linux-stable.git/arch/arc, branch v3.10.78

ARC: signal handling robustify

2015-05-13T12:15:43+00:00

commit e4140819dadc3624accac8294881bca8a3cba4ed upstream.

A malicious signal handler / restorer can DOS the system by fudging the
user regs saved on stack, causing weird things such as sigreturn returning
to user mode PC but cpu state still being kernel mode....

Ensure that in sigreturn path status32 always has U bit; any other bogosity
(gargbage PC etc) will be taken care of by normal user mode exceptions mechanisms.

Reproducer signal handler:

    void handle_sig(int signo, siginfo_t *info, void *context)
    {
	ucontext_t *uc = context;
	struct user_regs_struct *regs = &(uc->uc_mcontext.regs);

	regs->scratch.status32 = 0;
    }

Before the fix, kernel would go off to weeds like below:

    --------->8-----------
    [ARCLinux]$ ./signal-test
    Path: /signal-test
    CPU: 0 PID: 61 Comm: signal-test Not tainted 4.0.0-rc5+ #65
    task: 8f177880 ti: 5ffe6000 task.ti: 8f15c000

    [ECR   ]: 0x00220200 => Invalid Write @ 0x00000010 by insn @ 0x00010698
    [EFA   ]: 0x00000010
    [BLINK ]: 0x2007c1ee
    [ERET  ]: 0x10698
    [STAT32]: 0x00000000 :                                   <--------
    BTA: 0x00010680	 SP: 0x5ffe7e48	 FP: 0x00000000
    LPS: 0x20003c6c	LPE: 0x20003c70	LPC: 0x00000000
    ...
    --------->8-----------

Reported-by: Alexey Brodkin 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arc: mm: Fix build failure

2015-04-29T08:34:01+00:00

commit e262eb9381ad51b5de7a9e762ee773bbd25ce650 upstream.

Fix misspelled define.

Fixes: 33692f27597f ("vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support")
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support

2015-04-29T08:34:00+00:00

commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai 
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
[shengyong: Backport to 3.10
 - adjust context
 - ignore modification for arch nios2, because 3.10 does not support it
 - ignore modification for driver lustre, because 3.10 does not support it
 - ignore VM_FAULT_FALLBACK in VM_FAULT_ERROR, becase 3.10 does not support
   this flag
 - add SIGSEGV handling to powerpc/cell spu_fault.c, because 3.10 does not
   separate it to copro_fault.c
 - add SIGSEGV handling in mm/memory.c, because 3.10 does not separate it
   to gup.c
]
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yong 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARC: fix page address calculation if PAGE_OFFSET != LINUX_LINK_BASE

2015-03-06T22:40:52+00:00

commit 06f34e1c28f3608b0ce5b310e41102d3fe7b65a1 upstream.

We used to calculate page address differently in 2 cases:

1. In virt_to_page(x) we do
 --->8---
 mem_map + (x - CONFIG_LINUX_LINK_BASE) >> PAGE_SHIFT
 --->8---

2. In in pte_page(x) we do
 --->8---
 mem_map + (pte_val(x) - PAGE_OFFSET) >> PAGE_SHIFT
 --->8---

That leads to problems in case PAGE_OFFSET != CONFIG_LINUX_LINK_BASE -
different pages will be selected depending on where and how we calculate
page address.

In particular in the STAR 9000853582 when gdb attempted to read memory
of another process it got improper page in get_user_pages() because this
is exactly one of the places where we search for a page by pte_page().

The fix is trivial - we need to calculate page address similarly in both
cases.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARC: [nsimosci] move peripherals to match model to FPGA

2015-01-27T15:52:31+00:00

commit e8ef060b37c2d3cc5fd0c0edbe4e42ec1cb9768b upstream.

This allows the sdplite/Zebu images to run on OSCI simulation platform

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arch: mm: pass userspace fault flag to generic fault handler

2014-11-21T17:22:56+00:00

commit 759496ba6407c6994d6a5ce3a5e74937d7816208 upstream.

Unlike global OOM handling, memory cgroup code will invoke the OOM killer
in any OOM situation because it has no way of telling faults occuring in
kernel context - which could be handled more gracefully - from
user-triggered faults.

Pass a flag that identifies faults originating in user space from the
architecture-specific fault handlers to generic code so that memcg OOM
handling can be improved.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: azurIt 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arch: mm: remove obsolete init OOM protection

2014-11-21T17:22:55+00:00

commit 94bce453c78996cc4373d5da6cfabe07fcc6d9f9 upstream.

The memcg code can trap tasks in the context of the failing allocation
until an OOM situation is resolved.  They can hold all kinds of locks
(fs, mm) at this point, which makes it prone to deadlocking.

This series converts memcg OOM handling into a two step process that is
started in the charge context, but any waiting is done after the fault
stack is fully unwound.

Patches 1-4 prepare architecture handlers to support the new memcg
requirements, but in doing so they also remove old cruft and unify
out-of-memory behavior across architectures.

Patch 5 disables the memcg OOM handling for syscalls, readahead, kernel
faults, because they can gracefully unwind the stack with -ENOMEM.  OOM
handling is restricted to user triggered faults that have no other
option.

Patch 6 reworks memcg's hierarchical OOM locking to make it a little
more obvious wth is going on in there: reduce locked regions, rename
locking functions, reorder and document.

Patch 7 implements the two-part OOM handling such that tasks are never
trapped with the full charge stack in an OOM situation.

This patch:

Back before smart OOM killing, when faulting tasks were killed directly on
allocation failures, the arch-specific fault handlers needed special
protection for the init process.

Now that all fault handlers call into the generic OOM killer (see commit
609838cfed97: "mm: invoke oom-killer from remaining unconverted page
fault handlers"), which already provides init protection, the
arch-specific leftovers can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: azurIt 
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta 	[arch/arc bits]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: invoke oom-killer from remaining unconverted page fault handlers

2014-11-21T17:22:55+00:00

commit 609838cfed972d49a65aac7923a9ff5cbe482e30 upstream.

A few remaining architectures directly kill the page faulting task in an
out of memory situation.  This is usually not a good idea since that
task might not even use a significant amount of memory and so may not be
the optimal victim to resolve the situation.

Since 2.6.29's 1c0fe6e ("mm: invoke oom-killer from page fault") there
is a hook that architecture page fault handlers are supposed to call to
invoke the OOM killer and let it pick the right task to kill.  Convert
the remaining architectures over to this hook.

To have the previous behavior of simply taking out the faulting task the
vm.oom_kill_allocating_task sysctl can be set to 1.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta    [arch/arc bits]
Cc: James Hogan 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: Chen Liqin 
Cc: Lennox Wu 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARC: Update order of registers in KGDB to match GDB 7.5

2014-11-14T16:47:57+00:00

commit ebc0c74e76cec9c4dd860eb0ca1c0b39dc63c482 upstream.

Order of registers has changed in GDB moving from 6.8 to 7.5. This patch
updates KGDB to work properly with GDB 7.5, though makes it incompatible
with 6.8.

Signed-off-by: Anton Kolesov 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARC: [nsimosci] Allow "headless" models to boot

2014-11-14T16:47:57+00:00

commit 5c05483e2db91890faa9a7be0a831701a3f442d6 upstream.

There are certain test configuration of virtual platform which don't
have any real console device (uart/pgu). So add tty0 as a fallback console
device to allow system to boot and be accessible via telnet

Otherwise with ttyS0 as only console, but 8250 disabled in kernel build,
init chokes.

Reported-by: Anton Kolesov 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman