linux-stable.git/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h, branch linux-4.2.y

arm: Remove signal translation and exec_domain

2015-04-12T18:58:24+00:00

As execution domain support is gone we can remove
signal translation from the signal code and remove
exec_domain from thread_info.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct

2015-02-13T02:54:12+00:00

If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target.  This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.

Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.

Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.

It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: David Miller 
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt 
Cc: Steven Miao 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Jesper Nilsson 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Richard Kuo 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman  (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman  (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Chen Liqin 
Cc: Lennox Wu 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branches 'fixes', 'misc', 'pm' and 'sa1100' into for-next

2014-12-05T16:30:47+00:00

ARM: 8226/1: cacheflush: get rid of restarting block

2014-11-27T15:55:35+00:00

We cannot restart cacheflush safely if a process provides user-defined
signal handler and signal is pending. In this case -EINTR is returned
and it is expected that process re-invokes syscall. However, there are
a few problems with that:
 * looks like nobody bothers checking return value from cacheflush
 * but if it did, we don't provide the restart address for that, so the
   process has to use the same range again
 * ...and again, what might lead to looping forever

So, remove cacheflush restarting code and terminate cache flushing
as early as fatal signal is pending.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.12+
Reported-by: Chanho Min 
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin 
Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8173/1: Calculate current_thread_info from current_stack_pointer

2014-11-13T23:58:04+00:00

Use the global current_stack_pointer to get the value of the stack pointer.
This change supports being able to compile the kernel with both gcc and clang.

Signed-off-by: Behan Webster 
Reviewed-by: Mark Charlebois 
Reviewed-by: Jan-Simon Möller 
Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8170/1: Add global named register current_stack_pointer for ARM

2014-11-13T23:58:00+00:00

Define a global named register for current_stack_pointer. The use of this new
variable guarantees that both gcc and clang can access this register in C code.

Signed-off-by: Behan Webster 
Reviewed-by: Jan-Simon Möller 
Reviewed-by: Mark Charlebois 
Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8078/1: get rid of hardcoded assumptions about kernel stack size

2014-07-01T14:05:47+00:00

Changing kernel stack size on arm is not as simple as it should be:
1) THREAD_SIZE macro doesn't respect PAGE_SIZE and THREAD_SIZE_ORDER
2) stack size is hardcoded in get_thread_info macro

This patch fixes it by calculating THREAD_SIZE and thread_info address
taking into account PAGE_SIZE and THREAD_SIZE_ORDER.

Now changing stack size becomes simply changing THREAD_SIZE_ORDER.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin 
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 8069/1: Make thread_save_fp macro aware of THUMB2 mode

2014-06-17T13:47:36+00:00

The thread_save_fp macro has been defined so that it always reads the fp member
of the cpu_context_save struct. However, in the case of THUMB2 the fp is saved
not in the fp (r11) member but rather in r7.

This patch changes the way the macro is defined such that FP is read from the
correct place depending on whether we are a THUMB2 kernel or not. This enables
the backtrace in sitaution such as "echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger" or the
function in which a process sleeping when "ps -Al" is invoked.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov 
Reviewed-by: Anurag Aggarwal 
Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: add uprobes support

2014-03-18T20:39:40+00:00

Using Rabin Vincent's ARM uprobes patches as a base, enable uprobes
support on ARM.

Caveats:

 - Thumb is not supported

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent 
Signed-off-by: David A. Long

preempt: Make PREEMPT_ACTIVE generic

2013-11-13T19:21:47+00:00

No point in having this bit defined by architecture.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130917183629.090698799@linutronix.de