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<title>ARC: clone syscall to setp r25 as thread pointer</title>
<updated>2018-10-13T07:11:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
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<published>2018-10-05T19:48:48+00:00</published>
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commit c58a584f05e35d1d4342923cd7aac07d9c3d3d16 upstream.

Per ARC TLS ABI, r25 is designated TP (thread pointer register).
However so far kernel didn't do any special treatment, like setting up
usermode r25, even for CLONE_SETTLS. We instead relied on libc runtime
to do this, in say clone libc wrapper [1]. This was deliberate to keep
kernel ABI agnostic (userspace could potentially change TP, specially
for different ARC ISA say ARCompact vs. ARCv2 with different spare
registers etc)

However userspace setting up r25, after clone syscall opens a race, if
child is not scheduled and gets a signal instead. It starts off in
userspace not in clone but in a signal handler and anything TP sepcific
there such as pthread_self() fails which showed up with uClibc
testsuite nptl/tst-kill6 [2]

Fix this by having kernel populate r25 to TP value. So this locks in
ABI, but it was not going to change anyways, and fwiw is same for both
ARCompact (arc700 core) and ARCvs (HS3x cores)

[1] https://cgit.uclibc-ng.org/cgi/cgit/uclibc-ng.git/tree/libc/sysdeps/linux/arc/clone.S
[2] https://github.com/wbx-github/uclibc-ng-test/blob/master/test/nptl/tst-kill6.c

Fixes: ARC STAR 9001378481
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Nikita Sobolev &lt;sobolev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c58a584f05e35d1d4342923cd7aac07d9c3d3d16 upstream.

Per ARC TLS ABI, r25 is designated TP (thread pointer register).
However so far kernel didn't do any special treatment, like setting up
usermode r25, even for CLONE_SETTLS. We instead relied on libc runtime
to do this, in say clone libc wrapper [1]. This was deliberate to keep
kernel ABI agnostic (userspace could potentially change TP, specially
for different ARC ISA say ARCompact vs. ARCv2 with different spare
registers etc)

However userspace setting up r25, after clone syscall opens a race, if
child is not scheduled and gets a signal instead. It starts off in
userspace not in clone but in a signal handler and anything TP sepcific
there such as pthread_self() fails which showed up with uClibc
testsuite nptl/tst-kill6 [2]

Fix this by having kernel populate r25 to TP value. So this locks in
ABI, but it was not going to change anyways, and fwiw is same for both
ARCompact (arc700 core) and ARCvs (HS3x cores)

[1] https://cgit.uclibc-ng.org/cgi/cgit/uclibc-ng.git/tree/libc/sysdeps/linux/arc/clone.S
[2] https://github.com/wbx-github/uclibc-ng-test/blob/master/test/nptl/tst-kill6.c

Fixes: ARC STAR 9001378481
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Nikita Sobolev &lt;sobolev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ARC: Abstract out ISA specific SLEEP args</title>
<updated>2015-11-16T08:47:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-16T08:22:07+00:00</published>
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No semantical changes, prepares for ARCv2 specific change in next commit

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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No semantical changes, prepares for ARCv2 specific change in next commit

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: add/fix some comments in code - no functional change</title>
<updated>2015-08-20T13:35:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-19T11:53:58+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: Fix build failures for ARCompact in linux-next after ARCv2 support</title>
<updated>2015-06-28T15:00:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-28T14:52:01+00:00</published>
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Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;private@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;private@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARCv2: Support for ARCv2 ISA and HS38x cores</title>
<updated>2015-06-22T08:36:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-13T13:00:41+00:00</published>
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The notable features are:
    - SMP configurations of upto 4 cores with coherency
    - Optional L2 Cache and IO-Coherency
    - Revised Interrupt Architecture (multiple priorites, reg banks,
        auto stack switch, auto regfile save/restore)
    - MMUv4 (PIPT dcache, Huge Pages)
    - Instructions for
	* 64bit load/store: LDD, STD
	* Hardware assisted divide/remainder: DIV, REM
	* Function prologue/epilogue: ENTER_S, LEAVE_S
	* IRQ enable/disable: CLRI, SETI
	* pop count: FFS, FLS
	* SETcc, BMSKN, XBFU...

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The notable features are:
    - SMP configurations of upto 4 cores with coherency
    - Optional L2 Cache and IO-Coherency
    - Revised Interrupt Architecture (multiple priorites, reg banks,
        auto stack switch, auto regfile save/restore)
    - MMUv4 (PIPT dcache, Huge Pages)
    - Instructions for
	* 64bit load/store: LDD, STD
	* Hardware assisted divide/remainder: DIV, REM
	* Function prologue/epilogue: ENTER_S, LEAVE_S
	* IRQ enable/disable: CLRI, SETI
	* pop count: FFS, FLS
	* SETcc, BMSKN, XBFU...

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: intc: split into ARCompact ISA specific, common bits</title>
<updated>2015-06-19T12:39:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-05T13:43:56+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arc-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc</title>
<updated>2015-04-24T14:55:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-24T14:55:54+00:00</published>
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Pull ARC updates from Vineet Gupta:

 - perf fixes/improvements

 - misc cleanups

* tag 'arc-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
  ARC: perf: don't add code for impossible case
  ARC: perf: Rename DT binding to not confuse with power mgmt
  ARC: perf: add user space attribution in callchains
  ARC: perf: Add kernel callchain support
  ARC: perf: support cache hit/miss ratio
  ARC: perf: Add some comments/debug stuff
  ARC: perf: make @arc_pmu static global
  ARC: mem init spring cleaning - No functional changes
  ARC: Fix RTT boot printing
  ARC: fold __builtin_constant_p() into test_bit()
  ARC: rename unhandled exception handler
  ARC: cosmetic: Remove unused ECR bitfield masks
  ARC: Fix WRITE_BCR
  ARC: [nsimosci] Update defconfig
  arc: copy_thread(): rename 'arg' argument to 'kthread_arg'
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Pull ARC updates from Vineet Gupta:

 - perf fixes/improvements

 - misc cleanups

* tag 'arc-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
  ARC: perf: don't add code for impossible case
  ARC: perf: Rename DT binding to not confuse with power mgmt
  ARC: perf: add user space attribution in callchains
  ARC: perf: Add kernel callchain support
  ARC: perf: support cache hit/miss ratio
  ARC: perf: Add some comments/debug stuff
  ARC: perf: make @arc_pmu static global
  ARC: mem init spring cleaning - No functional changes
  ARC: Fix RTT boot printing
  ARC: fold __builtin_constant_p() into test_bit()
  ARC: rename unhandled exception handler
  ARC: cosmetic: Remove unused ECR bitfield masks
  ARC: Fix WRITE_BCR
  ARC: [nsimosci] Update defconfig
  arc: copy_thread(): rename 'arg' argument to 'kthread_arg'
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<entry>
<title>whack-a-mole: no need to set_fs(USER_DS) in {start,flush}_thread()</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T02:24:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-23T08:21:31+00:00</published>
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flush_old_exec() has already done that.  Back on 2011 a bunch of
instances like that had been kicked out, but that hadn't taken
care of then-out-of-tree architectures, obviously, and they served
as reinfection vector...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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flush_old_exec() has already done that.  Back on 2011 a bunch of
instances like that had been kicked out, but that hadn't taken
care of then-out-of-tree architectures, obviously, and they served
as reinfection vector...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arc: copy_thread(): rename 'arg' argument to 'kthread_arg'</title>
<updated>2015-03-31T05:50:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Dowad</name>
<email>alexinbeijing@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-13T18:04:18+00:00</published>
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The 'arg' argument to copy_thread() is only ever used when forking a new
kernel thread. Hence, rename it to 'kthread_arg' for clarity.

Signed-off-by: Alex Dowad &lt;alexinbeijing@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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The 'arg' argument to copy_thread() is only ever used when forking a new
kernel thread. Hence, rename it to 'kthread_arg' for clarity.

Signed-off-by: Alex Dowad &lt;alexinbeijing@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: Fix thread_saved_pc()</title>
<updated>2015-02-27T05:29:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-27T05:29:31+00:00</published>
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The old implementation assumed that SP at the time of __switch_to() is
right above pt_regs which is almost certainly not the case as there will
be some stack build up between entry into kernel and leading up to
__switch_to

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The old implementation assumed that SP at the time of __switch_to() is
right above pt_regs which is almost certainly not the case as there will
be some stack build up between entry into kernel and leading up to
__switch_to

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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