linux.git/Documentation, branch v4.13.7

watchdog: Revert "iTCO_wdt: all versions count down twice"

2017-10-14T13:38:17+00:00

commit fc61e83a29308601e6e8a0759e24fc8fe2122692 upstream.

This reverts commit 1fccb73011ea8a5fa0c6d357c33fa29c695139ea.
Reported as Bug 196509 - iTCO_wdt regression reboot before timeout expire

Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck 
Cc: Martin Wilck 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ovl: fix regression caused by exclusive upper/work dir protection

2017-10-12T09:56:16+00:00

commit 85fdee1eef1a9e48ad5716916677e0c5fbc781e3 upstream.

Enforcing exclusive ownership on upper/work dirs caused a docker
regression: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/34672.

Euan spotted the regression and pointed to the offending commit.
Vivek has brought the regression to my attention and provided this
reproducer:

Terminal 1:

  mount -t overlay -o workdir=work,lowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper none
        merged/

Terminal 2:

  unshare -m

Terminal 1:

  umount merged
  mount -t overlay -o workdir=work,lowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper none
        merged/
  mount: /root/overlay-testing/merged: none already mounted or mount point
         busy

To fix the regression, I replaced the error with an alarming warning.
With index feature enabled, mount does fail, but logs a suggestion to
override exclusive dir protection by disabling index.
Note that index=off mount does take the inuse locks, so a concurrent
index=off will issue the warning and a concurrent index=on mount will fail.

Documentation was updated to reflect this change.

Fixes: 2cac0c00a6cd ("ovl: get exclusive ownership on upper/work dirs")
Reported-by: Euan Kemp 
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel

2017-09-27T12:43:14+00:00

commit e604f1cb85367d2e5fd4cf253296d190996da81a upstream.

commit 6807c84652b0 ("x86: Enable KASLR by default") enables KASLR
by default on x86. While KASLR will confuse gdb which resolve kernel
symbol address from symbol table of vmlinux. We should turn off KASLR for
kernel debugging.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou 
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham 
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Natale Patriciello 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

thunderbolt: Allow clearing the key

2017-09-20T06:27:48+00:00

commit e545f0d8a54a9594fe604d67d80ca6fddf72ca59 upstream.

If secure authentication of a devices fails, either because the device
already has another key uploaded, or there is some other error sending
challenge to the device, and the user only wants to approve the device
just once (without a new key being uploaded to the device) the current
implementation does not allow this because the key cannot be cleared
once set even if we allow it to be changed.

Make this scenario possible and allow clearing the key by writing
empty string to the key sysfs file.

Signed-off-by: Yehezkel Bernat 
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "firmware: add sanity check on shutdown/suspend"

2017-09-13T21:20:53+00:00

commit f007cad159e99fa2acd3b2e9364fbb32ad28b971 upstream.

This reverts commit 81f95076281fdd3bc382e004ba1bce8e82fccbce.

It causes random failures of firmware loading at resume time (well,
random for me, it seems to be more reliable for others) because the
firmware disabling is not actually synchronous with any particular
resume event, and at least the btusb driver that uses a workqueue to
load the firmware at resume seems to occasionally hit the "firmware
loading is disabled" logic because the firmware loader hasn't gotten the
resume event yet.

Some kind of sanity check for not trying to load firmware when it's not
possible might be a good thing, but this commit was not it.

Greg seems to have silently suffered the same issue, and pointed to the
likely culprit, and Gabriel C verified the revert fixed it for him too.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds 
Pointed-at-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Tested-by: Gabriel C 
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

2017-09-02T00:16:40+00:00

Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson:
 "A couple of late-arriving fixes before final 4.13:

   - A few reverts of DT bindings on Allwinner for their ethernet
     driver. Discussion didn't converge, and since bindings are
     considered ABI it makes sense to revert instead of having to
     support two bindings long-term.

   - A fix to enumerate GPIOs properly on Marvell Armada AP806"

* tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
  arm64: dts: marvell: fix number of GPIOs in Armada AP806 description
  arm: dts: sunxi: Revert EMAC changes
  arm64: dts: allwinner: Revert EMAC changes
  dt-bindings: net: Revert sun8i dwmac binding

Merge tag 'sunxi-fixes-for-4.13-3' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sunxi/linux into fixes

2017-08-30T05:39:18+00:00

Allwinner fixes for 4.13, take 3

This is a revert of the EMAC bindings. The discussion has not settled down
yet on a proper representation of the PHY, and therefore we cannot commit
to a binding yet

* tag 'sunxi-fixes-for-4.13-3' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sunxi/linux:
  arm: dts: sunxi: Revert EMAC changes
  arm64: dts: allwinner: Revert EMAC changes
  dt-bindings: net: Revert sun8i dwmac binding

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson

dt-bindings: net: Revert sun8i dwmac binding

2017-08-28T09:11:05+00:00

This binding still doesn't please everyone, and we're getting far too
close from the release to allow it to reach a stable version.

Let's remove it until the discussion settles down.

Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai 
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2017-08-21T20:16:27+00:00

Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Fix IGMP handling wrt VRF, from David Ahern.

 2) Fix timer access to freed object in dccp, from Eric Dumazet.

 3) Use kmalloc_array() in ptr_ring to avoid overflow cases which are
    triggerable by userspace. Also from Eric Dumazet.

 4) Fix infinite loop in unmapping cleanup of nfp driver, from Colin Ian
    King.

 5) Correct datagram peek handling of empty SKBs, from Matthew Dawson.

 6) Fix use after free in TIPC, from Eric Dumazet.

 7) When replacing a route in ipv6 we need to reset the round robin
    pointer, from Wei Wang.

 8) Fix bug in pci_find_pcie_root_port() which was unearthed by the
    relaxed ordering changes, from Thierry Redding. I made sure to get
    an explicit ACK from Bjorn this time around :-)

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (27 commits)
  ipv6: repair fib6 tree in failure case
  net_sched: fix order of queue length updates in qdisc_replace()
  tools lib bpf: improve warning
  switchdev: documentation: minor typo fixes
  bpf, doc: also add s390x as arch to sysctl description
  net: sched: fix NULL pointer dereference when action calls some targets
  rxrpc: Fix oops when discarding a preallocated service call
  irda: do not leak initialized list.dev to userspace
  net/mlx4_core: Enable 4K UAR if SRIOV module parameter is not enabled
  PCI: Allow PCI express root ports to find themselves
  tcp: when rearming RTO, if RTO time is in past then fire RTO ASAP
  net: check and errout if res->fi is NULL when RTM_F_FIB_MATCH is set
  ipv6: reset fn->rr_ptr when replacing route
  sctp: fully initialize the IPv6 address in sctp_v6_to_addr()
  tipc: fix use-after-free
  tun: handle register_netdevice() failures properly
  datagram: When peeking datagrams with offset < 0 don't skip empty skbs
  bpf, doc: improve sysctl knob description
  netxen: fix incorrect loop counter decrement
  nfp: fix infinite loop on umapping cleanup
  ...

switchdev: documentation: minor typo fixes

2017-08-21T02:49:10+00:00

Two typos in switchdev.txt

Signed-off-by: Chris Packham 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller