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  1. Jun 11, 2018
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      kcov: test compiler capability in Kconfig and correct dependency · 5aadfdeb
      Masahiro Yamada authored 
      
As Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt notes, 'select' should be
be used with care - it forces a lower limit of another symbol, ignoring
the dependency.  Currently, KCOV can select GCC_PLUGINS even if arch
does not select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS.  This could cause the unmet direct
dependency.

Now that Kconfig can test compiler capability, let's handle this in a
more sophisticated way.

There are two ways to enable KCOV; use the compiler that natively
supports -fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc, or build the SANCOV plugin if
the compiler has ability to build GCC plugins.  Hence, the correct
dependency for KCOV is:

  depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS

You do not need to build the SANCOV plugin if the compiler already
supports -fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc.  Hence, the select should be:

  select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC

With this, GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV is selected only when necessary, so
scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins can be cleaner.

I also cleaned up Kconfig and scripts/Makefile.kcov as well.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      5aadfdeb
  3. Jun 05, 2018
  5. May 24, 2018
    • Robin Murphy's avatar
      dma-debug: check scatterlist segments · 78c47830
      Robin Murphy authored 
      
Drivers/subsystems creating scatterlists for DMA should be taking care
to respect the scatter-gather limitations of the appropriate device, as
described by dma_parms. A DMA API implementation cannot feasibly split
a scatterlist into *more* entries than originally passed, so it is not
well defined what they should do when given a segment larger than the
limit they are also required to respect.

Conversely, devices which are less limited than the rather conservative
defaults, or indeed have no limitations at all (e.g. GPUs with their own
internal MMU), should be encouraged to set appropriate dma_parms, as
they may get more efficient DMA mapping performance out of it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRobin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      78c47830
  7. May 09, 2018
  9. May 08, 2018
  11. Apr 11, 2018
  13. Mar 31, 2018
  15. Mar 26, 2018
  17. Mar 25, 2018
    • Nicholas Piggin's avatar
      kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a · f49821ee
      Nicholas Piggin authored 
      
Incremental linking is gone, so rename built-in.o to built-in.a, which
is the usual extension for archive files.

This patch does two things, first is a simple search/replace:

git grep -l 'built-in\.o' | xargs sed -i 's/built-in\.o/built-in\.a/g'

The second is to invert nesting of nested text manipulations to avoid
filtering built-in.a out from libs-y2:

-libs-y2 := $(filter-out %.a, $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(libs-y)))
+libs-y2 := $(patsubst %/, %/built-in.a, $(filter-out %.a, $(libs-y)))

Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      f49821ee
  19. Mar 09, 2018
  21. Feb 23, 2018
  23. Feb 21, 2018
  25. Feb 07, 2018
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      kasan: rework Kconfig settings · e7c52b84
      Arnd Bergmann authored 
      We get a lot of very large stack frames using gcc-7.0.1 with the default
-fsanitize-address-use-after-scope --param asan-stack=1 options, which can
easily cause an overflow of the kernel stack, e.g.

  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/handlers.c:2434:1: warning: the frame size of 46176 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c:5650:1: warning: the frame size of 23632 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  lib/atomic64_test.c:250:1: warning: the frame size of 11200 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/handlers.c:2621:1: warning: the frame size of 9208 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv090x.c:3431:1: warning: the frame size of 6816 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  fs/fscache/stats.c:287:1: warning: the frame size of 6536 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes

To reduce this risk, -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope is now split out
into a separate CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA Kconfig option, leading to stack
frames that are smaller than 2 kilobytes most of the time on x86_64.  An
earlier version of this patch also prevented combining KASAN_EXTRA with
KASAN_INLINE, but that is no longer necessary with gcc-7.0.1.

All patches to get the frame size below 2048 bytes with CONFIG_KASAN=y
and CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA=n have been merged by maintainers now, so we can
bring back that default now.  KASAN_EXTRA=y still causes lots of
warnings but now defaults to !COMPILE_TEST to disable it in
allmodconfig, and it remains disabled in all other defconfigs since it
is a new option.  I arbitrarily raise the warning limit for KASAN_EXTRA
to 3072 to reduce the noise, but an allmodconfig kernel still has around
50 warnings on gcc-7.

I experimented a bit more with smaller stack frames and have another
follow-up series that reduces the warning limit for 64-bit architectures
to 1280 bytes (without CONFIG_KASAN).

With earlier versions of this patch series, I also had patches to address
the warnings we get with KASAN and/or KASAN_EXTRA, using a
"noinline_if_stackbloat" annotation.

That annotation now got replaced with a gcc-8 bugfix (see
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81715) and a workaround for
older compilers, which means that KASAN_EXTRA is now just as bad as
before and will lead to an instant stack overflow in a few extreme
cases.

This reverts parts of commit 3f181b4d ("lib/Kconfig.debug: disable
-Wframe-larger-than warnings with KASAN=y").  Two patches in linux-next
should be merged first to avoid introducing warnings in an allmodconfig
build:
  3cd890db ("media: dvb-frontends: fix i2c access helpers for KASAN")
  16c3ada8 ("media: r820t: fix r820t_write_reg for KASAN")

Do we really need to backport this?

I think we do: without this patch, enabling KASAN will lead to
unavoidable kernel stack overflow in certain device drivers when built
with gcc-7 or higher on linux-4.10+ or any version that contains a
backport of commit c5caf21a.  Most people are probably still on
older compilers, but it will get worse over time as they upgrade their
distros.

The warnings we get on kernels older than this should all be for code
that uses dangerously large stack frames, though most of them do not
cause an actual stack overflow by themselves.The asan-stack option was
added in linux-4.0, and commit 3f181b4d ("lib/Kconfig.debug:
disable -Wframe-larger-than warnings with KASAN=y") effectively turned
off the warning for allmodconfig kernels, so I would like to see this
fix backported to any kernels later than 4.0.

I have done dozens of fixes for individual functions with stack frames
larger than 2048 bytes with asan-stack, and I plan to make sure that
all those fixes make it into the stable kernels as well (most are
already there).

Part of the complication here is that asan-stack (from 4.0) was
originally assumed to always require much larger stacks, but that
turned out to be a combination of multiple gcc bugs that we have now
worked around and fixed, but sanitize-address-use-after-scope (from
v4.10) has a much higher inherent stack usage and also suffers from at
least three other problems that we have analyzed but not yet fixed
upstream, each of them makes the stack usage more severe than it should
be.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171221134744.2295529-1-arnd@arndb.de


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e7c52b84
    • Vincent Legoll's avatar
      lib/: make RUNTIME_TESTS a menuconfig to ease disabling it all · d3deafaa
      Vincent Legoll authored 
      No need to get into the submenu to disable all related config entries.

This makes it easier to disable all RUNTIME_TESTS config options without
entering the submenu.  It will also enable one to see that en/dis-abled
state from the outside menu.

This is only intended to change menuconfig UI, not change the config
dependencies.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171209162742.7363-1-vincent.legoll@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarVincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d3deafaa
    • Yury Norov's avatar
      lib/test_find_bit.c: rename to find_bit_benchmark.c · dceeb3e7
      Yury Norov authored 
      As suggested in review comments, rename test_find_bit.c to
find_bit_benchmark.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171124143040.a44jvhmnaiyedg2i@yury-thinkpad


Signed-off-by: default avatarYury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Clement Courbet <courbet@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dceeb3e7
  27. Feb 02, 2018
  29. Jan 13, 2018
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      error-injection: Support fault injection framework · 4b1a29a7
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      Support in-kernel fault-injection framework via debugfs.
This allows you to inject a conditional error to specified
function using debugfs interfaces.

Here is the result of test script described in
Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt

  ===========
  # ./test_fail_function.sh
  1+0 records in
  1+0 records out
  1048576 bytes (1.0 MB, 1.0 MiB) copied, 0.0227404 s, 46.1 MB/s
  btrfs-progs v4.4
  See http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org

 for more information.

  Label:              (null)
  UUID:               bfa96010-12e9-4360-aed0-42eec7af5798
  Node size:          16384
  Sector size:        4096
  Filesystem size:    1001.00MiB
  Block group profiles:
    Data:             single            8.00MiB
    Metadata:         DUP              58.00MiB
    System:           DUP              12.00MiB
  SSD detected:       no
  Incompat features:  extref, skinny-metadata
  Number of devices:  1
  Devices:
     ID        SIZE  PATH
      1  1001.00MiB  /dev/loop2

  mount: mount /dev/loop2 on /opt/tmpmnt failed: Cannot allocate memory
  SUCCESS!
  ===========

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
      4b1a29a7
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      error-injection: Separate error-injection from kprobe · 540adea3
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      
Since error-injection framework is not limited to be used
by kprobes, nor bpf. Other kernel subsystems can use it
freely for checking safeness of error-injection, e.g.
livepatch, ftrace etc.
So this separate error-injection framework from kprobes.

Some differences has been made:

- "kprobe" word is removed from any APIs/structures.
- BPF_ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() is renamed to
  ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() since it is not limited for BPF too.
- CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION is the config item of this
  feature. It is automatically enabled if the arch supports
  error injection feature for kprobe or ftrace etc.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
      540adea3
  31. Dec 12, 2017
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      locking/lockdep: Remove the cross-release locking checks · e966eaee
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      
This code (CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE=y and CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS=y),
while it found a number of old bugs initially, was also causing too many
false positives that caused people to disable lockdep - which is arguably
a worse overall outcome.

If we disable cross-release by default but keep the code upstream then
in practice the most likely outcome is that we'll allow the situation
to degrade gradually, by allowing entropy to introduce more and more
false positives, until it overwhelms maintenance capacity.

Another bad side effect was that people were trying to work around
the false positives by uglifying/complicating unrelated code. There's
a marked difference between annotating locking operations and
uglifying good code just due to bad lock debugging code ...

This gradual decrease in quality happened to a number of debugging
facilities in the kernel, and lockdep is pretty complex already,
so we cannot risk this outcome.

Either cross-release checking can be done right with no false positives,
or it should not be included in the upstream kernel.

( Note that it might make sense to maintain it out of tree and go through
  the false positives every now and then and see whether new bugs were
  introduced. )

Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
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: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      e966eaee
  33. Dec 11, 2017
  35. Nov 18, 2017
  37. Nov 16, 2017
  39. Nov 07, 2017
  41. Oct 25, 2017
  43. Oct 14, 2017
  45. Oct 13, 2017
  47. Sep 22, 2017
  49. Sep 09, 2017
  51. Aug 18, 2017
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      kernel/watchdog: Prevent false positives with turbo modes · 7edaeb68
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      
The hardlockup detector on x86 uses a performance counter based on unhalted
CPU cycles and a periodic hrtimer. The hrtimer period is about 2/5 of the
performance counter period, so the hrtimer should fire 2-3 times before the
performance counter NMI fires. The NMI code checks whether the hrtimer
fired since the last invocation. If not, it assumess a hard lockup.

The calculation of those periods is based on the nominal CPU
frequency. Turbo modes increase the CPU clock frequency and therefore
shorten the period of the perf/NMI watchdog. With extreme Turbo-modes (3x
nominal frequency) the perf/NMI period is shorter than the hrtimer period
which leads to false positives.

A simple fix would be to shorten the hrtimer period, but that comes with
the side effect of more frequent hrtimer and softlockup thread wakeups,
which is not desired.

Implement a low pass filter, which checks the perf/NMI period against
kernel time. If the perf/NMI fires before 4/5 of the watchdog period has
elapsed then the event is ignored and postponed to the next perf/NMI.

That solves the problem and avoids the overhead of shorter hrtimer periods
and more frequent softlockup thread wakeups.

Fixes: 58687acb ("lockup_detector: Combine nmi_watchdog and softlockup detector")
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarKan Liang <Kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dzickus@redhat.com
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: babu.moger@oracle.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: atomlin@redhat.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1708150931310.1886@nanos
      7edaeb68
  53. Aug 17, 2017
  55. Aug 10, 2017
    • Byungchul Park's avatar
      locking/lockdep: Apply crossrelease to completions · cd8084f9
      Byungchul Park authored 
      
Although wait_for_completion() and its family can cause deadlock, the
lock correctness validator could not be applied to them until now,
because things like complete() are usually called in a different context
from the waiting context, which violates lockdep's assumption.

Thanks to CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE, we can now apply the lockdep
detector to those completion operations. Applied it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarByungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Cc: kirill@shutemov.name
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: walken@google.com
Cc: willy@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502089981-21272-10-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      cd8084f9
    • Byungchul Park's avatar
      locking/lockdep: Implement the 'crossrelease' feature · b09be676
      Byungchul Park authored 
      
Lockdep is a runtime locking correctness validator that detects and
reports a deadlock or its possibility by checking dependencies between
locks. It's useful since it does not report just an actual deadlock but
also the possibility of a deadlock that has not actually happened yet.
That enables problems to be fixed before they affect real systems.

However, this facility is only applicable to typical locks, such as
spinlocks and mutexes, which are normally released within the context in
which they were acquired. However, synchronization primitives like page
locks or completions, which are allowed to be released in any context,
also create dependencies and can cause a deadlock.

So lockdep should track these locks to do a better job. The 'crossrelease'
implementation makes these primitives also be tracked.

Signed-off-by: default avatarByungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Cc: kirill@shutemov.name
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: walken@google.com
Cc: willy@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502089981-21272-6-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      b09be676