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<title>tcp: __tcp_hdrlen() helper</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T11:06:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Craig Gallek</name>
<email>kraig@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-10T16:50:37+00:00</published>
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commit d9b3fca27385eafe61c3ca6feab6cb1e7dc77482 upstream.

tcp_hdrlen is wasteful if you already have a pointer to struct tcphdr.
This splits the size calculation into a helper function that can be
used if a struct tcphdr is already available.

Signed-off-by: Craig Gallek &lt;kraig@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d9b3fca27385eafe61c3ca6feab6cb1e7dc77482 upstream.

tcp_hdrlen is wasteful if you already have a pointer to struct tcphdr.
This splits the size calculation into a helper function that can be
used if a struct tcphdr is already available.

Signed-off-by: Craig Gallek &lt;kraig@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Revert "module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC"</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T11:06:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-24T14:28:17+00:00</published>
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commit 5132ede0fe8092b043dae09a7cc32b8ae7272baa upstream.

This reverts commit 6cfb521ac0d5b97470883ff9b7facae264b7ab12.

Turns out distros do not want to make retpoline as part of their "ABI",
so this patch should not have been merged.  Sorry Andi, this was my
fault, I suggested it when your original patch was the "correct" way of
doing this instead.

Reported-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jikos@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 6cfb521ac0d5 ("module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC")
Acked-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com
Cc: jeyu@kernel.org
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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commit 5132ede0fe8092b043dae09a7cc32b8ae7272baa upstream.

This reverts commit 6cfb521ac0d5b97470883ff9b7facae264b7ab12.

Turns out distros do not want to make retpoline as part of their "ABI",
so this patch should not have been merged.  Sorry Andi, this was my
fault, I suggested it when your original patch was the "correct" way of
doing this instead.

Reported-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jikos@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 6cfb521ac0d5 ("module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC")
Acked-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com
Cc: jeyu@kernel.org
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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: fix IS_ERR_VALUE usage</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T11:06:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-29T08:39:34+00:00</published>
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commit 92b4423e3a0bc5d43ecde4bcad871f8b5ba04efd upstream.

This is a forward-port of the original patch from Andrzej Hajda,
he said:

"IS_ERR_VALUE should be used only with unsigned long type.
Otherwise it can work incorrectly. To achieve this function
xt_percpu_counter_alloc is modified to return unsigned long,
and its result is assigned to temporary variable to perform
error checking, before assigning to .pcnt field.

The patch follows conclusion from discussion on LKML [1][2].

[1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2120927
[2]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2150581"

Original patch from Andrzej is here:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/582970/

This patch has clashed with input validation fixes for x_tables.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;

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commit 92b4423e3a0bc5d43ecde4bcad871f8b5ba04efd upstream.

This is a forward-port of the original patch from Andrzej Hajda,
he said:

"IS_ERR_VALUE should be used only with unsigned long type.
Otherwise it can work incorrectly. To achieve this function
xt_percpu_counter_alloc is modified to return unsigned long,
and its result is assigned to temporary variable to perform
error checking, before assigning to .pcnt field.

The patch follows conclusion from discussion on LKML [1][2].

[1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2120927
[2]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2150581"

Original patch from Andrzej is here:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/582970/

This patch has clashed with input validation fixes for x_tables.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: x_tables: speed up jump target validation</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T11:06:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-14T15:51:26+00:00</published>
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commit f4dc77713f8016d2e8a3295e1c9c53a21f296def upstream.

The dummy ruleset I used to test the original validation change was broken,
most rules were unreachable and were not tested by mark_source_chains().

In some cases rulesets that used to load in a few seconds now require
several minutes.

sample ruleset that shows the behaviour:

echo "*filter"
for i in $(seq 0 100000);do
        printf ":chain_%06x - [0:0]\n" $i
done
for i in $(seq 0 100000);do
   printf -- "-A INPUT -j chain_%06x\n" $i
   printf -- "-A INPUT -j chain_%06x\n" $i
   printf -- "-A INPUT -j chain_%06x\n" $i
done
echo COMMIT

[ pipe result into iptables-restore ]

This ruleset will be about 74mbyte in size, with ~500k searches
though all 500k[1] rule entries. iptables-restore will take forever
(gave up after 10 minutes)

Instead of always searching the entire blob for a match, fill an
array with the start offsets of every single ipt_entry struct,
then do a binary search to check if the jump target is present or not.

After this change ruleset restore times get again close to what one
gets when reverting 36472341017529e (~3 seconds on my workstation).

[1] every user-defined rule gets an implicit RETURN, so we get
300k jumps + 100k userchains + 100k returns -&gt; 500k rule entries

Fixes: 36472341017529e ("netfilter: x_tables: validate targets of jumps")
Reported-by: Jeff Wu &lt;wujiafu@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jeff Wu &lt;wujiafu@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f4dc77713f8016d2e8a3295e1c9c53a21f296def upstream.

The dummy ruleset I used to test the original validation change was broken,
most rules were unreachable and were not tested by mark_source_chains().

In some cases rulesets that used to load in a few seconds now require
several minutes.

sample ruleset that shows the behaviour:

echo "*filter"
for i in $(seq 0 100000);do
        printf ":chain_%06x - [0:0]\n" $i
done
for i in $(seq 0 100000);do
   printf -- "-A INPUT -j chain_%06x\n" $i
   printf -- "-A INPUT -j chain_%06x\n" $i
   printf -- "-A INPUT -j chain_%06x\n" $i
done
echo COMMIT

[ pipe result into iptables-restore ]

This ruleset will be about 74mbyte in size, with ~500k searches
though all 500k[1] rule entries. iptables-restore will take forever
(gave up after 10 minutes)

Instead of always searching the entire blob for a match, fill an
array with the start offsets of every single ipt_entry struct,
then do a binary search to check if the jump target is present or not.

After this change ruleset restore times get again close to what one
gets when reverting 36472341017529e (~3 seconds on my workstation).

[1] every user-defined rule gets an implicit RETURN, so we get
300k jumps + 100k userchains + 100k returns -&gt; 500k rule entries

Fixes: 36472341017529e ("netfilter: x_tables: validate targets of jumps")
Reported-by: Jeff Wu &lt;wujiafu@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jeff Wu &lt;wujiafu@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers: base: cacheinfo: fix x86 with CONFIG_OF enabled</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T11:06:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sudeep Holla</name>
<email>sudeep.holla@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-28T08:45:28+00:00</published>
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commit fac51482577d5e05bbb0efa8d602a3c2111098bf upstream.

With CONFIG_OF enabled on x86, we get the following error on boot:
"
	Failed to find cpu0 device node
 	Unable to detect cache hierarchy from DT for CPU 0
"
and the cacheinfo fails to get populated in the corresponding sysfs
entries. This is because cache_setup_of_node looks for of_node for
setting up the shared cpu_map without checking that it's already
populated in the architecture specific callback.

In order to indicate that the shared cpu_map is already populated, this
patch introduces a boolean `cpu_map_populated` in struct cpu_cacheinfo
that can be used by the generic code to skip cache_shared_cpu_map_setup.

This patch also sets that boolean for x86.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mian Yousaf Kaukab &lt;yousaf.kaukab@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit fac51482577d5e05bbb0efa8d602a3c2111098bf upstream.

With CONFIG_OF enabled on x86, we get the following error on boot:
"
	Failed to find cpu0 device node
 	Unable to detect cache hierarchy from DT for CPU 0
"
and the cacheinfo fails to get populated in the corresponding sysfs
entries. This is because cache_setup_of_node looks for of_node for
setting up the shared cpu_map without checking that it's already
populated in the architecture specific callback.

In order to indicate that the shared cpu_map is already populated, this
patch introduces a boolean `cpu_map_populated` in struct cpu_cacheinfo
that can be used by the generic code to skip cache_shared_cpu_map_setup.

