While testing memory hot-remove, I found following dead lock:

Process #1141 is drmgr, trying to remove some memory, i.e. memory499.
It holds the memory_hotplug_mutex, and blocks when trying to remove file
"online" under dir memory499, in kernfs_drain(), at
        wait_event(root->deactivate_waitq,
                   atomic_read(&kn->active) == KN_DEACTIVATED_BIAS);

Process #1120 is trying to online memory499 by
   echo 1 > memory499/online

In .kernfs_fop_write, it uses kernfs_get_active() to increase
&kn->active, thus blocking process #1141. While itself is blocked later
when trying to acquire memory_hotplug_mutex, which is held by process

The backtrace of both processes are shown below:

[<c000000001b18600>] 0xc000000001b18600
[<c000000000015044>] .__switch_to+0x144/0x200
[<c000000000263ca4>] .online_pages+0x74/0x7b0
[<c00000000055b40c>] .memory_subsys_online+0x9c/0x150
[<c00000000053cbe8>] .device_online+0xb8/0x120
[<c00000000053cd04>] .online_store+0xb4/0xc0
[<c000000000538ce4>] .dev_attr_store+0x64/0xa0
[<c00000000030f4ec>] .sysfs_kf_write+0x7c/0xb0
[<c00000000030e574>] .kernfs_fop_write+0x154/0x1e0
[<c000000000268450>] .vfs_write+0xe0/0x260
[<c000000000269144>] .SyS_write+0x64/0x110
[<c000000000009ffc>] syscall_exit+0x0/0x7c

[<c000000001b18600>] 0xc000000001b18600
[<c000000000015044>] .__switch_to+0x144/0x200
[<c00000000030be14>] .__kernfs_remove+0x204/0x300
[<c00000000030d428>] .kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x68/0xf0
[<c00000000030fb38>] .sysfs_remove_file_ns+0x38/0x60
[<c000000000539354>] .device_remove_attrs+0x54/0xc0
[<c000000000539fd8>] .device_del+0x158/0x250
[<c00000000053a104>] .device_unregister+0x34/0xa0
[<c00000000055bc14>] .unregister_memory_section+0x164/0x170
[<c00000000024ee18>] .__remove_pages+0x108/0x4c0
[<c00000000004b590>] .arch_remove_memory+0x60/0xc0
[<c00000000026446c>] .remove_memory+0x8c/0xe0
[<c00000000007f9f4>] .pseries_remove_memblock+0xd4/0x160
[<c00000000007fcfc>] .pseries_memory_notifier+0x27c/0x290
[<c0000000008ae6cc>] .notifier_call_chain+0x8c/0x100
[<c0000000000d858c>] .__blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x6c/0xe0
[<c00000000071ddec>] .of_property_notify+0x7c/0xc0
[<c00000000071ed3c>] .of_update_property+0x3c/0x1b0
[<c0000000000756cc>] .ofdt_write+0x3dc/0x740
[<c0000000002f60fc>] .proc_reg_write+0xac/0x110
[<c000000000268450>] .vfs_write+0xe0/0x260
[<c000000000269144>] .SyS_write+0x64/0x110
[<c000000000009ffc>] syscall_exit+0x0/0x7c

This patch uses lock_device_hotplug() to protect remove_memory() called
in pseries_remove_memblock(), which is also stated before function
remove_memory():

 * NOTE: The caller must call lock_device_hotplug() to serialize hotplug
 * and online/offline operations before this call, as required by
 * try_offline_node().
 */
void __ref remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)

With this lock held, the other process(#1120 above) trying to online the
memory block will retry the system call when calling
lock_device_hotplug_sysfs(), and finally find No such device error.
Signed-off-by: NLi Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

module_init should return 0 or a negative errno.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Bump the boot wrapper BOOT_COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to match the
kernel.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

I've had a report that the current limit is too small for
an automated network based installer. Bump it.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

We have two definitions of COMMAND_LINE_SIZE, one for the kernel
and one for the boot wrapper. I assume this is so the boot
wrapper can be self sufficient and not rely on kernel headers.

Having two defines with the same name is confusing, I just
updated the wrong one when trying to bump it.

Make the boot wrapper define unique by calling it
BOOT_COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

The catalog version number was changed from a be32 (with proceeding
32bits of padding) to a be64, update the code to treat it as a be64
Signed-off-by: NCody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Signed-off-by: NCody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Signed-off-by: NCody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Signed-off-by: NCody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

fixup for "powerpc/perf: Add support for the hv gpci (get performance
counter info) interface".

Makes the "not enabled" message less awful (and hidden unless
debugging).
Signed-off-by: NCody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

fixup for "powerpc/perf: Add support for the hv 24x7 interface"

Makes the "not enabled" message less awful (and hides it in most cases).
Signed-off-by: NCody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

The if condition check was based on a draft ISA doc. Remove the same.
Signed-off-by: NAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

We have two copies of code that creates an OPAL sg list. Consolidate
these into a common set of helpers and fix the endian issues.

The flash interface embedded a version number in the num_entries
field, whereas the dump interface did did not. Since versioning
wasn't added to the flash interface and it is impossible to add
this in a backwards compatible way, just remove it.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Fix little endian issues with the OPAL error log code.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: NStewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

The bitmap in opal_poll_events and opal_handle_interrupt is
big endian, so we need to byteswap it on little endian builds.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

We had some duplication of the internal OPAL functions.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Using size_t in our APIs is asking for trouble, especially
when some OPAL calls use size_t pointers.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: NStewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

On PowerNV platform, we are holding an unnecessary refcount on a pci_dev, which
leads to the pci_dev is not destroyed when hotplugging a pci device.

This patch release the unnecessary refcount.
Signed-off-by: NWei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

During the EEH hotplug event, iommu_add_device() will be invoked three times
and two of them will trigger warning or error.

The three times to invoke the iommu_add_device() are:

    pci_device_add
       ...
       set_iommu_table_base_and_group   <- 1st time, fail
    device_add
       ...
       tce_iommu_bus_notifier           <- 2nd time, succees
    pcibios_add_pci_devices
       ...
       pcibios_setup_bus_devices        <- 3rd time, re-attach

The first time fails, since the dev->kobj->sd is not initialized. The
dev->kobj->sd is initialized in device_add().
The third time's warning is triggered by the re-attach of the iommu_group.

After applying this patch, the error

    iommu_tce: 0003:05:00.0 has not been added, ret=-14

and the warning

    [  204.123609] ------------[ cut here ]------------
    [  204.123645] WARNING: at arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c:1125
    [  204.123680] Modules linked in: xt_CHECKSUM nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_broadcast ipt_MASQUERADE ip6t_REJECT bnep bluetooth 6lowpan_iphc rfkill xt_conntrack ebtable_nat ebtable_broute bridge stp llc mlx4_ib ib_sa ib_mad ib_core ib_addr ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_nat nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_nat_ipv6 ip6table_mangle ip6table_security ip6table_raw ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack iptable_mangle iptable_security iptable_raw bnx2x tg3 mlx4_core nfsd ptp mdio ses libcrc32c nfs_acl enclosure be2net pps_core shpchp lockd kvm uinput sunrpc binfmt_misc lpfc scsi_transport_fc ipr scsi_tgt
    [  204.124356] CPU: 18 PID: 650 Comm: eehd Not tainted 3.14.0-rc5yw+ #102
    [  204.124400] task: c0000027ed485670 ti: c0000027ed50c000 task.ti: c0000027ed50c000
    [  204.124453] NIP: c00000000003cf80 LR: c00000000006c648 CTR: c00000000006c5c0
    [  204.124506] REGS: c0000027ed50f440 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (3.14.0-rc5yw+)
    [  204.124558] MSR: 9000000000029032 <SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI>  CR: 88008084  XER: 20000000
    [  204.124682] CFAR: c00000000006c644 SOFTE: 1
    GPR00: c00000000006c648 c0000027ed50f6c0 c000000001398380 c0000027ec260300
    GPR04: c0000027ea92c000 c00000000006ad00 c0000000016e41b0 0000000000000110
    GPR08: c0000000012cd4c0 0000000000000001 c0000027ec2602ff 0000000000000062
    GPR12: 0000000028008084 c00000000fdca200 c0000000000d1d90 c0000027ec281a80
    GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
    GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
    GPR24: 000000005342697b 0000000000002906 c000001fe6ac9800 c000001fe6ac9800
    GPR28: 0000000000000000 c0000000016e3a80 c0000027ea92c090 c0000027ea92c000
    [  204.125353] NIP [c00000000003cf80] .iommu_add_device+0x30/0x1f0
    [  204.125399] LR [c00000000006c648] .pnv_pci_ioda_dma_dev_setup+0x88/0xb0
    [  204.125443] Call Trace:
    [  204.125464] [c0000027ed50f6c0] [c0000027ed50f750] 0xc0000027ed50f750 (unreliable)
    [  204.125526] [c0000027ed50f750] [c00000000006c648] .pnv_pci_ioda_dma_dev_setup+0x88/0xb0
    [  204.125588] [c0000027ed50f7d0] [c000000000069cc8] .pnv_pci_dma_dev_setup+0x78/0x340
    [  204.125650] [c0000027ed50f870] [c000000000044408] .pcibios_setup_device+0x88/0x2f0
    [  204.125712] [c0000027ed50f940] [c000000000046040] .pcibios_setup_bus_devices+0x60/0xd0
    [  204.125774] [c0000027ed50f9c0] [c000000000043acc] .pcibios_add_pci_devices+0xdc/0x1c0
    [  204.125837] [c0000027ed50fa50] [c00000000086f970] .eeh_reset_device+0x36c/0x4f0
    [  204.125939] [c0000027ed50fb20] [c00000000003a2d8] .eeh_handle_normal_event+0x448/0x480
    [  204.126068] [c0000027ed50fbc0] [c00000000003a35c] .eeh_handle_event+0x4c/0x340
    [  204.126192] [c0000027ed50fc80] [c00000000003a74c] .eeh_event_handler+0xfc/0x1b0
    [  204.126319] [c0000027ed50fd30] [c0000000000d1ea0] .kthread+0x110/0x130
    [  204.126430] [c0000027ed50fe30] [c00000000000a460] .ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x7c
    [  204.126556] Instruction dump:
    [  204.126610] 7c0802a6 fba1ffe8 fbc1fff0 fbe1fff8 f8010010 f821ff71 7c7e1b78 60000000
    [  204.126787] 60000000 e87e0298 3143ffff 7d2a1910 <0b090000> 2fa90000 40de00c8 ebfe0218
    [  204.126966] ---[ end trace 6e7aefd80add2973 ]---

are cleared.

This patch removes iommu_add_device() in pnv_pci_ioda_dma_dev_setup(), which
revert part of the change in commit d905c5df(PPC: POWERNV: move
iommu_add_device earlier).
Signed-off-by: NWei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

With this patch I was able to update firmware on an LE kernel.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

We have a subtle race when sending CPUs back to OPAL on kexec.

We mark them as "in real mode" right before we send them down. Once
we've booted the new kernel, it might try to call opal_reinit_cpus()
to change endianness, and that requires all CPUs to be spinning inside
OPAL.

However there is no synchronization here and we've observed cases
where the returning CPUs hadn't established their new state inside
OPAL before opal_reinit_cpus() is called, causing it to fail.

The proper fix is to actually wait for them to go down all the way
from the kexec'ing kernel.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

The size of the sysparam sysfs files is determined from the device tree
at boot. However the buffer is hard coded to 64 bytes. If we encounter a
parameter that is larger than 64, or miss-parse the device tree, the
buffer will overflow when reading or writing to the parameter.

Check it at discovery time, and if the parameter is too large, do not
create a sysfs entry for it.
Signed-off-by: NJoel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

The sysparam code currently uses the userspace supplied number of
bytes when memcpy()ing in to a local 64-byte buffer.

Limit the maximum number of bytes by the size of the buffer.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

The OPAL calls are returning int64_t values, which the sysparam code
stores in an int, and the sysfs callback returns ssize_t. Make code a
easier to read by consistently using ssize_t.
Signed-off-by: NJoel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

When a sysparam query in OPAL returned a negative value (error code),
sysfs would spew out a decent chunk of memory; almost 64K more than
expected. This was traced to a sign/unsigned mix up in the OPAL sysparam
sysfs code at sys_param_show.

The return value of sys_param_show is a ssize_t, calculated using

  return ret ? ret : attr->param_size;

Alan Modra explains:

  "attr->param_size" is an unsigned int, "ret" an int, so the overall
  expression has type unsigned int.  Result is that ret is cast to
  unsigned int before being cast to ssize_t.

Instead of using the ternary operator, set ret to the param_size if an
error is not detected. The same bug exists in the sysfs write callback;
this patch fixes it in the same way.

A note on debugging this next time: on my system gcc will warn about
this if compiled with -Wsign-compare, which is not enabled by -Wall,
only -Wextra.
Signed-off-by: NJoel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

commit 41dd03a9 may cause Oops in rtas_stop_self().

The reason is that the rtas_args was moved into stack space. For a box
with more that 4GB RAM, the stack could easily be outside 32bit range,
but RTAS is 32bit.

So the patch moves rtas_args away from stack by adding static before
it.
Signed-off-by: NLi Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.14+
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Commit aac416fc (lkdtm: flush icache and report actions) calls
flush_icache_range from a module. It's exported on most architectures
that implement it, but not on powerpc. This patch exports it to fix
the module link failure.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Pull slave-dmaengine fixes from Vinod Koul:
 "Back from long weekend here in India and now the time to send fixes
  for slave dmaengine.
   - Dan's fix of sirf xlate code
   - Jean's fix for timberland
   - edma fixes by Sekhar for SG handling and Yuan for changing init
     call"

* 'fixes' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma:
  dma: fix eDMA driver as a subsys_initcall
  dmaengine: sirf: off by one in of_dma_sirfsoc_xlate()
  platform: Fix timberdale dependencies
  dma: edma: fix incorrect SG list handling

Pull iommu fixes from Joerg Roedel:
 "Fixes for regressions:

   - fix wrong IOMMU enumeration causing some SCSI device drivers
     initialization failures
   - ARM-SMMU fixes for a panic condition and a wrong return value"

* tag 'iommu-fixes-v3.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu:
  iommu/arm-smmu: fix panic in arm_smmu_alloc_init_pte
  iommu/arm-smmu: Return 0 on unmap failure
  iommu/vt-d: fix bug in matching PCI devices with DRHD/RMRR descriptors
  iommu/vt-d: Fix get_domain_for_dev() handling of upstream PCIe bridges
  iommu/vt-d: fix memory leakage caused by commit ea8ea460

Pull perf tooling fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Three small tooling fixes"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf tools: Improve error reporting
  perf tools: Adjust symbols in VDSO
  perf kvm: Fix 'Min time' counting in report command

Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jolsa/perf into perf/urgent

Pull perf/urgent fixes from Jiri Olsa:

User visible changes:

  * Adjust symbols in VDSO to properly resolve its function names (Vladimir Nikulichev)

  * Improve error reporting for record session failure (Adrien BAK)

  * Fix 'Min time' counting in report command (Alexander Yarygin)
Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

In the current version, when using perf record, if something goes
wrong in tools/perf/builtin-record.c:375
  session = perf_session__new(file, false, NULL);

The error message:
"Not enough memory for reading per file header"

is issued. This error message seems to be outdated and is not very
helpful. This patch proposes to replace this error message by
"Perf session creation failed"

I believe this issue has been brought to lkml:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/24/458
although this patch only tackles a (small) part of the issue.

Additionnaly, this patch improves error reporting in
tools/perf/util/data.c open_file_write.

