kernel/init, branch linux-3.7.y

efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities

2013-02-04T00:27:05Z

commit 83e68189745ad931c2afd45d8ee3303929233e7f upstream. Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware. The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557 which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become bricked. Also, the following report, https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121 details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression, if (!efi_enabled) hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time. Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons - what they really want access to is the list of available EFI facilities. For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things). This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming Cc: David Airlie Cc: Corentin Chary Cc: Matthew Garrett Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Olof Johansson Cc: Peter Jones Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Steve Langasek Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Ensure that kernel_init_freeable() is not inlined into non __init code

2013-01-28T04:48:59Z

commit f80b0c904da93b9ad7db2fd9823dd701932df779 upstream. Commit d6b2123802d "make sure that we always have a return path from kernel_execve()" reshuffled kernel_init()/init_post() to ensure that kernel_execve() has a caller to return to. It removed __init annotation for kernel_init() and introduced/calls a new routine kernel_init_freeable(). Latter however is inlined by any reasonable compiler (ARC gcc 4.4 in this case), causing slight code bloat. This patch forces kernel_init_freeable() as noinline reducing the .text bloat-o-meter vmlinux vmlinux_new add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 374/-334 (40) function old new delta kernel_init_freeable - 374 +374 (.init.text) kernel_init 628 294 -334 (.text) Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

make sure that /linuxrc has std{in,out,err}

2013-01-28T04:48:59Z

commit 43b16820249396aea7eb57c747106e211e54bed5 upstream. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Cc: Barry Davis Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

FRV: gcc-4.1.2 also inlines weak functions

2012-11-02T13:20:42Z

gcc-4.1.2 inlines weak functions, which causes FRV to fail when the dummy thread_info_cache_init() gets inlined into start_kernel(). Signed-off-by: David Howells

Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

2012-10-14T20:39:34Z

Pull module signing support from Rusty Russell: "module signing is the highlight, but it's an all-over David Howells frenzy..." Hmm "Magrathea: Glacier signing key". Somebody has been reading too much HHGTTG. * 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (37 commits) X.509: Fix indefinite length element skip error handling X.509: Convert some printk calls to pr_devel asymmetric keys: fix printk format warning MODSIGN: Fix 32-bit overflow in X.509 certificate validity date checking MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files. MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig MODSIGN: Sign modules during the build process MODSIGN: Provide a script for generating a key ID from an X.509 cert MODSIGN: Implement module signature checking MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing MODSIGN: Provide Kconfig options MODSIGN: Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files MODSIGN: Add FIPS policy module: signature checking hook X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal

2012-10-13T01:05:52Z

Pull third pile of kernel_execve() patches from Al Viro: "The last bits of infrastructure for kernel_thread() et.al., with alpha/arm/x86 use of those. Plus sanitizing the asm glue and do_notify_resume() on alpha, fixing the "disabled irq while running task_work stuff" breakage there. At that point the rest of kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve work can be done independently for different architectures. The only pending bits that do depend on having all architectures converted are restrictred to fs/* and kernel/* - that'll obviously have to wait for the next cycle. I thought we'd have to wait for all of them done before we start eliminating the longjump-style insanity in kernel_execve(), but it turned out there's a very simple way to do that without flagday-style changes." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: alpha: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics arm: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics x86, um: convert to saner kernel_execve() semantics infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics make sure that kernel_thread() callbacks call do_exit() themselves make sure that we always have a return path from kernel_execve() ppc: eeh_event should just use kthread_run() don't bother with kernel_thread/kernel_execve for launching linuxrc alpha: get rid of switch_stack argument of do_work_pending() alpha: don't bother passing switch_stack separately from regs alpha: take SIGPENDING/NOTIFY_RESUME loop into signal.c alpha: simplify TIF_NEED_RESCHED handling

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2012-10-13T01:04:42Z

Pull third pile of VFS updates from Al Viro: "Stuff from Jeff Layton, mostly. Sanitizing interplay between audit and namei, removing a lot of insanity from audit_inode() mess and getting things ready for his ESTALE patchset." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: procfs: don't need a PATH_MAX allocation to hold a string representation of an int vfs: embed struct filename inside of names_cache allocation if possible audit: make audit_inode take struct filename vfs: make path_openat take a struct filename pointer vfs: turn do_path_lookup into wrapper around struct filename variant audit: allow audit code to satisfy getname requests from its names_list vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it vfs: unexport getname and putname symbols acct: constify the name arg to acct_on vfs: allocate page instead of names_cache buffer in mount_block_root audit: overhaul __audit_inode_child to accomodate retrying audit: optimize audit_compare_dname_path audit: make audit_compare_dname_path use parent_len helper audit: remove dirlen argument to audit_compare_dname_path audit: set the name_len in audit_inode for parent lookups audit: add a new "type" field to audit_names struct audit: reverse arguments to audit_inode_child audit: no need to walk list in audit_inode if name is NULL audit: pass in dentry to audit_copy_inode wherever possible audit: remove unnecessary NULL ptr checks from do_path_lookup

infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics

2012-10-12T17:35:07Z

* allow kernel_execve() leave the actual return to userland to caller (selected by CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE). Callers updated accordingly. * architecture that does select GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE in its Kconfig should have its ret_from_kernel_thread() do this: call schedule_tail call the callback left for it by copy_thread(); if it ever returns, that's because it has just done successful kernel_execve() jump to return from syscall IOW, its only difference from ret_from_fork() is that it does call the callback. * such an architecture should also get rid of ret_from_kernel_execve() and __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE This is the last part of infrastructure patches in that area - from that point on work on different architectures can live independently. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-10-12T13:12:07Z

Pull RCU fixes from Ingo Molnar: "This tree includes a shutdown/cpu-hotplug deadlock fix and a documentation fix." * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: rcu: Advise most users not to enable RCU user mode rcu: Grace-period initialization excludes only RCU notifier

vfs: allocate page instead of names_cache buffer in mount_block_root

2012-10-12T04:32:03Z

First, it's incorrect to call putname() after __getname_gfp() since the bare __getname_gfp() call skips the auditing code, while putname() doesn't. mount_block_root allocates a PATH_MAX buffer via __getname_gfp, and then calls get_fs_names to fill the buffer. That function can call get_filesystem_list which assumes that that buffer is a full page in size. On arches where PAGE_SIZE != 4k, then this could potentially overrun. In practice, it's hard to imagine the list of filesystem names even approaching 4k, but it's best to be safe. Just allocate a page for this purpose instead. With this, we can also remove the __getname_gfp() definition since there are no more callers. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Al Viro