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2019-07-30Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdmaLinus Torvalds
Pull rdma fixes from Jason Gunthorpe: "A few regression and bug fixes for the patches merged in the last cycle: - hns fixes a subtle crash from the ib core SGL rework - hfi1 fixes various error handling, oops and protocol errors - bnxt_re fixes a regression where nvmeof doesn't work on some configurations - mlx5 fixes a serious 'use after free' bug in how MR caching is handled - some edge case crashers in the new statistic core code - more siw static checker fixups" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: IB/mlx5: Fix RSS Toeplitz setup to be aligned with the HW specification IB/counters: Always initialize the port counter object IB/core: Fix querying total rdma stats IB/mlx5: Prevent concurrent MR updates during invalidation IB/mlx5: Fix clean_mr() to work in the expected order IB/mlx5: Move MRs to a kernel PD when freeing them to the MR cache IB/mlx5: Use direct mkey destroy command upon UMR unreg failure IB/mlx5: Fix unreg_umr to ignore the mkey state RDMA/siw: Remove set but not used variables 'rv' IB/mlx5: Replace kfree with kvfree RDMA/bnxt_re: Honor vlan_id in GID entry comparison IB/hfi1: Drop all TID RDMA READ RESP packets after r_next_psn IB/hfi1: Field not zero-ed when allocating TID flow memory IB/hfi1: Unreserve a flushed OPFN request IB/hfi1: Check for error on call to alloc_rsm_map_table RDMA/hns: Fix sg offset non-zero issue RDMA/siw: Fix error return code in siw_init_module()
2019-07-30Merge tag 'for-linus-hmm' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma Pull HMM fixes from Jason Gunthorpe: "Fix the locking around nouveau's use of the hmm_range_* APIs. It works correctly in the success case, but many of the the edge cases have missing unlocks or double unlocks. The diffstat is a bit big as Christoph did a comprehensive job to move the obsolete API from the core header and into the driver before fixing its flow, but the risk of regression from this code motion is low" * tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: nouveau: unlock mmap_sem on all errors from nouveau_range_fault nouveau: remove the block parameter to nouveau_range_fault mm/hmm: move hmm_vma_range_done and hmm_vma_fault to nouveau mm/hmm: always return EBUSY for invalid ranges in hmm_range_{fault,snapshot}
2019-07-30loop: Fix mount(2) failure due to race with LOOP_SET_FDJan Kara
Commit 33ec3e53e7b1 ("loop: Don't change loop device under exclusive opener") made LOOP_SET_FD ioctl acquire exclusive block device reference while it updates loop device binding. However this can make perfectly valid mount(2) fail with EBUSY due to racing LOOP_SET_FD holding temporarily the exclusive bdev reference in cases like this: for i in {a..z}{a..z}; do dd if=/dev/zero of=$i.image bs=1k count=0 seek=1024 mkfs.ext2 $i.image mkdir mnt$i done echo "Run" for i in {a..z}{a..z}; do mount -o loop -t ext2 $i.image mnt$i & done Fix the problem by not getting full exclusive bdev reference in LOOP_SET_FD but instead just mark the bdev as being claimed while we update the binding information. This just blocks new exclusive openers instead of failing them with EBUSY thus fixing the problem. Fixes: 33ec3e53e7b1 ("loop: Don't change loop device under exclusive opener") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-07-30Merge branch 'generic_lookup_helpers' into driver-core-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman
This was on a separate branch so that others can pull it in. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-30platform: Add platform_find_device_by_driver() helperSuzuki K Poulose
Provide a helper to lookup platform devices by matching device driver in order to avoid drivers trying to use platform bus internals. Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Heiko Stübner" <heiko@sntech.de> Cc: Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Sandy Huang <hjc@rock-chips.com> Cc: Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim@samsung.com> Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190723221838.12024-8-suzuki.poulose@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-30drivers: Add generic helper to match any deviceSuzuki K Poulose
Add a generic helper to match any/all devices. Using this introduce new wrappers {bus/driver/class}_find_next_device(). Cc: Elie Morisse <syniurge@gmail.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: Nehal Shah <nehal-bakulchandra.shah@amd.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Shyam Sundar S K <shyam-sundar.s-k@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> # PCI Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190723221838.12024-7-suzuki.poulose@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-30drivers: Introduce device lookup variants by ACPI_COMPANION deviceSuzuki K Poulose
Add a generic helper to match a device by the ACPI_COMPANION device and provide wrappers for the device lookup APIs. Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-spi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> # I2C parts Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190723221838.12024-6-suzuki.poulose@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-30drivers: Introduce device lookup variants by device typeSuzuki K Poulose
