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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>ARM: 8748/1: mm: Define vdso_start, vdso_end as array</title>
<updated>2018-03-24T14:27:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jinbum Park</name>
<email>jinb.park7@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-06T00:37:21+00:00</published>
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Define vdso_start, vdso_end as array to avoid compile-time analysis error
for the case of built with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.

and, since vdso_start, vdso_end are used in vdso.c only,
move extern-declaration from vdso.h to vdso.c.

If kernel is built with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE,
compile-time error happens at this code.
- if (memcmp(&amp;vdso_start, "177ELF", 4))

The size of "&amp;vdso_start" is recognized as 1 byte, but n is 4,
So that compile-time error is reported.

Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jinbum Park &lt;jinb.park7@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
Define vdso_start, vdso_end as array to avoid compile-time analysis error
for the case of built with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.

and, since vdso_start, vdso_end are used in vdso.c only,
move extern-declaration from vdso.h to vdso.c.

If kernel is built with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE,
compile-time error happens at this code.
- if (memcmp(&amp;vdso_start, "177ELF", 4))

The size of "&amp;vdso_start" is recognized as 1 byte, but n is 4,
So that compile-time error is reported.

Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jinbum Park &lt;jinb.park7@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2018-02-10T21:16:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-10T21:16:35+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Radim Krčmář:
 "ARM:

   - icache invalidation optimizations, improving VM startup time

   - support for forwarded level-triggered interrupts, improving
     performance for timers and passthrough platform devices

   - a small fix for power-management notifiers, and some cosmetic
     changes

  PPC:

   - add MMIO emulation for vector loads and stores

   - allow HPT guests to run on a radix host on POWER9 v2.2 CPUs without
     requiring the complex thread synchronization of older CPU versions

   - improve the handling of escalation interrupts with the XIVE
     interrupt controller

   - support decrement register migration

   - various cleanups and bugfixes.

  s390:

   - Cornelia Huck passed maintainership to Janosch Frank

   - exitless interrupts for emulated devices

   - cleanup of cpuflag handling

   - kvm_stat counter improvements

   - VSIE improvements

   - mm cleanup

  x86:

   - hypervisor part of SEV

   - UMIP, RDPID, and MSR_SMI_COUNT emulation

   - paravirtualized TLB shootdown using the new KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED bit

   - allow guests to see TOPOEXT, GFNI, VAES, VPCLMULQDQ, and more
     AVX512 features

   - show vcpu id in its anonymous inode name

   - many fixes and cleanups

   - per-VCPU MSR bitmaps (already merged through x86/pti branch)

   - stable KVM clock when nesting on Hyper-V (merged through
     x86/hyperv)"

* tag 'kvm-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (197 commits)
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add MMIO emulation for VMX instructions
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Branch inside feature section
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make HPT resizing work on POWER9
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix handling of secondary HPTEG in HPT resizing code
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix broken select due to misspelling
  KVM: x86: don't forget vcpu_put() in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_sregs()
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix svcpu copying with preemption enabled
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Drop locks before reading guest memory
  kvm: x86: remove efer_reload entry in kvm_vcpu_stat
  KVM: x86: AMD Processor Topology Information
  x86/kvm/vmx: do not use vm-exit instruction length for fast MMIO when running nested
  kvm: embed vcpu id to dentry of vcpu anon inode
  kvm: Map PFN-type memory regions as writable (if possible)
  x86/kvm: Make it compile on 32bit and with HYPYERVISOR_GUEST=n
  KVM: arm/arm64: Fixup userspace irqchip static key optimization
  KVM: arm/arm64: Fix userspace_irqchip_in_use counting
  KVM: arm/arm64: Fix incorrect timer_is_pending logic
  MAINTAINERS: update KVM/s390 maintainers
  MAINTAINERS: add Halil as additional vfio-ccw maintainer
  MAINTAINERS: add David as a reviewer for KVM/s390
  ...
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<pre>
Pull KVM updates from Radim Krčmář:
 "ARM:

   - icache invalidation optimizations, improving VM startup time

   - support for forwarded level-triggered interrupts, improving
     performance for timers and passthrough platform devices

   - a small fix for power-management notifiers, and some cosmetic
     changes

  PPC:

   - add MMIO emulation for vector loads and stores

   - allow HPT guests to run on a radix host on POWER9 v2.2 CPUs without
     requiring the complex thread synchronization of older CPU versions

   - improve the handling of escalation interrupts with the XIVE
     interrupt controller

   - support decrement register migration

   - various cleanups and bugfixes.

  s390:

   - Cornelia Huck passed maintainership to Janosch Frank

   - exitless interrupts for emulated devices

   - cleanup of cpuflag handling

   - kvm_stat counter improvements

   - VSIE improvements

   - mm cleanup

  x86:

   - hypervisor part of SEV

   - UMIP, RDPID, and MSR_SMI_COUNT emulation

   - paravirtualized TLB shootdown using the new KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED bit

   - allow guests to see TOPOEXT, GFNI, VAES, VPCLMULQDQ, and more
     AVX512 features

   - show vcpu id in its anonymous inode name

   - many fixes and cleanups

   - per-VCPU MSR bitmaps (already merged through x86/pti branch)

   - stable KVM clock when nesting on Hyper-V (merged through
     x86/hyperv)"

