The current sparse_irq allocator has several short comings due to
failures in the design or the lack of it:
- Requires iteration over the number of active irqs to find a free slot
(Some architectures have grown their own workarounds for this)
- Removal of entries is not possible
- Racy between create_irq_nr and destroy_irq (plugged by horrible
callbacks)
- Migration of active irq descriptors is not possible
- No bulk allocation of irq ranges
- Sprinkeled irq_desc references all over the place outside of kernel/irq/
(The previous chip functions series is addressing this issue)
Implement a sane allocator which fixes the above short comings (though
migration of active descriptors needs a full tree wide cleanup of the
direct and mostly unlocked access to irq_desc).
The new allocator still uses a radix_tree, but uses a bitmap for
keeping track of allocated irq numbers. That allows:
- Fast lookup of a free slot
- Allows the removal of descriptors
- Prevents the create/destroy race
- Bulk allocation of consecutive irq ranges
- Basic design is ready for migration of life descriptors after
further cleanups
The bitmap is also used in the SPARSE_IRQ=n case for lookup and
raceless (de)allocation of irq numbers. So it removes the requirement
for looping through the descriptor array to find slots.
Right now it uses sparse_irq_lock to protect the bitmap and the radix
tree, but after cleaning up all users we should be able convert that
to a mutex and to switch the radix_tree and decriptor allocations to
GFP_KERNEL.
[ Folded in a bugfix from Yinghai Lu ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Arch code sets it's own irq_desc.status flags right after boot and for
dynamically allocated interrupts. That might involve iterating over a
huge array.
Allow ARCH_IRQ_INIT_FLAGS to set separate flags aside of IRQ_DISABLED
which is the default.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The statistics accessor is only used by proc/stats and
show_interrupts(). Both are compiled in.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
early_init_irq_lock_class() is called way before anything touches the
irq descriptors. In case of SPARSE_IRQ=y this is a NOP operation
because the radix tree is empty at this point. For the SPARSE_IRQ=n
case it's sufficient to set the lock class in early_init_irq().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/irq/handle.c has become a dumpground for random code in random
order. Split out the irq descriptor management and the dummy irq_chip
implementation into separate files. Cleanup the include maze while at
it.
No code change.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Get the data structure from the core and provide inline wrappers to
access the irq_data members.
Provide accessor inlines for irq_data as well.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Provide a irq_desc.status modifier function to cleanup the direct
access to irq_desc in arch and driver code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This option covers now the old chip functions and the irq_desc data
fields which are moving to struct irq_data. More stuff will follow.
Pretty handy for testing a conversion, whether something broke or not.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wrap the old chip function retrigger() until the migration is complete
and the old chip functions are removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121843.025801092@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wrap the old chip function set_wake() until the migration is complete
and the old chip functions are removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121842.927527393@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wrap the old chip function set_type() until the migration is complete
and the old chip functions are removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121842.832261548@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wrap the old chip function set_affinity() until the migration is
complete and the old chip functions are removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121842.732894108@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wrap the old chip function startup() until the migration is complete and
the old chip functions are removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121842.635152961@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wrap the old chip functions disable() and shutdown() until the
migration is complete and the old chip functions are removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121842.532070631@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wrap the old chip function enable() until the migration is complete and
the old chip functions are removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121842.437159182@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wrap the old chip function eoi() until the migration is complete and
the old chip functions are removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121842.339657617@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wrap the old chip function mask_ack() until the migration is complete
and the old chip functions are removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121842.240806983@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wrap the old chip function ack() until the migration is complete and
the old chip functions are removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121842.142624725@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wrap the old chip function unmask() until the migration is complete
and the old chip functions are removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121842.043608928@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wrap the old chip function mask() until the migration is complete and
the old chip functions are removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121841.940355859@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wrap the old chip functions for bus_lock/bus_sync_unlock until the
migration is complete and the old chip functions are removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121841.842536121@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The compat functions go away when the core code is converted.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Convert all references in the core code to orq, chip, handler_data,
chip_data, msi_desc, affinity to irq_data.*
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Low level chip functions need access to irq_desc->handler_data,
irq_desc->chip_data and irq_desc->msi_desc. We hand down the irq
number to the low level functions, so they need to lookup irq_desc.