Add a helper to match a device by its type and provide wrappers for {bus/class/driver}_find_device() APIs. Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190723221838.12024-5-suzuki.poulose@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-30drivers: Introduce device lookup variants by fwnodeSuzuki K Poulose
Add a helper to match the firmware node handle of a device and provide wrappers for {bus/class/driver}_find_device() APIs to avoid proliferation of duplicate custom match functions. Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Acked-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190723221838.12024-4-suzuki.poulose@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-30drivers: Introduce device lookup variants by of_nodeSuzuki K Poulose
Introduce wrappers for {bus/driver/class}_find_device() to locate devices by its of_node. Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com> Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-spi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com> Cc: Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org> Cc: linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org Cc: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Thor Thayer <thor.thayer@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com> Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Cc: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> # I2C part Acked-by: Moritz Fischer <mdf@kernel.org> # For FPGA part Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190723221838.12024-3-suzuki.poulose@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-30drivers: Introduce device lookup variants by nameSuzuki K Poulose
Add a helper to match the device name for device lookup. Also reuse this generic exported helper for the existing bus_find_device_by_name(). and add similar variants for driver/class. Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com> Cc: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> Cc: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190723221838.12024-2-suzuki.poulose@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-29scsi: fcoe: Embed fc_rport_priv in fcoe_rport structureHannes Reinecke
Gcc-9 complains for a memset across pointer boundaries, which happens as the code tries to allocate a flexible array on the stack. Turns out we cannot do this without relying on gcc-isms, so with this patch we'll embed the fc_rport_priv structure into fcoe_rport, can use the normal 'container_of' outcast, and will only have to do a memset over one structure. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2019-07-29scsi: libfc: Whitespace cleanup in libfc.hHannes Reinecke
No functional change. [mkp: typo] Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2019-07-29Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhostLinus Torvalds
Pull virtio/vhost fixes from Michael Tsirkin: - Fixes in the iommu and balloon devices. - Disable the meta-data optimization for now - I hope we can get it fixed shortly, but there's no point in making users suffer crashes while we are working on that. * tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: vhost: disable metadata prefetch optimization iommu/virtio: Update to most recent specification balloon: fix up comments mm/balloon_compaction: avoid duplicate page removal
2019-07-29Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v5.3-3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.infradead.org/linux-platform-drivers-x86 Pull x86 platform driver fixes from Andy Shevchenko: "Business as usual, a few fixes and new IDs: - PC Engines APU got one fix for software dependencies to automatically load them and another fix for mapping of key button in the front to issue restart event. - OLPC driver is now probed automatically based on module device table. - Intel PMC core driver supports Intel Ice Lake NNPI processor. - WMI driver missed description of a new field in the structure that has been added" * tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v5.3-3' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-platform-drivers-x86: platform/x86: pcengines-apuv2: use KEY_RESTART for front button platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Add ICL-NNPI support to PMC Core Platform: OLPC: add SPI MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE platform/x86: wmi: add missing struct parameter description platform/x86: pcengines-apuv2: Fix softdep statement
2019-07-29netfilter: add include guard to xt_connlabel.hMasahiro Yamada
Add a header include guard just in case. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2019-07-28Merge tag 'tty-5.3-rc2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty Pull tty fixes from Greg KH: "Here are two tty/vt fixes: - delete the netx-serial driver as the arch has been removed, no need to keep the serial driver for it around either. - vt console_lock fix to resolve a reported noisy warning at runtime Both of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-5.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: vt: Grab console_lock around con_is_bound in show_bind tty: serial: netx: Delete driver