* tag 'kvm-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (197 commits)
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add MMIO emulation for VMX instructions
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Branch inside feature section
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make HPT resizing work on POWER9
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix handling of secondary HPTEG in HPT resizing code
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix broken select due to misspelling
  KVM: x86: don't forget vcpu_put() in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_sregs()
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix svcpu copying with preemption enabled
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Drop locks before reading guest memory
  kvm: x86: remove efer_reload entry in kvm_vcpu_stat
  KVM: x86: AMD Processor Topology Information
  x86/kvm/vmx: do not use vm-exit instruction length for fast MMIO when running nested
  kvm: embed vcpu id to dentry of vcpu anon inode
  kvm: Map PFN-type memory regions as writable (if possible)
  x86/kvm: Make it compile on 32bit and with HYPYERVISOR_GUEST=n
  KVM: arm/arm64: Fixup userspace irqchip static key optimization
  KVM: arm/arm64: Fix userspace_irqchip_in_use counting
  KVM: arm/arm64: Fix incorrect timer_is_pending logic
  MAINTAINERS: update KVM/s390 maintainers
  MAINTAINERS: add Halil as additional vfio-ccw maintainer
  MAINTAINERS: add David as a reviewer for KVM/s390
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-08T18:44:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-08T18:44:25+00:00</published>
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Pull more arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "As I mentioned in the last pull request, there's a second batch of
  security updates for arm64 with mitigations for Spectre/v1 and an
  improved one for Spectre/v2 (via a newly defined firmware interface
  API).

  Spectre v1 mitigation:

   - back-end version of array_index_mask_nospec()

   - masking of the syscall number to restrict speculation through the
     syscall table

   - masking of __user pointers prior to deference in uaccess routines

  Spectre v2 mitigation update:

   - using the new firmware SMC calling convention specification update

   - removing the current PSCI GET_VERSION firmware call mitigation as
     vendors are deploying new SMCCC-capable firmware

   - additional branch predictor hardening for synchronous exceptions
     and interrupts while in user mode

  Meltdown v3 mitigation update:

    - Cavium Thunder X is unaffected but a hardware erratum gets in the
      way. The kernel now starts with the page tables mapped as global
      and switches to non-global if kpti needs to be enabled.

  Other:

   - Theoretical trylock bug fixed"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (38 commits)
  arm64: Kill PSCI_GET_VERSION as a variant-2 workaround
  arm64: Add ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 BP hardening support
  arm/arm64: smccc: Implement SMCCC v1.1 inline primitive
  arm/arm64: smccc: Make function identifiers an unsigned quantity
  firmware/psci: Expose SMCCC version through psci_ops
  firmware/psci: Expose PSCI conduit
  arm64: KVM: Add SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 fast handling
  arm64: KVM: Report SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 BP hardening support
  arm/arm64: KVM: Turn kvm_psci_version into a static inline
  arm/arm64: KVM: Advertise SMCCC v1.1
  arm/arm64: KVM: Implement PSCI 1.0 support
  arm/arm64: KVM: Add smccc accessors to PSCI code
  arm/arm64: KVM: Add PSCI_VERSION helper
  arm/arm64: KVM: Consolidate the PSCI include files
  arm64: KVM: Increment PC after handling an SMC trap
  arm: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls
  arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls
  arm64: entry: Apply BP hardening for suspicious interrupts from EL0
  arm64: entry: Apply BP hardening for high-priority synchronous exceptions
  arm64: futex: Mask __user pointers prior to dereference
  ...
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<pre>
Pull more arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "As I mentioned in the last pull request, there's a second batch of
  security updates for arm64 with mitigations for Spectre/v1 and an
  improved one for Spectre/v2 (via a newly defined firmware interface
  API).

  Spectre v1 mitigation:

   - back-end version of array_index_mask_nospec()

   - masking of the syscall number to restrict speculation through the
     syscall table

   - masking of __user pointers prior to deference in uaccess routines

  Spectre v2 mitigation update:

   - using the new firmware SMC calling convention specification update

   - removing the current PSCI GET_VERSION firmware call mitigation as
     vendors are deploying new SMCCC-capable firmware

   - additional branch predictor hardening for synchronous exceptions
     and interrupts while in user mode

  Meltdown v3 mitigation update:

    - Cavium Thunder X is unaffected but a hardware erratum gets in the
      way. The kernel now starts with the page tables mapped as global
      and switches to non-global if kpti needs to be enabled.

  Other:

   - Theoretical trylock bug fixed"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (38 commits)
  arm64: Kill PSCI_GET_VERSION as a variant-2 workaround
  arm64: Add ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 BP hardening support
  arm/arm64: smccc: Implement SMCCC v1.1 inline primitive
  arm/arm64: smccc: Make function identifiers an unsigned quantity
  firmware/psci: Expose SMCCC version through psci_ops
  firmware/psci: Expose PSCI conduit
  arm64: KVM: Add SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 fast handling
  arm64: KVM: Report SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 BP hardening support
  arm/arm64: KVM: Turn kvm_psci_version into a static inline
  arm/arm64: KVM: Advertise SMCCC v1.1
  arm/arm64: KVM: Implement PSCI 1.0 support
  arm/arm64: KVM: Add smccc accessors to PSCI code
  arm/arm64: KVM: Add PSCI_VERSION helper
  arm/arm64: KVM: Consolidate the PSCI include files
  arm64: KVM: Increment PC after handling an SMC trap
  arm: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls
  arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls
  arm64: entry: Apply BP hardening for suspicious interrupts from EL0
  arm64: entry: Apply BP hardening for high-priority synchronous exceptions
  arm64: futex: Mask __user pointers prior to dereference
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2018-02-07T06:15:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-07T06:15:42+00:00</published>
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - kasan updates

 - procfs

 - lib/bitmap updates

 - other lib/ updates

 - checkpatch tweaks

 - rapidio

 - ubsan

 - pipe fixes and cleanups

 - lots of other misc bits

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (114 commits)
  Documentation/sysctl/user.txt: fix typo
  MAINTAINERS: update ARM/QUALCOMM SUPPORT patterns
  MAINTAINERS: update various PALM patterns
  MAINTAINERS: update "ARM/OXNAS platform support" patterns
  MAINTAINERS: update Cortina/Gemini patterns
  MAINTAINERS: remove ARM/CLKDEV SUPPORT file pattern
  MAINTAINERS: remove ANDROID ION pattern
  mm: docs: add blank lines to silence sphinx "Unexpected indentation" errors
  mm: docs: fix parameter names mismatch
  mm: docs: fixup punctuation
  pipe: read buffer limits atomically
  pipe: simplify round_pipe_size()
  pipe: reject F_SETPIPE_SZ with size over UINT_MAX
  pipe: fix off-by-one error when checking buffer limits
  pipe: actually allow root to exceed the pipe buffer limits
  pipe, sysctl: remove pipe_proc_fn()
  pipe, sysctl: drop 'min' parameter from pipe-max-size converter
  kasan: rework Kconfig settings
  crash_dump: is_kdump_kernel can be boolean
  kernel/mutex: mutex_is_locked can be boolean
  ...
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<pre>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - kasan updates

 - procfs

 - lib/bitmap updates

 - other lib/ updates

 - checkpatch tweaks

 - rapidio

 - ubsan

 - pipe fixes and cleanups

 - lots of other misc bits

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (114 commits)
  Documentation/sysctl/user.txt: fix typo
  MAINTAINERS: update ARM/QUALCOMM SUPPORT patterns
  MAINTAINERS: update various PALM patterns
  MAINTAINERS: update "ARM/OXNAS platform support" patterns
  MAINTAINERS: update Cortina/Gemini patterns
  MAINTAINERS: remove ARM/CLKDEV SUPPORT file pattern
  MAINTAINERS: remove ANDROID ION pattern
  mm: docs: add blank lines to silence sphinx "Unexpected indentation" errors
  mm: docs: fix parameter names mismatch
  mm: docs: fixup punctuation
  pipe: read buffer limits atomically
  pipe: simplify round_pipe_size()
  pipe: reject F_SETPIPE_SZ with size over UINT_MAX
  pipe: fix off-by-one error when checking buffer limits
  pipe: actually allow root to exceed the pipe buffer limits
  pipe, sysctl: remove pipe_proc_fn()
  pipe, sysctl: drop 'min' parameter from pipe-max-size converter
  kasan: rework Kconfig settings
  crash_dump: is_kdump_kernel can be boolean
  kernel/mutex: mutex_is_locked can be boolean
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lib: optimize cpumask_next_and()</title>
<updated>2018-02-07T02:32:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clement Courbet</name>
<email>courbet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-06T23:38:34+00:00</published>
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We've measured that we spend ~0.6% of sys cpu time in cpumask_next_and().
It's essentially a joined iteration in search for a non-zero bit, which is
currently implemented as a lookup join (find a nonzero bit on the lhs,
lookup the rhs to see if it's set there).

Implement a direct join (find a nonzero bit on the incrementally built
join).  Also add generic bitmap benchmarks in the new `test_find_bit`
module for new function (see `find_next_and_bit` in [2] and [3] below).

For cpumask_next_and, direct benchmarking shows that it's 1.17x to 14x
faster with a geometric mean of 2.1 on 32 CPUs [1].  No impact on memory
usage.  Note that on Arm, the new pure-C implementation still outperforms
the old one that uses a mix of C and asm (`find_next_bit`) [3].

[1] Approximate benchmark code:

```
  unsigned long src1p[nr_cpumask_longs] = {pattern1};
  unsigned long src2p[nr_cpumask_longs] = {pattern2};
  for (/*a bunch of repetitions*/) {
    for (int n = -1; n &lt;= nr_cpu_ids; ++n) {
      asm volatile("" : "+rm"(src1p)); // prevent any optimization
      asm volatile("" : "+rm"(src2p));
      unsigned long result = cpumask_next_and(n, src1p, src2p);
      asm volatile("" : "+rm"(result));
    }
  }
```

Results:
pattern1    pattern2     time_before/time_after
0x0000ffff  0x0000ffff   1.65
0x0000ffff  0x00005555   2.24
0x0000ffff  0x00001111   2.94
0x0000ffff  0x00000000   14.0
0x00005555  0x0000ffff   1.67
0x00005555  0x00005555   1.71
0x00005555  0x00001111   1.90
0x00005555  0x00000000   6.58
0x00001111  0x0000ffff   1.46
0x00001111  0x00005555   1.49
0x00001111  0x00001111   1.45
0x00001111  0x00000000   3.10
0x00000000  0x0000ffff   1.18
0x00000000  0x00005555   1.18
0x00000000  0x00001111   1.17
0x00000000  0x00000000   1.25
-----------------------------
               geo.mean  2.06

[2] test_find_next_bit, X86 (skylake)

 [ 3913.477422] Start testing find_bit() with random-filled bitmap
 [ 3913.477847] find_next_bit: 160868 cycles, 16484 iterations
 [ 3913.477933] find_next_zero_bit: 169542 cycles, 16285 iterations
 [ 3913.478036] find_last_bit: 201638 cycles, 16483 iterations
 [ 3913.480214] find_first_bit: 4353244 cycles, 16484 iterations
 [ 3913.480216] Start testing find_next_and_bit() with random-filled
 bitmap
 [ 3913.481074] find_next_and_bit: 89604 cycles, 8216 iterations
 [ 3913.481075] Start testing find_bit() with sparse bitmap
 [ 3913.481078] find_next_bit: 2536 cycles, 66 iterations
 [ 3913.481252] find_next_zero_bit: 344404 cycles, 32703 iterations
 [ 3913.481255] find_last_bit: 2006 cycles, 66 iterations
 [ 3913.481265] find_first_bit: 17488 cycles, 66 iterations
 [ 3913.481266] Start testing find_next_and_bit() with sparse bitmap
 [ 3913.481272] find_next_and_bit: 764 cycles, 1 iterations

[3] test_find_next_bit, arm (v7 odroid XU3).

