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  1. Sep 12, 2022
    • Valentin Schneider's avatar
      panic, kexec: make __crash_kexec() NMI safe · 05c62574
      Valentin Schneider authored
      Attempting to get a crash dump out of a debug PREEMPT_RT kernel via an NMI
      panic() doesn't work.  The cause of that lies in the PREEMPT_RT definition
      of mutex_trylock():
      
      	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES) && WARN_ON_ONCE(!in_task()))
      		return 0;
      
      This prevents an nmi_panic() from executing the main body of
      __crash_kexec() which does the actual kexec into the kdump kernel.  The
      warning and return are explained by:
      
        6ce47fd9 ("rtmutex: Warn if trylock is called from hard/softirq context")
        [...]
        The reasons for this are:
      
            1) There is a potential deadlock in the slowpath
      
            2) Another cpu which blocks on the rtmutex will boost the task
      	 which allegedly locked the rtmutex, but that cannot work
      	 because the hard/softirq context borrows the task context.
      
      Furthermore, grabbing the lock isn't NMI safe, so do away with kexec_mutex
      and replace it with an atomic variable.  This is somewhat overzealous as
      *some* callsites could keep using a mutex (e.g.  the sysfs-facing ones
      like crash_shrink_memory()), but this has the benefit of involving a
      single unified lock and preventing any future NMI-related surprises.
      
      Tested by triggering NMI panics via:
      
        $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_unrecovered_nmi
        $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unknown_nmi_panic
        $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic
      
        $ ipmitool power diag
      
      Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220630223258.4144112-3-vschneid@redhat.com
      
      
      Fixes: 6ce47fd9 ("rtmutex: Warn if trylock is called from hard/softirq context")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarValentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Juri Lelli <jlelli@redhat.com>
      Cc: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
      Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
      Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      05c62574
  2. Feb 22, 2021
  3. Jan 08, 2020
  4. Nov 02, 2017
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license · b2441318
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
      
      Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
      makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
      
      By default all files without license information are under the default
      license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
      
      Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
      SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
      shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
      
      This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
      Philippe Ombredanne.
      
      How this work was done:
      
      Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
      the use cases:
       - file had no licensing information it it.
       - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
       - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
      
      Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
      where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
      had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
      
      The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
      a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
      output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
      tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
      base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
      
      The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
      assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
      results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
      to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
      immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
      Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
       - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
       - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
         lines of source
       - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
         lines).
      
      All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
      
      The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
      identifiers to apply.
      
       - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
         considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
         COPYING file license applied.
      
         For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|-------
         GPL-2.0                                              11139
      
         and resulted in the first patch in this series.
      
         If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
         Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|-------
         GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930
      
         and resulted in the second patch in this series.
      
       - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
         of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
         any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
         it (per prior point).  Results summary:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|------
         GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
         GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
         LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
         GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
         ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
         LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
         LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1
      
         and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
      
       - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
         the concluded license(s).
      
       - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
         license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
         licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
      
       - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
         resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
         which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
      
       - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
         confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
       - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
         the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
         in time.
      
      In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
      spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
      source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
      by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
      Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
      FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
      disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
      Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
      they are related.
      
      Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
      for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
      files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
      in about 15000 files.
      
      In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
      copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
      correct identifier.
      
      Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
      inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
      version early this week with:
       - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
         license ids and scores
       - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
         files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
       - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
         was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
         SPDX license was correct
      
      This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
      worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
      different types of files to be modified.
      
      These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
      parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
      format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
      based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
      distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
      comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
      generate the patches.
      
      Reviewed-by: default avatarKate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      b2441318
  5. Jul 12, 2017
  6. Mar 10, 2017
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      kexec, x86/purgatory: Unbreak it and clean it up · 40c50c1f
      Thomas Gleixner authored
      
      The purgatory code defines global variables which are referenced via a
      symbol lookup in the kexec code (core and arch).
      
      A recent commit addressing sparse warnings made these static and thereby
      broke kexec_file.
      
      Why did this happen? Simply because the whole machinery is undocumented and
      lacks any form of forward declarations. The variable names are unspecific
      and lack a prefix, so adding forward declarations creates shadow variables
      in the core code. Aside of that the code relies on magic constants and
      duplicate struct definitions with no way to ensure that these things stay
      in sync. The section placement of the purgatory variables happened by
      chance and not by design.
      
      Unbreak kexec and cleanup the mess:
      
       - Add proper forward declarations and document the usage
       - Use common struct definition
       - Use the proper common defines instead of magic constants
       - Add a purgatory_ prefix to have a proper name space
       - Use ARRAY_SIZE() instead of a homebrewn reimplementation
       - Add proper sections to the purgatory variables [ From Mike ]
      
      Fixes: 72042a8c ("x86/purgatory: Make functions and variables static")
      Reported-by: default avatarMike Galbraith <&lt;efault@gmx.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1703101315140.3681@nanos
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      40c50c1f
  7. Nov 30, 2016
  8. Jan 21, 2016
  9. Sep 10, 2015
    • Dave Young's avatar
      kexec: split kexec_file syscall code to kexec_file.c · a43cac0d
      Dave Young authored
      
      Split kexec_file syscall related code to another file kernel/kexec_file.c
      so that the #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE in kexec.c can be dropped.
      
      Sharing variables and functions are moved to kernel/kexec_internal.h per
      suggestion from Vivek and Petr.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix bisectability]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: declare the various arch_kexec functions]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
      Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
      Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a43cac0d
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