2019-07-28Merge tag 'spdx-5.3-rc2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx Pull SPDX fixes from Greg KH: "Here are some small SPDX fixes for 5.3-rc2 for things that came in during the 5.3-rc1 merge window that we previously missed. Only three small patches here: - two uapi patches to resolve some SPDX tags that were not correct - fix an invalid SPDX tag in the iomap Makefile file All have been properly reviewed on the public mailing lists" * tag 'spdx-5.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx: iomap: fix Invalid License ID treewide: remove SPDX "WITH Linux-syscall-note" from kernel-space headers again treewide: add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to SPDX tag of uapi headers
2019-07-28gpio: don't WARN() on NULL descs if gpiolib is disabledBartosz Golaszewski
If gpiolib is disabled, we use the inline stubs from gpio/consumer.h instead of regular definitions of GPIO API. The stubs for 'optional' variants of gpiod_get routines return NULL in this case as if the relevant GPIO wasn't found. This is correct so far. Calling other (non-gpio_get) stubs from this header triggers a warning because the GPIO descriptor couldn't have been requested. The warning however is unconditional (WARN_ON(1)) and is emitted even if the passed descriptor pointer is NULL. We don't want to force the users of 'optional' gpio_get to check the returned pointer before calling e.g. gpiod_set_value() so let's only WARN on non-NULL descriptors. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Claus H. Stovgaard <cst@phaseone.com> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
2019-07-27Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "Two fixes for the fair scheduling class: - Prevent freeing memory which is accessible by concurrent readers - Make the RCU annotations for numa groups consistent" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/fair: Use RCU accessors consistently for ->numa_group sched/fair: Don't free p->numa_faults with concurrent readers
2019-07-27Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull locking fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "A set of locking fixes: - Address the fallout of the rwsem rework. Missing ACQUIREs and a sanity check to prevent a use-after-free - Add missing checks for unitialized mutexes when mutex debugging is enabled. - Remove the bogus code in the generic SMP variant of arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser() - Fixup the #ifdeffery in lockdep to prevent compile warnings" * 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: locking/mutex: Test for initialized mutex locking/lockdep: Clean up #ifdef checks locking/lockdep: Hide unused 'class' variable locking/rwsem: Add ACQUIRE comments tty/ldsem, locking/rwsem: Add missing ACQUIRE to read_failed sleep loop lcoking/rwsem: Add missing ACQUIRE to read_slowpath sleep loop locking/rwsem: Add missing ACQUIRE to read_slowpath exit when queue is empty locking/rwsem: Don't call owner_on_cpu() on read-owner futex: Cleanup generic SMP variant of arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser()
2019-07-27Merge tag 'devicetree-fixes-for-5.3-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux Pull Devicetree fixes from Rob Herring: "The nvmem changes would typically go thru Greg's tree, but they were missed in the merge window. [ Acked by Greg ] Summary: - Fix mismatches in $id values and actual filenames. Now checked by tools. - Convert nvmem binding to DT schema - Fix a typo in of_property_read_bool() kerneldoc - Remove some redundant description in al-fic interrupt-controller" * tag 'devicetree-fixes-for-5.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux: dt-bindings: Fix more $id value mismatches filenames dt-bindings: nvmem: SID: Fix the examples node names dt-bindings: nvmem: Add YAML schemas for the generic NVMEM bindings of: Fix typo in kerneldoc dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: al-fic: remove redundant binding dt-bindings: clk: allwinner,sun4i-a10-ccu: Correct path in $id
2019-07-27Merge tag 'libnvdimm-fixes-5.3-rc2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams: "A collection of locking and async operations fixes for v5.3-rc2. These had been soaking in a branch targeting the merge window, but missed due to a regression hunt. This fixed up version has otherwise been in -next this past week with no reported issues. In order to gain confidence in the locking changes the pull also includes a debug / instrumentation patch to enable lockdep coverage for libnvdimm subsystem operations that depend on the device_lock for exclusion. As mentioned in the changelog it is a hack, but it works and documents the locking expectations of the sub-system in a way that others can use lockdep to verify. The driver core touches got an ack from Greg. Summary: - Fix duplicate device_unregister() calls (multiple threads competing to do unregister work when scheduling device removal from a sysfs attribute of the self-same device). - Fix badblocks registration order bug. Ensure region badblocks are initialized in advance of namespace registration. - Fix a deadlock between the bus lock and probe operations. - Export device-core infrastructure to coordinate async operations via the device ->dead state. - Add device-core infrastructure to validate device_lock() usage with lockdep" * tag 'libnvdimm-fixes-5.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: driver-core, libnvdimm: Let device subsystems add local lockdep coverage libnvdimm/bus: Fix wait_nvdimm_bus_probe_idle() ABBA deadlock libnvdimm/bus: Stop holding nvdimm_bus_list_mutex over __nd_ioctl() libnvdimm/bus: Prepare the nd_ioctl() path to be re-entrant libnvdimm/region: Register badblocks before namespaces libnvdimm/bus: Prevent duplicate device_unregister() calls drivers/base: Introduce kill_device()
