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| author | Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com> | 2026-08-21 01:45:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> | 2026-08-29 07:32:26 +0100 |
| commit | 78004e9a87f240df03e2f73120d291763c32e0a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 137c22dd795222931b9d2bf2501d37cd766741aa /Documentation/block/stat.rst | |
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openrisc: fix arbitrary kernel memory access via or1k_atomic syscallgrafted
sys_or1k_atomic() (syscall 244 in the "or1k" ABI) takes two user
pointers, v1 and v2, and swaps the words they point to in hand-written
assembly.
l.lwz r29,0(r4)
l.lwz r27,0(r5)
l.sw 0(r4),r27
l.sw 0(r5),r29
The pointers are not checked with access_ok(). The four memory
accesses also have no exception table entries.
A caller passes a kernel address as either pointer, and the syscall
reads from and writes to it directly.
This gives an unprivileged process a kernel read/write primitive. It
overwrites kernel data such as the sys_call_table, gaining code
execution in kernel context.
Check both pointers before entering the critical section. Add fixups
for the four memory accesses so faults on valid but unmapped user
addresses return -EFAULT.
[shorne@gmail.com: fix comment style]
Fixes: 9d02a4283e9c ("OpenRISC: Boot code")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/block/stat.rst b/Documentation/block/stat.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a1cd9db20 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/block/stat.rst @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +=============================================== +Block layer statistics in /sys/block/<dev>/stat +=============================================== + +This file documents the contents of the /sys/block/<dev>/stat file. + +The stat file provides several statistics about the state of block +device <dev>. + +Q. + Why are there multiple statistics in a single file? Doesn't sysfs + normally contain a single value per file? + +A. + By having a single file, the kernel can guarantee that the statistics + represent a consistent snapshot of the state of the device. If the + statistics were exported as multiple files containing one statistic + each, it would be impossible to guarantee that a set of readings + represent a single point in time. + +The stat file consists of a single line of text containing 17 decimal +values separated by whitespace. The fields are summarized in the +following table, and described in more detail below. + + +=============== ============= ================================================= +Name units description +=============== ============= ================================================= +read I/Os requests number of read I/Os processed +read merges requests number of read I/Os merged with in-queue I/O +read sectors sectors number of sectors read +read ticks milliseconds total wait time for read requests +write I/Os requests number of write I/Os processed +write merges requests number of write I/Os merged with in-queue I/O +write sectors sectors number of sectors written +write ticks milliseconds total wait time for write requests +in_flight requests number of I/Os currently in flight +io_ticks milliseconds total time this block device has been active +time_in_queue milliseconds total wait time for all requests +discard I/Os requests number of discard I/Os processed +discard merges requests number of discard I/Os merged with in-queue I/O +discard sectors sectors number of sectors discarded +discard ticks milliseconds total wait time for discard requests +flush I/Os requests number of flush I/Os processed +flush ticks milliseconds total wait time for flush requests +=============== ============= ================================================= + +read I/Os, write I/Os, discard I/0s +=================================== + +These values increment when an I/O request completes. + +flush I/Os +========== + +These values increment when an flush I/O request completes. + +Block layer combines flush requests and executes at most one at a time. +This counts flush requests executed by disk. Not tracked for partitions. + +read merges, write merges, discard merges +========================================= + +These values increment when an I/O request is merged with an +already-queued I/O request. + +read sectors, write sectors, discard_sectors +============================================ + +These values count the number of sectors read from, written to, or +discarded from this block device. The "sectors" in question are the +standard UNIX 512-byte sectors, not any device- or filesystem-specific +block size. The counters are incremented when the I/O completes. + +read ticks, write ticks, discard ticks, flush ticks +=================================================== + +These values count the number of milliseconds that I/O requests have +waited on this block device. If there are multiple I/O requests waiting, +these values will increase at a rate greater than 1000/second; for +example, if 60 read requests wait for an average of 30 ms, the read_ticks +field will increase by 60*30 = 1800. + +in_flight +========= + +This value counts the number of I/O requests that have been issued to +the device driver but have not yet completed. It does not include I/O +requests that are in the queue but not yet issued to the device driver. + +io_ticks +======== + +This value counts the number of milliseconds during which the device has +had I/O requests queued. + +time_in_queue +============= + +This value counts the number of milliseconds that I/O requests have waited +on this block device. If there are multiple I/O requests waiting, this +value will increase as the product of the number of milliseconds times the +number of requests waiting (see "read ticks" above for an example). |
