For each inode in the IMA policy, an iint is allocated. To support
larger hash digests, the iint digest size changed from 20 bytes to
the maximum supported hash digest size. Instead of allocating the
maximum size, which most likely is not needed, this patch dynamically
allocates the needed hash storage.
Changelog:
- fix krealloc bug
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
For possibility to use xattr type for new signature formats,
pass full xattr to the signature verification function.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
All files on the filesystem, currently, are hashed using the same hash
algorithm. In preparation for files from different packages being
signed using different hash algorithms, this patch adds support for
reading the signature hash algorithm from the 'security.ima' extended
attribute and calculates the appropriate file data hash based on it.
Changelog:
- fix scripts Lindent and checkpatch msgs - Mimi
- fix md5 support for older version, which occupied 20 bytes in the
xattr, not the expected 16 bytes. Fix the comparison to compare
only the first 16 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
In preparation of supporting more hash algorithms with larger hash sizes
needed for signature verification, this patch replaces the 20 byte sized
digest, with a more flexible structure. The new structure includes the
hash algorithm, digest size, and digest.
Changelog:
- recalculate filedata hash for the measurement list, if the signature
hash digest size is greater than 20 bytes.
- use generic HASH_ALGO_
- make ima_calc_file_hash static
- scripts lindent and checkpatch fixes
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The newly added power capping framework uses the obsolete .dev_attrs
field of struct class. However this field will be removed in 3.13, so
convert the code to use the .dev_groups field instead.
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
This patch makes use of the newly defined common hash algorithm info,
replacing, for example, PKEY_HASH with HASH_ALGO.
Changelog:
- Lindent fixes - Mimi
CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch provides a single place for information about hash algorithms,
such as hash sizes and kernel driver names, which will be used by IMA
and the public key code.
Changelog:
- Fix sparse and checkpatch warnings
- Move hash algo enums to uapi for userspace signing functions.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Currently, the prototype of cpufreq_drivers target routines is:
int target(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, unsigned int target_freq,
unsigned int relation);
And most of the drivers call cpufreq_frequency_table_target() to get a valid
index of their frequency table which is closest to the target_freq. And they
don't use target_freq and relation after that.
So, it makes sense to just do this work in cpufreq core before calling
cpufreq_frequency_table_target() and simply pass index instead. But this can be
done only with drivers which expose their frequency table with cpufreq core. For
others we need to stick with the old prototype of target() until those drivers
are converted to expose frequency tables.
This patch implements the new light weight prototype for target_index() routine.
It looks like this:
int target_index(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, unsigned int index);
CPUFreq core will call cpufreq_frequency_table_target() before calling this
routine and pass index to it. Because CPUFreq core now requires to call routines
present in freq_table.c CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE must be enabled all the time.
This also marks target() interface as deprecated. So, that new drivers avoid
using it. And Documentation is updated accordingly.
It also converts existing .target() to newly defined light weight
.target_index() routine for many driver.
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Since Operating Performance Points (OPP) functions are specific
to device specific power management, be specific and rename opp.h
to pm_opp.h
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Since Operating Performance Points (OPP) data structures are specific
to device specific power management, be specific and rename opp_* data
structures in OPP library with dev_pm_opp_* equivalent.
Affected structures are:
struct opp
enum opp_event
Minor checkpatch warning resulting of this change was fixed as well.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Since Operating Performance Points (OPP) functions are specific to
device specific power management, be specific and rename opp_*
accessors in OPP library with dev_pm_opp_* equivalent.
Affected functions are:
opp_get_voltage
opp_get_freq
opp_get_opp_count
opp_find_freq_exact
opp_find_freq_floor
opp_find_freq_ceil
opp_add
opp_enable
opp_disable
opp_get_notifier
opp_init_cpufreq_table
opp_free_cpufreq_table
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
regmap_register_patch fails without the MAX_REGISTER set to highest
register written to. Increase to register 0x47
Signed-off-by: Brian Austin <brian.austin@cirrus.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
... to make the meaning more obvious.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Woodhouse:
* Revert pxa3xx to its old name to avoid breaking existing 'mtdparts=' boot
strings.
* Return GPMI NAND to its legacy ECC layout for backwards compatibility. We
will revisit this in 3.13.
A note from David on the latter fix: "This leaves a harmless cosmetic warning
about an unused function. At this point in the cycle I really don't care."
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Merge tag 'for-linus-20131025' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd
Pull final mtd fixes from Brian Norris:
"A few more last-minute regression fixes, prepared jointly by me and
David Woodhouse:
- Revert pxa3xx to its old name to avoid breaking existing
'mtdparts=' boot strings.
- Return GPMI NAND to its legacy ECC layout for backwards
compatibility. We will revisit this in 3.13.
A note from David on the latter fix: 'This leaves a harmless cosmetic
warning about an unused function. At this point in the cycle I really
don't care.'"