2019-07-26of: Fix typo in kerneldocThierry Reding
"Findfrom" is not a word. Replace the function synopsis by something that makes sense. Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
2019-07-26Merge tag 'mlx5-fixes-2019-07-25' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux Saeed Mahameed says: ==================== Mellanox, mlx5 fixes 2019-07-25 This series introduces some fixes to mlx5 driver. 1) Ariel is addressing an issue with enacp flow counter race condition 2) Aya fixes ethtool speed handling 3) Edward fixes modify_cq hw bits alignment 4) Maor fixes RDMA_RX capabilities handling 5) Mark reverses unregister devices order to address an issue with LAG 6) From Tariq, - wrong max num channels indication regression - TLS counters naming and documentation as suggested by Jakub - kTLS, Call WARN_ONCE on netdev mismatch There is one patch in this series that touches nfp driver to align TLS statistics names with latest documentation, Jakub is CC'ed. Please pull and let me know if there is any problem. For -stable v4.9: ('net/mlx5: Use reversed order when unregister devices') For -stable v4.20 ('net/mlx5e: Prevent encap flow counter update async to user query') ('net/mlx5: Fix modify_cq_in alignment') For -stable v5.1 ('net/mlx5e: Fix matching of speed to PRM link modes') For -stable v5.2 ('net/mlx5: Add missing RDMA_RX capabilities') ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-07-26Merge tag 'scsi-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley: "Nine fixes: The most important core one is the dma_max_mapping_size fix that corrects the boot problem Gunter Roeck was having. A couple of other driver only fixes are significant, like the cxgbi selector support addition, the alua 2 second delay and the fdomain build fix" * tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: scsi: scsi_dh_alua: always use a 2 second delay before retrying RTPG scsi: ibmvfc: fix WARN_ON during event pool release scsi: fcoe: fix a typo scsi: megaraid_sas: Make some functions static scsi: megaraid_sas: fix panic on loading firmware crashdump scsi: megaraid_sas: fix spelling mistake "megarid_sas" -> "megaraid_sas" scsi: core: fix the dma_max_mapping_size call scsi: fdomain: fix building pcmcia front-end scsi: target: cxgbit: add support for IEEE_8021QAZ_APP_SEL_STREAM selector
2019-07-26net: qualcomm: rmnet: Fix incorrect UL checksum offload logicSubash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
The udp_ip4_ind bit is set only for IPv4 UDP non-fragmented packets so that the hardware can flip the checksum to 0xFFFF if the computed checksum is 0 per RFC768. However, this bit had to be set for IPv6 UDP non fragmented packets as well per hardware requirements. Otherwise, IPv6 UDP packets with computed checksum as 0 were transmitted by hardware and were dropped in the network. In addition to setting this bit for IPv6 UDP, the field is also appropriately renamed to udp_ind as part of this change. Fixes: 5eb5f8608ef1 ("net: qualcomm: rmnet: Add support for TX checksum offload") Cc: Sean Tranchetti <stranche@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-07-26Merge tag 'docs-5.3-1' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "This is mostly a set of follow-on fixes from Mauro fixing various fallout from the massive RST conversion; a few other small fixes as well" * tag 'docs-5.3-1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (21 commits) docs: phy: Drop duplicate 'be made' doc:it_IT: translations in process/ docs/vm: transhuge: fix typo in madvise reference doc:it_IT: rephrase statement doc:it_IT: align translation to mainline docs: load_config.py: ensure subdirs end with "/" docs: virtual: add it to the documentation body docs: remove extra conf.py files docs: load_config.py: avoid needing a conf.py just due to LaTeX docs scripts/sphinx-pre-install: seek for Noto CJK fonts for pdf output scripts/sphinx-pre-install: cleanup Gentoo checks scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix latexmk dependencies scripts/sphinx-pre-install: don't use LaTeX with CentOS 7 scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix script for RHEL/CentOS docs: conf.py: only use CJK if the font is available docs: conf.py: add CJK package needed by translations docs: pdf: add all Documentation/*/index.rst to PDF output docs: fix broken doc references due to renames docs: power: add it to to the main documentation index docs: powerpc: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst ...
