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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the large set of char/misc/whatever driver subsystem updates
for 5.12-rc1. Over time it seems like this tree is collecting more and
more tiny driver subsystems in one place, making it easier for those
maintainers, which is why this is getting larger.
Included in here are:
- coresight driver updates
- habannalabs driver updates
- virtual acrn driver addition (proper acks from the x86 maintainers)
- broadcom misc driver addition
- speakup driver updates
- soundwire driver updates
- fpga driver updates
- amba driver updates
- mei driver updates
- vfio driver updates
- greybus driver updates
- nvmeem driver updates
- phy driver updates
- mhi driver updates
- interconnect driver udpates
- fsl-mc bus driver updates
- random driver fix
- some small misc driver updates (rtsx, pvpanic, etc.)
All of these have been in linux-next for a while, with the only
reported issue being a merge conflict due to the dfl_device_id
addition from the fpga subsystem in here"
* tag 'char-misc-5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (311 commits)
spmi: spmi-pmic-arb: Fix hw_irq overflow
Documentation: coresight: Add PID tracing description
coresight: etm-perf: Support PID tracing for kernel at EL2
coresight: etm-perf: Clarify comment on perf options
ACRN: update MAINTAINERS: mailing list is subscribers-only
regmap: sdw-mbq: use MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
regmap: sdw: use no_pm routines for SoundWire 1.2 MBQ
regmap: sdw: use _no_pm functions in regmap_read/write
soundwire: intel: fix possible crash when no device is detected
MAINTAINERS: replace my with email with replacements
mhi: Fix double dma free
uapi: map_to_7segment: Update example in documentation
uio: uio_pci_generic: don't fail probe if pdev->irq equals to IRQ_NOTCONNECTED
drivers/misc/vmw_vmci: restrict too big queue size in qp_host_alloc_queue
firewire: replace tricky statement by two simple ones
vme: make remove callback return void
firmware: google: make coreboot driver's remove callback return void
firmware: xilinx: Use explicit values for all enum values
sample/acrn: Introduce a sample of HSM ioctl interface usage
virt: acrn: Introduce an interface for Service VM to control vCPU
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm
Pull initial support for CXL (Compute Express Link) from Dan Williams:
"Introduce an initial driver for CXL 2.0 Type-3 Memory Devices.
CXL is Compute Express Link which released the 2.0 specification in
November. The Linux relevant changes in CXL 2.0 are support for an OS
to dynamically assign address space to memory devices, support for
switches, persistent memory, and hotplug.
A Type-3 Memory Device is a PCI enumerated device presenting the CXL
Memory Device Class Code and implementing the CXL.mem protocol.
CXL.mem allows device to advertise CPU and I/O coherent memory to the
system, i.e. typical "System RAM" and "Persistent Memory" in Linux
/proc/iomem terms.
In addition to the CXL.mem fast path there is an administrative
command hardware mailbox interface for maintenance and provisioning.
It is this command interface that is the focus of the initial driver.
With this driver a CXL device that is mapped by the BIOS can be
administered by Linux.
Linux support for CXL PMEM and dynamic CXL address space management
are to be implemented post v5.12"
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
4cdadfd5e0a7 ("cxl/mem: Introduce a driver for CXL-2.0-Type-3 endpoints")
13237183c735 ("cxl/mem: Add a "RAW" send command")
472b1ce6e9d6 ("cxl/mem: Enable commands via CEL")
57ee605b976c ("cxl/mem: Add set of informational commands")
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
8adaf747c9f0 ("cxl/mem: Find device capabilities")
b39cb1052a5c ("cxl/mem: Register CXL memX devices")
* tag 'cxl-for-5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
cxl/mem: Fix potential memory leak
cxl/mem: Return -EFAULT if copy_to_user() fails
MAINTAINERS: Add maintainers of the CXL driver
cxl/mem: Add set of informational commands
cxl/mem: Enable commands via CEL
cxl/mem: Add a "RAW" send command
cxl/mem: Add basic IOCTL interface
cxl/mem: Register CXL memX devices
cxl/mem: Find device capabilities
cxl/mem: Introduce a driver for CXL-2.0-Type-3 endpoints
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Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"This series consists of the usual driver updates (ufs, ibmvfc,
qla2xxx, hisi_sas, pm80xx) plus the removal of the gdth driver (which
is bound to cause conflicts with a trivial change somewhere).
The only big major rework of note is the one from Hannes trying to
clean up our result handling code in the drivers to make it
consistent"
* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (194 commits)
scsi: MAINTAINERS: Adjust to reflect gdth scsi driver removal
scsi: ufs: Give clk scaling min gear a value
scsi: lpfc: Fix 'physical' typos
scsi: megaraid_mbox: Fix spelling of 'allocated'
scsi: qla2xxx: Simplify the calculation of variables
scsi: message: fusion: Fix 'physical' typos
scsi: target: core: Change ASCQ for residual write
scsi: target: core: Signal WRITE residuals
scsi: target: core: Set residuals for 4Kn devices
scsi: hisi_sas: Add trace FIFO debugfs support
scsi: hisi_sas: Flush workqueue in hisi_sas_v3_remove()
scsi: hisi_sas: Enable debugfs support by default
scsi: hisi_sas: Don't check .nr_hw_queues in hisi_sas_task_prep()
scsi: hisi_sas: Remove deferred probe check in hisi_sas_v2_probe()
scsi: lpfc: Add auto select on IRQ_POLL
scsi: ncr53c8xx: Fix typos
scsi: lpfc: Fix ancient double free
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix some memory corruption
scsi: qla2xxx: Remove redundant NULL check
scsi: megaraid: Fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings
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Add a straightforward IOCTL that provides a mechanism for userspace to
query the supported memory device commands. CXL commands as they appear
to userspace are described as part of the UAPI kerneldoc. The command
list returned via this IOCTL will contain the full set of commands that
the driver supports, however, some of those commands may not be
available for use by userspace.
Memory device commands first appear in the CXL 2.0 specification. They
are submitted through a mailbox mechanism specified in the CXL 2.0
specification.
The send command allows userspace to issue mailbox commands directly to
the hardware. The list of available commands to send are the output of
the query command. The driver verifies basic properties of the command
and possibly inspect the input (or output) payload to determine whether
or not the command is allowed (or might taint the kernel).
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> # bug in earlier revision
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> (v2)
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210217040958.1354670-5-ben.widawsky@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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The VM management interfaces expose several VM operations to ACRN
userspace via ioctls. For example, creating VM, starting VM, destroying
VM and so on.
The ACRN Hypervisor needs to exchange data with the ACRN userspace
during the VM operations. HSM provides VM operation ioctls to the ACRN
userspace and communicates with the ACRN Hypervisor for VM operations
via hypercalls.
HSM maintains a list of User VM. Each User VM will be bound to an
existing file descriptor of /dev/acrn_hsm. The User VM will be
destroyed when the file descriptor is closed.
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yu Wang <yu1.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuo Liu <shuo.a.liu@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210207031040.49576-7-shuo.a.liu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Adding userspace support for the MC (Management Complex) means exporting
an ioctl capable device file representing the root resource container.
This new functionality in the fsl-mc bus driver intends to provide
userspace applications an interface to interact with the MC firmware.
Commands that are composed in userspace are sent to the MC firmware
through the FSL_MC_SEND_MC_COMMAND ioctl. By default the implicit MC
I/O portal is used for this operation, but if the implicit one is busy,
a dynamic portal is allocated and then freed upon execution.
The command received through the ioctl interface is checked against a
known whitelist of accepted MC commands. Commands that attempt a change
in hardware configuration will need CAP_NET_ADMIN, while commands used
in debugging do not need it.
Acked-by: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210114170752.2927915-4-ciorneiioana@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The gdth driver refers to a SCSI parallel, PCI-only HBA RAID adapter which
was manufactured by the now-defunct ICP Vortex company, later acquired by
Adaptec and superseded by the aacraid series of controllers. The driver
itself would require a major overhaul before any modifications can be
attempted, but seeing that it's unlikely to have any users left it should
rather be removed completely.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210113090500.129644-2-hare@suse.de
Cautiously-Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Add a misc-device providing user-space access to the Surface Aggregator
EC, mainly intended for debugging, testing, and reverse-engineering.
This interface gives user-space applications the ability to send
requests to the EC and receive the corresponding responses.
The device-file is managed by a pseudo platform-device and corresponding
driver to avoid dependence on the dedicated bus, allowing it to be
loaded in a minimal configuration.
A python library and scripts to access this device can be found at [1].
[1]: https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-aggregator-module/tree/master/scripts/ssam
Signed-off-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201221183959.1186143-9-luzmaximilian@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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Add an ioctl() that performs the ECREATE function of the ENCLS
instruction, which creates an SGX Enclave Control Structure (SECS).
Although the SECS is an in-memory data structure, it is present in
enclave memory and is not directly accessible by software.
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Jethro Beekman <jethro@fortanix.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201112220135.165028-13-jarkko@kernel.org
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Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
"Not a major amount of change, the i915 trees got split into display
and gt trees to better facilitate higher level review, and there's a
major refactoring of i915 GEM locking to use more core kernel concepts
(like ww-mutexes). msm gets per-process pagetables, older AMD SI cards
get DC support, nouveau got a bump in displayport support with common
code extraction from i915.
Outside of drm this contains a couple of patches for hexint
moduleparams which you've acked, and a virtio common code tree that
you should also get via it's regular path.
New driver:
- Cadence MHDP8546 DisplayPort bridge driver
core:
- cross-driver scatterlist cleanups
- devm_drm conversions
- remove drm_dev_init
- devm_drm_dev_alloc conversion
ttm:
- lots of refactoring and cleanups
bridges:
- chained bridge support in more drivers
panel:
- misc new panels
scheduler:
- cleanup priority levels
displayport:
- refactor i915 code into helpers for nouveau
i915:
- split into display and GT trees
- WW locking refactoring in GEM
- execbuf2 extension mechanism
- syncobj timeline support
- GEN 12 HOBL display powersaving
- Rocket Lake display additions
- Disable FBC on Tigerlake
- Tigerlake Type-C + DP improvements
- Hotplug interrupt refactoring
amdgpu:
- Sienna Cichlid updates
- Navy Flounder updates
- DCE6 (SI) support for DC
- Plane rotation enabled
- TMZ state info ioctl
- PCIe DPC recovery support
- DC interrupt handling refactor
- OLED panel fixes
amdkfd:
- add SMI events for thermal throttling
- SMI interface events ioctl update
- process eviction counters
radeon:
- move to dma_ for allocations
- expose sclk via sysfs
msm:
- DSI support for sm8150/sm8250
- per-process GPU pagetable support
- Displayport support
mediatek:
- move HDMI phy driver to PHY
- convert mtk-dpi to bridge API
- disable mt2701 tmds
tegra:
- bridge support
exynos:
- misc cleanups
vc4:
- dual display cleanups
ast:
- cleanups
gma500:
- conversion to GPIOd API
hisilicon:
- misc reworks
ingenic:
- clock handling and format improvements
mcde:
- DSI support
mgag200:
- desktop g200 support
mxsfb:
- i.MX7 + i.MX8M
- alpha plane support
panfrost:
- devfreq support
- amlogic SoC support
ps8640:
- EDID from eDP retrieval
tidss:
- AM65xx YUV workaround
virtio:
- virtio-gpu exported resources
rcar-du:
- R8A7742, R8A774E1 and R8A77961 support
- YUV planar format fixes
- non-visible plane handling
- VSP device reference count fix
- Kconfig fix to avoid displaying disabled options in .config"
* tag 'drm-next-2020-10-15' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm: (1494 commits)
drm/ingenic: Fix bad revert
drm/amdgpu: Fix invalid number of character '{' in amdgpu_acpi_init
drm/amdgpu: Remove warning for virtual_display
drm/amdgpu: kfd_initialized can be static
drm/amd/pm: setup APU dpm clock table in SMU HW initialization
drm/amdgpu: prevent spurious warning
drm/amdgpu/swsmu: fix ARC build errors
drm/amd/display: Fix OPTC_DATA_FORMAT programming
drm/amd/display: Don't allow pstate if no support in blank
drm/panfrost: increase readl_relaxed_poll_timeout values
MAINTAINERS: Update entry for st7703 driver after the rename
Revert "gpu/drm: ingenic: Add option to mmap GEM buffers cached"
drm/amd/display: HDMI remote sink need mode validation for Linux
drm/amd/display: Change to correct unit on audio rate
drm/amd/display: Avoid set zero in the requested clk
drm/amdgpu: align frag_end to covered address space
drm/amdgpu: fix NULL pointer dereference for Renoir
drm/vmwgfx: fix regression in thp code due to ttm init refactor.
drm/amdgpu/swsmu: add interrupt work handler for smu11 parts
drm/amdgpu/swsmu: add interrupt work function
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of char, misc, and other assorted driver subsystem
patches for 5.10-rc1.
