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<title>inet: fix possible memory corruption with UDP_CORK and UFO</title>
<updated>2013-11-04T12:35:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Frederic Sowa</name>
<email>hannes@stressinduktion.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-21T22:07:47+00:00</published>
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[ This is a simplified -stable version of a set of upstream commits. ]

This is a replacement patch only for stable which does fix the problems
handled by the following two commits in -net:

"ip_output: do skb ufo init for peeked non ufo skb as well" (e93b7d748be887cd7639b113ba7d7ef792a7efb9)
"ip6_output: do skb ufo init for peeked non ufo skb as well" (c547dbf55d5f8cf615ccc0e7265e98db27d3fb8b)

Three frames are written on a corked udp socket for which the output
netdevice has UFO enabled.  If the first and third frame are smaller than
the mtu and the second one is bigger, we enqueue the second frame with
skb_append_datato_frags without initializing the gso fields. This leads
to the third frame appended regulary and thus constructing an invalid skb.

This fixes the problem by always using skb_append_datato_frags as soon
as the first frag got enqueued to the skb without marking the packet
as SKB_GSO_UDP.

The problem with only two frames for ipv6 was fixed by "ipv6: udp
packets following an UFO enqueued packet need also be handled by UFO"
(2811ebac2521ceac84f2bdae402455baa6a7fb47).

Cc: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>ipc: rename ids-&gt;rw_mutex</title>
<updated>2013-10-18T17:55:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>davidlohr.bueso@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-11T21:26:24+00:00</published>
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commit d9a605e40b1376eb02b067d7690580255a0df68f upstream.

Since in some situations the lock can be shared for readers, we shouldn't
be calling it a mutex, rename it to rwsem.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr.bueso@hp.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation bug</title>
<updated>2013-10-18T17:54:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-10T08:16:30+00:00</published>
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commit 3f0116c3238a96bc18ad4b4acefe4e7be32fa861 upstream.

Fengguang Wu, Oleg Nesterov and Peter Zijlstra tracked down
a kernel crash to a GCC bug: GCC miscompiles certain 'asm goto'
constructs, as outlined here:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58670

Implement a workaround suggested by Jakub Jelinek.

Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Suggested-by: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131015062351.GA4666@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>random: run random_int_secret_init() run after all late_initcalls</title>
<updated>2013-10-18T17:54:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-10T14:52:35+00:00</published>
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commit 47d06e532e95b71c0db3839ebdef3fe8812fca2c upstream.

The some platforms (e.g., ARM) initializes their clocks as
late_initcalls for some unknown reason.  So make sure
random_int_secret_init() is run after all of the late_initcalls are
run.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>HID: uhid: allocate static minor</title>
<updated>2013-10-14T01:14:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Herrmann</name>
<email>dh.herrmann@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-09T16:33:54+00:00</published>
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commit 19872d20c890073c5207d9e02bb8f14d451a11eb upstream.

udev has this nice feature of creating "dead" /dev/&lt;node&gt; device-nodes if
it finds a devnode:&lt;node&gt; modalias. Once the node is accessed, the kernel
automatically loads the module that provides the node. However, this
requires udev to know the major:minor code to use for the node. This
feature was introduced by:

  commit 578454ff7eab61d13a26b568f99a89a2c9edc881
  Author: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
  Date:   Thu May 20 18:07:20 2010 +0200

      driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading

However, uhid uses dynamic minor numbers so this doesn't actually work. We
need to load uhid to know which minor it's going to use.

Hence, allocate a static minor (just like uinput does) and we're good
to go.

Reported-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: avoid reinserting isolated balloon pages into LRU lists</title>
<updated>2013-10-14T01:14:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael Aquini</name>
<email>aquini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-30T20:45:16+00:00</published>
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commit 117aad1e9e4d97448d1df3f84b08bd65811e6d6a upstream.

Isolated balloon pages can wrongly end up in LRU lists when
migrate_pages() finishes its round without draining all the isolated
page list.