This patch also sets that boolean for x86.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mian Yousaf Kaukab &lt;yousaf.kaukab@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: Avoid undefined behaviour in ktime_add_safe()</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T11:06:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vegard Nossum</name>
<email>vegard.nossum@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-12T23:37:04+00:00</published>
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commit 979515c5645830465739254abc1b1648ada41518 upstream.

I ran into this:

    ================================================================================
    UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/time/hrtimer.c:310:16
    signed integer overflow:
    9223372036854775807 + 50000 cannot be represented in type 'long long int'
    CPU: 2 PID: 4798 Comm: trinity-c2 Not tainted 4.8.0-rc1+ #91
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.9.3-0-ge2fc41e-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
     0000000000000000 ffff88010ce6fb88 ffffffff82344740 0000000041b58ab3
     ffffffff84f97a20 ffffffff82344694 ffff88010ce6fbb0 ffff88010ce6fb60
     000000000000c350 ffff88010ce6f968 dffffc0000000000 ffffffff857bc320
    Call Trace:
     [&lt;ffffffff82344740&gt;] dump_stack+0xac/0xfc
     [&lt;ffffffff82344694&gt;] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0xc4/0xc4
     [&lt;ffffffff8242df78&gt;] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x8a
     [&lt;ffffffff8242e6b4&gt;] handle_overflow+0x202/0x23d
     [&lt;ffffffff8242e4b2&gt;] ? val_to_string.constprop.6+0x11e/0x11e
     [&lt;ffffffff8236df71&gt;] ? timerqueue_add+0x151/0x410
     [&lt;ffffffff81485c48&gt;] ? hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x3b8/0x1380
     [&lt;ffffffff81795631&gt;] ? memset+0x31/0x40
     [&lt;ffffffff8242e6fd&gt;] __ubsan_handle_add_overflow+0xe/0x10
     [&lt;ffffffff81488ac9&gt;] hrtimer_nanosleep+0x5d9/0x790
     [&lt;ffffffff814884f0&gt;] ? hrtimer_init_sleeper+0x80/0x80
     [&lt;ffffffff813a9ffb&gt;] ? __might_sleep+0x5b/0x260
     [&lt;ffffffff8148be10&gt;] common_nsleep+0x20/0x30
     [&lt;ffffffff814906c7&gt;] SyS_clock_nanosleep+0x197/0x210
     [&lt;ffffffff81490530&gt;] ? SyS_clock_getres+0x150/0x150
     [&lt;ffffffff823c7113&gt;] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20
     [&lt;ffffffff8162ef60&gt;] ? __context_tracking_exit.part.3+0x30/0x1b0
     [&lt;ffffffff81490530&gt;] ? SyS_clock_getres+0x150/0x150
     [&lt;ffffffff81007bd3&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x1b3/0x4b0
     [&lt;ffffffff845f85aa&gt;] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
    ================================================================================

Add a new ktime_add_unsafe() helper which doesn't check for overflow, but
doesn't throw a UBSAN warning when it does overflow either.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 979515c5645830465739254abc1b1648ada41518 upstream.

I ran into this:

    ================================================================================
    UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/time/hrtimer.c:310:16
    signed integer overflow:
    9223372036854775807 + 50000 cannot be represented in type 'long long int'
    CPU: 2 PID: 4798 Comm: trinity-c2 Not tainted 4.8.0-rc1+ #91
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.9.3-0-ge2fc41e-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
     0000000000000000 ffff88010ce6fb88 ffffffff82344740 0000000041b58ab3
     ffffffff84f97a20 ffffffff82344694 ffff88010ce6fbb0 ffff88010ce6fb60
     000000000000c350 ffff88010ce6f968 dffffc0000000000 ffffffff857bc320
    Call Trace:
     [&lt;ffffffff82344740&gt;] dump_stack+0xac/0xfc
     [&lt;ffffffff82344694&gt;] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0xc4/0xc4
     [&lt;ffffffff8242df78&gt;] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x8a
     [&lt;ffffffff8242e6b4&gt;] handle_overflow+0x202/0x23d
     [&lt;ffffffff8242e4b2&gt;] ? val_to_string.constprop.6+0x11e/0x11e
     [&lt;ffffffff8236df71&gt;] ? timerqueue_add+0x151/0x410
     [&lt;ffffffff81485c48&gt;] ? hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x3b8/0x1380
     [&lt;ffffffff81795631&gt;] ? memset+0x31/0x40
     [&lt;ffffffff8242e6fd&gt;] __ubsan_handle_add_overflow+0xe/0x10
     [&lt;ffffffff81488ac9&gt;] hrtimer_nanosleep+0x5d9/0x790
     [&lt;ffffffff814884f0&gt;] ? hrtimer_init_sleeper+0x80/0x80
     [&lt;ffffffff813a9ffb&gt;] ? __might_sleep+0x5b/0x260
     [&lt;ffffffff8148be10&gt;] common_nsleep+0x20/0x30
     [&lt;ffffffff814906c7&gt;] SyS_clock_nanosleep+0x197/0x210
     [&lt;ffffffff81490530&gt;] ? SyS_clock_getres+0x150/0x150
     [&lt;ffffffff823c7113&gt;] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20
     [&lt;ffffffff8162ef60&gt;] ? __context_tracking_exit.part.3+0x30/0x1b0
     [&lt;ffffffff81490530&gt;] ? SyS_clock_getres+0x150/0x150
     [&lt;ffffffff81007bd3&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x1b3/0x4b0
     [&lt;ffffffff845f85aa&gt;] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
    ================================================================================

Add a new ktime_add_unsafe() helper which doesn't check for overflow, but
doesn't throw a UBSAN warning when it does overflow either.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/deadline: Use the revised wakeup rule for suspending constrained dl tasks</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T11:06:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Bristot de Oliveira</name>
<email>bristot@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-29T14:24:03+00:00</published>
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commit 3effcb4247e74a51f5d8b775a1ee4abf87cc089a upstream.

We have been facing some problems with self-suspending constrained
deadline tasks. The main reason is that the original CBS was not
designed for such sort of tasks.

One problem reported by Xunlei Pang takes place when a task
suspends, and then is awakened before the deadline, but so close
to the deadline that its remaining runtime can cause the task
to have an absolute density higher than allowed. In such situation,
the original CBS assumes that the task is facing an early activation,
and so it replenishes the task and set another deadline, one deadline
in the future. This rule works fine for implicit deadline tasks.
Moreover, it allows the system to adapt the period of a task in which
the external event source suffered from a clock drift.

However, this opens the window for bandwidth leakage for constrained
deadline tasks. For instance, a task with the following parameters:

  runtime   = 5 ms
  deadline  = 7 ms
  [density] = 5 / 7 = 0.71
  period    = 1000 ms

If the task runs for 1 ms, and then suspends for another 1ms,
it will be awakened with the following parameters:

  remaining runtime = 4
  laxity = 5

presenting a absolute density of 4 / 5 = 0.80.

In this case, the original CBS would assume the task had an early
wakeup. Then, CBS will reset the runtime, and the absolute deadline will
be postponed by one relative deadline, allowing the task to run.

The problem is that, if the task runs this pattern forever, it will keep
receiving bandwidth, being able to run 1ms every 2ms. Following this
behavior, the task would be able to run 500 ms in 1 sec. Thus running
more than the 5 ms / 1 sec the admission control allowed it to run.

Trying to address the self-suspending case, Luca Abeni, Giuseppe
Lipari, and Juri Lelli [1] revisited the CBS in order to deal with
self-suspending tasks. In the new approach, rather than
replenishing/postponing the absolute deadline, the revised wakeup rule
adjusts the remaining runtime, reducing it to fit into the allowed
density.

A revised version of the idea is:

At a given time t, the maximum absolute density of a task cannot be
higher than its relative density, that is:

  runtime / (deadline - t) &lt;= dl_runtime / dl_deadline

Knowing the laxity of a task (deadline - t), it is possible to move
it to the other side of the equality, thus enabling to define max
remaining runtime a task can use within the absolute deadline, without
over-running the allowed density:

  runtime = (dl_runtime / dl_deadline) * (deadline - t)

For instance, in our previous example, the task could still run:

  runtime = ( 5 / 7 ) * 5
  runtime = 3.57 ms

Without causing damage for other deadline tasks. It is note worthy
that the laxity cannot be negative because that would cause a negative
runtime. Thus, this patch depends on the patch:

  df8eac8cafce ("sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline")

Which throttles a constrained deadline task activated after the
deadline.

Finally, it is also possible to use the revised wakeup rule for
all other tasks, but that would require some more discussions
about pros and cons.

[The main difference from the original commit is that
 the BW_SHIFT define was not present yet. As BW_SHIFT was
 introduced in a new feature, I just used the value (20),
 likewise we used to use before the #define.
 Other changes were required because of comments. - bistrot]

Reported-by: Xunlei Pang &lt;xpang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
[peterz: replaced dl_is_constrained with dl_is_implicit]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@santannapisa.it&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira &lt;romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta &lt;tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5c800ab3a74a168a84ee5f3f84d12a02e11383be.1495803804.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 3effcb4247e74a51f5d8b775a1ee4abf87cc089a upstream.

We have been facing some problems with self-suspending constrained
deadline tasks. The main reason is that the original CBS was not
designed for such sort of tasks.

One problem reported by Xunlei Pang takes place when a task
suspends, and then is awakened before the deadline, but so close
to the deadline that its remaining runtime can cause the task
to have an absolute density higher than allowed. In such situation,
the original CBS assumes that the task is facing an early activation,
and so it replenishes the task and set another deadline, one deadline
in the future. This rule works fine for implicit deadline tasks.
Moreover, it allows the system to adapt the period of a task in which
the external event source suffered from a clock drift.

However, this opens the window for bandwidth leakage for constrained
deadline tasks. For instance, a task with the following parameters:

  runtime   = 5 ms
  deadline  = 7 ms
  [density] = 5 / 7 = 0.71
  period    = 1000 ms

If the task runs for 1 ms, and then suspends for another 1ms,
it will be awakened with the following parameters:

  remaining runtime = 4
  laxity = 5

presenting a absolute density of 4 / 5 = 0.80.

In this case, the original CBS would assume the task had an early
wakeup. Then, CBS will reset the runtime, and the absolute deadline will
be postponed by one relative deadline, allowing the task to run.

The problem is that, if the task runs this pattern forever, it will keep
receiving bandwidth, being able to run 1ms every 2ms. Following this
behavior, the task would be able to run 500 ms in 1 sec. Thus running
more than the 5 ms / 1 sec the admission control allowed it to run.

Trying to address the self-suspending case, Luca Abeni, Giuseppe
Lipari, and Juri Lelli [1] revisited the CBS in order to deal with
self-suspending tasks. In the new approach, rather than
replenishing/postponing the absolute deadline, the revised wakeup rule
adjusts the remaining runtime, reducing it to fit into the allowed
density.

A revised version of the idea is:

At a given time t, the maximum absolute density of a task cannot be
higher than its relative density, that is:

  runtime / (deadline - t) &lt;= dl_runtime / dl_deadline

Knowing the laxity of a task (deadline - t), it is possible to move
it to the other side of the equality, thus enabling to define max
remaining runtime a task can use within the absolute deadline, without
over-running the allowed density:

  runtime = (dl_runtime / dl_deadline) * (deadline - t)

For instance, in our previous example, the task could still run:

  runtime = ( 5 / 7 ) * 5
  runtime = 3.57 ms

Without causing damage for other deadline tasks. It is note worthy
that the laxity cannot be negative because that would cause a negative
runtime. Thus, this patch depends on the patch:

  df8eac8cafce ("sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline")

Which throttles a constrained deadline task activated after the
deadline.

Finally, it is also possible to use the revised wakeup rule for
all other tasks, but that would require some more discussions
about pros and cons.

