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<title>ARC: Re-enable MMU upon Machine Check exception</title>
<updated>2017-11-26T13:50:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jose Abreu</name>
<email>Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-01T16:00:23+00:00</published>
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commit 1ee55a8f7f6b7ca4c0c59e0b4b4e3584a085c2d3 upstream.

I recently came upon a scenario where I would get a double fault
machine check exception tiriggered by a kernel module.
However the ensuing crash stacktrace (ksym lookup) was not working
correctly.

Turns out that machine check auto-disables MMU while modules are allocated
in kernel vaddr spapce.

This patch re-enables the MMU before start printing the stacktrace
making stacktracing of modules work upon a fatal exception.

Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu &lt;joabreu@synopsys.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[vgupta: moved code into low level handler to avoid in 2 places]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 1ee55a8f7f6b7ca4c0c59e0b4b4e3584a085c2d3 upstream.

I recently came upon a scenario where I would get a double fault
machine check exception tiriggered by a kernel module.
However the ensuing crash stacktrace (ksym lookup) was not working
correctly.

Turns out that machine check auto-disables MMU while modules are allocated
in kernel vaddr spapce.

This patch re-enables the MMU before start printing the stacktrace
making stacktracing of modules work upon a fatal exception.

Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu &lt;joabreu@synopsys.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[vgupta: moved code into low level handler to avoid in 2 places]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas</title>
<updated>2017-07-02T16:13:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-19T11:03:24+00:00</published>
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commit 1be7107fbe18eed3e319a6c3e83c78254b693acb upstream.

Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing
into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which
is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping.
But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in
userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly
used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX]
which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN.

This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default
no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be
tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call
could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical,
unfortunatelly.

Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap
to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size
because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in
the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack
allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is
somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot.

One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace,
but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong
for some special case applications.  For now, add a kernel command line
option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units).

Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page:
because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a
stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point,
a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was
counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK
and strict non-overcommit mode.

Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard
gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start
(or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few
places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(),
and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that.

Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[Hugh Dickins: Backported to 3.16]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 1be7107fbe18eed3e319a6c3e83c78254b693acb upstream.

Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing
into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which
is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping.
But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in
userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly
used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX]
which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN.

This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default
no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be
tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call
could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical,
unfortunatelly.

Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap
to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size
because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in
the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack
allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is
somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot.

One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace,
but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong
for some special case applications.  For now, add a kernel command line
option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units).

Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page:
because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a
stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point,
a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was
counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK
and strict non-overcommit mode.

Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard
gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start
(or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few
places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(),
and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that.

Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[Hugh Dickins: Backported to 3.16]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: [arcompact] brown paper bag bug in unaligned access delay slot fixup</title>
<updated>2017-03-16T02:27:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-07T17:44:58+00:00</published>
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commit a524c218bc94c705886a0e0fedeee45d1931da32 upstream.

Reported-by: Jo-Philipp Wich &lt;jo@mein.io&gt;
Fixes: 9aed02feae57bf7 ("ARC: [arcompact] handle unaligned access delay slot")
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit a524c218bc94c705886a0e0fedeee45d1931da32 upstream.

Reported-by: Jo-Philipp Wich &lt;jo@mein.io&gt;
Fixes: 9aed02feae57bf7 ("ARC: [arcompact] handle unaligned access delay slot")
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: [arcompact] handle unaligned access delay slot corner case</title>
<updated>2017-03-16T02:27:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-27T18:45:27+00:00</published>
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commit 9aed02feae57bf7a40cb04ea0e3017cb7a998db4 upstream.

After emulating an unaligned access in delay slot of a branch, we
pretend as the delay slot never happened - so return back to actual
branch target (or next PC if branch was not taken).

Curently we did this by handling STATUS32.DE, we also need to clear the
BTA.T bit, which is disregarded when returning from original misaligned
exception, but could cause weirdness if it took the interrupt return
path (in case interrupt was acive too)

One ARC700 customer ran into this when enabling unaligned access fixup
for kernel mode accesses as well

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 9aed02feae57bf7a40cb04ea0e3017cb7a998db4 upstream.

After emulating an unaligned access in delay slot of a branch, we
pretend as the delay slot never happened - so return back to actual
branch target (or next PC if branch was not taken).

Curently we did this by handling STATUS32.DE, we also need to clear the
BTA.T bit, which is disregarded when returning from original misaligned
exception, but could cause weirdness if it took the interrupt return
path (in case interrupt was acive too)

One ARC700 customer ran into this when enabling unaligned access fixup
for kernel mode accesses as well

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arc: don't leak bits of kernel stack into coredump</title>
<updated>2017-02-23T03:54:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-10T20:31:04+00:00</published>
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commit 7798bf2140ebcc36eafec6a4194fffd8d585d471 upstream.

