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<title>ARM: 7526/1: traps: send SIGILL if get_user fails on undef handling path</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T17:38:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-07T17:21:44+00:00</published>
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commit 2b2040af0b64cd93e5d4df2494c4486cf604090d upstream.

get_user may fail to load from the provided __user address due to an
unhandled fault generated by the access.

In the case of the undefined instruction trap, this results in failure
to load the faulting instruction, in which case we should send SIGILL to
the task rather than continue with potentially uninitialised data.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2b2040af0b64cd93e5d4df2494c4486cf604090d upstream.

get_user may fail to load from the provided __user address due to an
unhandled fault generated by the access.

In the case of the undefined instruction trap, this results in failure
to load the faulting instruction, in which case we should send SIGILL to
the task rather than continue with potentially uninitialised data.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: Fix undefined instruction exception handling</title>
<updated>2012-08-15T14:52:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-30T18:42:10+00:00</published>
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commit 15ac49b65024f55c4371a53214879a9c77c4fbf9 upstream.

While trying to get a v3.5 kernel booted on the cubox, I noticed that
VFP does not work correctly with VFP bounce handling.  This is because
of the confusion over 16-bit vs 32-bit instructions, and where PC is
supposed to point to.

The rule is that FP handlers are entered with regs-&gt;ARM_pc pointing at
the _next_ instruction to be executed.  However, if the exception is
not handled, regs-&gt;ARM_pc points at the faulting instruction.

This is easy for ARM mode, because we know that the next instruction and
previous instructions are separated by four bytes.  This is not true of
Thumb2 though.

Since all FP instructions are 32-bit in Thumb2, it makes things easy.
We just need to select the appropriate adjustment.  Do this by moving
the adjustment out of do_undefinstr() into the assembly code, as only
the assembly code knows whether it's dealing with a 32-bit or 16-bit
instruction.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 15ac49b65024f55c4371a53214879a9c77c4fbf9 upstream.

While trying to get a v3.5 kernel booted on the cubox, I noticed that
VFP does not work correctly with VFP bounce handling.  This is because
of the confusion over 16-bit vs 32-bit instructions, and where PC is
supposed to point to.

The rule is that FP handlers are entered with regs-&gt;ARM_pc pointing at
the _next_ instruction to be executed.  However, if the exception is
not handled, regs-&gt;ARM_pc points at the faulting instruction.

This is easy for ARM mode, because we know that the next instruction and
previous instructions are separated by four bytes.  This is not true of
Thumb2 though.

Since all FP instructions are 32-bit in Thumb2, it makes things easy.
We just need to select the appropriate adjustment.  Do this by moving
the adjustment out of do_undefinstr() into the assembly code, as only
the assembly code knows whether it's dealing with a 32-bit or 16-bit
instruction.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ARM: 7442/1: Revert "remove unused restart trampoline"</title>
<updated>2012-07-05T08:50:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-04T17:16:30+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit fa18484d0947b976a769d15c83c50617493c81c1.

We need the restart trampoline back so that we can revert a related
problematic patch 6b5c8045ecc7e726cdaa2a9d9c8e5008050e1252 ("arm: new
way of handling ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK").

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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This reverts commit fa18484d0947b976a769d15c83c50617493c81c1.

We need the restart trampoline back so that we can revert a related
problematic patch 6b5c8045ecc7e726cdaa2a9d9c8e5008050e1252 ("arm: new
way of handling ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK").

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-arm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal.git into for-linus</title>
<updated>2012-05-29T21:13:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-29T21:13:55+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
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Conflicts:
	arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm: remove unused restart trampoline</title>
<updated>2012-05-21T18:39:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-03T01:13:45+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7408/1: cacheflush: return error to userspace when flushing syscall fails</title>
<updated>2012-05-02T10:12:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-27T12:08:53+00:00</published>
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The cacheflush syscall can fail for two reasons:

(1) The arguments are invalid (nonsensical address range or no VMA)

(2) The region generates a translation fault on a VIPT or PIPT cache

This patch allows do_cache_op to return an error code to userspace in
the case of the above. The various coherent_user_range implementations
are modified to return 0 in the case of VIVT caches or -EFAULT in the
case of an abort on v6/v7 cores.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The cacheflush syscall can fail for two reasons:

(1) The arguments are invalid (nonsensical address range or no VMA)

(2) The region generates a translation fault on a VIPT or PIPT cache

This patch allows do_cache_op to return an error code to userspace in
the case of the above. The various coherent_user_range implementations
are modified to return 0 in the case of VIVT caches or -EFAULT in the
case of an abort on v6/v7 cores.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7409/1: Do not call flush_cache_user_range with mmap_sem held</title>
<updated>2012-05-02T10:12:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dima Zavin</name>
<email>dima@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-30T09:26:14+00:00</published>
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We can't be holding the mmap_sem while calling flush_cache_user_range
because the flush can fault. If we fault on a user address, the
page fault handler will try to take mmap_sem again. Since both places
acquire the read lock, most of the time it succeeds. However, if another
thread tries to acquire the write lock on the mmap_sem (e.g. mmap) in
between the call to flush_cache_user_range and the fault, the down_read
in do_page_fault will deadlock.

[will: removed drop of vma parameter as already queued by rmk (7365/1)]

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin &lt;dima@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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We can't be holding the mmap_sem while calling flush_cache_user_range
because the flush can fault. If we fault on a user address, the
page fault handler will try to take mmap_sem again. Since both places
acquire the read lock, most of the time it succeeds. However, if another
thread tries to acquire the write lock on the mmap_sem (e.g. mmap) in
between the call to flush_cache_user_range and the fault, the down_read
in do_page_fault will deadlock.

[will: removed drop of vma parameter as already queued by rmk (7365/1)]

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin &lt;dima@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 7365/1: drop unused parameter from flush_cache_user_range</title>
<updated>2012-04-19T18:32:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dima Zavin</name>
<email>dima@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-29T19:44:06+00:00</published>
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vma isn't used and flush_cache_user_range isn't a standard macro that
is used on several archs with the same prototype. In fact only unicore32
has a macro with the same name (with an identical implementation and no
in-tree users).

This is a part of a patch proposed by Dima Zavin (with Message-id:
1272439931-12795-1-git-send-email-dima@android.com) that didn't get
accepted.

Cc: Dima Zavin &lt;dima@android.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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vma isn't used and flush_cache_user_range isn't a standard macro that
is used on several archs with the same prototype. In fact only unicore32
has a macro with the same name (with an identical implementation and no
in-tree users).

This is a part of a patch proposed by Dima Zavin (with Message-id:
1272439931-12795-1-git-send-email-dima@android.com) that didn't get
accepted.

Cc: Dima Zavin &lt;dima@android.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2012-03-29T23:53:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-29T23:53:48+00:00</published>
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Pull more ARM updates from Russell King.

This got a fair number of conflicts with the &lt;asm/system.h&gt; split, but
also with some other sparse-irq and header file include cleanups.  They
all looked pretty trivial, though.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (59 commits)
  ARM: fix Kconfig warning for HAVE_BPF_JIT
  ARM: 7361/1: provide XIP_VIRT_ADDR for no-MMU builds
  ARM: 7349/1: integrator: convert to sparse irqs
  ARM: 7259/3: net: JIT compiler for packet filters
  ARM: 7334/1: add jump label support
  ARM: 7333/2: jump label: detect %c support for ARM
  ARM: 7338/1: add support for early console output via semihosting
  ARM: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
  ARM: exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)
  ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch function from kprobes
  ARM: 7331/1: extract out insn generation code from ftrace
  ARM: 7330/1: ftrace: use canonical Thumb-2 wide instruction format
  ARM: 7351/1: ftrace: remove useless memory checks
  ARM: 7316/1: kexec: EOI active and mask all interrupts in kexec crash path
  ARM: Versatile Express: add NO_IOPORT
  ARM: get rid of asm/irq.h in asm/prom.h
  ARM: 7319/1: Print debug info for SIGBUS in user faults
  ARM: 7318/1: gic: refactor irq_start assignment
  ARM: 7317/1: irq: avoid NULL check in for_each_irq_desc loop
  ARM: 7315/1: perf: add support for the Cortex-A7 PMU
  ...
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Pull more ARM updates from Russell King.

This got a fair number of conflicts with the &lt;asm/system.h&gt; split, but
also with some other sparse-irq and header file include cleanups.  They
all looked pretty trivial, though.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (59 commits)
  ARM: fix Kconfig warning for HAVE_BPF_JIT
  ARM: 7361/1: provide XIP_VIRT_ADDR for no-MMU builds
  ARM: 7349/1: integrator: convert to sparse irqs
  ARM: 7259/3: net: JIT compiler for packet filters
  ARM: 7334/1: add jump label support
  ARM: 7333/2: jump label: detect %c support for ARM
  ARM: 7338/1: add support for early console output via semihosting
  ARM: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
  ARM: exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)
  ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch function from kprobes
  ARM: 7331/1: extract out insn generation code from ftrace
  ARM: 7330/1: ftrace: use canonical Thumb-2 wide instruction format
  ARM: 7351/1: ftrace: remove useless memory checks
  ARM: 7316/1: kexec: EOI active and mask all interrupts in kexec crash path
  ARM: Versatile Express: add NO_IOPORT
  ARM: get rid of asm/irq.h in asm/prom.h
  ARM: 7319/1: Print debug info for SIGBUS in user faults
  ARM: 7318/1: gic: refactor irq_start assignment
  ARM: 7317/1: irq: avoid NULL check in for_each_irq_desc loop
  ARM: 7315/1: perf: add support for the Cortex-A7 PMU
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Disintegrate asm/system.h for ARM</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T17:30:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T17:30:01+00:00</published>
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Disintegrate asm/system.h for ARM.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
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Disintegrate asm/system.h for ARM.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
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