The same issue can happen when reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() tries to
reclaim pages from an isolated page list, before migration, in the CMA
path.  Such balloon page leak opens a race window against LRU lists
shrinkers that leads us to the following kernel panic:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
  IP: [&lt;ffffffff810c2625&gt;] shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
  PGD 3cda2067 PUD 3d713067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 0 PID: 340 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc1-22626-g4367597 #87
  Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  RIP: shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
  RSP: 0000:ffff88003da499b8  EFLAGS: 00010286
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88003e82bd60 RCX: 00000000000657d5
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000031f RDI: ffff88003e82bd40
  RBP: ffff88003da49ab0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000081121a45
  R10: ffffffff81121a45 R11: ffff88003c4a9a28 R12: ffff88003e82bd40
  R13: ffff88003da0e800 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88003da49d58
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00000000067d9000 CR3: 000000003ace5000 CR4: 00000000000407b0
  Call Trace:
    shrink_inactive_list+0x240/0x3de
    shrink_lruvec+0x3e0/0x566
    __shrink_zone+0x94/0x178
    shrink_zone+0x3a/0x82
    balance_pgdat+0x32a/0x4c2
    kswapd+0x2f0/0x372
    kthread+0xa2/0xaa
    ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
  Code: 80 7d 8f 01 48 83 95 68 ff ff ff 00 4c 89 e7 e8 5a 7b 00 00 48 85 c0 49 89 c5 75 08 80 7d 8f 00 74 3e eb 31 48 8b 80 18 01 00 00 &lt;48&gt; 8b 74 0d 48 8b 78 30 be 02 00 00 00 ff d2 eb
  RIP  [&lt;ffffffff810c2625&gt;] shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
   RSP &lt;ffff88003da499b8&gt;
  CR2: 0000000000000028
  ---[ end trace 703d2451af6ffbfd ]---
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

This patch fixes the issue, by assuring the proper tests are made at
putback_movable_pages() &amp; reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() to avoid
isolated balloon pages being wrongly reinserted in LRU lists.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify awkward comment text]
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>HID: fix data access in implement()</title>
<updated>2013-10-14T01:14:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-10T17:56:27+00:00</published>
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commit 27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca upstream.

implement() is setting bytes in LE data stream. In case the data is not
aligned to 64bits, it reads past the allocated buffer. It doesn't really
change any value there (it's properly bitmasked), but in case that this
read past the boundary hits a page boundary, pagefault happens when
accessing 64bits of 'x' in implement(), and kernel oopses.

This happens much more often when numbered reports are in use, as the
initial 8bit skip in the buffer makes the whole process work on values
which are not aligned to 64bits.

This problem dates back to attempts in 2005 and 2006 to make implement()
and extract() as generic as possible, and even back then the problem
was realized by Adam Kroperlin, but falsely assumed to be impossible
to cause any harm:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg47690.html

I have made several attempts at fixing it "on the spot" directly in
implement(), but the results were horrible; the special casing for processing
last 64bit chunk and switching to different math makes it unreadable mess.

I therefore took a path to allocate a few bytes more which will never make
it into final report, but are there as a cushion for all the 64bit math
operations happening in implement() and extract().

All callers of hid_output_report() are converted at the same time to allocate
the buffer by newly introduced hid_alloc_report_buf() helper.

Bruno noticed that the whole raw_size test can be dropped as well, as
hid_alloc_report_buf() makes sure that the buffer is always of a proper
size.

Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Gustavo Padovan &lt;gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>dm mpath: disable WRITE SAME if it fails</title>
<updated>2013-10-05T14:17:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-19T16:13:58+00:00</published>
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commit f84cb8a46a771f36a04a02c61ea635c968ed5f6a upstream.

Workaround the SCSI layer's problematic WRITE SAME heuristics by
disabling WRITE SAME in the DM multipath device's queue_limits if an
underlying device disabled it.

The WRITE SAME heuristics, with both the original commit 5db44863b6eb
("[SCSI] sd: Implement support for WRITE SAME") and the updated commit
66c28f971 ("[SCSI] sd: Update WRITE SAME heuristics"), default to enabling
WRITE SAME(10) even without successfully determining it is supported.
After the first failed WRITE SAME the SCSI layer will disable WRITE SAME
for the device (by setting sdkp-&gt;device-&gt;no_write_same which results in
'max_write_same_sectors' in device's queue_limits to be set to 0).

When a device is stacked ontop of such a SCSI device any changes to that
SCSI device's queue_limits do not automatically propagate up the stack.
As such, a DM multipath device will not have its WRITE SAME support
disabled.  This causes the block layer to continue to issue WRITE SAME
requests to the mpath device which causes paths to fail and (if mpath IO
isn't configured to queue when no paths are available) it will result in
actual IO errors to the upper layers.