[  267.206928] Start testing find_bit() with random-filled bitmap
[  267.214752] find_next_bit: 4474 cycles, 16419 iterations
[  267.221850] find_next_zero_bit: 5976 cycles, 16350 iterations
[  267.229294] find_last_bit: 4209 cycles, 16419 iterations
[  267.279131] find_first_bit: 1032991 cycles, 16420 iterations
[  267.286265] Start testing find_next_and_bit() with random-filled
bitmap
[  267.302386] find_next_and_bit: 2290 cycles, 8140 iterations
[  267.309422] Start testing find_bit() with sparse bitmap
[  267.316054] find_next_bit: 191 cycles, 66 iterations
[  267.322726] find_next_zero_bit: 8758 cycles, 32703 iterations
[  267.329803] find_last_bit: 84 cycles, 66 iterations
[  267.336169] find_first_bit: 4118 cycles, 66 iterations
[  267.342627] Start testing find_next_and_bit() with sparse bitmap
[  267.356919] find_next_and_bit: 91 cycles, 1 iterations

[courbet@google.com: v6]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171129095715.23430-1-courbet@google.com
[geert@linux-m68k.org: m68k/bitops: always include &lt;asm-generic/bitops/find.h&gt;]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512556816-28627-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171128131334.23491-1-courbet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Clement Courbet &lt;courbet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
We've measured that we spend ~0.6% of sys cpu time in cpumask_next_and().
It's essentially a joined iteration in search for a non-zero bit, which is
currently implemented as a lookup join (find a nonzero bit on the lhs,
lookup the rhs to see if it's set there).

Implement a direct join (find a nonzero bit on the incrementally built
join).  Also add generic bitmap benchmarks in the new `test_find_bit`
module for new function (see `find_next_and_bit` in [2] and [3] below).

For cpumask_next_and, direct benchmarking shows that it's 1.17x to 14x
faster with a geometric mean of 2.1 on 32 CPUs [1].  No impact on memory
usage.  Note that on Arm, the new pure-C implementation still outperforms
the old one that uses a mix of C and asm (`find_next_bit`) [3].

[1] Approximate benchmark code:

```
  unsigned long src1p[nr_cpumask_longs] = {pattern1};
  unsigned long src2p[nr_cpumask_longs] = {pattern2};
  for (/*a bunch of repetitions*/) {
    for (int n = -1; n &lt;= nr_cpu_ids; ++n) {
      asm volatile("" : "+rm"(src1p)); // prevent any optimization
      asm volatile("" : "+rm"(src2p));
      unsigned long result = cpumask_next_and(n, src1p, src2p);
      asm volatile("" : "+rm"(result));
    }
  }
```

Results:
pattern1    pattern2     time_before/time_after
0x0000ffff  0x0000ffff   1.65
0x0000ffff  0x00005555   2.24
0x0000ffff  0x00001111   2.94
0x0000ffff  0x00000000   14.0
0x00005555  0x0000ffff   1.67
0x00005555  0x00005555   1.71
0x00005555  0x00001111   1.90
0x00005555  0x00000000   6.58
0x00001111  0x0000ffff   1.46
0x00001111  0x00005555   1.49
0x00001111  0x00001111   1.45
0x00001111  0x00000000   3.10
0x00000000  0x0000ffff   1.18
0x00000000  0x00005555   1.18
0x00000000  0x00001111   1.17
0x00000000  0x00000000   1.25
-----------------------------
               geo.mean  2.06

[2] test_find_next_bit, X86 (skylake)

 [ 3913.477422] Start testing find_bit() with random-filled bitmap
 [ 3913.477847] find_next_bit: 160868 cycles, 16484 iterations
 [ 3913.477933] find_next_zero_bit: 169542 cycles, 16285 iterations
 [ 3913.478036] find_last_bit: 201638 cycles, 16483 iterations
 [ 3913.480214] find_first_bit: 4353244 cycles, 16484 iterations
 [ 3913.480216] Start testing find_next_and_bit() with random-filled
 bitmap
 [ 3913.481074] find_next_and_bit: 89604 cycles, 8216 iterations
 [ 3913.481075] Start testing find_bit() with sparse bitmap
 [ 3913.481078] find_next_bit: 2536 cycles, 66 iterations
 [ 3913.481252] find_next_zero_bit: 344404 cycles, 32703 iterations
 [ 3913.481255] find_last_bit: 2006 cycles, 66 iterations
 [ 3913.481265] find_first_bit: 17488 cycles, 66 iterations
 [ 3913.481266] Start testing find_next_and_bit() with sparse bitmap
 [ 3913.481272] find_next_and_bit: 764 cycles, 1 iterations

[3] test_find_next_bit, arm (v7 odroid XU3).

