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Dan Williams 966d23a006 libnvdimm/label: Clear 'updating' flag after label-set update
The UEFI 2.7 specification sets expectations that the 'updating' flag is
eventually cleared. To date, the libnvdimm core has never adhered to
that protocol. The policy of the core matches the policy of other
multi-device info-block formats like MD-Software-RAID that expect
administrator intervention on inconsistent info-blocks, not automatic
invalidation.

However, some pre-boot environments may unfortunately attempt to "clean
up" the labels and invalidate a set when it fails to find at least one
"non-updating" label in the set. Clear the updating flag after set
updates to minimize the window of vulnerability to aggressive pre-boot
environments.

Ideally implementations would not write to the label area outside of
creating namespaces.

Note that this only minimizes the window, it does not close it as the
system can still crash while clearing the flag and the set can be
subsequently deleted / invalidated by the pre-boot environment.

Fixes: f524bf271a ("libnvdimm: write pmem label set")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Kelly Couch <kelly.j.couch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2019-01-15 10:47:00 -08:00
arch ARM: SoC fixes 2019-01-14 10:34:14 +12:00
block block: fix kerneldoc comment for blk_attempt_plug_merge() 2019-01-09 15:29:08 -07:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto Kconfig updates for v4.21 2018-12-29 13:03:29 -08:00
Documentation ARM: SoC fixes 2019-01-14 10:34:14 +12:00
drivers libnvdimm/label: Clear 'updating' flag after label-set update 2019-01-15 10:47:00 -08:00
firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
fs for-5.0-rc1-tag 2019-01-14 05:55:51 +12:00
include ARM: SoC fixes 2019-01-14 10:34:14 +12:00
init jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
ipc
kernel kernel/sys.c: Clarify that UNAME26 does not generate unique versions anymore 2019-01-14 10:38:03 +12:00
lib Kbuild late updates for v4.21 2019-01-06 16:33:10 -08:00
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mm mm/mmu_notifier: mm/rmap.c: Fix a mmu_notifier range bug in try_to_unmap_one 2019-01-10 02:58:21 -08:00
net libceph: allow setting abort_on_full for rbd 2019-01-07 22:47:48 +01:00
samples samples/seccomp: Fix 32-bit build 2019-01-08 07:45:01 +01:00
scripts remove dma_zalloc_coherent 2019-01-12 10:52:40 -08:00
security Merge branch 'mount.part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-01-05 13:25:58 -08:00
sound remove dma_zalloc_coherent 2019-01-12 10:52:40 -08:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-01-11 09:44:05 -08:00
usr
virt KVM: validate userspace input in kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect() 2019-01-11 18:38:07 +01:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap A few early MIPS fixes for 4.21: 2019-01-05 12:48:25 -08:00
COPYING
CREDITS Add CREDITS entry for Shaohua Li 2019-01-04 14:27:09 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules 2019-01-06 10:22:35 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Staging driver fixes for 5.0-rc2 2019-01-14 05:49:35 +12:00
Makefile Linux 5.0-rc2 2019-01-14 10:41:12 +12:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.