2019-07-26Merge tag 'for-linus-20190726' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe: - Several io_uring fixes/improvements: - Blocking fix for O_DIRECT (me) - Latter page slowness for registered buffers (me) - Fix poll hang under certain conditions (me) - Defer sequence check fix for wrapped rings (Zhengyuan) - Mismatch in async inc/dec accounting (Zhengyuan) - Memory ordering issue that could cause stall (Zhengyuan) - Track sequential defer in bytes, not pages (Zhengyuan) - NVMe pull request from Christoph - Set of hang fixes for wbt (Josef) - Redundant error message kill for libahci (Ding) - Remove unused blk_mq_sched_started_request() and related ops (Marcos) - drbd dynamic alloc shash descriptor to reduce stack use (Arnd) - blkcg ->pd_stat() non-debug print (Tejun) - bcache memory leak fix (Wei) - Comment fix (Akinobu) - BFQ perf regression fix (Paolo) * tag 'for-linus-20190726' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (24 commits) io_uring: ensure ->list is initialized for poll commands Revert "nvme-pci: don't create a read hctx mapping without read queues" nvme: fix multipath crash when ANA is deactivated nvme: fix memory leak caused by incorrect subsystem free nvme: ignore subnqn for ADATA SX6000LNP drbd: dynamically allocate shash descriptor block: blk-mq: Remove blk_mq_sched_started_request and started_request bcache: fix possible memory leak in bch_cached_dev_run() io_uring: track io length in async_list based on bytes io_uring: don't use iov_iter_advance() for fixed buffers block: properly handle IOCB_NOWAIT for async O_DIRECT IO blk-mq: allow REQ_NOWAIT to return an error inline io_uring: add a memory barrier before atomic_read rq-qos: use a mb for got_token rq-qos: set ourself TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE after we schedule rq-qos: don't reset has_sleepers on spurious wakeups rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle wait: add wq_has_single_sleeper helper block, bfq: check also in-flight I/O in dispatch plugging block: fix sysfs module parameters directory path in comment ...
2019-07-26Merge tag 'sound-5.3-rc2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound Pull sound fixes from Takashi Iwai: "All relatively small changes: - a regression fix for PCM link code with CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL; stumbled on a slight difference between atomic_t and refcount_t - a couple of HD-audio stabilization patches addressing the too slow PM resume seen on some Intel chips - a series of ALSA compress-offload API fixes, including the regression by the previous capture stream support - trivial LINE6 USB-audio driver fixes, a new Conexant HD-audio chip coverage, and a fix in AC97 bus error path" * tag 'sound-5.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: ALSA: hda - Add a conexant codec entry to let mute led work ALSA: hda - Fix intermittent CORB/RIRB stall on Intel chips ALSA: ac97: Fix double free of ac97_codec_device ALSA: compress: Be more restrictive about when a drain is allowed ALSA: compress: Don't allow paritial drain operations on capture streams ALSA: compress: Prevent bypasses of set_params ALSA: compress: Fix regression on compressed capture streams ALSA: line6: Fix a typo ALSA: pcm: Fix refcount_inc() on zero usage ALSA: line6: Fix wrong altsetting for LINE6_PODHD500_1 ALSA: hda - Optimize resume for codecs without jack detection
2019-07-26Merge tag 'iommu-fixes-v5.3-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu Pull IOMMU fixes from Joerg Roedel: - revert an Intel VT-d patch that caused boot problems on some machines - fix AMD IOMMU interrupts with x2apic enabled - fix a potential crash when Intel VT-d domain allocation fails - fix crash in Intel VT-d driver when accessing a domain without a flush queue - formatting fix for new Intel VT-d debugfs code - fix for use-after-free bug in IOVA code - fix for a NULL-pointer dereference in Intel VT-d driver when PCI hotplug is used - compilation fix for one of the previous fixes * tag 'iommu-fixes-v5.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: iommu/amd: Add support for X2APIC IOMMU interrupts iommu/iova: Fix compilation error with !CONFIG_IOMMU_IOVA iommu/vt-d: Print pasid table entries MSB to LSB in debugfs iommu/iova: Remove stale cached32_node iommu/vt-d: Check if domain->pgd was allocated iommu/vt-d: Don't queue_iova() if there is no flush queue iommu/vt-d: Avoid duplicated pci dma alias consideration Revert "iommu/vt-d: Consolidate domain_init() to avoid duplication"
2019-07-26{nl,mac}80211: fix interface combinations on crypto controlled devicesManikanta Pubbisetty
