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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/arm/include, branch v4.14.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2017-11-04T21:26:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-04T21:26:30+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:

 - omit EFI memory map sorting, which was recently introduced, but
   caused problems with the decompressor due to additional sections
   being emitted.

 - avoid unaligned load fault-generating instructions in the
   decompressor by switching to a private unaligned implementation.

 - add a symbol into the decompressor to further debug non-boot
   situations (ld's documentation is extremely poor for how "." works,
   ld doesn't seem to follow its own documentation!)

 - parse endian information to sparse

* 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: add debug ".edata_real" symbol
  ARM: 8716/1: pass endianness info to sparse
  efi/libstub: arm: omit sorting of the UEFI memory map
  ARM: 8715/1: add a private asm/unaligned.h
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Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:

 - omit EFI memory map sorting, which was recently introduced, but
   caused problems with the decompressor due to additional sections
   being emitted.

 - avoid unaligned load fault-generating instructions in the
   decompressor by switching to a private unaligned implementation.

 - add a symbol into the decompressor to further debug non-boot
   situations (ld's documentation is extremely poor for how "." works,
   ld doesn't seem to follow its own documentation!)

 - parse endian information to sparse

* 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: add debug ".edata_real" symbol
  ARM: 8716/1: pass endianness info to sparse
  efi/libstub: arm: omit sorting of the UEFI memory map
  ARM: 8715/1: add a private asm/unaligned.h
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:20:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:09:13+00:00</published>
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Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either
incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the
license under which the file is supposed to be.  This makes it hard for
compliance tools to determine the correct license.

Update these files with an SPDX license identifier.  The identifier was
chosen based on the license information in the file.

GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license
identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is
the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall
exception:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL
code, without confusing license compliance tools.

Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed
under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX
identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier.  The format
is:
        ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE)

SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be
used instead of the full boiler plate text.  The update does not remove
existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case
basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will
happen in a separate step.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either
incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the
license under which the file is supposed to be.  This makes it hard for
compliance tools to determine the correct license.

Update these files with an SPDX license identifier.  The identifier was
chosen based on the license information in the file.

GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license
identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is
the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall
exception:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL
code, without confusing license compliance tools.

Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed
under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX
identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier.  The format
is:
        ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE)

SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be
used instead of the full boiler plate text.  The update does not remove
existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case
basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will
happen in a separate step.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:19:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:08:43+00:00</published>
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Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2.  Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.

Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier.  The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception.  SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2.  Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.

Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier.  The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception.  SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8715/1: add a private asm/unaligned.h</title>
<updated>2017-10-24T09:33:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-20T20:17:05+00:00</published>
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The asm-generic/unaligned.h header provides two different implementations
for accessing unaligned variables: the access_ok.h version used when
CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is set pretends that all pointers
are in fact aligned, while the le_struct.h version convinces gcc that the
alignment of a pointer is '1', to make it issue the correct load/store
instructions depending on the architecture flags.

On ARMv5 and older, we always use the second version, to let the compiler
use byte accesses. On ARMv6 and newer, we currently use the access_ok.h
version, so the compiler can use any instruction including stm/ldm and
ldrd/strd that will cause an alignment trap. This trap can significantly
impact performance when we have to do a lot of fixups and, worse, has
led to crashes in the LZ4 decompressor code that does not have a trap
handler.

This adds an ARM specific version of asm/unaligned.h that uses the
le_struct.h/be_struct.h implementation unconditionally. This should lead
to essentially the same code on ARMv6+ as before, with the exception of
using regular load/store instructions instead of the trapping instructions
multi-register variants.

The crash in the LZ4 decompressor code was probably introduced by the
patch replacing the LZ4 implementation, commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib: update
LZ4 compressor module"), so linux-4.11 and higher would be affected most.
However, we probably want to have this backported to all older stable
kernels as well, to help with the performance issues.

