Driver core fixes for 3.16-rc4

Well, one drivercore fix for kernfs to resolve a reported issue with
 sysfs files being updated from atomic contexts, and another lz4 bugfix
 for testing potential buffer overflows.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.16-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core fixes from Greg KH:
 "Well, one drivercore fix for kernfs to resolve a reported issue with
  sysfs files being updated from atomic contexts, and another lz4 bugfix
  for testing potential buffer overflows"

* tag 'driver-core-3.16-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
  lz4: add overrun checks to lz4_uncompress_unknownoutputsize()
  kernfs: kernfs_notify() must be useable from non-sleepable contexts

fs/kernfs/file.c

@@ -39,6 +39,19 @@ struct kernfs_open_node {
 	struct list_head	files; /* goes through kernfs_open_file.list */
 };
 
+/*
+ * kernfs_notify() may be called from any context and bounces notifications
+ * through a work item.  To minimize space overhead in kernfs_node, the
+ * pending queue is implemented as a singly linked list of kernfs_nodes.
+ * The list is terminated with the self pointer so that whether a
+ * kernfs_node is on the list or not can be determined by testing the next
+ * pointer for NULL.
+ */
+#define KERNFS_NOTIFY_EOL			((void *)&kernfs_notify_list)
+
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kernfs_notify_lock);
+static struct kernfs_node *kernfs_notify_list = KERNFS_NOTIFY_EOL;
+
 static struct kernfs_open_file *kernfs_of(struct file *file)
 {
 	return ((struct seq_file *)file->private_data)->private;
@@ -783,24 +796,25 @@ static unsigned int kernfs_fop_poll(struct file *filp, poll_table *wait)
 	return DEFAULT_POLLMASK|POLLERR|POLLPRI;
 }
 
-/**
+static void kernfs_notify_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
- * kernfs_notify - notify a kernfs file
- * @kn: file to notify
- *
- * Notify @kn such that poll(2) on @kn wakes up.
- */
-void kernfs_notify(struct kernfs_node *kn)
 {
-	struct kernfs_root *root = kernfs_root(kn);
+	struct kernfs_node *kn;
 	struct kernfs_open_node *on;
 	struct kernfs_super_info *info;
-	unsigned long flags;
+repeat:
-
+	/* pop one off the notify_list */
-	if (WARN_ON(kernfs_type(kn) != KERNFS_FILE))
+	spin_lock_irq(&kernfs_notify_lock);
+	kn = kernfs_notify_list;
+	if (kn == KERNFS_NOTIFY_EOL) {
+		spin_unlock_irq(&kernfs_notify_lock);
 		return;
+	}
+	kernfs_notify_list = kn->attr.notify_next;
+	kn->attr.notify_next = NULL;
+	spin_unlock_irq(&kernfs_notify_lock);
 
 	/* kick poll */
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&kernfs_open_node_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irq(&kernfs_open_node_lock);
 
 	on = kn->attr.open;
 	if (on) {
@@ -808,12 +822,12 @@ void kernfs_notify(struct kernfs_node *kn)
 		wake_up_interruptible(&on->poll);
 	}
 
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kernfs_open_node_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&kernfs_open_node_lock);
 
 	/* kick fsnotify */
 	mutex_lock(&kernfs_mutex);
 
-	list_for_each_entry(info, &root->supers, node) {
+	list_for_each_entry(info, &kernfs_root(kn)->supers, node) {
 		struct inode *inode;
 		struct dentry *dentry;
 
@@ -833,6 +847,33 @@ void kernfs_notify(struct kernfs_node *kn)
 	}
 
 	mutex_unlock(&kernfs_mutex);
+	kernfs_put(kn);
+	goto repeat;
+}
+
+/**
+ * kernfs_notify - notify a kernfs file
+ * @kn: file to notify
+ *
+ * Notify @kn such that poll(2) on @kn wakes up.  Maybe be called from any
+ * context.
+ */
+void kernfs_notify(struct kernfs_node *kn)
+{
+	static DECLARE_WORK(kernfs_notify_work, kernfs_notify_workfn);
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	if (WARN_ON(kernfs_type(kn) != KERNFS_FILE))
+		return;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&kernfs_notify_lock, flags);
+	if (!kn->attr.notify_next) {
+		kernfs_get(kn);
+		kn->attr.notify_next = kernfs_notify_list;
+		kernfs_notify_list = kn;
+		schedule_work(&kernfs_notify_work);
+	}
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kernfs_notify_lock, flags);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernfs_notify);
 

include/linux/kernfs.h

@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ struct kernfs_elem_attr {
 	const struct kernfs_ops	*ops;
 	struct kernfs_open_node	*open;
 	loff_t			size;
+	struct kernfs_node	*notify_next;	/* for kernfs_notify() */
 };
 
 /*

lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c

@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ static int lz4_uncompress_unknownoutputsize(const char *source, char *dest,
 			int s = 255;
 			while ((ip < iend) && (s == 255)) {
 				s = *ip++;
+				if (unlikely(length > (size_t)(length + s)))
+					goto _output_error;
 				length += s;
 			}
 		}
@@ -232,6 +234,8 @@ static int lz4_uncompress_unknownoutputsize(const char *source, char *dest,
 		if (length == ML_MASK) {
 			while (ip < iend) {
 				int s = *ip++;
+				if (unlikely(length > (size_t)(length + s)))
+					goto _output_error;
 				length += s;
 				if (s == 255)
 					continue;
@@ -284,7 +288,7 @@ static int lz4_uncompress_unknownoutputsize(const char *source, char *dest,
 
 	/* write overflow error detected */
 _output_error:
-	return (int) (-(((char *) ip) - source));
+	return -1;
 }
 
 int lz4_decompress(const unsigned char *src, size_t *src_len,