There's a lot of different things in here, all over the drivers/
directory. Some summaries:
- soundwire driver updates
- habanalabs driver updates
- extcon driver updates
- nitro_enclaves new driver
- fsl-mc driver and core updates
- mhi core and bus updates
- nvmem driver updates
- eeprom driver updates
- binder driver updates and fixes
- vbox minor bugfixes
- fsi driver updates
- w1 driver updates
- coresight driver updates
- interconnect driver updates
- misc driver updates
- other minor driver updates
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-5.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (396 commits)
binder: fix UAF when releasing todo list
docs: w1: w1_therm: Fix broken xref, mistakes, clarify text
misc: Kconfig: fix a HISI_HIKEY_USB dependency
LSM: Fix type of id parameter in kernel_post_load_data prototype
misc: Kconfig: add a new dependency for HISI_HIKEY_USB
firmware_loader: fix a kernel-doc markup
w1: w1_therm: make w1_poll_completion static
binder: simplify the return expression of binder_mmap
test_firmware: Test partial read support
firmware: Add request_partial_firmware_into_buf()
firmware: Store opt_flags in fw_priv
fs/kernel_file_read: Add "offset" arg for partial reads
IMA: Add support for file reads without contents
LSM: Add "contents" flag to kernel_read_file hook
module: Call security_kernel_post_load_data()
firmware_loader: Use security_post_load_data()
LSM: Introduce kernel_post_load_data() hook
fs/kernel_read_file: Add file_size output argument
fs/kernel_read_file: Switch buffer size arg to size_t
fs/kernel_read_file: Remove redundant size argument
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bd_contains is an implementation detail and should not be mentioned in
a userspace API documentation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The Nitro Enclaves driver handles the enclave lifetime management. This
includes enclave creation, termination and setting up its resources such
as memory and CPU.
An enclave runs alongside the VM that spawned it. It is abstracted as a
process running in the VM that launched it. The process interacts with
the NE driver, that exposes an ioctl interface for creating an enclave
and setting up its resources.
Changelog
v9 -> v10
* Update commit message to include the changelog before the SoB tag(s).
v8 -> v9
* No changes.
v7 -> v8
* Add NE custom error codes for user space memory regions not backed by
pages multiple of 2 MiB, invalid flags and enclave CID.
* Add max flag value for enclave image load info.
v6 -> v7
* Clarify in the ioctls documentation that the return value is -1 and
errno is set on failure.
* Update the error code value for NE_ERR_INVALID_MEM_REGION_SIZE as it
gets in user space as value 25 (ENOTTY) instead of 515. Update the
NE custom error codes values range to not be the same as the ones
defined in include/linux/errno.h, although these are not propagated
to user space.
v5 -> v6
* Fix typo in the description about the NE CPU pool.
* Update documentation to kernel-doc format.
* Remove the ioctl to query API version.
v4 -> v5
* Add more details about the ioctl calls usage e.g. error codes, file
descriptors used.
* Update the ioctl to set an enclave vCPU to not return a file
descriptor.
* Add specific NE error codes.
v3 -> v4
* Decouple NE ioctl interface from KVM API.
* Add NE API version and the corresponding ioctl call.
* Add enclave / image load flags options.
v2 -> v3
* Remove the GPL additional wording as SPDX-License-Identifier is
already in place.
v1 -> v2
* Add ioctl for getting enclave image load metadata.
* Update NE_ENCLAVE_START ioctl name to NE_START_ENCLAVE.
* Add entry in Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst for NE
ioctls.
* Update NE ioctls definition based on the updated ioctl range for major
and minor.
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Vasile <lexnv@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Andra Paraschiv <andraprs@amazon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200921121732.44291-2-andraprs@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The only in-tree user for mbx driver for Intel 2700G graphics chip was
cm-x270 platform. Since this platform was removed by the commit
9d3239147d6d ("ARM: pxa: remove Compulab pxa2xx boards") there is no
point to keep the obsolete framebuffer driver.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200830115524.431278-1-rppt@kernel.org
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Add the character device interface into remoteproc framework.
This interface can be used in order to boot/shutdown remote
subsystems and provides a basic ioctl based interface to implement
supplementary functionality. An ioctl call is implemented to enable
the shutdown on release feature which will allow remote processors to
be shutdown when the controlling userspace application crashes or hangs.
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rishabh Bhatnagar <rishabhb@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Gupta <sidgup@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1596044401-22083-2-git-send-email-sidgup@codeaurora.org
[bjorn: s/int32_t/s32/ per checkpatch]
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs
Pull notification queue from David Howells:
"This adds a general notification queue concept and adds an event
source for keys/keyrings, such as linking and unlinking keys and
changing their attributes.
Thanks to Debarshi Ray, we do have a pull request to use this to fix a
problem with gnome-online-accounts - as mentioned last time:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-online-accounts/merge_requests/47
Without this, g-o-a has to constantly poll a keyring-based kerberos
cache to find out if kinit has changed anything.
[ There are other notification pending: mount/sb fsinfo notifications
for libmount that Karel Zak and Ian Kent have been working on, and
Christian Brauner would like to use them in lxc, but let's see how
this one works first ]
LSM hooks are included:
- A set of hooks are provided that allow an LSM to rule on whether or
not a watch may be set. Each of these hooks takes a different
"watched object" parameter, so they're not really shareable. The
LSM should use current's credentials. [Wanted by SELinux & Smack]
- A hook is provided to allow an LSM to rule on whether or not a
particular message may be posted to a particular queue. This is
given the credentials from the event generator (which may be the
system) and the watch setter. [Wanted by Smack]
I've provided SELinux and Smack with implementations of some of these
hooks.
WHY
===
Key/keyring notifications are desirable because if you have your
kerberos tickets in a file/directory, your Gnome desktop will monitor
that using something like fanotify and tell you if your credentials
cache changes.
However, we also have the ability to cache your kerberos tickets in
the session, user or persistent keyring so that it isn't left around
on disk across a reboot or logout. Keyrings, however, cannot currently
be monitored asynchronously, so the desktop has to poll for it - not
so good on a laptop. This facility will allow the desktop to avoid the
need to poll.
DESIGN DECISIONS
================
- The notification queue is built on top of a standard pipe. Messages
are effectively spliced in. The pipe is opened with a special flag:
pipe2(fds, O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE);
The special flag has the same value as O_EXCL (which doesn't seem
like it will ever be applicable in this context)[?]. It is given up
front to make it a lot easier to prohibit splice&co from accessing
the pipe.
[?] Should this be done some other way? I'd rather not use up a new
O_* flag if I can avoid it - should I add a pipe3() system call
instead?
The pipe is then configured::
ioctl(fds[1], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE, queue_depth);
ioctl(fds[1], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_FILTER, &filter);
Messages are then read out of the pipe using read().
- It should be possible to allow write() to insert data into the
notification pipes too, but this is currently disabled as the
kernel has to be able to insert messages into the pipe *without*
holding pipe->mutex and the code to make this work needs careful
auditing.
- sendfile(), splice() and vmsplice() are disabled on notification
pipes because of the pipe->mutex issue and also because they
sometimes want to revert what they just did - but one or more
notification messages might've been interleaved in the ring.
- The kernel inserts messages with the wait queue spinlock held. This
means that pipe_read() and pipe_write() have to take the spinlock
to update the queue pointers.
- Records in the buffer are binary, typed and have a length so that
they can be of varying size.
This allows multiple heterogeneous sources to share a common
buffer; there are 16 million types available, of which I've used
just a few, so there is scope for others to be used. Tags may be
specified when a watchpoint is created to help distinguish the
sources.
- Records are filterable as types have up to 256 subtypes that can be
individually filtered. Other filtration is also available.
- Notification pipes don't interfere with each other; each may be
bound to a different set of watches. Any particular notification
will be copied to all the queues that are currently watching for it
- and only those that are watching for it.
- When recording a notification, the kernel will not sleep, but will
rather mark a queue as having lost a message if there's
insufficient space. read() will fabricate a loss notification
message at an appropriate point later.
- The notification pipe is created and then watchpoints are attached
to it, using one of:
keyctl_watch_key(KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING, fds[1], 0x01);
watch_mount(AT_FDCWD, "/", 0, fd, 0x02);
watch_sb(AT_FDCWD, "/mnt", 0, fd, 0x03);
where in both cases, fd indicates the queue and the number after is
a tag between 0 and 255.
