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<entry>
<title>Revert "mm: mmap: allow for the maximum number of bits for randomizing mmap_base by default"</title>
<updated>2024-06-27T11:52:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-17T19:57:03+00:00</published>
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commit 14d7c92f8df9c0964ae6f8b813c1b3ac38120825 upstream.

This reverts commit 3afb76a66b5559a7b595155803ce23801558a7a9.

This was a wrongheaded workaround for an issue that had already been
fixed much better by commit 4ef9ad19e176 ("mm: huge_memory: don't force
huge page alignment on 32 bit").

Asking users questions at kernel compile time that they can't make sense
of is not a viable strategy.  And the fact that even the kernel VM
maintainers apparently didn't catch that this "fix" is not a fix any
more pretty much proves the point that people can't be expected to
understand the implications of the question.

It may well be the case that we could improve things further, and that
__thp_get_unmapped_area() should take the mapping randomization into
account even for 64-bit kernels.  Maybe we should not be so eager to use
THP mappings.

But in no case should this be a kernel config option.

Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 14d7c92f8df9c0964ae6f8b813c1b3ac38120825 upstream.

This reverts commit 3afb76a66b5559a7b595155803ce23801558a7a9.

This was a wrongheaded workaround for an issue that had already been
fixed much better by commit 4ef9ad19e176 ("mm: huge_memory: don't force
huge page alignment on 32 bit").

Asking users questions at kernel compile time that they can't make sense
of is not a viable strategy.  And the fact that even the kernel VM
maintainers apparently didn't catch that this "fix" is not a fix any
more pretty much proves the point that people can't be expected to
understand the implications of the question.

It may well be the case that we could improve things further, and that
__thp_get_unmapped_area() should take the mapping randomization into
account even for 64-bit kernels.  Maybe we should not be so eager to use
THP mappings.

But in no case should this be a kernel config option.

Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: mmap: allow for the maximum number of bits for randomizing mmap_base by default</title>
<updated>2024-06-27T11:52:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael Aquini</name>
<email>aquini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-06T18:06:22+00:00</published>
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commit 3afb76a66b5559a7b595155803ce23801558a7a9 upstream.

An ASLR regression was noticed [1] and tracked down to file-mapped areas
being backed by THP in recent kernels.  The 21-bit alignment constraint
for such mappings reduces the entropy for randomizing the placement of
64-bit library mappings and breaks ASLR completely for 32-bit libraries.

The reported issue is easily addressed by increasing vm.mmap_rnd_bits and
vm.mmap_rnd_compat_bits.  This patch just provides a simple way to set
ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS and ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS to their maximum values
allowed by the architecture at build time.

[1] https://zolutal.github.io/aslrnt/

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: default to `y' if 32-bit, per Rafael]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240606180622.102099-1-aquini@redhat.com
Fixes: 1854bc6e2420 ("mm/readahead: Align file mappings for non-DAX")
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Samuel Holland &lt;samuel.holland@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 3afb76a66b5559a7b595155803ce23801558a7a9 upstream.

An ASLR regression was noticed [1] and tracked down to file-mapped areas
being backed by THP in recent kernels.  The 21-bit alignment constraint
for such mappings reduces the entropy for randomizing the placement of
64-bit library mappings and breaks ASLR completely for 32-bit libraries.

The reported issue is easily addressed by increasing vm.mmap_rnd_bits and
vm.mmap_rnd_compat_bits.  This patch just provides a simple way to set
ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS and ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS to their maximum values
allowed by the architecture at build time.

[1] https://zolutal.github.io/aslrnt/

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: default to `y' if 32-bit, per Rafael]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240606180622.102099-1-aquini@redhat.com
Fixes: 1854bc6e2420 ("mm/readahead: Align file mappings for non-DAX")
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Samuel Holland &lt;samuel.holland@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpu: Re-enable CPU mitigations by default for !X86 architectures</title>
<updated>2024-04-25T13:47:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-20T00:05:54+00:00</published>
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Rename x86's to CPU_MITIGATIONS, define it in generic code, and force it
on for all architectures exception x86.  A recent commit to turn
mitigations off by default if SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n kinda sorta
missed that "cpu_mitigations" is completely generic, whereas
SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS is x86-specific.

Rename x86's SPECULATIVE_MITIGATIONS instead of keeping both and have it
select CPU_MITIGATIONS, as having two configs for the same thing is
unnecessary and confusing.  This will also allow x86 to use the knob to
manage mitigations that aren't strictly related to speculative
execution.

Use another Kconfig to communicate to common code that CPU_MITIGATIONS
is already defined instead of having x86's menu depend on the common
CPU_MITIGATIONS.  This allows keeping a single point of contact for all
of x86's mitigations, and it's not clear that other architectures *want*
to allow disabling mitigations at compile-time.

Fixes: f337a6a21e2f ("x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n")
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240413115324.53303a68%40canb.auug.org.au
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240420000556.2645001-2-seanjc@google.com
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Rename x86's to CPU_MITIGATIONS, define it in generic code, and force it
on for all architectures exception x86.  A recent commit to turn
mitigations off by default if SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n kinda sorta
missed that "cpu_mitigations" is completely generic, whereas
SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS is x86-specific.

Rename x86's SPECULATIVE_MITIGATIONS instead of keeping both and have it
select CPU_MITIGATIONS, as having two configs for the same thing is
unnecessary and confusing.  This will also allow x86 to use the knob to
manage mitigations that aren't strictly related to speculative
execution.

Use another Kconfig to communicate to common code that CPU_MITIGATIONS
is already defined instead of having x86's menu depend on the common
CPU_MITIGATIONS.  This allows keeping a single point of contact for all
of x86's mitigations, and it's not clear that other architectures *want*
to allow disabling mitigations at compile-time.

Fixes: f337a6a21e2f ("x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n")
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240413115324.53303a68%40canb.auug.org.au
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240420000556.2645001-2-seanjc@google.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Kconfig: add some hidden tabs on purpose</title>
<updated>2024-04-12T17:05:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-12T17:05:10+00:00</published>
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Commit d96c36004e31 ("tracing: Fix FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE Kconfig
entry") removed a hidden tab because it apparently showed breakage in
some third-party kernel config parsing tool.

It wasn't clear what tool it was, but let's make sure it gets fixed.
Because if you can't parse tabs as whitespace, you should not be parsing
the kernel Kconfig files.

In fact, let's make such breakage more obvious than some esoteric ftrace
record size option.  If you can't parse tabs, you can't have page sizes.

Yes, tab-vs-space confusion is sadly a traditional Unix thing, and
'make' is famous for being broken in this regard.  But no, that does not
mean that it's ok.

I'd add more random tabs to our Kconfig files, but I don't want to make
things uglier than necessary.  But it *might* bbe necessary if it turns
out we see more of this kind of silly tooling.

Fixes: d96c36004e31 ("tracing: Fix FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE Kconfig entry")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wj-hLLN_t_m5OL4dXLaxvXKy_axuoJYXif7iczbfgAevQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit d96c36004e31 ("tracing: Fix FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE Kconfig
entry") removed a hidden tab because it apparently showed breakage in
some third-party kernel config parsing tool.

It wasn't clear what tool it was, but let's make sure it gets fixed.
Because if you can't parse tabs as whitespace, you should not be parsing
the kernel Kconfig files.

In fact, let's make such breakage more obvious than some esoteric ftrace
record size option.  If you can't parse tabs, you can't have page sizes.

Yes, tab-vs-space confusion is sadly a traditional Unix thing, and
'make' is famous for being broken in this regard.  But no, that does not
mean that it's ok.

I'd add more random tabs to our Kconfig files, but I don't want to make
things uglier than necessary.  But it *might* bbe necessary if it turns
out we see more of this kind of silly tooling.

Fixes: d96c36004e31 ("tracing: Fix FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION_SIZE Kconfig entry")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wj-hLLN_t_m5OL4dXLaxvXKy_axuoJYXif7iczbfgAevQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'hardening-v6.9-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2024-03-23T15:43:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-23T15:43:21+00:00</published>
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Pull more hardening updates from Kees Cook:

 - CONFIG_MEMCPY_SLOW_KUNIT_TEST is no longer needed (Guenter Roeck)

 - Fix needless UTF-8 character in arch/Kconfig (Liu Song)

 - Improve __counted_by warning message in LKDTM (Nathan Chancellor)

