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x86-urgent-2020-07-19
da05b143 · ·A pile of fixes for x86: - Fix the I/O bitmap invalidation on XEN PV, which was overlooked in the recent ioperm/iopl rework. This caused the TSS and XEN's I/O bitmap to get out of sync. - Use the proper vectors for HYPERV. - Make disabling of stack protector for the entry code work with GCC builds which enable stack protector by default. Removing the option is not sufficient, it needs an explicit -fno-stack-protector to shut it off. - Mark check_user_regs() noinstr as it is called from noinstr code. The missing annotation causes it to be placed in the text section which makes it instrumentable. - Add the missing interrupt disable in exc_alignment_check() - Fixup a XEN_PV build dependency in the 32bit entry code - A few fixes to make the Clang integrated assembler happy - Move EFI stub build to the right place for out of tree builds - Make prepare_exit_to_usermode() static. It's not longer called from ASM code.
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timers-urgent-2020-07-19
e2a71bde · ·Two fixes for the timer wheel: - A timer which is already expired at enqueue time can set the base->next_expiry value backwards. As a consequence base->clk can be set back as well. This can lead to timers expiring early. Add a sanity check to prevent this. - When a timer is queued with an expiry time beyond the wheel capacity then it should be queued in the bucket of the last wheel level which is expiring last. The code adjusts expiry time to the maximum wheel capacity, which is only correct when the wheel clock is 0. Aside of that the check whether the delta is larger than wheel capacity does not check the delta, it checks the expiry value itself. As a result timers can expire at random. Fix this by checking the right variable and adjust expiry time so it becomes base->clock plus capacity which places it into the outmost bucket in the last wheel level.
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sched-urgent-2020-07-19
01cfcde9 · ·A set of scheduler fixes: - Plug a load average accounting race which was introduced with a recent optimization casing load average to show bogus numbers. - Fix the rseq CPU id initialization for new tasks. sched_fork() does not update the rseq CPU id so the id is the stale id of the parent task, which can cause user space data corruption. - Handle a 0 return value of task_h_load() correctly in the load balancer, which does not decrease imbalance and therefore pulls until the maximum number of loops is reached, which might be all tasks just created by a fork bomb.
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irq-urgent-2020-07-19
baedb87d · ·Two fixes for the interrupt subsystem: - Make the handling of the firmware node consistent and do not free the node after the domain has been created successfully. The core code stores a pointer to it which can lead to a use after free or double free. This used to "work" because the pointer was not stored when the initial code was written, but at some point later it was required to store it. Of course nobody noticed that the existing users break that way. - Handle affinity setting on inactive interrupts correctly when hierarchical irq domains are enabled. When interrupts are inactive with the modern hierarchical irqdomain design, the interrupt chips are not necessarily in a state where affinity changes can be handled. The legacy irq chip design allowed this because interrupts are immediately fully initialized at allocation time. X86 has a hacky workaround for this, but other implementations do not. This cased malfunction on GIC-V3. Instead of playing whack a mole to find all affected drivers, change the core code to store the requested affinity setting and then establish it when the interrupt is allocated, which makes the X86 hack go away.
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pm-5.8-rc6
1740f21a · ·Power management fixes for 5.8-rc6 Add missing handling of a command line switch to the intel_pstate driver (Rafael Wysocki) and fix the freeing of the operating performance point (OPP) entries for the legacy (v1) OPP table type (Walter Lozano).
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wireless-drivers-2020-07-13
dc7bd30b · ·wireless-drivers fixes for v5.8 First set of fixes for v5.8. Various important fixes for iwlwifi and mt76. iwlwifi * fix sleeping under RCU * fix a kernel crash when using compressed firmware images mt76 * tx queueing fixes for mt7615/22/63 * locking fix * fix a crash during watchdog reset * fix memory leaks
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xfs-5.9-merge-4
c3f2375b · ·New code for 5.9: - Fix some btree block pingponging problems when swapping extents - Redesign the reflink copy loop so that we only run one remapping operation per transaction. This helps us avoid running out of block reservation on highly deduped filesystems. - Take the MMAPLOCK around filemap_map_pages. - Make inode reclaim fully async so that we avoid stalling processes on flushing inodes to disk. - Reduce inode cluster buffer RMW cycles by attaching the buffer to dirty inodes so we won't let go of the cluster buffer when we know we're going to need it soon. - Add some more checks to the realtime bitmap file scrubber. - Don't trip false lockdep warnings in fs freeze.
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