[  267.206928] Start testing find_bit() with random-filled bitmap
[  267.214752] find_next_bit: 4474 cycles, 16419 iterations
[  267.221850] find_next_zero_bit: 5976 cycles, 16350 iterations
[  267.229294] find_last_bit: 4209 cycles, 16419 iterations
[  267.279131] find_first_bit: 1032991 cycles, 16420 iterations
[  267.286265] Start testing find_next_and_bit() with random-filled
bitmap
[  267.302386] find_next_and_bit: 2290 cycles, 8140 iterations
[  267.309422] Start testing find_bit() with sparse bitmap
[  267.316054] find_next_bit: 191 cycles, 66 iterations
[  267.322726] find_next_zero_bit: 8758 cycles, 32703 iterations
[  267.329803] find_last_bit: 84 cycles, 66 iterations
[  267.336169] find_first_bit: 4118 cycles, 66 iterations
[  267.342627] Start testing find_next_and_bit() with sparse bitmap
[  267.356919] find_next_and_bit: 91 cycles, 1 iterations

[courbet@google.com: v6]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171129095715.23430-1-courbet@google.com
[geert@linux-m68k.org: m68k/bitops: always include &lt;asm-generic/bitops/find.h&gt;]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512556816-28627-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171128131334.23491-1-courbet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Clement Courbet &lt;courbet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;ynorov@caviumnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: KVM: Report SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 BP hardening support</title>
<updated>2018-02-06T22:54:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-06T17:56:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6167ec5c9145cdf493722dfd80a5d48bafc4a18a'/>
<id>6167ec5c9145cdf493722dfd80a5d48bafc4a18a</id>
<content type='text'>
A new feature of SMCCC 1.1 is that it offers firmware-based CPU
workarounds. In particular, SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 provides
BP hardening for CVE-2017-5715.

If the host has some mitigation for this issue, report that
we deal with it using SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1, as we apply the
host workaround on every guest exit.

Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
A new feature of SMCCC 1.1 is that it offers firmware-based CPU
workarounds. In particular, SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 provides
BP hardening for CVE-2017-5715.

If the host has some mitigation for this issue, report that
we deal with it using SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1, as we apply the
host workaround on every guest exit.

Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm/arm64: KVM: Consolidate the PSCI include files</title>
<updated>2018-02-06T22:53:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-06T17:56:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1a2fb94e6a771ff94f4afa22497a4695187b820c'/>
<id>1a2fb94e6a771ff94f4afa22497a4695187b820c</id>
<content type='text'>
As we're about to update the PSCI support, and because I'm lazy,
let's move the PSCI include file to include/kvm so that both
ARM architectures can find it.

Acked-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
As we're about to update the PSCI support, and because I'm lazy,
let's move the PSCI include file to include/kvm so that both
ARM architectures can find it.

Acked-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pci-v4.16-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci</title>
<updated>2018-02-06T17:59:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-06T17:59:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=105cf3c8c6264dce4bcdab877feb8037bc4109b1'/>
<id>105cf3c8c6264dce4bcdab877feb8037bc4109b1</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas:

 - skip AER driver error recovery callbacks for correctable errors
   reported via ACPI APEI, as we already do for errors reported via the
   native path (Tyler Baicar)

 - fix DPC shared interrupt handling (Alex Williamson)

 - print full DPC interrupt number (Keith Busch)

 - enable DPC only if AER is available (Keith Busch)

 - simplify DPC code (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - calculate ASPM L1 substate parameter instead of hardcoding it (Bjorn
   Helgaas)

 - enable Latency Tolerance Reporting for ASPM L1 substates (Bjorn
   Helgaas)

 - move ASPM internal interfaces out of public header (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - allow hot-removal of VGA devices (Mika Westerberg)

 - speed up unplug and shutdown by assuming Thunderbolt controllers
   don't support Command Completed events (Lukas Wunner)

 - add AtomicOps support for GPU and Infiniband drivers (Felix Kuehling,
   Jay Cornwall)

 - expose "ari_enabled" in sysfs to help NIC naming (Stuart Hayes)

 - clean up PCI DMA interface usage (Christoph Hellwig)

 - remove PCI pool API (replaced with DMA pool) (Romain Perier)

 - deprecate pci_get_bus_and_slot(), which assumed PCI domain 0 (Sinan
   Kaya)

 - move DT PCI code from drivers/of/ to drivers/pci/ (Rob Herring)

 - add PCI-specific wrappers for dev_info(), etc (Frederick Lawler)

 - remove warnings on sysfs mmap failure (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - quiet ROM validation messages (Alex Deucher)

 - remove redundant memory alloc failure messages (Markus Elfring)

 - fill in types for compile-time VGA and other I/O port resources
   (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - make "pci=pcie_scan_all" work for Root Ports as well as Downstream
   Ports to help AmigaOne X1000 (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - add SPDX tags to all PCI files (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - quirk Marvell 9128 DMA aliases (Alex Williamson)

 - quirk broken INTx disable on Ceton InfiniTV4 (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - fix CONFIG_PCI=n build by adding dummy pci_irqd_intx_xlate() (Niklas
   Cassel)

 - use DMA API to get MSI address for DesignWare IP (Niklas Cassel)

 - fix endpoint-mode DMA mask configuration (Kishon Vijay Abraham I)

 - fix ARTPEC-6 incorrect IS_ERR() usage (Wei Yongjun)

 - add support for ARTPEC-7 SoC (Niklas Cassel)

 - add endpoint-mode support for ARTPEC (Niklas Cassel)

 - add Cadence PCIe host and endpoint controller driver (Cyrille
   Pitchen)

 - handle multiple INTx status bits being set in dra7xx (Vignesh R)

 - translate dra7xx hwirq range to fix INTD handling (Vignesh R)