- Watches are removed if either the notification pipe is destroyed or
the watched object is destroyed. In the latter case, a message will
be generated indicating the enforced watch removal.
Things I want to avoid:
- Introducing features that make the core VFS dependent on the
network stack or networking namespaces (ie. usage of netlink).
- Dumping all this stuff into dmesg and having a daemon that sits
there parsing the output and distributing it as this then puts the
responsibility for security into userspace and makes handling
namespaces tricky. Further, dmesg might not exist or might be
inaccessible inside a container.
- Letting users see events they shouldn't be able to see.
TESTING AND MANPAGES
====================
- The keyutils tree has a pipe-watch branch that has keyctl commands
for making use of notifications. Proposed manual pages can also be
found on this branch, though a couple of them really need to go to
the main manpages repository instead.
If the kernel supports the watching of keys, then running "make
test" on that branch will cause the testing infrastructure to spawn
a monitoring process on the side that monitors a notifications pipe
for all the key/keyring changes induced by the tests and they'll
all be checked off to make sure they happened.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/keyutils.git/log/?h=pipe-watch
- A test program is provided (samples/watch_queue/watch_test) that
can be used to monitor for keyrings, mount and superblock events.
Information on the notifications is simply logged to stdout"
* tag 'notifications-20200601' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
smack: Implement the watch_key and post_notification hooks
selinux: Implement the watch_key security hook
keys: Make the KEY_NEED_* perms an enum rather than a mask
pipe: Add notification lossage handling
pipe: Allow buffers to be marked read-whole-or-error for notifications
Add sample notification program
watch_queue: Add a key/keyring notification facility
security: Add hooks to rule on setting a watch
pipe: Add general notification queue support
pipe: Add O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE
security: Add a hook for the point of notification insertion
uapi: General notification queue definitions
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Support for userspace to send requests directly to the on-chip GZIP
accelerator on Power9.
- Rework of our lockless page table walking (__find_linux_pte()) to
make it safe against parallel page table manipulations without
relying on an IPI for serialisation.
- A series of fixes & enhancements to make our machine check handling
more robust.
- Lots of plumbing to add support for "prefixed" (64-bit) instructions
on Power10.
- Support for using huge pages for the linear mapping on 8xx (32-bit).
- Remove obsolete Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support, and an associated sound
driver.
- Removal of some obsolete 40x platforms and associated cruft.
- Initial support for booting on Power10.
- Lots of other small features, cleanups & fixes.
Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan,
Andrey Abramov, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, Bharata B Rao, Bulent
Abali, Cédric Le Goater, Chen Zhou, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe
JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Dmitry Torokhov, Emmanuel Nicolet, Erhard F.,
Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand, George Spelvin, Greg Kurz, Gustavo A.
R. Silva, Gustavo Walbon, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley,
Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Leonardo Bras, Madhavan
Srinivasan., Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Michael Neuling, Michal
Simek, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin,
Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pingfan Liu, Qian Cai, Ram Pai,
Raphael Moreira Zinsly, Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Segher
Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel Datwyler,
Wolfram Sang, Xiongfeng Wang.
* tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (299 commits)
powerpc/pseries: Make vio and ibmebus initcalls pseries specific
cxl: Remove dead Kconfig options
powerpc: Add POWER10 architected mode
powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Add MMA feature
powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Enable Prefixed Instructions
powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Advertise support for ISA v3.1 if selected
powerpc: Add support for ISA v3.1
powerpc: Add new HWCAP bits
powerpc/64s: Don't set FSCR bits in INIT_THREAD
powerpc/64s: Save FSCR to init_task.thread.fscr after feature init
powerpc/64s: Don't let DT CPU features set FSCR_DSCR
powerpc/64s: Don't init FSCR_DSCR in __init_FSCR()
powerpc/32s: Fix another build failure with CONFIG_PPC_KUAP_DEBUG
powerpc/module_64: Use special stub for _mcount() with -mprofile-kernel
powerpc/module_64: Simplify check for -mprofile-kernel ftrace relocations
powerpc/module_64: Consolidate ftrace code
powerpc/32: Disable KASAN with pages bigger than 16k
powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUEP by default on book3s/32
powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUAP by default on book3s/32
powerpc/8xx: Reduce time spent in allow_user_access() and friends
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Make it possible to have a general notification queue built on top of a
standard pipe. Notifications are 'spliced' into the pipe and then read
out. splice(), vmsplice() and sendfile() are forbidden on pipes used for
notifications as post_one_notification() cannot take pipe->mutex. This
means that notifications could be posted in between individual pipe
buffers, making iov_iter_revert() difficult to effect.
The way the notification queue is used is:
(1) An application opens a pipe with a special flag and indicates the
number of messages it wishes to be able to queue at once (this can
only be set once):
pipe2(fds, O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE);
ioctl(fds[0], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE, queue_depth);
(2) The application then uses poll() and read() as normal to extract data
from the pipe. read() will return multiple notifications if the
buffer is big enough, but it will not split a notification across
buffers - rather it will return a short read or EMSGSIZE.
Notification messages include a length in the header so that the
caller can split them up.
Each message has a header that describes it:
struct watch_notification {
__u32 type:24;
__u32 subtype:8;
__u32 info;
};
The type indicates the source (eg. mount tree changes, superblock events,
keyring changes, block layer events) and the subtype indicates the event
type (eg. mount, unmount; EIO, EDQUOT; link, unlink). The info field
indicates a number of things, including the entry length, an ID assigned to
a watchpoint contributing to this buffer and type-specific flags.
Supplementary data, such as the key ID that generated an event, can be
attached in additional slots. The maximum message size is 127 bytes.
Messages may not be padded or aligned, so there is no guarantee, for
example, that the notification type will be on a 4-byte bounary.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Habanalabs driver in misc exposes several IOCTLs to userspace. Document the
letter and IOCTLs number range in ioctl-number.rst.
Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200418174132.10597-1-oded.gabbay@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Define the VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN ioctl interface for NX GZIP access
from user space. This interface is used to open GZIP send window and
mmap region which can be used by userspace to send requests to NX
directly with copy/paste instructions.
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1587114065.2275.1106.camel@hbabu-laptop
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In 2.3.43pre2, the RTC ioctls definitions were actually moved from
linux/mc146818rtc.h to linux/rtc.h
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200209203304.66004-1-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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As described in drivers/staging/isdn/TODO, the drivers are all
assumed to be unmaintained and unused now, with gigaset being the
last one to stop being maintained after Paul Bolle lost access
to an ISDN network.
The CAPI subsystem remains for now, as it is still required by
bluetooth/cmtp.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191210210455.3475361-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Here are the main documentation changes for 5.5:
- Various kerneldoc script enhancements.
- More RST conversions; those are slowing down as we run out of
things to convert, but we're a ways from done still.
- Dan's "maintainer profile entry" work landed at last. Now we just
need to get maintainers to fill in the profiles...
- A reworking of the parallel build setup to work better with a
variety of systems (and to not take over huge systems entirely in
particular).
- The MAINTAINERS file is now converted to RST during the build.
Hopefully nobody ever tries to print this thing, or they will need
to load a lot of paper.
- A script and documentation making it easy for maintainers to add
Link: tags at commit time.
Also included is the removal of a bunch of spurious CR characters"
* tag 'docs-5.5a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (91 commits)
docs: remove a bunch of stray CRs
docs: fix up the maintainer profile document
libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Maintainer Entry Profile
Maintainer Handbook: Maintainer Entry Profile
MAINTAINERS: Reclaim the P: tag for Maintainer Entry Profile
docs, parallelism: Rearrange how jobserver reservations are made
docs, parallelism: Do not leak blocking mode to other readers
docs, parallelism: Fix failure path and add comment
Documentation: Remove bootmem_debug from kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation: security: core.rst: fix warnings
Documentation/process/howto/kokr: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning
Documentation/translation: Use Korean for Korean translation title
docs/memory-barriers.txt: Remove remaining references to mmiowb()
docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Update I/O section to be clearer about CPU vs thread
docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Fix style, spacing and grammar in I/O section
Documentation/kokr: Kill all references to mmiowb()
docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Rewrite "KERNEL I/O BARRIER EFFECTS" section
docs: Add initial documentation for devfreq
Documentation: Document how to get links with git am
docs: Add request_irq() documentation
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This is strictly user-space material at this point, so put it with the
other user-space API documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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