 - Refactor DEFINE_FLEX() for default use of __counted_by

 - Disable signed integer overflow sanitizer on GCC &lt; 8

* tag 'hardening-v6.9-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  lkdtm/bugs: Improve warning message for compilers without counted_by support
  overflow: Change DEFINE_FLEX to take __counted_by member
  Revert "kunit: memcpy: Split slow memcpy tests into MEMCPY_SLOW_KUNIT_TEST"
  arch/Kconfig: eliminate needless UTF-8 character in Kconfig help
  ubsan: Disable signed integer overflow sanitizer on GCC &lt; 8
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Pull more hardening updates from Kees Cook:

 - CONFIG_MEMCPY_SLOW_KUNIT_TEST is no longer needed (Guenter Roeck)

 - Fix needless UTF-8 character in arch/Kconfig (Liu Song)

 - Improve __counted_by warning message in LKDTM (Nathan Chancellor)

 - Refactor DEFINE_FLEX() for default use of __counted_by

 - Disable signed integer overflow sanitizer on GCC &lt; 8

* tag 'hardening-v6.9-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  lkdtm/bugs: Improve warning message for compilers without counted_by support
  overflow: Change DEFINE_FLEX to take __counted_by member
  Revert "kunit: memcpy: Split slow memcpy tests into MEMCPY_SLOW_KUNIT_TEST"
  arch/Kconfig: eliminate needless UTF-8 character in Kconfig help
  ubsan: Disable signed integer overflow sanitizer on GCC &lt; 8
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2024-03-21T21:41:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-21T21:41:00+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Generate a list of built DTB files (arch/*/boot/dts/dtbs-list)

 - Use more threads when building Debian packages in parallel

 - Fix warnings shown during the RPM kernel package uninstallation

 - Change OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_*.o etc. to take a relative path to
   Makefile

 - Support GCC's -fmin-function-alignment flag

 - Fix a null pointer dereference bug in modpost

 - Add the DTB support to the RPM package

 - Various fixes and cleanups in Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (67 commits)
  kconfig: tests: test dependency after shuffling choices
  kconfig: tests: add a test for randconfig with dependent choices
  kconfig: tests: support KCONFIG_SEED for the randconfig runner
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: add dtb files in kernel rpm
  kconfig: remove unneeded menu_is_visible() call in conf_write_defconfig()
  kconfig: check prompt for choice while parsing
  kconfig: lxdialog: remove unused dialog colors
  kconfig: lxdialog: fix button color for blackbg theme
  modpost: fix null pointer dereference
  kbuild: remove GCC's default -Wpacked-bitfield-compat flag
  kbuild: unexport abs_srctree and abs_objtree
  kbuild: Move -Wenum-{compare-conditional,enum-conversion} into W=1
  kconfig: remove named choice support
  kconfig: use linked list in get_symbol_str() to iterate over menus
  kconfig: link menus to a symbol
  kbuild: fix inconsistent indentation in top Makefile
  kbuild: Use -fmin-function-alignment when available
  alpha: merge two entries for CONFIG_ALPHA_GAMMA
  alpha: merge two entries for CONFIG_ALPHA_EV4
  kbuild: change DTC_FLAGS_&lt;basetarget&gt;.o to take the path relative to $(obj)
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Generate a list of built DTB files (arch/*/boot/dts/dtbs-list)

 - Use more threads when building Debian packages in parallel

 - Fix warnings shown during the RPM kernel package uninstallation

 - Change OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_*.o etc. to take a relative path to
   Makefile

 - Support GCC's -fmin-function-alignment flag

 - Fix a null pointer dereference bug in modpost

 - Add the DTB support to the RPM package

 - Various fixes and cleanups in Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (67 commits)
  kconfig: tests: test dependency after shuffling choices
  kconfig: tests: add a test for randconfig with dependent choices
  kconfig: tests: support KCONFIG_SEED for the randconfig runner
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: add dtb files in kernel rpm
  kconfig: remove unneeded menu_is_visible() call in conf_write_defconfig()
  kconfig: check prompt for choice while parsing
  kconfig: lxdialog: remove unused dialog colors
  kconfig: lxdialog: fix button color for blackbg theme
  modpost: fix null pointer dereference
  kbuild: remove GCC's default -Wpacked-bitfield-compat flag
  kbuild: unexport abs_srctree and abs_objtree
  kbuild: Move -Wenum-{compare-conditional,enum-conversion} into W=1
  kconfig: remove named choice support
  kconfig: use linked list in get_symbol_str() to iterate over menus
  kconfig: link menus to a symbol
  kbuild: fix inconsistent indentation in top Makefile
  kbuild: Use -fmin-function-alignment when available
  alpha: merge two entries for CONFIG_ALPHA_GAMMA
  alpha: merge two entries for CONFIG_ALPHA_EV4
  kbuild: change DTC_FLAGS_&lt;basetarget&gt;.o to take the path relative to $(obj)
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch/Kconfig: eliminate needless UTF-8 character in Kconfig help</title>
<updated>2024-03-18T18:24:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liu Song</name>
<email>liusong@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-13T18:10:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c4ca2276f18ee638e4bb156126e6e1bf5e09f28e'/>
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Use "find ./linux/* | grep Kconfig | xargs file | grep UTF", can find
files with utf-8 encoded characters, these files will display garbled
characters in menuconfig, except for characters with special meanings
that cannot be modified, modify the characters with obvious errors to
eliminate the wrong display under meunconfig.