Commit 33d915d9e8ce ("{nl,mac}80211: allow 4addr AP operation on crypto controlled devices") has introduced a change which allows 4addr operation on crypto controlled devices (ex: ath10k). This change has inadvertently impacted the interface combinations logic on such devices. General rule is that software interfaces like AP/VLAN should not be listed under supported interface combinations and should not be considered during validation of these combinations; because of the aforementioned change, AP/VLAN interfaces(if present) will be checked against interfaces supported by the device and blocks valid interface combinations. Consider a case where an AP and AP/VLAN are up and running; when a second AP device is brought up on the same physical device, this AP will be checked against the AP/VLAN interface (which will not be part of supported interface combinations of the device) and blocks second AP to come up. Add a new API cfg80211_iftype_allowed() to fix the problem, this API works for all devices with/without SW crypto control. Signed-off-by: Manikanta Pubbisetty <mpubbise@codeaurora.org> Fixes: 33d915d9e8ce ("{nl,mac}80211: allow 4addr AP operation on crypto controlled devices") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1563779690-9716-1-git-send-email-mpubbise@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2019-07-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpfDavid S. Miller
Alexei Starovoitov says: ==================== pull-request: bpf 2019-07-25 The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net* tree. The main changes are: 1) fix segfault in libbpf, from Andrii. 2) fix gso_segs access, from Eric. 3) tls/sockmap fixes, from Jakub and John. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-07-25net/mlx5e: Prevent encap flow counter update async to user queryAriel Levkovich
This patch prevents a race between user invoked cached counters query and a neighbor last usage updater. The cached flow counter stats can be queried by calling "mlx5_fc_query_cached" which provides the number of bytes and packets that passed via this flow since the last time this counter was queried. It does so by reducting the last saved stats from the current, cached stats and then updating the last saved stats with the cached stats. It also provide the lastuse value for that flow. Since "mlx5e_tc_update_neigh_used_value" needs to retrieve the last usage time of encapsulation flows, it calls the flow counter query method periodically and async to user queries of the flow counter using cls_flower. This call is causing the driver to update the last reported bytes and packets from the cache and therefore, future user queries of the flow stats will return lower than expected number for bytes and packets since the last saved stats in the driver was updated async to the last saved stats in cls_flower. This causes wrong stats presentation of encapsulation flows to user. Since the neighbor usage updater only needs the lastuse stats from the cached counter, the fix is to use a dedicated lastuse query call that returns the lastuse value without synching between the cached stats and the last saved stats. Fixes: f6dfb4c3f216 ("net/mlx5e: Update neighbour 'used' state using HW flow rules counters") Signed-off-by: Ariel Levkovich <lariel@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
2019-07-25net/mlx5: Fix modify_cq_in alignmentEdward Srouji
Fix modify_cq_in alignment to match the device specification. After this fix the 'cq_umem_valid' field will be in the right offset. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.19 Fixes: bd37197554eb ("net/mlx5: Update mlx5_ifc with DEVX UID bits") Signed-off-by: Edward Srouji <edwards@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
2019-07-25mm/hmm: move hmm_vma_range_done and hmm_vma_fault to nouveauChristoph Hellwig
These two functions are marked as a legacy APIs to get rid of, but seem to suit the current nouveau flow. Move it to the only user in preparation for fixing a locking bug involving caller and callee. All comments referring to the old API have been removed as this now is a driver private helper. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190724065258.16603-3-hch@lst.de Tested-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
2019-07-25lib/dim: Fix -Wunused-const-variable warningsLeon Romanovsky
DIM causes to the following warnings during kernel compilation which indicates that tx_profile and rx_profile are supposed to be declared in *.c and not in *.h files. In file included from ./include/rdma/ib_verbs.h:64, from ./include/linux/mlx5/device.h:37, from ./include/linux/mlx5/driver.h:51, from ./include/linux/mlx5/vport.h:36, from drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/ib_virt.c:34: ./include/linux/dim.h:326:1: warning: _tx_profile_ defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] 326 | tx_profile[DIM_CQ_PERIOD_NUM_MODES][NET_DIM_PARAMS_NUM_PROFILES] = { | ^~~~~~~~~~ ./include/linux/dim.h:320:1: warning: _rx_profile_ defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] 320 | rx_profile[DIM_CQ_PERIOD_NUM_MODES][NET_DIM_PARAMS_NUM_PROFILES] = { | ^~~~~~~~~~ Fixes: 4f75da3666c0 ("linux/dim: Move implementation to .c files") Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-07-25platform/x86: wmi: add missing struct parameter descriptionMattias Jacobsson
Add a description for the context parameter in the struct wmi_device_id. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> Fixes: a48e23385fcf ("platform/x86: wmi: add context pointer field to struct wmi_device_id") Signed-off-by: Mattias Jacobsson <2pi@mok.nu> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
2019-07-25Merge branch 'access-creds'Linus Torvalds
The access() (and faccessat()) credentials change can cause an unnecessary load on the RCU machinery because every access() call ends up freeing the temporary access credential using RCU. This isn't really noticeable on small machines, but if you have hundreds of cores you can cause huge slowdowns due to RCU storms. It's easy to avoid: the temporary access crededntials aren't actually normally accessed using RCU at all, so we can avoid the whole issue by just marking them as such. * access-creds: access: avoid the RCU grace period for the temporary subjective credentials
2019-07-25sched/fair: Use RCU accessors consistently for ->numa_groupJann Horn
The old code used RCU annotations and accessors inconsistently for ->numa_group, which can lead to use-after-frees and NULL dereferences. Let all accesses to ->numa_group use proper RCU helpers to prevent such issues. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Fixes: 8c8a743c5087 ("sched/numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716152047.14424-3-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-07-25sched/fair: Don't free p->numa_faults with concurrent readersJann Horn
When going through execve(), zero out the NUMA fault statistics instead of freeing them. During execve, the task is reachable through procfs and the scheduler. A concurrent /proc/*/sched reader can read data from a freed ->numa_faults allocation (confirmed by KASAN) and write it back to userspace. I believe that it would also be possible for a use-after-free read to occur through a race between a NUMA fault and execve(): task_numa_fault() can lead to task_numa_compare(), which invokes task_weight() on the currently running task of a different CPU. Another way to fix this would be to make ->numa_faults RCU-managed or add extra locking, but it seems easier to wipe the NUMA fault statistics on execve. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Fixes: 82727018b0d3 ("sched/numa: Call task_numa_free() from do_execve()") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716152047.14424-1-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-07-25driver core: Remove device link creation limitationRafael J. Wysocki
If device_link_add() is called for a consumer/supplier pair with an existing device link between them and the existing link's type is not in agreement with the flags passed to that function by its caller, NULL will be returned. That is seriously inconvenient, because it forces the callers of device_link_add() to worry about what others may or may not do even if that is not relevant to them for any other reasons. It turns out, however, that this limitation can be made go away relatively easily. The underlying observation is that if DL_FLAG_STATELESS has been passed to device_link_add() in flags for the given consumer/supplier pair at least once, calling either device_link_del() or device_link_remove() to release the link returned by it should work, but there are no other requirements associated with that flag. In turn, if at least one of the callers of device_link_add() for the given consumer/supplier pair has not passed DL_FLAG_STATELESS to it in flags, the driver core should track the status of the link and act on it as appropriate (ie. the link should be treated as "managed"). This means that DL_FLAG_STATELESS needs to be set for managed device links and it should be valid to call device_link_del() or device_link_remove() to drop references to them in certain sutiations. To allow that to happen, introduce a new (internal) device link flag called DL_FLAG_MANAGED and make device_link_add() set it automatically whenever DL_FLAG_STATELESS is not passed to it. Also make it take additional references to existing device links that were previously stateless (that is, with DL_FLAG_STATELESS set and DL_FLAG_MANAGED unset) and will need to be managed going forward and initialize their status (which has been DL_STATE_NONE so far). Accordingly, when a managed device link is dropped automatically by the driver core, make it clear DL_FLAG_MANAGED, reset the link's status back to DL_STATE_NONE and drop the reference to it associated with DL_FLAG_MANAGED instead of just deleting it right away (to allow it to stay around in case it still needs to be released explicitly by someone). With that, since setting DL_FLAG_STATELESS doesn't mean that the device link in question is not managed any more, replace all of the status-tracking checks against DL_FLAG_STATELESS with analogous checks against DL_FLAG_MANAGED and update the documentation to reflect these changes. While at it, make device_link_add() reject flags that it does not recognize, including DL_FLAG_MANAGED. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Review-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2305283.AStDPdUUnE@kreacher Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-25tty: serial: netx: Delete driverLinus Walleij
The Netx ARM machine was deleted from the kernel. This driver had no users and has to go. Cc: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190722065146.4844-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-25treewide: remove SPDX "WITH Linux-syscall-note" from kernel-space headers againMasahiro Yamada
The "WITH Linux-syscall-note" exception exists for headers exported to user space. It is strange to add it to non-exported headers. Commit 687a3e4d8e61 ("treewide: remove SPDX "WITH Linux-syscall-note" from kernel-space headers") did cleanups some months ago, but it looks like we need to do this periodically. This patch was generated by the following script: git grep -l -e Linux-syscall-note \ -- :*.h :^arch/*/include/uapi/asm/*.h :^include/uapi/ :^tools | while read file do sed -i -e 's/(\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\) WITH Linux-syscall-note)/\1/g' \ -e 's/ WITH Linux-syscall-note//g' $file done I did not commit drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h . This header is not currently exported, but somebody may plan to move it to include/uapi/ when the time comes. I am not sure. Anyway, it will be better to check the license inconsistency in drivers/staging/android/uapi/. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-25treewide: add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to SPDX tag of uapi headersMasahiro Yamada
UAPI headers licensed under GPL are supposed to have exception "WITH Linux-syscall-note" so that they can be included into non-GPL user space application code. The exception note is missing in some UAPI headers. Some of them slipped in by the treewide conversion commit b24413180f56 ("License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license"). Just run: $ git show --oneline b24413180f56 -- arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/ I believe they are not intentional, and should be fixed too. This patch was generated by the following script: git grep -l --not -e Linux-syscall-note --and -e SPDX-License-Identifier \ -- :arch/*/include/uapi/asm/*.h :include/uapi/ :^*/Kbuild | while read file do sed -i -e '/[[:space:]]OR[[:space:]]/s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/(\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note)/g' \ -e '/[[:space:]]or[[:space:]]/s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/(\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note)/g' \ -e '/[[:space:]]OR[[:space:]]/!{/[[:space:]]or[[:space:]]/!s/\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\)/\1 WITH Linux-syscall-note/g}' $file done After this patch is applied, there are 5 UAPI headers that do not contain "WITH Linux-syscall-note". They are kept untouched since this exception applies only to GPL variants. $ git grep --not -e Linux-syscall-note --and -e SPDX-License-Identifier \ -- :arch/*/include/uapi/asm/*.h :include/uapi/ :^*/Kbuild include/uapi/drm/panfrost_drm.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */ include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */ include/uapi/linux/qemu_fw_cfg.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause */ include/uapi/linux/vbox_err.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */ include/uapi/linux/virtio_iommu.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause */ Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-24access: avoid the RCU grace period for the temporary subjective credentialsLinus Torvalds
It turns out that 'access()' (and 'faccessat()') can cause a lot of RCU work because it installs a temporary credential that gets allocated and freed for each system call. The allocation and freeing overhead is mostly benign, but because credentials can be accessed under the RCU read lock, the freeing involves a RCU grace period. Which is not a huge deal normally, but if you have a lot of access() calls, this causes a fair amount of seconday damage: instead of having a nice alloc/free patterns that hits in hot per-CPU slab caches, you have all those delayed free's, and on big machines with hundreds of cores, the RCU overhead can end up being enormous. But it turns out that all of this is entirely unnecessary. Exactly because access() only installs the credential as the thread-local subjective credential, the temporary cred pointer doesn't actually need to be RCU free'd at all. Once we're done using it, we can just free it synchronously and avoid all the RCU overhead. So add a 'non_rcu' flag to 'struct cred', which can be set by users that know they only use it in non-RCU context (there are other potential users for this). We can make it a union with the rcu freeing list head that we need for the RCU case, so this doesn't need any extra storage. Note that this also makes 'get_current_cred()' clear the new non_rcu flag, in case we have filesystems that take a long-term reference to the cred and then expect the RCU delayed freeing afterwards. It's not entirely clear that this is required, but it makes for clear semantics: the subjective cred remains non-RCU as long as you only access it synchronously using the thread-local accessors, but you _can_ use it as a generic cred if you want to. It is possible that we should just remove the whole RCU markings for ->cred entirely. Only ->real_cred is really supposed to be accessed through RCU, and the long-term cred copies that nfs uses might want to explicitly re-enable RCU freeing if required, rather than have get_current_cred() do it implicitly. But this is a "minimal semantic changes" change for the immediate problem. Acked-by