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<title>alpha: replace hardcoded stack offsets with autogenerated ones</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T11:43:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ivan Kokshaysky</name>
<email>ink@unseen.parts</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-04T22:35:22+00:00</published>
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commit 77b823fa619f97d16409ca37ad4f7936e28c5f83 upstream.

This allows the assembly in entry.S to automatically keep in sync with
changes in the stack layout (struct pt_regs and struct switch_stack).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@unseen.parts&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 77b823fa619f97d16409ca37ad4f7936e28c5f83 upstream.

This allows the assembly in entry.S to automatically keep in sync with
changes in the stack layout (struct pt_regs and struct switch_stack).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@unseen.parts&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: align stack for page fault and user unaligned trap handlers</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T11:43:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ivan Kokshaysky</name>
<email>ink@unseen.parts</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-04T22:35:24+00:00</published>
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commit 3b35a171060f846b08b48646b38c30b5d57d17ff upstream.

do_page_fault() and do_entUna() are special because they use
non-standard stack frame layout. Fix them manually.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Suggested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@unseen.parts&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 3b35a171060f846b08b48646b38c30b5d57d17ff upstream.

do_page_fault() and do_entUna() are special because they use
non-standard stack frame layout. Fix them manually.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Suggested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@unseen.parts&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: make stack 16-byte aligned (most cases)</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T11:43:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ivan Kokshaysky</name>
<email>ink@unseen.parts</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-04T22:35:23+00:00</published>
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commit 0a0f7362b0367634a2d5cb7c96226afc116f19c9 upstream.

The problem is that GCC expects 16-byte alignment of the incoming stack
since early 2004, as Maciej found out [1]:
  Having actually dug speculatively I can see that the psABI was changed in
 GCC 3.5 with commit e5e10fb4a350 ("re PR target/14539 (128-bit long double
 improperly aligned)") back in Mar 2004, when the stack pointer alignment
 was increased from 8 bytes to 16 bytes, and arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S has
 various suspicious stack pointer adjustments, starting with SP_OFF which
 is not a whole multiple of 16.

Also, as Magnus noted, "ALPHA Calling Standard" [2] required the same:
 D.3.1 Stack Alignment
  This standard requires that stacks be octaword aligned at the time a
  new procedure is invoked.

However:
- the "normal" kernel stack is always misaligned by 8 bytes, thanks to
  the odd number of 64-bit words in 'struct pt_regs', which is the very
  first thing pushed onto the kernel thread stack;
- syscall, fault, interrupt etc. handlers may, or may not, receive aligned
  stack depending on numerous factors.

Somehow we got away with it until recently, when we ended up with
a stack corruption in kernel/smp.c:smp_call_function_single() due to
its use of 32-byte aligned local data and the compiler doing clever
things allocating it on the stack.

This adds padding between the PAL-saved and kernel-saved registers
so that 'struct pt_regs' have an even number of 64-bit words.
This makes the stack properly aligned for most of the kernel
code, except two handlers which need special threatment.

Note: struct pt_regs doesn't belong in uapi/asm; this should be fixed,
but let's put this off until later.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/alpine.DEB.2.21.2501130248010.18889@angie.orcam.me.uk/ [1]
Link: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/alpha/Alpha_Calling_Standard_Rev_2.0_19900427.pdf [2]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@unseen.parts&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 0a0f7362b0367634a2d5cb7c96226afc116f19c9 upstream.

The problem is that GCC expects 16-byte alignment of the incoming stack
since early 2004, as Maciej found out [1]:
  Having actually dug speculatively I can see that the psABI was changed in
 GCC 3.5 with commit e5e10fb4a350 ("re PR target/14539 (128-bit long double
 improperly aligned)") back in Mar 2004, when the stack pointer alignment
 was increased from 8 bytes to 16 bytes, and arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S has
 various suspicious stack pointer adjustments, starting with SP_OFF which
 is not a whole multiple of 16.

Also, as Magnus noted, "ALPHA Calling Standard" [2] required the same:
 D.3.1 Stack Alignment
  This standard requires that stacks be octaword aligned at the time a
  new procedure is invoked.

However:
- the "normal" kernel stack is always misaligned by 8 bytes, thanks to
  the odd number of 64-bit words in 'struct pt_regs', which is the very
  first thing pushed onto the kernel thread stack;
- syscall, fault, interrupt etc. handlers may, or may not, receive aligned
  stack depending on numerous factors.

Somehow we got away with it until recently, when we ended up with
a stack corruption in kernel/smp.c:smp_call_function_single() due to
its use of 32-byte aligned local data and the compiler doing clever
things allocating it on the stack.

This adds padding between the PAL-saved and kernel-saved registers
so that 'struct pt_regs' have an even number of 64-bit words.
This makes the stack properly aligned for most of the kernel
code, except two handlers which need special threatment.

Note: struct pt_regs doesn't belong in uapi/asm; this should be fixed,
but let's put this off until later.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/alpine.DEB.2.21.2501130248010.18889@angie.orcam.me.uk/ [1]
Link: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/alpha/Alpha_Calling_Standard_Rev_2.0_19900427.pdf [2]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@unseen.parts&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>y2038: rusage: use __kernel_old_timeval</title>
<updated>2024-03-15T14:48:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-25T20:46:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit bdd565f817a74b9e30edec108f7cb1dbc762b8a6 ]

There are two 'struct timeval' fields in 'struct rusage'.

Unfortunately the definition of timeval is now ambiguous when used in
user space with a libc that has a 64-bit time_t, and this also changes
the 'rusage' definition in user space in a way that is incompatible with
the system call interface.

While there is no good solution to avoid all ambiguity here, change
the definition in the kernel headers to be compatible with the kernel
ABI, using __kernel_old_timeval as an unambiguous base type.

In previous discussions, there was also a plan to add a replacement
for rusage based on 64-bit timestamps and nanosecond resolution,
i.e. 'struct __kernel_timespec'. I have patches for that as well,
if anyone thinks we should do that.

Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Stable-dep-of: daa694e41375 ("getrusage: move thread_group_cputime_adjusted() outside of lock_task_sighand()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit bdd565f817a74b9e30edec108f7cb1dbc762b8a6 ]

There are two 'struct timeval' fields in 'struct rusage'.

Unfortunately the definition of timeval is now ambiguous when used in
user space with a libc that has a 64-bit time_t, and this also changes
the 'rusage' definition in user space in a way that is incompatible with
the system call interface.

While there is no good solution to avoid all ambiguity here, change
the definition in the kernel headers to be compatible with the kernel
ABI, using __kernel_old_timeval as an unambiguous base type.

In previous discussions, there was also a plan to add a replacement
for rusage based on 64-bit timestamps and nanosecond resolution,
i.e. 'struct __kernel_timespec'. I have patches for that as well,
if anyone thinks we should do that.

Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Stable-dep-of: daa694e41375 ("getrusage: move thread_group_cputime_adjusted() outside of lock_task_sighand()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: remove __init annotation from exported page_is_ram()</title>
<updated>2023-08-16T16:19:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-29T07:42:23+00:00</published>
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commit 6ccbd7fd474674654019a20177c943359469103a upstream.

EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text
section is freed up after the initialization.

Commit c5a130325f13 ("ACPI/APEI: Add parameter check before error
injection") exported page_is_ram(), hence the __init annotation should
be removed.

This fixes the modpost warning in ARCH=alpha builds:

  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: page_is_ram: EXPORT_SYMBOL used for init symbol. Remove __init or EXPORT_SYMBOL.

Fixes: c5a130325f13 ("ACPI/APEI: Add parameter check before error injection")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 6ccbd7fd474674654019a20177c943359469103a upstream.

EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text
section is freed up after the initialization.