[The main difference from the original commit is that
 the BW_SHIFT define was not present yet. As BW_SHIFT was
 introduced in a new feature, I just used the value (20),
 likewise we used to use before the #define.
 Other changes were required because of comments. - bistrot]

Reported-by: Xunlei Pang &lt;xpang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
[peterz: replaced dl_is_constrained with dl_is_implicit]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@santannapisa.it&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira &lt;romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta &lt;tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5c800ab3a74a168a84ee5f3f84d12a02e11383be.1495803804.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC</title>
<updated>2018-01-23T18:50:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-16T20:52:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=1782af2835fe6fbff6265a53fb85847fb9c58137'/>
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commit 6cfb521ac0d5b97470883ff9b7facae264b7ab12 upstream.

Add a marker for retpoline to the module VERMAGIC. This catches the case
when a non RETPOLINE compiled module gets loaded into a retpoline kernel,
making it insecure.

It doesn't handle the case when retpoline has been runtime disabled.  Even
in this case the match of the retcompile status will be enforced.  This
implies that even with retpoline run time disabled all modules loaded need
to be recompiled.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com
Cc: jeyu@kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180116205228.4890-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6cfb521ac0d5b97470883ff9b7facae264b7ab12 upstream.

Add a marker for retpoline to the module VERMAGIC. This catches the case
when a non RETPOLINE compiled module gets loaded into a retpoline kernel,
making it insecure.

It doesn't handle the case when retpoline has been runtime disabled.  Even
in this case the match of the retcompile status will be enforced.  This
implies that even with retpoline run time disabled all modules loaded need
to be recompiled.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com
Cc: jeyu@kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180116205228.4890-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kconfig.h: use __is_defined() to check if MODULE is defined</title>
<updated>2018-01-23T18:50:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-14T05:58:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=675901851fd2a00c7a70bcf327303efba3b81e2f'/>
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commit 4f920843d248946545415c1bf6120942048708ed upstream.

The macro MODULE is not a config option, it is a per-file build
option.  So, config_enabled(MODULE) is not sensible.  (There is
another case in include/linux/export.h, where config_enabled() is
used against a non-config option.)

This commit renames some macros in include/linux/kconfig.h for the
use for non-config macros and replaces config_enabled(MODULE) with
__is_defined(MODULE).

I am keeping config_enabled() because it is still referenced from
some places, but I expect it would be deprecated in the future.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Razvan Ghitulete &lt;rga@amazon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4f920843d248946545415c1bf6120942048708ed upstream.

The macro MODULE is not a config option, it is a per-file build
option.  So, config_enabled(MODULE) is not sensible.  (There is
another case in include/linux/export.h, where config_enabled() is
used against a non-config option.)

This commit renames some macros in include/linux/kconfig.h for the
use for non-config macros and replaces config_enabled(MODULE) with
__is_defined(MODULE).

I am keeping config_enabled() because it is still referenced from
some places, but I expect it would be deprecated in the future.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Razvan Ghitulete &lt;rga@amazon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder</title>
<updated>2018-01-17T08:35:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-07T21:48:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=73492b6860129bc3b87b1730486940d0850bfb23'/>
<id>73492b6860129bc3b87b1730486940d0850bfb23</id>
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commit 87590ce6e373d1a5401f6539f0c59ef92dd924a9 upstream.

As the meltdown/spectre problem affects several CPU architectures, it makes
sense to have common way to express whether a system is affected by a
particular vulnerability or not. If affected the way to express the
mitigation should be common as well.

Create /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities folder and files for
meltdown, spectre_v1 and spectre_v2.

Allow architectures to override the show function.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107214913.096657732@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 87590ce6e373d1a5401f6539f0c59ef92dd924a9 upstream.

As the meltdown/spectre problem affects several CPU architectures, it makes
sense to have common way to express whether a system is affected by a
particular vulnerability or not. If affected the way to express the
mitigation should be common as well.

Create /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities folder and files for
meltdown, spectre_v1 and spectre_v2.

Allow architectures to override the show function.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107214913.096657732@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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