cfq-iosched: Fix null pointer dereference

NULL pointer dereference can happen in cfq_choose_cfqg()
when there are no cfq groups to select other than the
current serving group. Prevent this by adding a NULL
check before dereferencing.

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
[<c02502cc>] (cfq_dispatch_requests+0x368/0x8c0) from
[<c0243f30>] (blk_peek_request+0x220/0x25c)
[<c0243f30>] (blk_peek_request+0x220/0x25c) from
[<c0243f74>] (blk_fetch_request+0x8/0x1c)
[<c0243f74>] (blk_fetch_request+0x8/0x1c) from
[<c041cedc>] (mmc_queue_thread+0x58/0x120)
[<c041cedc>] (mmc_queue_thread+0x58/0x120) from
[<c00ad310>] (kthread+0x84/0x90)
[<c00ad310>] (kthread+0x84/0x90) from
[<c000eeac>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)

CRs-Fixed: 416466
Change-Id: I1fab93a4334b53e1d7c5dcc8f93cff174bae0d5e
Signed-off-by: Sujit Reddy Thumma <sthumma@codeaurora.org>
block: row: Dispatch requests according to their io-priority

This patch implements "application-hints" which is a way the issuing
application can notify the scheduler on the priority of its request.
This is done by setting the io-priority of the request.
This patch reuses an already existing mechanism of io-priorities developed
for CFQ. Please refer to kernel/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt for
usage example and explanations.

Change-Id: I228ec8e52161b424242bb7bb133418dc8b73925a
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>

Conflicts:
	block/row-iosched.c
block: row: Idling mechanism re-factoring

At the moment idling in ROW is implemented by delayed work that uses
jiffies granularity which is not very accurate. This patch replaces
current idling mechanism implementation with hrtime API, which gives
nanosecond resolution (instead of jiffies).

Change-Id: I86c7b1776d035e1d81571894b300228c8b8f2d92
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
block: row: Don't notify URGENT if there are un-completed urgent req

When ROW scheduler reports to the block layer that there is an urgent
request pending, the device driver may decide to stop the transmission
of the current request in order to handle the urgent one. If the current
transmitted request is an urgent request - we don't want it to be
stopped.
Due to the above ROW scheduler won't notify of an urgent request if
there are urgent requests in flight.

Change-Id: I2fa186d911b908ec7611682b378b9cdc48637ac7
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
block: row: Update initial values of ROW data structures

This patch sets the initial values of internal ROW
parameters.

Change-Id: I38132062a7fcbe2e58b9cc757e55caac64d013dc
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
[smuckle@codeaurora.org: ported from msm-3.7]
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
slub: fix a possible memory leak

Memory allocated by kstrdup should be freed,
when kmalloc(kmem_size, GFP_KERNEL) is failed.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
lowmemorykiller from korg/linux-3.8.y
binfmt_elf.c: use get_random_int() to fix entropy depleting

Hello,

The problems have been fixed in this version as per Kees's comments for v3.

Hi Kees,
Would you please ACK this patch if you think it is ok except the strength
of these various RNGs you are concerned?

Changes:
--------
v4->v3:
- s/random_stack_user()/get_atrandom_bytes()/
- Move this function to ahead of its use to avoid the predeclaration.

v3->v2:
- Tweak code comments of random_stack_user().
- Remove redundant bits mask and shift upon the random variable.

v2->v1:
- Fix random copy to check up buffer length that are not 4-byte multiples.

v3 can be found at:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg59597.html
v2 can be found at:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg59418.html
v1 can be found at:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg59128.html

Thanks,
-Jeff

Entropy is quickly depleted under normal operations like ls(1), cat(1),
etc...  between 2.6.30 to current mainline, for instance:

$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
3428
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
2911
$cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
2620

We observed this problem has been occurring since 2.6.30 with
fs/binfmt_elf.c: create_elf_tables()->get_random_bytes(), introduced by
f06295b44c296c8f ("ELF: implement AT_RANDOM for glibc PRNG seeding").

/*
 * Generate 16 random bytes for userspace PRNG seeding.
 */
get_random_bytes(k_rand_bytes, sizeof(k_rand_bytes));

The patch introduces a wrapper around get_random_int() which has lower
overhead than calling get_random_bytes() directly.

With this patch applied:
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
2731
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
2802
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
2878

Analyzed by John Sobecki.

Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <aedilger@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnn@arndb.de>
Cc: John Sobecki <john.sobecki@oracle.com>
Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
ARM: 7173/1: Add optimised swahb32() byteswap helper for v6 and above

ARMv6 and later processors have the REV16 instruction, which swaps
the bytes within each halfword of a register value.

This is already used to implement swab16(), but since the native
operation performaed by REV16 is actually swahb32(), this patch
renames the existing swab16() helper accordingly and defines
__arch_swab16() in terms of it.  This allows calls to both swab16()
and swahb32() to be optimised.

The compiler's generated code might improve someday, but as of
4.5.2 the code generated for pure C implementing these 16-bit
bytesswaps remains pessimal.

swahb32() is useful for converting 32-bit Thumb instructions
between integer and memory representation on BE8 platforms (among
other uses).

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
ARM: spinlock: use ticket algorithm for ARMv6+ locking implementation

Ticket spinlocks ensure locking fairness by reducing the thundering herd
effect when acquiring a lock. This is especially important on systems
where memory-access times are not necessarily uniform when accessing
the lock structure (for example, on a multi-cluster platform where the
lock is allocated into L1 when a CPU releases it).

This patch implements the ticket spinlock algorithm for ARM, replacing
the simpler implementation for ARMv6+ processors.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
ARM: Don't enable GENERIC_LOCKBREAK with ticket spinlocks

Now that ARM has implemented its spinlocks with tickets we don't
need to use the generic lockbreak algorithm. Remove the Kconfig
from ARM so that we use the arch_spin_is_contended() definition
from the asm header. This also saves a word in each lock because
we don't need the break_lock member anymore.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
switch the protection of percpu_counter list to spinlock

... making percpu_counter_destroy() non-blocking

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
lib: strncpy_from_user && strnlen_user

Change-Id: I60d45f8d25848d32fd7bdbccb424f1862144bdc8
config: strncpy_from_user && strnlen_user