Commit c5a130325f13 ("ACPI/APEI: Add parameter check before error
injection") exported page_is_ram(), hence the __init annotation should
be removed.

This fixes the modpost warning in ARCH=alpha builds:

  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: page_is_ram: EXPORT_SYMBOL used for init symbol. Remove __init or EXPORT_SYMBOL.

Fixes: c5a130325f13 ("ACPI/APEI: Add parameter check before error injection")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>init: Remove check_bugs() leftovers</title>
<updated>2023-08-08T17:56:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-13T23:39:38+00:00</published>
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commit 61235b24b9cb37c13fcad5b9596d59a1afdcec30 upstream

Everything is converted over to arch_cpu_finalize_init(). Remove the
check_bugs() leftovers including the empty stubs in asm-generic, alpha,
parisc, powerpc and xtensa.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson &lt;richard.henderson@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613224545.553215951@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon &lt;daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 61235b24b9cb37c13fcad5b9596d59a1afdcec30 upstream

Everything is converted over to arch_cpu_finalize_init(). Remove the
check_bugs() leftovers including the empty stubs in asm-generic, alpha,
parisc, powerpc and xtensa.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson &lt;richard.henderson@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613224545.553215951@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon &lt;daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: fix R_ALPHA_LITERAL reloc for large modules</title>
<updated>2023-03-17T07:32:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Edward Humes</name>
<email>aurxenon@lunos.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-27T06:49:39+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b6b17a8b3ecd878d98d5472a9023ede9e669ca72 ]

Previously, R_ALPHA_LITERAL relocations would overflow for large kernel
modules.

This was because the Alpha's apply_relocate_add was relying on the kernel's
module loader to have sorted the GOT towards the very end of the module as it
was mapped into memory in order to correctly assign the global pointer. While
this behavior would mostly work fine for small kernel modules, this approach
would overflow on kernel modules with large GOT's since the global pointer
would be very far away from the GOT, and thus, certain entries would be out of
range.

This patch fixes this by instead using the Tru64 behavior of assigning the
global pointer to be 32KB away from the start of the GOT. The change made
in this patch won't work for multi-GOT kernel modules as it makes the
assumption the module only has one GOT located at the beginning of .got,
although for the vast majority kernel modules, this should be fine. Of the
kernel modules that would previously result in a relocation error, none of
them, even modules like nouveau, have even come close to filling up a single
GOT, and they've all worked fine under this patch.

Signed-off-by: Edward Humes &lt;aurxenon@lunos.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b6b17a8b3ecd878d98d5472a9023ede9e669ca72 ]

Previously, R_ALPHA_LITERAL relocations would overflow for large kernel
modules.

This was because the Alpha's apply_relocate_add was relying on the kernel's
module loader to have sorted the GOT towards the very end of the module as it
was mapped into memory in order to correctly assign the global pointer. While
this behavior would mostly work fine for small kernel modules, this approach
would overflow on kernel modules with large GOT's since the global pointer
would be very far away from the GOT, and thus, certain entries would be out of
range.

This patch fixes this by instead using the Tru64 behavior of assigning the
global pointer to be 32KB away from the start of the GOT. The change made
in this patch won't work for multi-GOT kernel modules as it makes the
assumption the module only has one GOT located at the beginning of .got,
although for the vast majority kernel modules, this should be fine. Of the
kernel modules that would previously result in a relocation error, none of
them, even modules like nouveau, have even come close to filling up a single
GOT, and they've all worked fine under this patch.

Signed-off-by: Edward Humes &lt;aurxenon@lunos.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: fix FEN fault handling</title>
<updated>2023-03-11T15:44:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-07T00:25:59+00:00</published>
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commit 977a3009547dad4a5bc95d91be4a58c9f7eedac0 upstream.