This fix doesn't help configurations that have additional devices
stacked ontop of the mpath device (e.g. LVM created linear DM devices
ontop).  A proper fix that restacks all the queue_limits from the bottom
of the device stack up will need to be explored if SCSI will continue to
use this model of optimistically allowing op codes and then disabling
them after they fail for the first time.

Before this patch:

EXT4-fs (dm-6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
device-mapper: multipath: XXX snitm debugging: got -EREMOTEIO (-121)
device-mapper: multipath: XXX snitm debugging: failing WRITE SAME IO with error=-121
end_request: critical target error, dev dm-6, sector 528
dm-6: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing.
device-mapper: multipath: Failing path 8:112.
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 4616
dm-6: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing.
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 4616
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 5640
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 6664
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 7688
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 524288
Buffer I/O error on device dm-6, logical block 65536
lost page write due to I/O error on dm-6
JBD2: Error -5 detected when updating journal superblock for dm-6-8.
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 524296
Aborting journal on device dm-6-8.
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 524288
Buffer I/O error on device dm-6, logical block 65536
lost page write due to I/O error on dm-6
JBD2: Error -5 detected when updating journal superblock for dm-6-8.

# cat /sys/block/sdh/queue/write_same_max_bytes
0
# cat /sys/block/dm-6/queue/write_same_max_bytes
33553920

After this patch:

EXT4-fs (dm-6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
device-mapper: multipath: XXX snitm debugging: got -EREMOTEIO (-121)
device-mapper: multipath: XXX snitm debugging: WRITE SAME I/O failed with error=-121
end_request: critical target error, dev dm-6, sector 528
dm-6: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing.

# cat /sys/block/sdh/queue/write_same_max_bytes
0
# cat /sys/block/dm-6/queue/write_same_max_bytes
0

It should be noted that WRITE SAME support wasn't enabled in DM
multipath until v3.10.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>HID: provide a helper for validating hid reports</title>
<updated>2013-10-01T16:40:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-11T19:56:50+00:00</published>
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commit 331415ff16a12147d57d5c953f3a961b7ede348b upstream.

Many drivers need to validate the characteristics of their HID report
during initialization to avoid misusing the reports. This adds a common
helper to perform validation of the report exisitng, the field existing,
and the expected number of values within the field.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Fix HRTICK related deadlock from ntp lock changes</title>
<updated>2013-10-01T16:40:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>john.stultz@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-11T23:50:56+00:00</published>
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commit 7bd36014460f793c19e7d6c94dab67b0afcfcb7f upstream.

Gerlando Falauto reported that when HRTICK is enabled, it is
possible to trigger system deadlocks. These were hard to
reproduce, as HRTICK has been broken in the past, but seemed
to be connected to the timekeeping_seq lock.

Since seqlock/seqcount's aren't supported w/ lockdep, I added
some extra spinlock based locking and triggered the following
lockdep output:

[   15.849182] ntpd/4062 is trying to acquire lock:
[   15.849765]  (&amp;(&amp;pool-&gt;lock)-&gt;rlock){..-...}, at: [&lt;ffffffff810aa9b5&gt;] __queue_work+0x145/0x480
[   15.850051]
[   15.850051] but task is already holding lock:
[   15.850051]  (timekeeper_lock){-.-.-.}, at: [&lt;ffffffff810df6df&gt;] do_adjtimex+0x7f/0x100

&lt;snip&gt;

[   15.850051] Chain exists of: &amp;(&amp;pool-&gt;lock)-&gt;rlock --&gt; &amp;p-&gt;pi_lock --&gt; timekeeper_lock
[   15.850051]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[   15.850051]
[   15.850051]        CPU0                    CPU1
[   15.850051]        ----                    ----
[   15.850051]   lock(timekeeper_lock);
[   15.850051]                                lock(&amp;p-&gt;pi_lock);
[   15.850051] lock(timekeeper_lock);
[   15.850051] lock(&amp;(&amp;pool-&gt;lock)-&gt;rlock);
[   15.850051]
[   15.850051]  *** DEADLOCK ***

The deadlock was introduced by 06c017fdd4dc48451a ("timekeeping:
Hold timekeepering locks in do_adjtimex and hardpps") in 3.10

This patch avoids this deadlock, by moving the call to
schedule_delayed_work() outside of the timekeeper lock
critical section.

Reported-by: Gerlando Falauto &lt;gerlando.falauto@keymile.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lin Ming &lt;minggr@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378943457-27314-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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