With sparse irq this means a radix tree lookup.
We could hand down irq_desc itself, but low level chip functions have
no need to fiddle with it directly and we want to restrict access to
irq_desc further.
Preparatory patch for new chip functions.
Note, that the ugly anon union/struct is there to avoid a full tree
wide clean up for now. This is not going to last 3 years like __do_IRQ()
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121841.645542300@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The generic irq Kconfig options are copied around all archs. Provide a
generic Kconfig file which can be included.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121843.217333624@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
3 years transition phase is enough. Cleanup the last users and remove
the cruft.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Leo Chen <leochen@broadcom.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call
access_ok() to verify the returned area. A missing call could
introduce problems on some architectures.
This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into
compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length.
The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed
arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the
implementation of the new global function.
This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either
fail or access userspace on all architectures. This should be
followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space()
for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers
can also be removed.
Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@sota.gen.nz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Mathieu reported bad latencies with make -j10 kind of kbuild
workloads - which is mostly caused by us scheduling with a
too coarse granularity.
Reduce the minimum granularity some more, to make sure we
can meet the latency target.
I got the following results (make -j10 kbuild load, average of 3
runs):
vanilla:
maximum latency: 38278.9 µs
average latency: 7730.1 µs
patched:
maximum latency: 22702.1 µs
average latency: 6684.8 µs
Mathieu also measured it:
|
| * wakeup-latency.c (SIGEV_THREAD) with make -j10
|
| - Mainline 2.6.35.2 kernel
|
| maximum latency: 45762.1 µs
| average latency: 7348.6 µs
|
| - With only Peter's smaller min_gran (shown below):
|
| maximum latency: 29100.6 µs
| average latency: 6684.1 µs
|
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTi=8m4g01wZPacySoF7U0PevTNVgJoZZrHiUD-pN@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There is a problem in hibernate_preallocate_memory() that it calls
preallocate_image_memory() with an argument that may be greater than
the total number of available non-highmem memory pages. If that's
the case, the OOM condition is guaranteed to trigger, which in turn
can cause significant slowdown to occur during hibernation.
To avoid that, make preallocate_image_memory() adjust its argument
before calling preallocate_image_pages(), so that the total number of
saveable non-highem pages left is not less than the minimum size of
a hibernation image. Change hibernate_preallocate_memory() to try to
allocate from highmem if the number of pages allocated by
preallocate_image_memory() is too low.
Modify free_unnecessary_pages() to take all possible memory
allocation patterns into account.
Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Tested-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <bicave@superonline.com>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, tsc: Fix a preemption leak in restore_sched_clock_state()
sched: Move sched_avg_update() to update_cpu_load()
Correct some pr_debug() misuse and add a stronger parameter check to
pm_qos_write() for the ASCII hex value case. Thanks to Dan Carpenter
for pointing out the problem!
Signed-off-by: mark gross <markgross@thegnar.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/pread
perf symbols: Fix multiple initialization of symbol system
perf: Fix CPU hotplug
perf, trace: Fix module leak
tracing/kprobe: Fix handling of C-unlike argument names
tracing/kprobes: Fix handling of argument names
perf probe: Fix handling of arguments names
perf probe: Fix return probe support
tracing/kprobe: Fix a memory leak in error case
tracing: Do not allow llseek to set_ftrace_filter
Be sure to avoid entering t_show() with FTRACE_ITER_HASH set without
having properly started the iterator to iterate the hash. This case is
degenerate and, as discovered by Robert Swiecki, can cause t_hash_show()
to misuse a pointer. This causes a NULL ptr deref with possible security
implications. Tracked as CVE-2010-3079.
Cc: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Please revert 2.6.36-rc commit d2997b1042
"hibernation: freeze swap at hibernation". It complicated matters by
adding a second swap allocation path, just for hibernation; without in any
way fixing the issue that it was intended to address - page reclaim after
fixing the hibernation image might free swap from a page already imaged as
swapcache, letting its swap be reallocated to store a different page of
the image: resulting in data corruption if the imaged page were freed as
clean then swapped back in. Pages freed to si->swap_map were still in
danger of being reallocated by the alternative allocation path.