On faulting sigreturn we do get SIGSEGV, all right, but anything
we'd put into pt_regs could end up in the coredump.  And since
__copy_from_user() never zeroed on arc, we'd better bugger off
on its failure without copying random uninitialized bits of
kernel stack into pt_regs...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Adjust context
 - Don't change the single return statement]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 7798bf2140ebcc36eafec6a4194fffd8d585d471 upstream.

On faulting sigreturn we do get SIGSEGV, all right, but anything
we'd put into pt_regs could end up in the coredump.  And since
__copy_from_user() never zeroed on arc, we'd better bugger off
on its failure without copying random uninitialized bits of
kernel stack into pt_regs...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Adjust context
 - Don't change the single return statement]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: use ASL assembler mnemonic</title>
<updated>2016-11-20T01:17:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-05T03:43:31+00:00</published>
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commit a6416f57ce57fb390b6ee30b12c01c29032a26af upstream.

ARCompact and ARCv2 only have ASL, while binutils used to support LSL as
a alias mnemonic.

Newer binutils (upstream) don't want to do that so replace it.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit a6416f57ce57fb390b6ee30b12c01c29032a26af upstream.

ARCompact and ARCv2 only have ASL, while binutils used to support LSL as
a alias mnemonic.

Newer binutils (upstream) don't want to do that so replace it.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: uaccess: get_user to zero out dest in cause of fault</title>
<updated>2016-11-20T01:17:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-19T19:10:02+00:00</published>
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commit 05d9d0b96e53c52a113fd783c0c97c830c8dc7af upstream.

Al reported potential issue with ARC get_user() as it wasn't clearing
out destination pointer in case of fault due to bad address etc.

Verified using following

| {
|  	u32 bogus1 = 0xdeadbeef;
|	u64 bogus2 = 0xdead;
|	int rc1, rc2;
|
|  	pr_info("Orig values %x %llx\n", bogus1, bogus2);
|	rc1 = get_user(bogus1, (u32 __user *)0x40000000);
|	rc2 = get_user(bogus2, (u64 __user *)0x50000000);
|	pr_info("access %d %d, new values %x %llx\n",
|		rc1, rc2, bogus1, bogus2);
| }

| [ARCLinux]# insmod /mnt/kernel-module/qtn.ko
| Orig values deadbeef dead
| access -14 -14, new values 0 0

Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 05d9d0b96e53c52a113fd783c0c97c830c8dc7af upstream.

Al reported potential issue with ARC get_user() as it wasn't clearing
out destination pointer in case of fault due to bad address etc.

Verified using following

| {
|  	u32 bogus1 = 0xdeadbeef;
|	u64 bogus2 = 0xdead;
|	int rc1, rc2;
|
|  	pr_info("Orig values %x %llx\n", bogus1, bogus2);
|	rc1 = get_user(bogus1, (u32 __user *)0x40000000);
|	rc2 = get_user(bogus2, (u64 __user *)0x50000000);
|	pr_info("access %d %d, new values %x %llx\n",
|		rc1, rc2, bogus1, bogus2);
| }

| [ARCLinux]# insmod /mnt/kernel-module/qtn.ko
| Orig values deadbeef dead
| access -14 -14, new values 0 0

Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: Call trace_hardirqs_on() before enabling irqs</title>
<updated>2016-11-20T01:17:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Mentz</name>
<email>danielmentz@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-05T00:56:53+00:00</published>
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commit 18b43e89d295cc65151c505c643c98fb2c320e59 upstream.

trace_hardirqs_on_caller() in lockdep.c expects to be called before, not
after interrupts are actually enabled.

The following comment in kernel/locking/lockdep.c substantiates this
claim:

"
/*
 * We're enabling irqs and according to our state above irqs weren't
 * already enabled, yet we find the hardware thinks they are in fact
 * enabled.. someone messed up their IRQ state tracing.
 */
"

An example can be found in include/linux/irqflags.h:

	do { trace_hardirqs_on(); raw_local_irq_enable(); } while (0)

Without this change, we hit the following DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON.

[    7.760000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    7.760000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2711 resume_user_mode_begin+0x48/0xf0
[    7.770000] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled())
[    7.780000] Modules linked in:
[    7.780000] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.7.0-00003-gc668bb9-dirty #366
[    7.790000]
[    7.790000] Stack Trace:
[    7.790000]   arc_unwind_core.constprop.1+0xa4/0x118
[    7.800000]   warn_slowpath_fmt+0x72/0x158
[    7.800000]   resume_user_mode_begin+0x48/0xf0
[    7.810000] ---[ end trace 6f6a7a8fae20d2f0 ]---

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mentz &lt;danielmentz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 18b43e89d295cc65151c505c643c98fb2c320e59 upstream.

trace_hardirqs_on_caller() in lockdep.c expects to be called before, not
after interrupts are actually enabled.

The following comment in kernel/locking/lockdep.c substantiates this
claim:

"
/*
 * We're enabling irqs and according to our state above irqs weren't
 * already enabled, yet we find the hardware thinks they are in fact
 * enabled.. someone messed up their IRQ state tracing.
 */
"

An example can be found in include/linux/irqflags.h:

	do { trace_hardirqs_on(); raw_local_irq_enable(); } while (0)

Without this change, we hit the following DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON.

[    7.760000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    7.760000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2711 resume_user_mode_begin+0x48/0xf0
[    7.770000] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled())
[    7.780000] Modules linked in:
[    7.780000] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.7.0-00003-gc668bb9-dirty #366
[    7.790000]
[    7.790000] Stack Trace:
[    7.790000]   arc_unwind_core.constprop.1+0xa4/0x118
[    7.800000]   warn_slowpath_fmt+0x72/0x158
[    7.800000]   resume_user_mode_begin+0x48/0xf0
[    7.810000] ---[ end trace 6f6a7a8fae20d2f0 ]---

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mentz &lt;danielmentz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arc: unwind: warn only once if DW2_UNWIND is disabled</title>
<updated>2016-08-22T21:38:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Brodkin</name>
<email>Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-23T08:00:39+00:00</published>
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commit 9bd54517ee86cb164c734f72ea95aeba4804f10b upstream.

If CONFIG_ARC_DW2_UNWIND is disabled every time arc_unwind_core()
gets called following message gets printed in debug console:
-----------------&gt;8---------------
CONFIG_ARC_DW2_UNWIND needs to be enabled
-----------------&gt;8---------------

That message makes sense if user indeed wants to see a backtrace or
get nice function call-graphs in perf but what if user disabled
unwinder for the purpose? Why pollute his debug console?

So instead we'll warn user about possibly missing feature once and
let him decide if that was what he or she really wanted.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 9bd54517ee86cb164c734f72ea95aeba4804f10b upstream.

If CONFIG_ARC_DW2_UNWIND is disabled every time arc_unwind_core()
gets called following message gets printed in debug console:
-----------------&gt;8---------------
CONFIG_ARC_DW2_UNWIND needs to be enabled
-----------------&gt;8---------------

That message makes sense if user indeed wants to see a backtrace or
get nice function call-graphs in perf but what if user disabled
unwinder for the purpose? Why pollute his debug console?

So instead we'll warn user about possibly missing feature once and
let him decide if that was what he or she really wanted.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARC: unwind: ensure that .debug_frame is generated (vs. .eh_frame)</title>
<updated>2016-08-22T21:38:22+00:00</updated>
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<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
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<published>2016-06-28T04:12:25+00:00</published>
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commit f52e126cc7476196f44f3c313b7d9f0699a881fc upstream.

With recent binutils update to support dwarf CFI pseudo-ops in gas, we
now get .eh_frame vs. .debug_frame. Although the call frame info is
exactly the same in both, the CIE differs, which the current kernel
unwinder can't cope with.

This broke both the kernel unwinder as well as loadable modules (latter
because of a new unhandled relo R_ARC_32_PCREL from .rela.eh_frame in
the module loader)

The ideal solution would be to switch unwinder to .eh_frame.
For now however we can make do by just ensureing .debug_frame is
generated by removing -fasynchronous-unwind-tables

 .eh_frame    generated with -gdwarf-2 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
 .debug_frame generated with -gdwarf-2

Fixes STAR 9001058196

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit f52e126cc7476196f44f3c313b7d9f0699a881fc upstream.

With recent binutils update to support dwarf CFI pseudo-ops in gas, we
now get .eh_frame vs. .debug_frame. Although the call frame info is
exactly the same in both, the CIE differs, which the current kernel
unwinder can't cope with.

This broke both the kernel unwinder as well as loadable modules (latter
because of a new unhandled relo R_ARC_32_PCREL from .rela.eh_frame in
the module loader)

The ideal solution would be to switch unwinder to .eh_frame.
For now however we can make do by just ensureing .debug_frame is
generated by removing -fasynchronous-unwind-tables

 .eh_frame    generated with -gdwarf-2 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
 .debug_frame generated with -gdwarf-2

Fixes STAR 9001058196

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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