The verification is to support cases where the root hash is not secured
by Trusted Boot, UEFI Secureboot or similar technologies.
One of the use cases for this is for dm-verity volumes mounted after
boot, the root hash provided during the creation of the dm-verity volume
has to be secure and thus in-kernel validation implemented here will be
used before we trust the root hash and allow the block device to be
created.
The signature being provided for verification must verify the root hash
and must be trusted by the builtin keyring for verification to succeed.
The hash is added as a key of type "user" and the description is passed
to the kernel so it can look it up and use it for verification.
Adds CONFIG_DM_VERITY_VERIFY_ROOTHASH_SIG which can be turned on if root
hash verification is needed.
Kernel commandline dm_verity module parameter 'require_signatures' will
indicate whether to force root hash signature verification (for all dm
verity volumes).
Signed-off-by: Jaskaran Khurana <jaskarankhurana@linux.microsoft.com>
Tested-and-Reviewed-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Pull RCU and LKMM changes from Paul E. McKenney:
- A few more RCU flavor consolidation cleanups.
- Miscellaneous fixes.
- Updates to RCU's list-traversal macros improving lockdep usability.
- Torture-test updates.
- Forward-progress improvements for no-CBs CPUs: Avoid ignoring
incoming callbacks during grace-period waits.
- Forward-progress improvements for no-CBs CPUs: Use ->cblist
structure to take advantage of others' grace periods.
- Also added a small commit that avoids needlessly inflicting
scheduler-clock ticks on callback-offloaded CPUs.
- Forward-progress improvements for no-CBs CPUs: Reduce contention
on ->nocb_lock guarding ->cblist.
- Forward-progress improvements for no-CBs CPUs: Add ->nocb_bypass
list to further reduce contention on ->nocb_lock guarding ->cblist.
- LKMM updates.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
While existing LSMs can be extended to handle lockdown policy,
distributions generally want to be able to apply a straightforward
static policy. This patch adds a simple LSM that can be configured to
reject either integrity or all lockdown queries, and can be configured
at runtime (through securityfs), boot time (via a kernel parameter) or
build time (via a kconfig option). Based on initial code by David
Howells.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
This commit changes the name of the rcu_nocb_leader_stride kernel
boot parameter to rcu_nocb_gp_stride in order to account for the new
distinction between callback and grace-period no-CBs kthreads.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Both IPX and TR have not been supported for a while now.
Remove them from the /proc/sys/net documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The "pci=resource_alignment" parameter is described as requiring an order
(not a size) and the code in pci_specified_resource_alignment() expects an
order.
But the example wrongly shows a size. Convert the example to an order.
Fixes: 8b078c6032 ("PCI: Update "pci=resource_alignment" documentation")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190606032557.107542-1-aik@ozlabs.ru
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Add documentation to the Spectre document about the new swapgs variant of
Spectre v1.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This commit adds a rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump kernel boot parameter, that,
when set, causes the trace buffer to be dumped after an RCU CPU stall
warning is printed. This kernel boot parameter is disabled by default,
maintaining compatibility with previous behavior.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The filenames for cifs documentation is not using the same
convention as almost all Kernel documents is using. So,
rename them to a more appropriate name. Then, manually convert
the documentation files for CIFS to ReST.
By doing a manual conversion, we can preserve the original
author's style, while making it to look more like the other
Kernel documents.
Most of the conversion here is trivial. The most complex one was
the README file (which was renamed to usage.rst).
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Manually convert wimax documentation to ReST and add theit
to the Kernel doc body, inside the admin-guide.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Those two files describe userspace-faced information. While part of
it might fit on uAPI, it sounds to me that the admin guide is the
best place for them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation of ufs.txt to
reStructuredText format. Added to documentation build process
and verified with make htmldocs
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kukreti <shobhitkukreti@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation of jfs.txt to reStructuredText
format. Added to documentation build process and verified with
make htmldocs
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kukreti <shobhitkukreti@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
changeset fb5772cbfe ("blkio-controller.txt: Remove references to CFQ")
removed cgroup references to CFQ, but it kept one left. Get rid of
it.
Fixes: fb5772cbfe ("blkio-controller.txt: Remove references to CFQ")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
the "Removed Sysctls" section is a table - bring it alive with ReST.
Signed-off-by: Sheriff Esseson <sheriffesseson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"This is mostly a set of follow-on fixes from Mauro fixing various
fallout from the massive RST conversion; a few other small fixes as
well"
* tag 'docs-5.3-1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (21 commits)
docs: phy: Drop duplicate 'be made'
doc:it_IT: translations in process/
docs/vm: transhuge: fix typo in madvise reference
doc:it_IT: rephrase statement
doc:it_IT: align translation to mainline
docs: load_config.py: ensure subdirs end with "/"
docs: virtual: add it to the documentation body
docs: remove extra conf.py files
docs: load_config.py: avoid needing a conf.py just due to LaTeX docs
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: seek for Noto CJK fonts for pdf output
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: cleanup Gentoo checks
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix latexmk dependencies
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: don't use LaTeX with CentOS 7
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix script for RHEL/CentOS
docs: conf.py: only use CJK if the font is available
docs: conf.py: add CJK package needed by translations
docs: pdf: add all Documentation/*/index.rst to PDF output
docs: fix broken doc references due to renames
docs: power: add it to to the main documentation index
docs: powerpc: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
...
Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
"Bugfixes, a pvspinlock optimization, and documentation moving"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: X86: Boost queue head vCPU to mitigate lock waiter preemption
Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to Documentation/virt
KVM: nVMX: Set cached_vmcs12 and cached_shadow_vmcs12 NULL after free
KVM: X86: Dynamically allocate user_fpu
KVM: X86: Fix fpu state crash in kvm guest
Revert "kvm: x86: Use task structs fpu field for user"
KVM: nVMX: Clear pending KVM_REQ_GET_VMCS12_PAGES when leaving nested
Renaming docs seems to be en vogue at the moment, so fix on of the
grossly misnamed directories. We usually never use "virtual" as
a shortcut for virtualization in the kernel, but always virt,
as seen in the virt/ top-level directory. Fix up the documentation
to match that.
Fixes: ed16648eb5 ("Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Fix an off-by-one typo in the transparent huge pages admin
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:
"Fixes and features:
- A series to introduce a common command line parameter for disabling
paravirtual extensions when running as a guest in virtualized
environment
- A fix for int3 handling in Xen pv guests
- Removal of the Xen-specific tmem driver as support of tmem in Xen
has been dropped (and it was experimental only)
- A security fix for running as Xen dom0 (XSA-300)
- A fix for IRQ handling when offlining cpus in Xen guests
- Some small cleanups"
* tag 'for-linus-5.3a-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen: let alloc_xenballooned_pages() fail if not enough memory free
xen/pv: Fix a boot up hang revealed by int3 self test
x86/xen: Add "nopv" support for HVM guest
x86/paravirt: Remove const mark from x86_hyper_xen_hvm variable
xen: Map "xen_nopv" parameter to "nopv" and mark it obsolete
x86: Add "nopv" parameter to disable PV extensions
x86/xen: Mark xen_hvm_need_lapic() and xen_x2apic_para_available() as __init
xen: remove tmem driver
Revert "x86/paravirt: Set up the virt_spin_lock_key after static keys get initialized"
xen/events: fix binding user event channels to cpus
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The main changes in this release include:
- Add user space specific memory reading for kprobes
- Allow kprobes to be executed earlier in boot
The rest are mostly just various clean ups and small fixes"
* tag 'trace-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
tracing: Make trace_get_fields() global
tracing: Let filter_assign_type() detect FILTER_PTR_STRING
tracing: Pass type into tracing_generic_entry_update()
ftrace/selftest: Test if set_event/ftrace_pid exists before writing
ftrace/selftests: Return the skip code when tracing directory not configured in kernel
tracing/kprobe: Check registered state using kprobe
tracing/probe: Add trace_event_call accesses APIs
tracing/probe: Add probe event name and group name accesses APIs
tracing/probe: Add trace flag access APIs for trace_probe
tracing/probe: Add trace_event_file access APIs for trace_probe
tracing/probe: Add trace_event_call register API for trace_probe
tracing/probe: Add trace_probe init and free functions
tracing/uprobe: Set print format when parsing command
tracing/kprobe: Set print format right after parsed command
kprobes: Fix to init kprobes in subsys_initcall
tracepoint: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()
ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
ftrace: Enable trampoline when rec count returns back to one
tracing/kprobe: Do not run kprobe boot tests if kprobe_event is on cmdline
tracing: Make a separate config for trace event self tests
...
Pull xfs cleanups from Darrick Wong:
"We had a few more lateish cleanup patches come in for 5.3 -- a couple
of syncups with the userspace libxfs code and a conversion of the XFS
administrator's guide to ReST format.
Summary:
- Bring fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_inode.c in sync with userspace
libxfs.
- Convert the xfs administrator guide to rst and move it into the
official admin guide under Documentation"
* tag 'xfs-5.3-merge-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
Documentation: filesystem: Convert xfs.txt to ReST
xfs: sync up xfs_trans_inode with userspace
xfs: move xfs_trans_inode.c to libxfs/
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"VM:
- z3fold fixes and enhancements by Henry Burns and Vitaly Wool
- more accurate reclaimed slab caches calculations by Yafang Shao
- fix MAP_UNINITIALIZED UAPI symbol to not depend on config, by
Christoph Hellwig
- !CONFIG_MMU fixes by Christoph Hellwig
- new novmcoredd parameter to omit device dumps from vmcore, by
Kairui Song
- new test_meminit module for testing heap and pagealloc
initialization, by Alexander Potapenko
- ioremap improvements for huge mappings, by Anshuman Khandual
- generalize kprobe page fault handling, by Anshuman Khandual
- device-dax hotplug fixes and improvements, by Pavel Tatashin
- enable synchronous DAX fault on powerpc, by Aneesh Kumar K.V
- add pte_devmap() support for arm64, by Robin Murphy
- unify locked_vm accounting with a helper, by Daniel Jordan
- several misc fixes
core/lib:
- new typeof_member() macro including some users, by Alexey Dobriyan
- make BIT() and GENMASK() available in asm, by Masahiro Yamada
- changed LIST_POISON2 on x86_64 to 0xdead000000000122 for better
code generation, by Alexey Dobriyan
- rbtree code size optimizations, by Michel Lespinasse
- convert struct pid count to refcount_t, by Joel Fernandes
get_maintainer.pl:
- add --no-moderated switch to skip moderated ML's, by Joe Perches
misc:
- ptrace PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO interface
- coda updates
- gdb scripts, various"
[ Using merge message suggestion from Vlastimil Babka, with some editing - Linus ]
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (100 commits)
fs/select.c: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
mm: add account_locked_vm utility function
arm64: mm: implement pte_devmap support
mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
mm: clean up is_device_*_page() definitions
mm/mmap: move common defines to mman-common.h
mm: move MAP_SYNC to asm-generic/mman-common.h
device-dax: "Hotremove" persistent memory that is used like normal RAM
mm/hotplug: make remove_memory() interface usable
device-dax: fix memory and resource leak if hotplug fails
include/linux/lz4.h: fix spelling and copy-paste errors in documentation
ipc/mqueue.c: only perform resource calculation if user valid
include/asm-generic/bug.h: fix "cut here" for WARN_ON for __WARN_TAINT architectures
scripts/gdb: add helpers to find and list devices
scripts/gdb: add lx-genpd-summary command
drivers/pps/pps.c: clear offset flags in PPS_SETPARAMS ioctl
kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t
drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: NUL terminate some strings
select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining()
select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR
...
Now that the latex_documents are handled automatically, we can
remove those extra conf.py files.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
In virtualization environment, PV extensions (drivers, interrupts,
timers, etc) are enabled in the majority of use cases which is the
best option.
However, in some cases (kexec not fully working, benchmarking)
we want to disable PV extensions. We have "xen_nopv" for that purpose
but only for XEN. For a consistent admin experience a common command
line parameter "nopv" set across all PV guest implementations is a
better choice.
There are guest types which just won't work without PV extensions,
like Xen PV, Xen PVH and jailhouse. add a "ignore_nopv" member to
struct hypervisor_x86 set to true for those guest types and call
the detect functions only if nopv is false or ignore_nopv is true.
Suggested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
The Xen tmem (transcendent memory) driver can be removed, as the
related Xen hypervisor feature never made it past the "experimental"
state and will be removed in future Xen versions (>= 4.13).
The xen-selfballoon driver depends on tmem, so it can be removed, too.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Since commit 2724273e8f ("vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in
second kernel"), drivers are allowed to add device related dump data to
vmcore as they want by using the device dump API. This has a potential
issue, the data is stored in memory, drivers may append too much data
and use too much memory. The vmcore is typically used in a kdump kernel
which runs in a pre-reserved small chunk of memory. So as a result it
will make kdump unusable at all due to OOM issues.
So introduce new 'novmcoredd' command line option. User can disable
device dump to reduce memory usage. This is helpful if device dump is
using too much memory, disabling device dump could make sure a regular
vmcore without device dump data is still available.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: vmcore.c needs moduleparam.h]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528111856.7276-1-kasong@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull rst conversion of docs from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
"As agreed with Jon, I'm sending this big series directly to you, c/c
him, as this series required a special care, in order to avoid
conflicts with other trees"
* tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (77 commits)
docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues
docs: block: fix pdf output
docs: arm: fix a breakage with pdf output
docs: don't use nested tables
docs: gpio: add sysfs interface to the admin-guide
docs: locking: add it to the main index
docs: add some directories to the main documentation index
docs: add SPDX tags to new index files
docs: add a memory-devices subdir to driver-api
docs: phy: place documentation under driver-api
docs: serial: move it to the driver-api
docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it
docs: driver-api: add xilinx driver API documentation
docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents
docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book
docs: aoe: add it to the driver-api book
docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book
docs: driver-model: move it to the driver-api book
docs: lp855x-driver.rst: add it to the driver-api book
...
Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe:
"A later pull request with some followup items. I had some vacation
coming up to the merge window, so certain things items were delayed a
bit. This pull request also contains fixes that came in within the
last few days of the merge window, which I didn't want to push right
before sending you a pull request.
This contains:
- NVMe pull request, mostly fixes, but also a few minor items on the
feature side that were timing constrained (Christoph et al)
- Report zones fixes (Damien)
- Removal of dead code (Damien)
- Turn on cgroup psi memstall (Josef)
- block cgroup MAINTAINERS entry (Konstantin)
- Flush init fix (Josef)
- blk-throttle low iops timing fix (Konstantin)
- nbd resize fixes (Mike)
- nbd 0 blocksize crash fix (Xiubo)
- block integrity error leak fix (Wenwen)
- blk-cgroup writeback and priority inheritance fixes (Tejun)"
* tag 'for-linus-20190715' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (42 commits)
MAINTAINERS: add entry for block io cgroup
null_blk: fixup ->report_zones() for !CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED
block: Limit zone array allocation size
sd_zbc: Fix report zones buffer allocation
block: Kill gfp_t argument of blkdev_report_zones()
block: Allow mapping of vmalloc-ed buffers
block/bio-integrity: fix a memory leak bug
nvme: fix NULL deref for fabrics options
nbd: add netlink reconfigure resize support
nbd: fix crash when the blksize is zero
block: Disable write plugging for zoned block devices
block: Fix elevator name declaration
block: Remove unused definitions
nvme: fix regression upon hot device removal and insertion
blk-throttle: fix zero wait time for iops throttled group
block: Fix potential overflow in blk_report_zones()
blkcg: implement REQ_CGROUP_PUNT
blkcg, writeback: Implement wbc_blkcg_css()
blkcg, writeback: Add wbc->no_cgroup_owner
blkcg, writeback: Rename wbc_account_io() to wbc_account_cgroup_owner()
...
Nested tables aren't supported for pdf output on Sphinx 1.7.9:
admin-guide/laptops/sonypi:: nested tables are not yet implemented.
admin-guide/laptops/toshiba_haps:: nested tables are not yet implemented.
driver-api/nvdimm/btt:: nested tables are not yet implemented.
s390/debugging390:: nested tables are not yet implemented.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> # laptops
While this is stated as obsoleted, the sysfs interface described
there is still valid, and belongs to the admin-guide.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
All those new files I added are under GPL v2.0 license.
Add the corresponding SPDX headers to them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
There are lots of documents under Documentation/*.txt and a few other
orphan documents elsehwere that belong to the driver-API book.
Move them to their right place.
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> # vfio-related parts
Acked-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> # switchtec
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
There are lots of documents that belong to the admin-guide but
are on random places (most under Documentation root dir).
Move them to the admin guide.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
The Kdump documentation describes procedures with admins use
in order to solve issues on their systems.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
The stuff under sysctl describes /sys interface from userspace
point of view. So, add it to the admin-guide and remove the
:orphan: from its index file.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
The DM support describes lots of aspects related to mapped
disk partitions from the userspace PoV.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