* tag 'for-linus-20131025' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd:
mtd: gpmi: fix ECC regression
mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Fix registered MTD name
This patch addresses a long-standing bug where the get_user_pages_fast()
write parameter used for setting the underlying page table entry permission
bits was incorrectly set to write=1 for data_direction=DMA_TO_DEVICE, and
passed into get_user_pages_fast() via vhost_scsi_map_iov_to_sgl().
However, this parameter is intended to signal WRITEs to pinned userspace
PTEs for the virtio-scsi DMA_FROM_DEVICE -> READ payload case, and *not*
for the virtio-scsi DMA_TO_DEVICE -> WRITE payload case.
This bug would manifest itself as random process segmentation faults on
KVM host after repeated vhost starts + stops and/or with lots of vhost
endpoints + LUNs.
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.6+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
In case of error, the function scsi_host_lookup() returns NULL
pointer not ERR_PTR(). The IS_ERR() test in the return value check
should be replaced with NULL test.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This reverts commit 4c2c392763.
Everything in the initramfs should be measured and appraised,
but until the initramfs has extended attribute support, at
least measured.
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
This patch moves the handling of the chip's enable pin from the board
code into the driver. It also updates all board-code files using the
driver to incorporate this change.
This is needed for device tree support of the enable pin.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@debian.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
now the leds-gpio driver will create every child led node without
checking the status is disabled or not.
for example, if we have a led node like d3, and its status is disabled:
leds {
d3 {
label = "d3";
gpios = <&pioE 24 0>;
status = "disabled";
};
};
we except the d3 should not be created. And the gpios should not be
request as well.
But current driver will create d3 and request its gpio.
This patch fix this by using for_each_available_child_of_node() and
of_get_available_child_count() to enumerate all child nodes. So the
disabled node will be inavailable.
Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
Some drivers keep counting available child by themselves. So
introduce a new simple API like of_get_child_count() but for
available childs.
Cc: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
The "legacy" ECC layout used until 3.12-rc1 uses all the OOB area by
computing the ECC strength and ECC step size ourselves.
Commit 2febcdf84b ("mtd: gpmi: set the BCHs geometry with the ecc info")
makes the driver use the ECC info (ECC strength and ECC step size)
provided by the MTD code, and creates a different NAND ECC layout
for the BCH, and use the new ECC layout. This causes a regression:
We can not mount the ubifs which was created by the old NAND ECC layout.
This patch fixes this issue by reverting to the legacy ECC layout.
We will probably introduce a new device-tree property to indicate that
the new ECC layout can be used. For now though, for the imminent 3.12
release, we just unconditionally revert to the 3.11 behaviour.
This leaves a harmless cosmetic warning about an unused function. At
this point in the cycle I really don't care.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Tested-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
This patch adds a print message at bootup for the CODEC Rev ID
Signed-off-by: Brian Austin <brian.austin@cirrus.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Moving platform data to bus probe and convert to regmap_update_bits.
This will work nicer when converted to device tree instead of having it
split into multiple probes
Signed-off-by: Brian Austin <brian.austin@cirrus.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
This patch adds platform data support for a reset GPIO.
Also uses reset_gpio to toggle reset of the CODEC
Signed-off-by: Brian Austin <brian.austin@cirrus.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
This patch fixes ARMV8_EVTYPE_* macros since evtCount (event number)
field width is 10bits in event selection register.
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Kale <vkale@apm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This patch wires up CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN for the AArch64 kernel
configuration.
Selecting this option builds a big-endian kernel which can boot into a
big-endian userspace.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
The owner and next members of the arch_spinlock_t structure need to be
swapped when compiling for big endian.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Currently when CPUs are brought online via a spin-table, the address
they should jump to is written to the cpu-release-addr in the kernel's
native endianness. As the kernel may switch endianness, secondaries
might read the value byte-reversed from what was intended, and they
would jump to the wrong address.
As the only current arm64 spin-table implementations are
little-endian, stricten up the arm64 spin-table definition such that
the value written to cpu-release-addr is _always_ little-endian
regardless of the endianness of any CPU. If a spinning CPU is
operating big-endian, it must byte-reverse the value before jumping to
handle this.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
The endianness of memory accesses at EL2 and EL1 are configured by
SCTLR_EL2.EE and SCTLR_EL1.EE respectively. When the kernel is booted,
the state of SCTLR_EL{2,1}.EE is unknown, and thus the kernel must
ensure that they are set before performing any memory accesses.
This patch ensures that SCTLR_EL{2,1} are configured appropriately at
boot for kernels of either endianness.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach@arm.com>
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: fix SCTLR_EL1.E0E bit setting in head.S]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Currently, the code for setting the __cpu_boot_mode flag is munged in
with el2_setup. This makes things difficult on a BE bringup as a
memory access has to have occurred before el2_setup which is the place
that we'd like to set the endianess on the current EL.
Create a new function for setting __cpu_boot_mode and have el2_setup
return the mode the CPU. Also define a new constant in virt.h,
BOOT_CPU_MODE_EL1, for readability.