Signed-off-by: Liu Song &lt;liusong@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;helgaas@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1659435153-119538-1-git-send-email-liusong@linux.alibaba.com/
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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Use "find ./linux/* | grep Kconfig | xargs file | grep UTF", can find
files with utf-8 encoded characters, these files will display garbled
characters in menuconfig, except for characters with special meanings
that cannot be modified, modify the characters with obvious errors to
eliminate the wrong display under meunconfig.

Signed-off-by: Liu Song &lt;liusong@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;helgaas@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1659435153-119538-1-git-send-email-liusong@linux.alibaba.com/
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: consolidate existing CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_*KB definitions</title>
<updated>2024-03-06T18:28:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-23T22:18:37+00:00</published>
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These four architectures define the same Kconfig symbols for configuring
the page size. Move the logic into a common place where it can be shared
with all other architectures.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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These four architectures define the same Kconfig symbols for configuring
the page size. Move the logic into a common place where it can be shared
with all other architectures.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<title>kbuild: Use -fmin-function-alignment when available</title>
<updated>2024-02-25T09:04:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Pavlu</name>
<email>petr.pavlu@suse.com</email>
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<published>2024-02-22T13:35:00+00:00</published>
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GCC recently added option -fmin-function-alignment, which should appear
in GCC 14. Unlike -falign-functions, this option causes all functions to
be aligned at the specified value, including the cold ones.

In particular, when an arm64 kernel is built with
DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS=y, the 8-byte function alignment is
required for correct functionality. This was done by -falign-functions=8
and having workarounds in the kernel to force the compiler to follow
this alignment. The new -fmin-function-alignment option directly
guarantees it.

Detect availability of -fmin-function-alignment and use it instead of
-falign-functions when present. Introduce CC_HAS_SANE_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT
and enable __cold to work as expected when it is set.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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GCC recently added option -fmin-function-alignment, which should appear
in GCC 14. Unlike -falign-functions, this option causes all functions to
be aligned at the specified value, including the cold ones.

In particular, when an arm64 kernel is built with
DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS=y, the 8-byte function alignment is
required for correct functionality. This was done by -falign-functions=8
and having workarounds in the kernel to force the compiler to follow
this alignment. The new -fmin-function-alignment option directly
guarantees it.

Detect availability of -fmin-function-alignment and use it instead of
-falign-functions when present. Introduce CC_HAS_SANE_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT
and enable __cold to work as expected when it is set.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>scs: add CONFIG_MMU dependency for vfree_atomic()</title>
<updated>2024-01-26T07:52:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Samuel Holland</name>
<email>samuel.holland@sifive.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-22T17:52:01+00:00</published>
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The shadow call stack implementation fails to build without CONFIG_MMU:

  ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: vfree_atomic
  &gt;&gt;&gt; referenced by scs.c
  &gt;&gt;&gt;               kernel/scs.o:(scs_free) in archive vmlinux.a

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240122175204.2371009-1-samuel.holland@sifive.com
Fixes: a2abe7cbd8fe ("scs: switch to vmapped shadow stacks")
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland &lt;samuel.holland@sifive.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The shadow call stack implementation fails to build without CONFIG_MMU:

  ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: vfree_atomic
  &gt;&gt;&gt; referenced by scs.c
  &gt;&gt;&gt;               kernel/scs.o:(scs_free) in archive vmlinux.a

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240122175204.2371009-1-samuel.holland@sifive.com
Fixes: a2abe7cbd8fe ("scs: switch to vmapped shadow stacks")
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland &lt;samuel.holland@sifive.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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