 - remove deprecated Exynos PHY initialization code (Jaehoon Chung)

 - fix MSI erratum workaround for HiSilicon Hip06/Hip07 (Dongdong Liu)

 - fix NULL pointer dereference in iProc BCMA driver (Ray Jui)

 - fix Keystone interrupt-controller-node lookup (Johan Hovold)

 - constify qcom driver structures (Julia Lawall)

 - rework Tegra config space mapping to increase space available for
   endpoints (Vidya Sagar)

 - simplify Tegra driver by using bus-&gt;sysdata (Manikanta Maddireddy)

 - remove PCI_REASSIGN_ALL_BUS usage on Tegra (Manikanta Maddireddy)

 - add support for Global Fabric Manager Server (GFMS) event to
   Microsemi Switchtec switch driver (Logan Gunthorpe)

 - add IDs for Switchtec PSX 24xG3 and PSX 48xG3 (Kelvin Cao)

* tag 'pci-v4.16-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (140 commits)
  PCI: cadence: Add EndPoint Controller driver for Cadence PCIe controller
  dt-bindings: PCI: cadence: Add DT bindings for Cadence PCIe endpoint controller
  PCI: endpoint: Fix EPF device name to support multi-function devices
  PCI: endpoint: Add the function number as argument to EPC ops
  PCI: cadence: Add host driver for Cadence PCIe controller
  dt-bindings: PCI: cadence: Add DT bindings for Cadence PCIe host controller
  PCI: Add vendor ID for Cadence
  PCI: Add generic function to probe PCI host controllers
  PCI: generic: fix missing call of pci_free_resource_list()
  PCI: OF: Add generic function to parse and allocate PCI resources
  PCI: Regroup all PCI related entries into drivers/pci/Makefile
  PCI/DPC: Reformat DPC register definitions
  PCI/DPC: Add and use DPC Status register field definitions
  PCI/DPC: Squash dpc_rp_pio_get_info() into dpc_process_rp_pio_error()
  PCI/DPC: Remove unnecessary RP PIO register structs
  PCI/DPC: Push dpc-&gt;rp_pio_status assignment into dpc_rp_pio_get_info()
  PCI/DPC: Squash dpc_rp_pio_print_error() into dpc_rp_pio_get_info()
  PCI/DPC: Make RP PIO log size check more generic
  PCI/DPC: Rename local "status" to "dpc_status"
  PCI/DPC: Squash dpc_rp_pio_print_tlp_header() into dpc_rp_pio_print_error()
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas:

 - skip AER driver error recovery callbacks for correctable errors
   reported via ACPI APEI, as we already do for errors reported via the
   native path (Tyler Baicar)

 - fix DPC shared interrupt handling (Alex Williamson)

 - print full DPC interrupt number (Keith Busch)

 - enable DPC only if AER is available (Keith Busch)

 - simplify DPC code (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - calculate ASPM L1 substate parameter instead of hardcoding it (Bjorn
   Helgaas)

 - enable Latency Tolerance Reporting for ASPM L1 substates (Bjorn
   Helgaas)

 - move ASPM internal interfaces out of public header (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - allow hot-removal of VGA devices (Mika Westerberg)

 - speed up unplug and shutdown by assuming Thunderbolt controllers
   don't support Command Completed events (Lukas Wunner)

 - add AtomicOps support for GPU and Infiniband drivers (Felix Kuehling,
   Jay Cornwall)

 - expose "ari_enabled" in sysfs to help NIC naming (Stuart Hayes)

 - clean up PCI DMA interface usage (Christoph Hellwig)

 - remove PCI pool API (replaced with DMA pool) (Romain Perier)

 - deprecate pci_get_bus_and_slot(), which assumed PCI domain 0 (Sinan
   Kaya)

 - move DT PCI code from drivers/of/ to drivers/pci/ (Rob Herring)

 - add PCI-specific wrappers for dev_info(), etc (Frederick Lawler)

 - remove warnings on sysfs mmap failure (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - quiet ROM validation messages (Alex Deucher)

 - remove redundant memory alloc failure messages (Markus Elfring)

 - fill in types for compile-time VGA and other I/O port resources
   (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - make "pci=pcie_scan_all" work for Root Ports as well as Downstream
   Ports to help AmigaOne X1000 (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - add SPDX tags to all PCI files (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - quirk Marvell 9128 DMA aliases (Alex Williamson)

 - quirk broken INTx disable on Ceton InfiniTV4 (Bjorn Helgaas)

 - fix CONFIG_PCI=n build by adding dummy pci_irqd_intx_xlate() (Niklas
   Cassel)

 - use DMA API to get MSI address for DesignWare IP (Niklas Cassel)

 - fix endpoint-mode DMA mask configuration (Kishon Vijay Abraham I)

 - fix ARTPEC-6 incorrect IS_ERR() usage (Wei Yongjun)

 - add support for ARTPEC-7 SoC (Niklas Cassel)

 - add endpoint-mode support for ARTPEC (Niklas Cassel)

 - add Cadence PCIe host and endpoint controller driver (Cyrille
   Pitchen)

 - handle multiple INTx status bits being set in dra7xx (Vignesh R)

 - translate dra7xx hwirq range to fix INTD handling (Vignesh R)

 - remove deprecated Exynos PHY initialization code (Jaehoon Chung)

 - fix MSI erratum workaround for HiSilicon Hip06/Hip07 (Dongdong Liu)

 - fix NULL pointer dereference in iProc BCMA driver (Ray Jui)

 - fix Keystone interrupt-controller-node lookup (Johan Hovold)

 - constify qcom driver structures (Julia Lawall)

