have overloaded magic meanings.  This patch
instead introduces a new  blk_status_t value that holds block layer specific
status codes and explicitly explains their meaning.  Helpers to convert from
and to the previous special meanings are provided for now, but I suspect
we want to get rid of them in the long run - those drivers that have a
errno input (e.g. networking) usually get errnos that don't know about
the special block layer overloads, and similarly returning them to userspace
will usually return somethings that strictly speaking isn't correct
for file system operations, but that's left as an exercise for later.

For now the set of errors is a very limited set that closely corresponds
to the previous overloaded errno values, but there is some low hanging
fruite to improve it.

blk_status_t (ab)uses the sparse __bitwise annotations to allow for sparse
typechecking, so that we can easily catch places passing the wrong values.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-06-09 09:27:32 -06:00
Ingo Molnar
b17b01533b sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h>
We are going to split <linux/sched/debug.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/debug.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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>
2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
174cd4b1e5 sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h>
Fix up affected files that include this signal functionality via sched.h.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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>
2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3f07c01441 sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h>
We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/signal.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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>
2017-03-02 08:42:29 +01:00
Davidlohr Bueso
642fa448ae sched/core: Remove set_task_state()
This is a nasty interface and setting the state of a foreign task must
not be done. As of the following commit:

  be628be095 ("bcache: Make gc wakeup sane, remove set_task_state()")

... everyone in the kernel calls set_task_state() with current, allowing
the helper to be removed.

However, as the comment indicates, it is still around for those archs
where computing current is more expensive than using a pointer, at least
in theory. An important arch that is affected is arm64, however this has
been addressed now [1] and performance is up to par making no difference
with either calls.

Of all the callers, if any, it's the locking bits that would care most
about this -- ie: we end up passing a tsk pointer to a lot of the lock
slowpath, and setting ->state on that. The following numbers are based
on two tests: a custom ad-hoc microbenchmark that just measures
latencies (for ~65 million calls) between get_task_state() vs
get_current_state().

Secondly for a higher overview, an unlink microbenchmark was used,
which pounds on a single file with open, close,unlink combos with
increasing thread counts (up to 4x ncpus). While the workload is quite
unrealistic, it does contend a lot on the inode mutex or now rwsem.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483468021-8237-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com

== 1. x86-64 ==

Avg runtime set_task_state():    601 msecs
Avg runtime set_current_state(): 552 msecs

                                            vanilla                 dirty
Hmean    unlink1-processes-2      36089.26 (  0.00%)    38977.33 (  8.00%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-5      28555.01 (  0.00%)    29832.55 (  4.28%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-8      37323.75 (  0.00%)    44974.57 ( 20.50%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-12     43571.88 (  0.00%)    44283.01 (  1.63%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-21     34431.52 (  0.00%)    38284.45 ( 11.19%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-30     34813.26 (  0.00%)    37975.17 (  9.08%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-48     37048.90 (  0.00%)    39862.78 (  7.59%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-79     35630.01 (  0.00%)    36855.30 (  3.44%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-110    36115.85 (  0.00%)    39843.91 ( 10.32%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-141    32546.96 (  0.00%)    35418.52 (  8.82%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-172    34674.79 (  0.00%)    36899.21 (  6.42%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-203    37303.11 (  0.00%)    36393.04 ( -2.44%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-224    35712.13 (  0.00%)    36685.96 (  2.73%)

== 2. ppc64le ==

Avg runtime set_task_state():  938 msecs
Avg runtime set_current_state: 940 msecs

                                            vanilla                 dirty
Hmean    unlink1-processes-2      19269.19 (  0.00%)    30704.50 ( 59.35%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-5      20106.15 (  0.00%)    21804.15 (  8.45%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-8      17496.97 (  0.00%)    17243.28 ( -1.45%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-12     14224.15 (  0.00%)    17240.21 ( 21.20%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-21     14155.66 (  0.00%)    15681.23 ( 10.78%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-30     14450.70 (  0.00%)    15995.83 ( 10.69%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-48     16945.57 (  0.00%)    16370.42 ( -3.39%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-79     15788.39 (  0.00%)    14639.27 ( -7.28%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-110    14268.48 (  0.00%)    14377.40 (  0.76%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-141    14023.65 (  0.00%)    16271.69 ( 16.03%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-172    13417.62 (  0.00%)    16067.55 ( 19.75%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-203    15293.08 (  0.00%)    15440.40 (  0.96%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-234    13719.32 (  0.00%)    16190.74 ( 18.01%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-265    16400.97 (  0.00%)    16115.22 ( -1.74%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-296    14388.60 (  0.00%)    16216.13 ( 12.70%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-320    15771.85 (  0.00%)    15905.96 (  0.85%)

x86-64 (known to be fast for get_current()/this_cpu_read_stable() caching)
and ppc64 (with paca) show similar improvements in the unlink microbenches.
The small delta for ppc64 (2ms), does not represent the gains on the unlink
runs. In the case of x86, there was a decent amount of variation in the
latency runs, but always within a 20 to 50ms increase), ppc was more constant.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
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: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483479794-14013-5-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-14 11:14:16 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
7c0f6ba682 Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally
This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
9936f44add Merge branch 'for-linus-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml
Pull UML update from Richard Weinberger:
 "A performance enhancement for UML's block driver"

* 'for-linus-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml:
  um: UBD Improvements
2016-12-16 09:35:03 -08:00
Anton Ivanov
f88f0bdfc3 um: UBD Improvements
UBD at present is extremely slow because it handles only
one request at a time in the IO thread and IRQ handler.

The single request at a time is replaced by handling multiple
requests as well as necessary workarounds for short reads/writes.

Resulting performance improvement in disk IO - 30%

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <aivanov@kot-begemot.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2016-12-14 22:46:55 +01:00
Jarod Wilson
b3e3893e12 net: use core MTU range checking in misc drivers
firewire-net:
- set min/max_mtu
- remove fwnet_change_mtu

nes:
- set max_mtu
- clean up nes_netdev_change_mtu

xpnet:
- set min/max_mtu
- remove xpnet_dev_change_mtu

hippi:
- set min/max_mtu
- remove hippi_change_mtu

batman-adv:
- set max_mtu
- remove batadv_interface_change_mtu
- initialization is a little async, not 100% certain that max_mtu is set
  in the optimal place, don't have hardware to test with

rionet:
- set min/max_mtu
- remove rionet_change_mtu

slip:
- set min/max_mtu
- streamline sl_change_mtu

um/net_kern:
- remove pointless ndo_change_mtu

hsi/clients/ssi_protocol:
- use core MTU range checking
- remove now redundant ssip_pn_set_mtu

ipoib:
- set a default max MTU value
- Note: ipoib's actual max MTU can vary, depending on if the device is in
  connected mode or not, so we'll just set the max_mtu value to the max
  possible, and let the ndo_change_mtu function continue to validate any new
  MTU change requests with checks for CM or not. Note that ipoib has no
  min_mtu set, and thus, the network core's mtu > 0 check is the only lower
  bounds here.

mptlan:
- use net core MTU range checking
- remove now redundant mpt_lan_change_mtu

fddi:
- min_mtu = 21, max_mtu = 4470
- remove now redundant fddi_change_mtu (including export)

fjes:
- min_mtu = 8192, max_mtu = 65536
- The max_mtu value is actually one over IP_MAX_MTU here, but the idea is to
  get past the core net MTU range checks so fjes_change_mtu can validate a
  new MTU against what it supports (see fjes_support_mtu in fjes_hw.c)

hsr:
- min_mtu = 0 (calls ether_setup, max_mtu is 1500)

f_phonet:
- min_mtu = 6, max_mtu = 65541

u_ether:
- min_mtu = 14, max_mtu = 15412

phonet/pep-gprs:
- min_mtu = 576, max_mtu = 65530
- remove redundant gprs_set_mtu

CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
CC: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
CC: Faisal Latif <faisal.latif@intel.com>
CC: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
CC: Cliff Whickman <cpw@sgi.com>
CC: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>
CC: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
CC: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
CC: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
CC: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
CC: Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@broadcom.com>
CC: Chaitra P B <chaitra.basappa@broadcom.com>
CC: Suganath Prabu Subramani <suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com>
CC: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com
CC: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
CC: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
CC: Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@alten.se>
CC: Remi Denis-Courmont <courmisch@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-20 14:51:10 -04:00
PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
d6a38c0ba7 miscdevice: Use module_misc_device() macro
This patch removes module_init()/module_exit() from driver code by using
module_misc_device() macro. All modules in this patch has a print
statement which is removed when module_misc_device() macro is used.
If undesirable this patch can be dropped entirely, this is the only
purpose of making this as a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-08-31 14:12:35 +02:00
Dan Williams
d72a57835c um: track 'parent' device in a local variable
In preparation for the removal of 'driverfs_dev' from 'struct gendisk'
use a local variable to track the parented vs un-parented case in
ubd_disk_register().

Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-06-22 10:19:16 -07:00
Mike Christie
3a5e02ced1 block, drivers: add REQ_OP_FLUSH operation
This adds a REQ_OP_FLUSH operation that is sent to request_fn
based drivers by the block layer's flush code, instead of
sending requests with the request->cmd_flags REQ_FLUSH bit set.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
a7fd20d1c4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Support SPI based w5100 devices, from Akinobu Mita.

   2) Partial Segmentation Offload, from Alexander Duyck.

   3) Add GMAC4 support to stmmac driver, from Alexandre TORGUE.

   4) Allow cls_flower stats offload, from Amir Vadai.

   5) Implement bpf blinding, from Daniel Borkmann.

   6) Optimize _ASYNC_ bit twiddling on sockets, unless the socket is
      actually using FASYNC these atomics are superfluous.  From Eric
      Dumazet.

   7) Run TCP more preemptibly, also from Eric Dumazet.

   8) Support LED blinking, EEPROM dumps, and rxvlan offloading in mlx5e
      driver, from Gal Pressman.

   9) Allow creating ppp devices via rtnetlink, from Guillaume Nault.

  10) Improve BPF usage documentation, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

  11) Support tunneling offloads in qed, from Manish Chopra.

  12) aRFS offloading in mlx5e, from Maor Gottlieb.

  13) Add RFS and RPS support to SCTP protocol, from Marcelo Ricardo
      Leitner.

  14) Add MSG_EOR support to TCP, this allows controlling packet
      coalescing on application record boundaries for more accurate
      socket timestamp sampling.  From Martin KaFai Lau.

  15) Fix alignment of 64-bit netlink attributes across the board, from
      Nicolas Dichtel.

  16) Per-vlan stats in bridging, from Nikolay Aleksandrov.

  17) Several conversions of drivers to ethtool ksettings, from Philippe
      Reynes.

  18) Checksum neutral ILA in ipv6, from Tom Herbert.

  19) Factorize all of the various marvell dsa drivers into one, from
      Vivien Didelot

  20) Add VF support to qed driver, from Yuval Mintz"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1649 commits)
  Revert "phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m"
  Revert "phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional"
  r8169: default to 64-bit DMA on recent PCIe chips
  phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional
  phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m
  bpf: arm64: remove callee-save registers use for tmp registers
  asix: Fix offset calculation in asix_rx_fixup() causing slow transmissions
  switchdev: pass pointer to fib_info instead of copy
  net_sched: close another race condition in tcf_mirred_release()
  tipc: fix nametable publication field in nl compat
  drivers: net: Don't print unpopulated net_device name
  qed: add support for dcbx.
  ravb: Add missing free_irq() calls to ravb_close()
  qed: Remove a stray tab
  net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phydev from struct net_device
  bpf, doc: fix typo on bpf_asm descriptions
  stmmac: hardware TX COE doesn't work when force_thresh_dma_mode is set
  net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phydev from struct net_device
  ...
2016-05-17 16:26:30 -07:00
Florian Westphal
860e9538a9 treewide: replace dev->trans_start update with helper
Replace all trans_start updates with netif_trans_update helper.
change was done via spatch:

struct net_device *d;
@@
- d->trans_start = jiffies
+ netif_trans_update(d)

Compile tested only.

Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-05-04 14:16:49 -04:00
Jens Axboe
f935a8ce0a um: switch to using blk_queue_write_cache()
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2016-04-12 16:00:39 -06:00
Jann Horn
378c6520e7 fs/coredump: prevent fsuid=0 dumps into user-controlled directories
This commit fixes the following security hole affecting systems where
all of the following conditions are fulfilled:

 - The fs.suid_dumpable sysctl is set to 2.
 - The kernel.core_pattern sysctl's value starts with "/". (Systems
   where kernel.core_pattern starts with "|/" are not affected.)
 - Unprivileged user namespace creation is permitted. (This is
   true on Linux >=3.8, but some distributions disallow it by
   default using a distro patch.)

Under these conditions, if a program executes under secure exec rules,
causing it to run with the SUID_DUMP_ROOT flag, then unshares its user
namespace, changes its root directory and crashes, the coredump will be
written using fsuid=0 and a path derived from kernel.core_pattern - but
this path is interpreted relative to the root directory of the process,
allowing the attacker to control where a coredump will be written with
root privileges.

To fix the security issue, always interpret core_pattern for dumps that
are written under SUID_DUMP_ROOT relative to the root directory of init.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
33caf82acf Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of stuff.  That probably should've been 5 or 6 separate
  branches, but by the time I'd realized how large and mixed that bag
  had become it had been too close to -final to play with rebasing.

  Some fs/namei.c cleanups there, memdup_user_nul() introduction and
  switching open-coded instances, burying long-dead code, whack-a-mole
  of various kinds, several new helpers for ->llseek(), assorted
  cleanups and fixes from various people, etc.

  One piece probably deserves special mention - Neil's
  lookup_one_len_unlocked().  Similar to lookup_one_len(), but gets
  called without ->i_mutex and tries to avoid ever taking it.  That, of
  course, means that it's not useful for any directory modifications,
  but things like getting inode attributes in nfds readdirplus are fine
  with that.  I really should've asked for moratorium on lookup-related
  changes this cycle, but since I hadn't done that early enough...  I
  *am* asking for that for the coming cycle, though - I'm going to try
  and get conversion of i_mutex to rwsem with ->lookup() done under lock
  taken shared.

  There will be a patch closer to the end of the window, along the lines
  of the one Linus had posted last May - mechanical conversion of
  ->i_mutex accesses to inode_lock()/inode_unlock()/inode_trylock()/
  inode_is_locked()/inode_lock_nested().  To quote Linus back then:

    -----
    |    This is an automated patch using
    |
    |        sed 's/mutex_lock(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_lock(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_unlock(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_unlock(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_lock_nested(&\(.*\)->i_mutex,[     ]*I_MUTEX_\([A-Z0-9_]*\))/inode_lock_nested(\1, I_MUTEX_\2)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_is_locked(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_is_locked(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_trylock(&\(.*\)->i_mutex)/inode_trylock(\1)/'
    |
    |    with a very few manual fixups
    -----

  I'm going to send that once the ->i_mutex-affecting stuff in -next
  gets mostly merged (or when Linus says he's about to stop taking
  merges)"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  nfsd: don't hold i_mutex over userspace upcalls
  fs:affs:Replace time_t with time64_t
  fs/9p: use fscache mutex rather than spinlock
  proc: add a reschedule point in proc_readfd_common()
  logfs: constify logfs_block_ops structures
  fcntl: allow to set O_DIRECT flag on pipe
  fs: __generic_file_splice_read retry lookup on AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE
  fs: xattr: Use kvfree()
  [s390] page_to_phys() always returns a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
  nbd: use ->compat_ioctl()
  fs: use block_device name vsprintf helper
  lib/vsprintf: add %*pg format specifier
  fs: use gendisk->disk_name where possible
  poll: plug an unused argument to do_poll
  amdkfd: don't open-code memdup_user()
  cdrom: don't open-code memdup_user()
  rsxx: don't open-code memdup_user()
  mtip32xx: don't open-code memdup_user()
  [um] mconsole: don't open-code memdup_user_nul()
  [um] hostaudio: don't open-code memdup_user()
  ...
2016-01-12 17:11:47 -08:00
Anton Ivanov
8c6157b6b3 um: Update UBD to use pread/pwrite family of functions
This decreases the number of syscalls per read/write by half.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <aivanov@brocade.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2016-01-10 21:49:48 +01:00
Al Viro
793b796ebf [um] mconsole: don't open-code memdup_user_nul()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-01-04 10:29:45 -05:00
Al Viro
1ceb36285c [um] hostaudio: don't open-code memdup_user()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-01-04 10:29:40 -05:00
Geyslan G. Bem
887a985309 um: fix returns without va_end
When using va_list ensure that va_start will be followed by va_end.

Signed-off-by: Geyslan G. Bem <geyslan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2015-12-08 22:26:00 +01:00
Saurabh Sengar
e17c6d77b2 um: net: replace GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC when spinlock is held
since GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC while spinlock is held,
as code while holding a spinlock should be atomic.
GFP_KERNEL may sleep and can cause deadlock,
where as GFP_ATOMIC may fail but certainly avoids deadlockdex f70dd54..d898f6c 100644

Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2015-11-06 22:51:00 +01:00