Type 3 instruction fault (FPU insn with FPU disabled) is handled
by quietly enabling FPU and returning.  Which is fine, except that
we need to do that both for fault in userland and in the kernel;
the latter *can* legitimately happen - all it takes is this:

.global _start
_start:
        call_pal 0xae
	lda $0, 0
	ldq $0, 0($0)

- call_pal CLRFEN to clear "FPU enabled" flag and arrange for
a signal delivery (SIGSEGV in this case).

Fixed by moving the handling of type 3 into the common part of
do_entIF(), before we check for kernel vs. user mode.

Incidentally, the check for kernel mode is unidiomatic; the normal
way to do that is !user_mode(regs).  The difference is that
the open-coded variant treats any of bits 63..3 of regs-&gt;ps being
set as "it's user mode" while the normal approach is to check just
the bit 3.  PS is a 4-bit register and regs-&gt;ps always will have
bits 63..4 clear, so the open-coded variant here is actually equivalent
to !user_mode(regs).  Harder to follow, though...

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 977a3009547dad4a5bc95d91be4a58c9f7eedac0 upstream.

Type 3 instruction fault (FPU insn with FPU disabled) is handled
by quietly enabling FPU and returning.  Which is fine, except that
we need to do that both for fault in userland and in the kernel;
the latter *can* legitimately happen - all it takes is this:

.global _start
_start:
        call_pal 0xae
	lda $0, 0
	ldq $0, 0($0)

- call_pal CLRFEN to clear "FPU enabled" flag and arrange for
a signal delivery (SIGSEGV in this case).

Fixed by moving the handling of type 3 into the common part of
do_entIF(), before we check for kernel vs. user mode.

Incidentally, the check for kernel mode is unidiomatic; the normal
way to do that is !user_mode(regs).  The difference is that
the open-coded variant treats any of bits 63..3 of regs-&gt;ps being
set as "it's user mode" while the normal approach is to check just
the bit 3.  PS is a 4-bit register and regs-&gt;ps always will have
bits 63..4 clear, so the open-coded variant here is actually equivalent
to !user_mode(regs).  Harder to follow, though...

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>exit: Add and use make_task_dead.</title>
<updated>2023-02-06T06:52:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2023-02-02T04:42:42+00:00</published>
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commit 0e25498f8cd43c1b5aa327f373dd094e9a006da7 upstream.

There are two big uses of do_exit.  The first is it's design use to be
the guts of the exit(2) system call.  The second use is to terminate
a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer
in kernel code.

Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as
do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle
catastrophic failure.  In time this can probably be reduced to just a
light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so
that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new
concept.

Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic
task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code
is doing.

As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit
rewind_stack_and_make_dead.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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commit 0e25498f8cd43c1b5aa327f373dd094e9a006da7 upstream.

There are two big uses of do_exit.  The first is it's design use to be
the guts of the exit(2) system call.  The second use is to terminate
a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer
in kernel code.

Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as
do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle
catastrophic failure.  In time this can probably be reduced to just a
light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so
that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new
concept.

Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic
task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code
is doing.

As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit
rewind_stack_and_make_dead.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>alpha: fix syscall entry in !AUDUT_SYSCALL case</title>
<updated>2023-01-18T10:40:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-18T22:18:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f7b2431a6d22f7a91c567708e071dfcd6d66db14 ]

We only want to take the slow path if SYSCALL_TRACE or SYSCALL_AUDIT is
set; on !AUDIT_SYSCALL configs the current tree hits it whenever _any_
thread flag (including NEED_RESCHED, NOTIFY_SIGNAL, etc.) happens to
be set.

Fixes: a9302e843944 "alpha: Enable system-call auditing support"
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f7b2431a6d22f7a91c567708e071dfcd6d66db14 ]

We only want to take the slow path if SYSCALL_TRACE or SYSCALL_AUDIT is
set; on !AUDIT_SYSCALL configs the current tree hits it whenever _any_
thread flag (including NEED_RESCHED, NOTIFY_SIGNAL, etc.) happens to
be set.

Fixes: a9302e843944 "alpha: Enable system-call auditing support"
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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