 - rework Tegra config space mapping to increase space available for
   endpoints (Vidya Sagar)

 - simplify Tegra driver by using bus-&gt;sysdata (Manikanta Maddireddy)

 - remove PCI_REASSIGN_ALL_BUS usage on Tegra (Manikanta Maddireddy)

 - add support for Global Fabric Manager Server (GFMS) event to
   Microsemi Switchtec switch driver (Logan Gunthorpe)

 - add IDs for Switchtec PSX 24xG3 and PSX 48xG3 (Kelvin Cao)

* tag 'pci-v4.16-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (140 commits)
  PCI: cadence: Add EndPoint Controller driver for Cadence PCIe controller
  dt-bindings: PCI: cadence: Add DT bindings for Cadence PCIe endpoint controller
  PCI: endpoint: Fix EPF device name to support multi-function devices
  PCI: endpoint: Add the function number as argument to EPC ops
  PCI: cadence: Add host driver for Cadence PCIe controller
  dt-bindings: PCI: cadence: Add DT bindings for Cadence PCIe host controller
  PCI: Add vendor ID for Cadence
  PCI: Add generic function to probe PCI host controllers
  PCI: generic: fix missing call of pci_free_resource_list()
  PCI: OF: Add generic function to parse and allocate PCI resources
  PCI: Regroup all PCI related entries into drivers/pci/Makefile
  PCI/DPC: Reformat DPC register definitions
  PCI/DPC: Add and use DPC Status register field definitions
  PCI/DPC: Squash dpc_rp_pio_get_info() into dpc_process_rp_pio_error()
  PCI/DPC: Remove unnecessary RP PIO register structs
  PCI/DPC: Push dpc-&gt;rp_pio_status assignment into dpc_rp_pio_get_info()
  PCI/DPC: Squash dpc_rp_pio_print_error() into dpc_rp_pio_get_info()
  PCI/DPC: Make RP PIO log size check more generic
  PCI/DPC: Rename local "status" to "dpc_status"
  PCI/DPC: Squash dpc_rp_pio_print_tlp_header() into dpc_rp_pio_print_error()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-04T00:25:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-04T00:25:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=617aebe6a97efa539cc4b8a52adccd89596e6be0'/>
<id>617aebe6a97efa539cc4b8a52adccd89596e6be0</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull hardened usercopy whitelisting from Kees Cook:
 "Currently, hardened usercopy performs dynamic bounds checking on slab
  cache objects. This is good, but still leaves a lot of kernel memory
  available to be copied to/from userspace in the face of bugs.

  To further restrict what memory is available for copying, this creates
  a way to whitelist specific areas of a given slab cache object for
  copying to/from userspace, allowing much finer granularity of access
  control.

  Slab caches that are never exposed to userspace can declare no
  whitelist for their objects, thereby keeping them unavailable to
  userspace via dynamic copy operations. (Note, an implicit form of
  whitelisting is the use of constant sizes in usercopy operations and
  get_user()/put_user(); these bypass all hardened usercopy checks since
  these sizes cannot change at runtime.)

  This new check is WARN-by-default, so any mistakes can be found over
  the next several releases without breaking anyone's system.

  The series has roughly the following sections:
   - remove %p and improve reporting with offset
   - prepare infrastructure and whitelist kmalloc
   - update VFS subsystem with whitelists
   - update SCSI subsystem with whitelists
   - update network subsystem with whitelists
   - update process memory with whitelists
   - update per-architecture thread_struct with whitelists
   - update KVM with whitelists and fix ioctl bug
   - mark all other allocations as not whitelisted
   - update lkdtm for more sensible test overage"

* tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (38 commits)
  lkdtm: Update usercopy tests for whitelisting
  usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0
  kvm: x86: fix KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG ioctl
  kvm: whitelist struct kvm_vcpu_arch
  arm: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  arm64: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  x86: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  fork: Provide usercopy whitelisting for task_struct
  fork: Define usercopy region in thread_stack slab caches
  fork: Define usercopy region in mm_struct slab caches
  net: Restrict unwhitelisted proto caches to size 0
  sctp: Copy struct sctp_sock.autoclose to userspace using put_user()
  sctp: Define usercopy region in SCTP proto slab cache
  caif: Define usercopy region in caif proto slab cache
  ip: Define usercopy region in IP proto slab cache
  net: Define usercopy region in struct proto slab cache
  scsi: Define usercopy region in scsi_sense_cache slab cache
  cifs: Define usercopy region in cifs_request slab cache
  vxfs: Define usercopy region in vxfs_inode slab cache
  ufs: Define usercopy region in ufs_inode_cache slab cache
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull hardened usercopy whitelisting from Kees Cook:
 "Currently, hardened usercopy performs dynamic bounds checking on slab
  cache objects. This is good, but still leaves a lot of kernel memory
  available to be copied to/from userspace in the face of bugs.

  To further restrict what memory is available for copying, this creates
  a way to whitelist specific areas of a given slab cache object for
  copying to/from userspace, allowing much finer granularity of access
  control.

  Slab caches that are never exposed to userspace can declare no
  whitelist for their objects, thereby keeping them unavailable to
  userspace via dynamic copy operations. (Note, an implicit form of
  whitelisting is the use of constant sizes in usercopy operations and
  get_user()/put_user(); these bypass all hardened usercopy checks since
  these sizes cannot change at runtime.)

  This new check is WARN-by-default, so any mistakes can be found over
  the next several releases without breaking anyone's system.

