linux-stable.git/arch/arm/kernel, branch v4.9.7

ARM: 8613/1: Fix the uaccess crash on PB11MPCore

2017-01-26T07:24:43+00:00

commit 90f92c631b210c1e97080b53a9d863783281a932 upstream.

The following patch was sketched by Russell in response to my
crashes on the PB11MPCore after the patch for software-based
priviledged no access support for ARMv8.1. See this thread:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=144051749807214&w=2

I am unsure what is going on, I suspect everyone involved in
the discussion is. I just want to repost this to get the
discussion restarted, as I still have to apply this patch
with every kernel iteration to get my PB11MPCore Realview
running.

Testing by Neil Armstrong on the Oxnas NAS has revealed that
this bug exist also on that widely deployed hardware, so
we are probably currently regressing all ARM11MPCore systems.

Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Fixes: a5e090acbf54 ("ARM: software-based priviledged-no-access support")
Tested-by: Neil Armstrong 
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARM: 8634/1: hw_breakpoint: blacklist Scorpion CPUs

2017-01-26T07:24:40+00:00

commit ddc37832a1349f474c4532de381498020ed71d31 upstream.

On APQ8060, the kernel crashes in arch_hw_breakpoint_init, taking an
undefined instruction trap within write_wb_reg. This is because Scorpion
CPUs erroneously appear to set DBGPRSR.SPD when WFI is issued, even if
the core is not powered down. When DBGPRSR.SPD is set, breakpoint and
watchpoint registers are treated as undefined.

It's possible to trigger similar crashes later on from userspace, by
requesting the kernel to install a breakpoint or watchpoint, as we can
go idle at any point between the reset of the debug registers and their
later use. This has always been the case.

Given that this has always been broken, no-one has complained until now,
and there is no clear workaround, disable hardware breakpoints and
watchpoints on Scorpion to avoid these issues.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Reported-by: Linus Walleij 
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd 
Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Cc: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "arm: move exports to definitions"

2016-11-23T10:00:03+00:00

This reverts commit 4dd1837d7589f468ed109556513f476e7a7f9121.

Moving the exports for assembly code into the assembly files breaks
KSYM trimming, but also breaks modversions.

While fixing the KSYM trimming is trivial, fixing modversions brings
us to a technically worse position that we had prior to the above
change:

- We end up with the prototype definitions divorsed from everything
  else, which means that adding or removing assembly level ksyms
  become more fragile:
  * if adding a new assembly ksyms export, a missed prototype in
    asm-prototypes.h results in a successful build if no module in
    the selected configuration makes use of the symbol.
  * when removing a ksyms export, asm-prototypes.h will get forgotten,
    with armksyms.c, you'll get a build error if you forget to touch
    the file.

- We end up with the same amount of include files and prototypes,
  they're just in a header file instead of a .c file with their
  exports.

As for lines of code, we don't get much of a size reduction:
 (original commit)
 47 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 208 deletions(-)
 (fix for ksyms trimming)
 7 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 (two fixes for modversions)
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
which results in a net total of only 25 lines deleted.

As there does not seem to be much benefit from this change of approach,
revert the change.

Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: Fix XIP kernels

2016-11-16T23:51:19+00:00

Commit 7619751f8c90 ("ARM: 8595/2: apply more __ro_after_init") caused
a regression with XIP kernels by moving the __ro_after_init data into
the read-only section.  With XIP kernels, the read-only section is
located in read-only memory from the very beginning.

Work around this by moving the __ro_after_init data back into the .data
section, which will be in RAM, and hence will be writable.

It should be noted that in doing so, this remains writable after init.

Fixes: 7619751f8c90 ("ARM: 8595/2: apply more __ro_after_init")
Reported-by: Andrea Merello 
Tested-by: Andrea Merello  [ XIP stm32 ]
Tested-by: Alexandre Torgue 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: fix backtrace

2016-11-15T15:25:39+00:00

Recent kernels have changed their behaviour to be more inconsistent
when handling printk continuations.  With todays kernels, the output
looks sane on the console, but dmesg splits individual printk()s which
do not have the KERN_CONT prefix into separate lines.

Since the assembly code is not trivial to add the KERN_CONT, and we
ideally want to avoid using KERN_CONT (as multiple printk()s can race
between different threads), convert the assembly dumping the register
values to C code, and have the C code build the output a line at a
time before dumping to the console.

This avoids the KERN_CONT issue, and also avoids situations where the
output is intermixed with other console activity.

Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: wire up new pkey syscalls

2016-10-19T09:18:47+00:00

Wire up the new pkey syscalls for ARM.

Signed-off-by: Russell King

Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild

2016-10-14T21:26:58+00:00

Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.

   This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
   checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
   working on a patch to fix this.

   Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
   change prototypes.

 - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
   Piggin

 - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.

 - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
   -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections

 - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell

 - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
  initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
  ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
  powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
  kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
  kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
  kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
  kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
  kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
  kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
  fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
  ia64: move exports to definitions
  sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
  [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
  sparc: move exports to definitions
  ppc: move exports to definitions
  arm: move exports to definitions
  s390: move exports to definitions
  m68k: move exports to definitions
  alpha: move exports to actual definitions
  x86: move exports to actual definitions
  ...

ARM: use simpler API for random address requests

2016-10-11T22:06:32+00:00

Currently, all callers to randomize_range() set the length to 0 and
calculate end by adding a constant to the start address.  We can simplify
the API to remove a bunch of needless checks and variables.

Use the new randomize_addr(start, range) call to set the requested
address.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803233913.32511-4-jason@lakedaemon.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: "Russell King - ARM Linux" 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus

2016-10-08T01:46:30+00:00

When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, the
output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative.  Suppress
messages for cpus that are idling when they are interrupted and just
emit one line, "NMI backtrace for N skipped: idling at pc 0xNNN".

We do this by grouping all the cpuidle code together into a new
.cpuidle.text section, and then checking the address of the interrupted
PC to see if it lies within that section.

This commit suitably tags x86 and tile idle routines, and only adds in
the minimal framework for other architectures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472487169-14923-5-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Daniel Thompson  [arm]
Tested-by: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Aaron Tomlin 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nmi_backtrace: do a local dump_stack() instead of a self-NMI

2016-10-08T01:46:30+00:00

Currently on arm there is code that checks whether it should call
dump_stack() explicitly, to avoid trying to raise an NMI when the
current context is not preemptible by the backtrace IPI.  Similarly, the
forthcoming arch/tile support uses an IPI mechanism that does not
support generating an NMI to self.

Accordingly, move the code that guards this case into the generic
mechanism, and invoke it unconditionally whenever we want a backtrace of
the current cpu.  It seems plausible that in all cases, dump_stack()
will generate better information than generating a stack from the NMI
handler.  The register state will be missing, but that state is likely
not particularly helpful in any case.

Or, if we think it is helpful, we should be capturing and emitting the
current register state in all cases when regs == NULL is passed to
nmi_cpu_backtrace().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472487169-14923-3-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf 
Tested-by: Daniel Thompson  [arm]
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 
Acked-by: Aaron Tomlin 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds