Btrfs: limit the global reserve to 512mb

commit fdf30d1c1b386e1b73116cc7e0fb14e962b763b0 upstream.

A user reported a problem where he was getting early ENOSPC with hundreds of
gigs of free data space and 6 gigs of free metadata space.  This is because the
global block reserve was taking up the entire free metadata space.  This is
ridiculous, we have infrastructure in place to throttle if we start using too
much of the global reserve, so instead of letting it get this huge just limit it
to 512mb so that users can still get work done.  This allowed the user to
complete his rsync without issues.  Thanks

Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
KVM: Clean up error handling during VCPU creation

commit d780592b99d7d8a5ff905f6bacca519d4a342c76 upstream.

So far kvm_arch_vcpu_setup is responsible for freeing the vcpu struct if
it fails. Move this confusing resonsibility back into the hands of
kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu. Only kvm_arch_vcpu_setup of x86 is affected,
all other archs cannot fail.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
x25: Validate incoming call user data lengths

commit c7fd0d48bde943e228e9c28ce971a22d6a1744c4 upstream.

X.25 call user data is being copied in its entirety from incoming messages
without consideration to the size of the destination buffers, leading to
possible buffer overflows. Validate incoming call user data lengths before
these copies are performed.

It appears this issue was noticed some time ago, however nothing seemed to
come of it: see http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-x25/msg00043.html and
commit 8db09f26f912f7c90c764806e804b558da520d4f.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Daley <mattjd@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
x25: Handle undersized/fragmented skbs

commit cb101ed2c3c7c0224d16953fe77bfb9d6c2cb9df upstream.

There are multiple locations in the X.25 packet layer where a skb is
assumed to be of at least a certain size and that all its data is
currently available at skb->data.  These assumptions are not checked,
hence buffer overreads may occur.  Use pskb_may_pull to check these
minimal size assumptions and ensure that data is available at skb->data
when necessary, as well as use skb_copy_bits where needed.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Daley <mattjd@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
batman-adv: bat_socket_read missing checks

commit c00b6856fc642b234895cfabd15b289e76726430 upstream.

Writing a icmp_packet_rr and then reading icmp_packet can lead to kernel
memory corruption, if __user *buf is just below TASK_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Paul Kot <pawlkt@gmail.com>
[sven@narfation.org: made it checkpatch clean]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
batman-adv: Only write requested number of byte to user buffer

commit b5a1eeef04cc7859f34dec9b72ea1b28e4aba07c upstream.

Don't write more than the requested number of bytes of an batman-adv icmp
packet to the userspace buffer. Otherwise unrelated userspace memory might get
overridden by the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
KVM: x86: Prevent starting PIT timers in the absence of irqchip support

commit 0924ab2cfa98b1ece26c033d696651fd62896c69 upstream.

User space may create the PIT and forgets about setting up the irqchips.
In that case, firing PIT IRQs will crash the host:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000128
IP: [<ffffffffa10f6280>] kvm_set_irq+0x30/0x170 [kvm]
...
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa11228c1>] pit_do_work+0x51/0xd0 [kvm]
 [<ffffffff81071431>] process_one_work+0x111/0x4d0
 [<ffffffff81071bb2>] worker_thread+0x152/0x340
 [<ffffffff81075c8e>] kthread+0x7e/0x90
 [<ffffffff815a4474>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10

Prevent this by checking the irqchip mode before starting a timer. We
can't deny creating the PIT if the irqchips aren't set up yet as
current user land expects this order to work.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data

commit bf118a342f10dafe44b14451a1392c3254629a1f upstream.

The NFSv4 bitmap size is unbounded: a server can return an arbitrary
sized bitmap in an FATTR4_WORD0_ACL request.  Replace using the
nfs4_fattr_bitmap_maxsz as a guess to the maximum bitmask returned by a server
with the inclusion of the bitmap (xdr length plus bitmasks) and the acl data
xdr length to the (cached) acl page data.

This is a general solution to commit e5012d1f "NFSv4.1: update
nfs4_fattr_bitmap_maxsz" and fixes hitting a BUG_ON in xdr_shrink_bufhead
when getting ACLs.

Fix a bug in decode_getacl that returned -EINVAL on ACLs > page when getxattr
was called with a NULL buffer, preventing ACL > PAGE_SIZE from being retrieved.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
NFSv4: Fix an Oops in the NFSv4 getacl code

commit 331818f1c468a24e581aedcbe52af799366a9dfe upstream.

Commit bf118a342f10dafe44b14451a1392c3254629a1f (NFSv4: include bitmap
in nfsv4 get acl data) introduces the 'acl_scratch' page for the case
where we may need to decode multi-page data. However it fails to take
into account the fact that the variable may be NULL (for the case where
we're not doing multi-page decode), and it also attaches it to the
encoding xdr_stream rather than the decoding one.

The immediate result is an Oops in nfs4_xdr_enc_getacl due to the
call to page_address() with a NULL page pointer.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
NFS: nfs_getaclargs.acl_len is a size_t

commit 56d08fef2369d5ca9ad2e1fc697f5379fd8af751 upstream.

Squelch compiler warnings:

fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c: In function ‘__nfs4_get_acl_uncached’:
fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c:3811:14: warning: comparison between signed and
	unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare]
fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c:3818:15: warning: comparison between signed and
	unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare]

Introduced by commit bf118a34 "NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get
acl data", Dec 7, 2011.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
KVM: Ensure all vcpus are consistent with in-kernel irqchip settings

commit 3e515705a1f46beb1c942bb8043c16f8ac7b1e9e upstream.

If some vcpus are created before KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, then
irqchip_in_kernel() and vcpu->arch.apic will be inconsistent, leading
to potential NULL pointer dereferences.

Fix by:
- ensuring that no vcpus are installed when KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP is called
- ensuring that a vcpu has an apic if it is installed after KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP

This is somewhat long winded because vcpu->arch.apic is created without
kvm->lock held.

Based on earlier patch by Michael Ellerman.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
macvtap: zerocopy: validate vectors before building skb

commit b92946e2919134ebe2a4083e4302236295ea2a73 upstream.

There're several reasons that the vectors need to be validated:

- Return error when caller provides vectors whose num is greater than UIO_MAXIOV.
- Linearize part of skb when userspace provides vectors grater than MAX_SKB_FRAGS.
- Return error when userspace provides vectors whose total length may exceed
- MAX_SKB_FRAGS * PAGE_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.de> [patch reduced to
					the 3rd reason only for 3.0]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
KVM: Fix buffer overflow in kvm_set_irq()

commit f2ebd422f71cda9c791f76f85d2ca102ae34a1ed upstream.

kvm_set_irq() has an internal buffer of three irq routing entries, allowing
connecting a GSI to three IRQ chips or on MSI.  However setup_routing_entry()
does not properly enforce this, allowing three irqchip routes followed by
an MSI route to overflow the buffer.

Fix by ensuring that an MSI entry is added to an empty list.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
KVM: x86: invalid opcode oops on SET_SREGS with OSXSAVE bit set (CVE-2012-4461)

commit 6d1068b3a98519247d8ba4ec85cd40ac136dbdf9 upstream.

On hosts without the XSAVE support unprivileged local user can trigger
oops similar to the one below by setting X86_CR4_OSXSAVE bit in guest
cr4 register using KVM_SET_SREGS ioctl and later issuing KVM_RUN
ioctl.

invalid opcode: 0000 [#2] SMP
Modules linked in: tun ip6table_filter ip6_tables ebtable_nat ebtables
...
Pid: 24935, comm: zoog_kvm_monito Tainted: G      D      3.2.0-3-686-pae
EIP: 0060:[<f8b9550c>] EFLAGS: 00210246 CPU: 0
EIP is at kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x92a/0xd13 [kvm]
EAX: 00000001 EBX: 000f387e ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000
ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: ef5a0060 ESP: d7c63e70
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Process zoog_kvm_monito (pid: 24935, ti=d7c62000 task=ed84a0c0
task.ti=d7c62000)
Stack:
 00000001 f70a1200 f8b940a9 ef5a0060 00000000 00200202 f8769009 00000000
 ef5a0060 000f387e eda5c020 8722f9c8 00015bae 00000000 ed84a0c0 ed84a0c0
 c12bf02d 0000ae80 ef7f8740 fffffffb f359b740 ef5a0060 f8b85dc1 0000ae80
Call Trace:
 [<f8b940a9>] ? kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_sregs+0x2fe/0x308 [kvm]
...
 [<c12bfb44>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: 89 e8 e8 14 ee ff ff ba 00 00 04 00 89 e8 e8 98 48 ff ff 85 c0 74
1e 83 7d 48 00 75 18 8b 85 08 07 00 00 31 c9 8b 95 0c 07 00 00 <0f> 01
d1 c7 45 48 01 00 00 00 c7 45 1c 01 00 00 00 0f ae f0 89
EIP: [<f8b9550c>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x92a/0xd13 [kvm] SS:ESP
0068:d7c63e70

QEMU first retrieves the supported features via KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID
and then sets them later. So guest's X86_FEATURE_XSAVE should be masked
out on hosts without X86_FEATURE_XSAVE, making kvm_set_cr4 with
X86_CR4_OSXSAVE fail. Userspaces that allow specifying guest cpuid with
X86_FEATURE_XSAVE even on hosts that do not support it, might be
susceptible to this attack from inside the guest as well.

Allow setting X86_CR4_OSXSAVE bit only if host has XSAVE support.

Signed-off-by: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
loop: prevent bdev freeing while device in use

commit c1681bf8a7b1b98edee8b862a42c19c4e53205fd upstream.

struct block_device lifecycle is defined by its inode (see fs/block_dev.c) -
block_device allocated first time we access /dev/loopXX and deallocated on
bdev_destroy_inode. When we create the device "losetup /dev/loopXX afile"
we want that block_device stay alive until we destroy the loop device
with "losetup -d".

But because we do not hold /dev/loopXX inode its counter goes 0, and
inode/bdev can be destroyed at any moment. Usually it happens at memory
pressure or when user drops inode cache (like in the test below). When later in
loop_clr_fd() we want to use bdev we have use-after-free error with following
stack:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000280
  bd_set_size+0x10/0xa0
  loop_clr_fd+0x1f8/0x420 [loop]
  lo_ioctl+0x200/0x7e0 [loop]
  lo_compat_ioctl+0x47/0xe0 [loop]
  compat_blkdev_ioctl+0x341/0x1290
  do_filp_open+0x42/0xa0
  compat_sys_ioctl+0xc1/0xf20
  do_sys_open+0x16e/0x1d0
  sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x1a

To prevent use-after-free we need to grab the device in loop_set_fd()
and put it later in loop_clr_fd().

The issue is reprodusible on current Linus head and v3.3. Here is the test:

  dd if=/dev/zero of=loop.file bs=1M count=1
  while [ true ]; do
    losetup /dev/loop0 loop.file
    echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
    losetup -d /dev/loop0
  done

[ Doing bdgrab/bput in loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd is safe, because every
  time we call loop_set_fd() we check that loop_device->lo_state is
  Lo_unbound and set it to Lo_bound If somebody will try to set_fd again
  it will get EBUSY.  And if we try to loop_clr_fd() on unbound loop
  device we'll get ENXIO.

  loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd (and any other loop ioctl) is called under
  loop_device->lo_ctl_mutex. ]

Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
nfsd4: reject "negative" acl lengths

commit 64a817cfbded8674f345d1117b117f942a351a69 upstream.

Since we only enforce an upper bound, not a lower bound, a "negative"
length can get through here.

The symptom seen was a warning when we attempt to a kmalloc with an
excessive size.

Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drm/i915: don't set unpin_work if vblank_get fails

commit 7317c75e66fce0c9f82fbe6f72f7e5256b315422 upstream.

This fixes a race where we may try to finish a page flip and decrement
the refcount even if our vblank_get failed and we ended up with a
spurious flip pending interrupt.

Fixes https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34211.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drm/i915: Don't clobber crtc->fb when queue_flip fails

commit 4a35f83b2b7c6aae3fc0d1c4554fdc99dc33ad07 upstream.

Restore crtc->fb to the old framebuffer if queue_flip fails.

While at it, kill the pointless intel_fb temp variable.

v2: Update crtc->fb before queue_flip and restore it back
    after a failure.

[Backported for 3.0-stable. Adjusted context. Please
cherry-pick commit 7317c75e66fce0c9f82fbe6f72f7e5256b315422
upstream before this patch as it provides necessary context
and fixes a panic.]

Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
efivars: explicitly calculate length of VariableName

commit ec50bd32f1672d38ddce10fb1841cbfda89cfe9a upstream.

It's not wise to assume VariableNameSize represents the length of
VariableName, as not all firmware updates VariableNameSize in the same
way (some don't update it at all if EFI_SUCCESS is returned). There
are even implementations out there that update VariableNameSize with
values that are both larger than the string returned in VariableName
and smaller than the buffer passed to GetNextVariableName(), which
resulted in the following bug report from Michael Schroeder,

  > On HP z220 system (firmware version 1.54), some EFI variables are
  > incorrectly named :
  >
  > ls -d /sys/firmware/efi/vars/*8be4d* | grep -v -- -8be returns
  > /sys/firmware/efi/vars/dbxDefault-pport8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
  > /sys/firmware/efi/vars/KEKDefault-pport8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
  > /sys/firmware/efi/vars/SecureBoot-pport8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
  > /sys/firmware/efi/vars/SetupMode-Information8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c

The issue here is that because we blindly use VariableNameSize without
verifying its value, we can potentially read garbage values from the
buffer containing VariableName if VariableNameSize is larger than the
length of VariableName.

Since VariableName is a string, we can calculate its size by searching
for the terminating NULL character.

[Backported for 3.8-stable. Removed workqueue code added in
a93bc0c 3.9-rc1.]

Reported-by: Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.com>
Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Cc: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
efivars: Handle duplicate names from get_next_variable()

commit e971318bbed610e28bb3fde9d548e6aaf0a6b02e upstream.

Some firmware exhibits a bug where the same VariableName and
VendorGuid values are returned on multiple invocations of
GetNextVariableName(). See,

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47631

As a consequence of such a bug, Andre reports hitting the following
WARN_ON() in the sysfs code after updating the BIOS on his, "Gigabyte
Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./Z77X-UD3H, BIOS F19e
11/21/2012)" machine,

[    0.581554] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
[    0.584914] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    0.585639] WARNING: at /home/andre/linux/fs/sysfs/dir.c:536 sysfs_add_one+0xd4/0x100()
[    0.586381] Hardware name: To be filled by O.E.M.
[    0.587123] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/firmware/efi/vars/SbAslBufferPtrVar-01f33c25-764d-43ea-aeea-6b5a41f3f3e8'
[    0.588694] Modules linked in:
[    0.589484] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.8.0+ #7
[    0.590280] Call Trace:
[    0.591066]  [<ffffffff81208954>] ? sysfs_add_one+0xd4/0x100
[    0.591861]  [<ffffffff810587bf>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[    0.592650]  [<ffffffff810588bc>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50
[    0.593429]  [<ffffffff8134dd85>] ? strlcat+0x65/0x80
[    0.594203]  [<ffffffff81208954>] sysfs_add_one+0xd4/0x100
[    0.594979]  [<ffffffff81208b78>] create_dir+0x78/0xd0
[    0.595753]  [<ffffffff81208ec6>] sysfs_create_dir+0x86/0xe0
[    0.596532]  [<ffffffff81347e4c>] kobject_add_internal+0x9c/0x220
[    0.597310]  [<ffffffff81348307>] kobject_init_and_add+0x67/0x90
[    0.598083]  [<ffffffff81584a71>] ? efivar_create_sysfs_entry+0x61/0x1c0
[    0.598859]  [<ffffffff81584b2b>] efivar_create_sysfs_entry+0x11b/0x1c0
[    0.599631]  [<ffffffff8158517e>] register_efivars+0xde/0x420
[    0.600395]  [<ffffffff81d430a7>] ? edd_init+0x2f5/0x2f5
[    0.601150]  [<ffffffff81d4315f>] efivars_init+0xb8/0x104
[    0.601903]  [<ffffffff8100215a>] do_one_initcall+0x12a/0x180
[    0.602659]  [<ffffffff81d05d80>] kernel_init_freeable+0x13e/0x1c6
[    0.603418]  [<ffffffff81d05586>] ? loglevel+0x31/0x31
[    0.604183]  [<ffffffff816a6530>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[    0.604936]  [<ffffffff816a653e>] kernel_init+0xe/0xf0
[    0.605681]  [<ffffffff816ce7ec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[    0.606414]  [<ffffffff816a6530>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[    0.607143] ---[ end trace 1609741ab737eb29 ]---

There's not much we can do to work around and keep traversing the
variable list once we hit this firmware bug. Our only solution is to
terminate the loop because, as Lingzhu reports, some machines get
stuck when they encounter duplicate names,

  > I had an IBM System x3100 M4 and x3850 X5 on which kernel would
  > get stuck in infinite loop creating duplicate sysfs files because,
  > for some reason, there are several duplicate boot entries in nvram
  > getting GetNextVariableName into a circle of iteration (with
  > period > 2).

Also disable the workqueue, as efivar_update_sysfs_entries() uses
GetNextVariableName() to figure out which variables have been created
since the last iteration. That algorithm isn't going to work if
GetNextVariableName() returns duplicates. Note that we don't disable
EFI variable creation completely on the affected machines, it's just
that any pstore dump-* files won't appear in sysfs until the next
boot.

[Backported for 3.0-stable. Removed code related to pstore
workqueue but pulled in helper function variable_is_present
from a93bc0c; Moved the definition of __efivars to the top
for being referenced in variable_is_present.]

Reported-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>