There are two follow-ups that I think we should also work on, but not
backport to stable kernels, first to change the asm-generic version of
the header to remove the ARM special case, and second to review all
other uses of CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS to see if they
might be affected by the same problem on ARM.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
The asm-generic/unaligned.h header provides two different implementations
for accessing unaligned variables: the access_ok.h version used when
CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is set pretends that all pointers
are in fact aligned, while the le_struct.h version convinces gcc that the
alignment of a pointer is '1', to make it issue the correct load/store
instructions depending on the architecture flags.

On ARMv5 and older, we always use the second version, to let the compiler
use byte accesses. On ARMv6 and newer, we currently use the access_ok.h
version, so the compiler can use any instruction including stm/ldm and
ldrd/strd that will cause an alignment trap. This trap can significantly
impact performance when we have to do a lot of fixups and, worse, has
led to crashes in the LZ4 decompressor code that does not have a trap
handler.

This adds an ARM specific version of asm/unaligned.h that uses the
le_struct.h/be_struct.h implementation unconditionally. This should lead
to essentially the same code on ARMv6+ as before, with the exception of
using regular load/store instructions instead of the trapping instructions
multi-register variants.

The crash in the LZ4 decompressor code was probably introduced by the
patch replacing the LZ4 implementation, commit 4e1a33b105dd ("lib: update
LZ4 compressor module"), so linux-4.11 and higher would be affected most.
However, we probably want to have this backported to all older stable
kernels as well, to help with the performance issues.

There are two follow-ups that I think we should also work on, but not
backport to stable kernels, first to change the asm-generic version of
the header to remove the ARM special case, and second to review all
other uses of CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS to see if they
might be affected by the same problem on ARM.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "arm/syscalls: Check address limit on user-mode return"</title>
<updated>2017-09-17T17:45:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Garnier</name>
<email>thgarnie@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-07T15:30:45+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 73ac5d6a2b6ac3ae8d1e1818f3e9946f97489bc9.

The work pending loop can call set_fs after addr_limit_user_check
removed the _TIF_FSCHECK flag. This may happen at anytime based on how
ARM handles alignment exceptions. It leads to an infinite loop condition.

After discussion, it has been agreed that the generic approach is not
tailored to the ARM architecture and any fix might not be complete. This
patch will be replaced by an architecture specific implementation. The
work flag approach will be kept for other architectures.

Reported-by: Leonard Crestez &lt;leonard.crestez@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier &lt;thgarnie@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Pratyush Anand &lt;panand@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504798247-48833-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org

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This reverts commit 73ac5d6a2b6ac3ae8d1e1818f3e9946f97489bc9.

The work pending loop can call set_fs after addr_limit_user_check
removed the _TIF_FSCHECK flag. This may happen at anytime based on how
ARM handles alignment exceptions. It leads to an infinite loop condition.

After discussion, it has been agreed that the generic approach is not
tailored to the ARM architecture and any fix might not be complete. This
patch will be replaced by an architecture specific implementation. The
work flag approach will be kept for other architectures.

Reported-by: Leonard Crestez &lt;leonard.crestez@nxp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier &lt;thgarnie@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Pratyush Anand &lt;panand@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504798247-48833-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2017-09-12T13:10:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-12T13:10:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8fac2f96ab86b0e14ec4e42851e21e9b518bdc55'/>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "Low priority fixes and updates for ARM:

   - add some missing includes

   - efficiency improvements in system call entry code when tracing is
     enabled

   - ensure ARMv6+ is always built as EABI

   - export save_stack_trace_tsk()

   - fix fatal signal handling during mm fault

   - build translation table base address register from scratch

   - appropriately align the .data section to a word boundary where we
     rely on that data being word aligned"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 8691/1: Export save_stack_trace_tsk()
  ARM: 8692/1: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal
  ARM: 8690/1: lpae: build TTB control register value from scratch in v7_ttb_setup
  ARM: align .data section
  ARM: always enable AEABI for ARMv6+
  ARM: avoid saving and restoring registers unnecessarily
  ARM: move PC value into r9
  ARM: obtain thread info structure later
  ARM: use aliases for registers in entry-common
  ARM: 8689/1: scu: add missing errno include
  ARM: 8688/1: pm: add missing types include
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "Low priority fixes and updates for ARM:

   - add some missing includes

   - efficiency improvements in system call entry code when tracing is
     enabled

   - ensure ARMv6+ is always built as EABI

   - export save_stack_trace_tsk()

   - fix fatal signal handling during mm fault

   - build translation table base address register from scratch

   - appropriately align the .data section to a word boundary where we
     rely on that data being word aligned"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 8691/1: Export save_stack_trace_tsk()
  ARM: 8692/1: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal
  ARM: 8690/1: lpae: build TTB control register value from scratch in v7_ttb_setup
  ARM: align .data section
  ARM: always enable AEABI for ARMv6+
  ARM: avoid saving and restoring registers unnecessarily
  ARM: move PC value into r9
  ARM: obtain thread info structure later
  ARM: use aliases for registers in entry-common
  ARM: 8689/1: scu: add missing errno include
  ARM: 8688/1: pm: add missing types include
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'armsoc-platforms' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc</title>
<updated>2017-09-11T03:35:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-11T03:35:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7f1b9be13a7dbe8e51ea541bbcd6c47adae39c71'/>
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Pull ARM/arm64 SoC platform updates from Olof Johansson: "This branch
  contains platform updates for 32- and 64-bit ARM, including defconfig
  updates to enable new options, drivers and platforms. There are also a
  few fixes and cleanups for some existing vendors.

  Some of the things worth highlighting here are:

   - Enabling new crypt drivers on arm64 defconfig

   - QCOM IPQ8074 clocks and pinctrl drivers on arm64 defconfig

   - Debug support enabled for Renesas r8a7743

   - Various config updates for Renesas platforms (sound, USB, other
     drivers)

   - Platform support (including SMP) for TI dra762

   - OMAP cleanups: Move to use generic 8250 debug_ll, removal of stale
     DMA code"

* tag 'armsoc-platforms' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (109 commits)
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: make eSDHC driver built-in
  arm64: defconfig: enable rockchip graphics
  MAINTAINERS: Update Cavium ThunderX2 entry
  ARM: config: aspeed: Add I2C, VUART, LPC Snoop
  ARM: configs: aspeed: Update Aspeed G4 with VMSPLIT_2G
  ARM: s3c24xx: Fix NAND ECC mode for mini2440 board
  ARM: davinci_all_defconfig: enable tinydrm and ST7586
  arm64: defconfig: Enable QCOM IPQ8074 clock and pinctrl
  ARM: defconfig: tegra: Enable ChipIdea UDC driver
  ARM: configs: Add Tegra I2S interfaces to multi_v7_defconfig
  ARM: tegra: Add Tegra I2S interfaces to defconfig
  ARM: tegra: Update default configuration for v4.13-rc1
  MAINTAINERS: update ARM/ZTE entry
  soc: versatile: remove unnecessary static in realview_soc_probe()
  ARM: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name
  ARM: hisi: Fix typo in comment
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: add CONFIG_BRCMSTB_THERMAL
  arm64: defconfig: add CONFIG_BRCMSTB_THERMAL
  arm64: defconfig: add recently added crypto drivers as modules
  arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_UNIPHIER_WATCHDOG
  ...
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Pull ARM/arm64 SoC platform updates from Olof Johansson: "This branch
  contains platform updates for 32- and 64-bit ARM, including defconfig
  updates to enable new options, drivers and platforms. There are also a
  few fixes and cleanups for some existing vendors.