Currently, if the call to open fails, the user is unaware of it.
This patch logs the error, before returning the error code to
the caller.
Reported-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrien BAK <adrien.bak@metascale.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397786443.3093.4.camel@beast
[ Reorganize the changelog into paragraphs ]
[ Added empty line after fd declaration in open_file_write ]
Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

pert-report doesn't resolve function names in VDSO:

$ perf report --stdio -g flat,0.0,15,callee --sort pid
...
            8.76%
               0x7fff6b1fe861
               __gettimeofday
               ACE_OS::gettimeofday()
...

In this case symbol values should be adjusted the same way as for executables,
relocatable objects and prelinked libraries.

After fix:

$ perf report --stdio -g flat,0.0,15,callee --sort pid
...
            8.76%
               __vdso_gettimeofday
               __gettimeofday
               ACE_OS::gettimeofday()
Signed-off-by: NVladimir Nikulichev <nvs@tbricks.com>
Tested-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/969812.163009436-sendEmail@nvsSigned-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

Every event in the perf-kvm has a 'stats' structure, which contains
max/min/average/etc times of handling this event.
The problem is that the 'perf-kvm stat report' command always shows
that 'min time' is 0us for every event. Example:

 # perf kvm stat report

 Analyze events for all VCPUs:

    VM-EXIT    Samples  Samples%     Time%   Min Time   Max Time Avg time
  [..]
  0xB2 MSCH         12     0.07%     0.00%        0us        8us 7.31us ( +-   2.11% )
  0xB2 CHSC         12     0.07%     0.00%        0us       18us 9.39us ( +-   9.49% )
  0xB2 STPX          8     0.05%     0.00%        0us        2us 1.88us ( +-   7.18% )
  0xB2 STSI          7     0.04%     0.00%        0us       44us 16.49us ( +-  38.20% )
  [..]

This happens because the 'stats' structure is not initialized and
stats->min equals to 0. Lets initialize the structure for every
event after its allocation using init_stats() function. This initializes
stats->min to -1 and makes 'Min time' statistics counting work:

 # perf kvm stat report

 Analyze events for all VCPUs:

    VM-EXIT    Samples  Samples%     Time%   Min Time   Max Time Avg time
  [..]
  0xB2 MSCH         12     0.07%     0.00%        6us        8us 7.31us ( +-   2.11% )
  0xB2 CHSC         12     0.07%     0.00%        7us       18us 9.39us ( +-   9.49% )
  0xB2 STPX          8     0.05%     0.00%        1us        2us 1.88us ( +-   7.18% )
  0xB2 STSI          7     0.04%     0.00%        1us       44us 16.49us ( +-  38.20% )
  [..]
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: NDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397053319-2130-3-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
[ Fixing the perf examples changelog output ]
Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

A va_list needs to be copied in case it needs to be used twice.

Thanks to Hugh for debugging this issue, leading to various panics.

Tested:

  lpq84:~# echo "|/foobar12345 %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h" >/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

'produce_core' is simply : main() { *(int *)0 = 1;}

  lpq84:~# ./produce_core
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  lpq84:~# dmesg | tail -1
  [  614.352947] Core dump to |/foobar12345 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 (null) pipe failed

Notice the last argument was replaced by a NULL (we were lucky enough to
not crash, but do not try this on your production machine !)

After fix :

  lpq83:~# echo "|/foobar12345 %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h" >/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
  lpq83:~# ./produce_core
  Segmentation fault
  lpq83:~# dmesg | tail -1
  [  740.800441] Core dump to |/foobar12345 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 pipe failed

Fixes: 5fe9d8ca ("coredump: cn_vprintf() has no reason to call vsnprintf() twice")
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Diagnosed-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.11+
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Pull x86 fix from Ingo Molnar:
 "This fixes the preemption-count imbalance crash reported by Owen
  Kibel"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mce: Fix CMCI preemption bugs

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two fixes:

   - a SCHED_DEADLINE task selection fix
   - a sched/numa related lockdep splat fix"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Check for stop task appearance when balancing happens
  sched/numa: Fix task_numa_free() lockdep splat