  The series has roughly the following sections:
   - remove %p and improve reporting with offset
   - prepare infrastructure and whitelist kmalloc
   - update VFS subsystem with whitelists
   - update SCSI subsystem with whitelists
   - update network subsystem with whitelists
   - update process memory with whitelists
   - update per-architecture thread_struct with whitelists
   - update KVM with whitelists and fix ioctl bug
   - mark all other allocations as not whitelisted
   - update lkdtm for more sensible test overage"

* tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (38 commits)
  lkdtm: Update usercopy tests for whitelisting
  usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0
  kvm: x86: fix KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG ioctl
  kvm: whitelist struct kvm_vcpu_arch
  arm: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  arm64: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  x86: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  fork: Provide usercopy whitelisting for task_struct
  fork: Define usercopy region in thread_stack slab caches
  fork: Define usercopy region in mm_struct slab caches
  net: Restrict unwhitelisted proto caches to size 0
  sctp: Copy struct sctp_sock.autoclose to userspace using put_user()
  sctp: Define usercopy region in SCTP proto slab cache
  caif: Define usercopy region in caif proto slab cache
  ip: Define usercopy region in IP proto slab cache
  net: Define usercopy region in struct proto slab cache
  scsi: Define usercopy region in scsi_sense_cache slab cache
  cifs: Define usercopy region in cifs_request slab cache
  vxfs: Define usercopy region in vxfs_inode slab cache
  ufs: Define usercopy region in ufs_inode_cache slab cache
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2018-02-02T17:50:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-02T17:50:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=367b0df173b0ebea5d18b6971c244e260b5feb17'/>
<id>367b0df173b0ebea5d18b6971c244e260b5feb17</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - StrongARM SA1111 updates to modernise and remove cruft

 - Add StrongARM gpio drivers for board GPIOs

 - Verify size of zImage is what we expect to avoid issues with
   appended DTB

 - nommu updates from Vladimir Murzin

 - page table read-write-execute checking from Jinbum Park

 - Broadcom Brahma-B15 cache updates from Florian Fainelli

 - Avoid failure with kprobes test caused by inappropriately
   placed kprobes

 - Remove __memzero optimisation (which was incorrectly being
   used directly by some drivers)

* 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (32 commits)
  ARM: 8745/1: get rid of __memzero()
  ARM: 8744/1: don't discard memblock for kexec
  ARM: 8743/1: bL_switcher: add MODULE_LICENSE tag
  ARM: 8742/1: Always use REFCOUNT_FULL
  ARM: 8741/1: B15: fix unused label warnings
  ARM: 8740/1: NOMMU: Make sure we do not hold stale data in mem[] array
  ARM: 8739/1: NOMMU: Setup VBAR/Hivecs for secondaries cores
  ARM: 8738/1: Disable CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL for NOMMU
  ARM: 8737/1: mm: dump: add checking for writable and executable
  ARM: 8736/1: mm: dump: make the page table dumping seq_file
  ARM: 8735/1: mm: dump: make page table dumping reusable
  ARM: sa1100/neponset: add GPIO drivers for control and modem registers
  ARM: sa1100/assabet: add BCR/BSR GPIO driver
  ARM: 8734/1: mm: idmap: Mark variables as ro_after_init
  ARM: 8733/1: hw_breakpoint: Mark variables as __ro_after_init
  ARM: 8732/1: NOMMU: Allow userspace to access background MPU region
  ARM: 8727/1: MAINTAINERS: Update brcmstb entries to cover B15 code
  ARM: 8728/1: B15: Register reboot notifier for KEXEC
  ARM: 8730/1: B15: Add suspend/resume hooks
  ARM: 8726/1: B15: Add CPU hotplug awareness
  ...
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - StrongARM SA1111 updates to modernise and remove cruft

 - Add StrongARM gpio drivers for board GPIOs

 - Verify size of zImage is what we expect to avoid issues with
   appended DTB

 - nommu updates from Vladimir Murzin

 - page table read-write-execute checking from Jinbum Park

 - Broadcom Brahma-B15 cache updates from Florian Fainelli

 - Avoid failure with kprobes test caused by inappropriately
   placed kprobes

 - Remove __memzero optimisation (which was incorrectly being
   used directly by some drivers)

* 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (32 commits)
  ARM: 8745/1: get rid of __memzero()
  ARM: 8744/1: don't discard memblock for kexec
  ARM: 8743/1: bL_switcher: add MODULE_LICENSE tag
  ARM: 8742/1: Always use REFCOUNT_FULL
  ARM: 8741/1: B15: fix unused label warnings
  ARM: 8740/1: NOMMU: Make sure we do not hold stale data in mem[] array
  ARM: 8739/1: NOMMU: Setup VBAR/Hivecs for secondaries cores
  ARM: 8738/1: Disable CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL for NOMMU
  ARM: 8737/1: mm: dump: add checking for writable and executable
  ARM: 8736/1: mm: dump: make the page table dumping seq_file
  ARM: 8735/1: mm: dump: make page table dumping reusable
  ARM: sa1100/neponset: add GPIO drivers for control and modem registers
  ARM: sa1100/assabet: add BCR/BSR GPIO driver
  ARM: 8734/1: mm: idmap: Mark variables as ro_after_init
  ARM: 8733/1: hw_breakpoint: Mark variables as __ro_after_init
  ARM: 8732/1: NOMMU: Allow userspace to access background MPU region
  ARM: 8727/1: MAINTAINERS: Update brcmstb entries to cover B15 code
  ARM: 8728/1: B15: Register reboot notifier for KEXEC
  ARM: 8730/1: B15: Add suspend/resume hooks
  ARM: 8726/1: B15: Add CPU hotplug awareness
  ...
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