  Some of the things worth highlighting here are:

   - Enabling new crypt drivers on arm64 defconfig

   - QCOM IPQ8074 clocks and pinctrl drivers on arm64 defconfig

   - Debug support enabled for Renesas r8a7743

   - Various config updates for Renesas platforms (sound, USB, other
     drivers)

   - Platform support (including SMP) for TI dra762

   - OMAP cleanups: Move to use generic 8250 debug_ll, removal of stale
     DMA code"

* tag 'armsoc-platforms' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (109 commits)
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: make eSDHC driver built-in
  arm64: defconfig: enable rockchip graphics
  MAINTAINERS: Update Cavium ThunderX2 entry
  ARM: config: aspeed: Add I2C, VUART, LPC Snoop
  ARM: configs: aspeed: Update Aspeed G4 with VMSPLIT_2G
  ARM: s3c24xx: Fix NAND ECC mode for mini2440 board
  ARM: davinci_all_defconfig: enable tinydrm and ST7586
  arm64: defconfig: Enable QCOM IPQ8074 clock and pinctrl
  ARM: defconfig: tegra: Enable ChipIdea UDC driver
  ARM: configs: Add Tegra I2S interfaces to multi_v7_defconfig
  ARM: tegra: Add Tegra I2S interfaces to defconfig
  ARM: tegra: Update default configuration for v4.13-rc1
  MAINTAINERS: update ARM/ZTE entry
  soc: versatile: remove unnecessary static in realview_soc_probe()
  ARM: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name
  ARM: hisi: Fix typo in comment
  ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: add CONFIG_BRCMSTB_THERMAL
  arm64: defconfig: add CONFIG_BRCMSTB_THERMAL
  arm64: defconfig: add recently added crypto drivers as modules
  arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_UNIPHIER_WATCHDOG
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T17:30:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-09T17:30:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fbf4432ff71b7a25bef993a5312906946d27f446'/>
<id>fbf4432ff71b7a25bef993a5312906946d27f446</id>
<content type='text'>
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - most of the rest of MM

 - a small number of misc things

 - lib/ updates

 - checkpatch

 - autofs updates

 - ipc/ updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (126 commits)
  ipc: optimize semget/shmget/msgget for lots of keys
  ipc/sem: play nicer with large nsops allocations
  ipc/sem: drop sem_checkid helper
  ipc: convert kern_ipc_perm.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  ipc: convert sem_undo_list.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  ipc: convert ipc_namespace.count from atomic_t to refcount_t
  kcov: support compat processes
  sh: defconfig: cleanup from old Kconfig options
  mn10300: defconfig: cleanup from old Kconfig options
  m32r: defconfig: cleanup from old Kconfig options
  drivers/pps: use surrounding "if PPS" to remove numerous dependency checks
  drivers/pps: aesthetic tweaks to PPS-related content
  cpumask: make cpumask_next() out-of-line
  kmod: move #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES wrapper to Makefile
  kmod: split off umh headers into its own file
  MAINTAINERS: clarify kmod is just a kernel module loader
  kmod: split out umh code into its own file
  test_kmod: flip INT checks to be consistent
  test_kmod: remove paranoid UINT_MAX check on uint range processing
  vfat: deduplicate hex2bin()
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - most of the rest of MM

 - a small number of misc things

 - lib/ updates

 - checkpatch

 - autofs updates

 - ipc/ updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (126 commits)
  ipc: optimize semget/shmget/msgget for lots of keys
  ipc/sem: play nicer with large nsops allocations
  ipc/sem: drop sem_checkid helper
  ipc: convert kern_ipc_perm.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  ipc: convert sem_undo_list.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  ipc: convert ipc_namespace.count from atomic_t to refcount_t
  kcov: support compat processes
  sh: defconfig: cleanup from old Kconfig options
  mn10300: defconfig: cleanup from old Kconfig options
  m32r: defconfig: cleanup from old Kconfig options
  drivers/pps: use surrounding "if PPS" to remove numerous dependency checks
  drivers/pps: aesthetic tweaks to PPS-related content
  cpumask: make cpumask_next() out-of-line
  kmod: move #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES wrapper to Makefile
  kmod: split off umh headers into its own file
  MAINTAINERS: clarify kmod is just a kernel module loader
  kmod: split out umh code into its own file
  test_kmod: flip INT checks to be consistent
  test_kmod: remove paranoid UINT_MAX check on uint range processing
  vfat: deduplicate hex2bin()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'fixes' and 'misc' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T15:34:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-09T15:34:41+00:00</published>
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