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Add CPU_LE and CPU_BE to select assembler code in little and big
endian configurations respectively.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Currently the sigreturn compat code is copied to an offset in the
vectors table. When using a BE kernel this data will be stored in the
wrong endianess so when returning from a signal on a 32-bit BE system,
arbitrary code will be executed.
Instead of declaring the code inside a struct and copying that, use
the assembler's .byte directives to store the code in the correct
endianess regardless of platform endianess.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
The arm64 port contains wrappers for arm32 syscalls that pass 64-bit
values. These wrappers concatenate the two registers to hold a 64-bit
value in a single X register. On BE, however, the lower and higher
words are swapped.
Create a new assembler macro, regs_to_64, that when on BE systems
swaps the registers in the orr instruction.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This patch adds support for BE8 AArch32 tasks to the compat layer.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
uname -m reports the machine field from the current utsname, which should
reflect the endianness of the system.
This patch reports ELF_PLATFORM for the field, so that everything appears
consistent from userspace.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This patch adds support for the aarch64_be ELF format to the AArch64 ELF
loader.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
For big-endian processors, we must include
linux/byteorder/big_endian.h to get the relevant definitions for
swabbing between CPU order and a defined endianness.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This patch adds big-endian support to the AArch64 top-level Makefile.
This currently just passes the relevant flags to the toolchain and is
predicated on a Kconfig option that will be introduced later on.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This issue was first pointed out by Jiaxing Wang several months ago, but no
further comments:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/29/41
As we know pread() does not change f_pos, so after pread(), file->f_pos
and m->read_pos become different. And seq_lseek() does not update file->f_pos
if offset equals to m->read_pos, so after pread() and seq_lseek()(lseek to
m->read_pos), then a subsequent read may read from a wrong position, the
following program produces the problem:
char str1[32] = { 0 };
char str2[32] = { 0 };
int poffset = 10;
int count = 20;
/*open any seq file*/
int fd = open("/proc/modules", O_RDONLY);
pread(fd, str1, count, poffset);
printf("pread:%s\n", str1);
/*seek to where m->read_pos is*/
lseek(fd, poffset+count, SEEK_SET);
/*supposed to read from poffset+count, but this read from position 0*/
read(fd, str2, count);
printf("read:%s\n", str2);
out put:
pread:
ck_netbios_ns 12665
read:
nf_conntrack_netbios
/proc/modules:
nf_conntrack_netbios_ns 12665 0 - Live 0xffffffffa038b000
nf_conntrack_broadcast 12589 1 nf_conntrack_netbios_ns, Live 0xffffffffa0386000
So we always update file->f_pos to offset in seq_lseek() to fix this issue.
Signed-off-by: Jiaxing Wang <hello.wjx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Make acpi_cpufreq_init() return error codes when the driver cannot be
registered so that the module doesn't stay useless in memory and so
that acpi_cpufreq_exit() doesn't attempt to unregister things that
have never been registered when the module is unloaded.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Add a helper to iterate over all hw queues and stop them. This is useful
for driver that implement PM suspend functionality.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Modified to just call blk_mq_stop_hw_queue() by Jens.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
If a command abort fails there is a fair chance that all other
aborts will be failing, too.
So we should be calling LUN reset directly after the first failed
abort and skip aborting the remaining commands.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
This patchs adds an 'eh_deadline' sysfs attribute to the scsi
host which limits the overall runtime of the SCSI EH.
The 'eh_deadline' value is stored in the now obsolete field
'resetting'.
When a command is failed the start time of the EH is stored
in 'last_reset'. If the overall runtime of the SCSI EH is longer
than last_reset + eh_deadline, the EH is short-circuited and
falls through to issue a host reset only.
[jejb: add comments in Scsi_Host about new fields]
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Field is now unused, so this is dead code.
[jejb: remove resetting and last_reset from Scsi_Host]
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
A driver that simply completes IO it receives, it does no
transfers. Written to fascilitate testing of the blk-mq code.
It supports various module options to use either bio queueing,
rq queueing, or mq mode.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux currently has two models for block devices:
- The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct
request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper
functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag
management, timeout handling, queueing, etc.
- The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the
block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack,
driver generally have to manage everything themselves.
With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic
request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates
back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with
scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on
smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands
per device.
The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model
for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent
everything, and along with that we get all the problems again
that the shared approach solved.
This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The
design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which
then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues.
We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be
an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports.
blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include:
- Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to
be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and
to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed
tags, to enable cache hot reuse.
- Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device
basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification,
if a request happens to fail.
- Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and
submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the
desired location.
- Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need
to associate a request structure with some driver private
command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time,
and then any request handed to the driver will have the
required size of memory associated with it.
- Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model
gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging
sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus
increases bandwidth.
For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with
the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic
and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real
model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md
devices (as it was originally intended).
Contributions in this patch from the following people:
Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me>
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add an API to return free tags, blk-mq-tag will use it.
Note, this just returns a snapshot of free tags number. blk-mq-tag has
two usages of it. One is for info output for diagnosis. The other is to
quickly check if there are free tags for request dispatch checking.
Neither requires very precise.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