I guess it inadvertently fixed slow SSD swap allocation for hibernation,
as reported by Nigel Cunningham: by missing out the discards that occur on
the usual swap allocation path; but that was unintentional, and needs a
separate fix.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Cc: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
gid_t is a unsigned int. If group_info contains a gid greater than
MAX_INT, groups_search() function may look on the wrong side of the search
tree.
This solves some unfair "permission denied" problems.
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add cgroup_attach_task_all()
The existing cgroup_attach_task_current_cg() API is called by a thread to
attach another thread to all of its cgroups; this is unsuitable for cases
where a privileged task wants to attach itself to the cgroups of a less
privileged one, since the call must be made from the context of the target
task.
This patch adds a more generic cgroup_attach_task_all() API that allows
both the source task and to-be-moved task to be specified.
cgroup_attach_task_current_cg() becomes a specialization of the more
generic new function.
[menage@google.com: rewrote changelog]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: address reviewer comments]
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The gcov-kernel infrastructure expects that each object file is loaded
only once. This may not be true, e.g. when loading multiple kernel
modules which are linked to the same object file. As a result, loading
such kernel modules will result in incorrect gcov results while unloading
will cause a null-pointer dereference.
This patch fixes these problems by changing the gcov-kernel infrastructure
so that multiple profiling data sets can be associated with one debugfs
entry. It applies to 2.6.36-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Werner Spies <werner.spies@thalesgroup.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently sched_avg_update() (which updates rt_avg stats in the rq)
is getting called from scale_rt_power() (in the load balance context)
which doesn't take rq->lock.
Fix it by moving the sched_avg_update() to more appropriate
update_cpu_load() where the CFS load gets updated as well.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1282596171.2694.3.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since we have UP_PREPARE, we should also have UP_CANCELED.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings
mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook
pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section
MAINTAINERS: Add RCU's public git tree
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf, x86: Try to handle unknown nmis with an enabled PMU
perf, x86: Fix handle_irq return values
perf, x86: Fix accidentally ack'ing a second event on intel perf counter
oprofile, x86: fix init_sysfs() function stub
lockup_detector: Sync touch_*_watchdog back to old semantics
tracing: Fix a race in function profile
oprofile, x86: fix init_sysfs error handling
perf_events: Fix time tracking for events with pid != -1 and cpu != -1
perf: Initialize callchains roots's childen hits
oprofile: fix crash when accessing freed task structs
Check the argument name whether it is invalid (not C-like symbol name). This
makes event format simple.
Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100827113912.22882.62313.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Set "argN" name for each argument automatically if it has no specified name.
Since dynamic trace event(kprobe_events) accepts special characters for its
argument, its format can show those special characters (e.g. '$', '%', '+').
However, perf can't parse those format because of the character (especially
'%') mess up the format. This sets "argX" name for those arguments if user
omitted the argument names.
E.g.
# echo 'p do_fork %ax IP=%ip $stack' > tracing/kprobe_events
# cat tracing/kprobe_events
p:kprobes/p_do_fork_0 do_fork arg1=%ax IP=%ip arg3=$stack
Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100827113906.22882.59312.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix a memory leak which happens when a field name conflicts with others. In
error case, free_trace_probe() will free all arguments until nr_args, so this
increments nr_args the begining of the loop instead of the end.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100827113846.22882.12670.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Reading the file set_ftrace_filter does three things.
1) shows whether or not filters are set for the function tracer
2) shows what functions are set for the function tracer
3) shows what triggers are set on any functions
3 is independent from 1 and 2.
The way this file currently works is that it is a state machine,
and as you read it, it may change state. But this assumption breaks
when you use lseek() on the file. The state machine gets out of sync
and the t_show() may use the wrong pointer and cause a kernel oops.
Luckily, this will only kill the app that does the lseek, but the app
dies while holding a mutex. This prevents anyone else from using the
set_ftrace_filter file (or any other function tracing file for that matter).
A real fix for this is to rewrite the code, but that is too much for
a -rc release or stable. This patch simply disables llseek on the
set_ftrace_filter() file for now, and we can do the proper fix for the
next major release.
Reported-by: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>
Cc: vendor-sec@lst.de
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
