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<title>perf: Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU</title>
<updated>2022-01-20T08:19:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
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<published>2021-11-11T02:07:22+00:00</published>
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commit ff083a2d972f56bebfd82409ca62e5dfce950961 upstream.

Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU to fix multiple possible errors.  Luckily,
all paths that read perf_guest_cbs already require RCU protection, e.g. to
protect the callback chains, so only the direct perf_guest_cbs touchpoints
need to be modified.

Bug #1 is a simple lack of WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE behavior to ensure
perf_guest_cbs isn't reloaded between a !NULL check and a dereference.
Fixed via the READ_ONCE() in rcu_dereference().

Bug #2 is that on weakly-ordered architectures, updates to the callbacks
themselves are not guaranteed to be visible before the pointer is made
visible to readers.  Fixed by the smp_store_release() in
rcu_assign_pointer() when the new pointer is non-NULL.

Bug #3 is that, because the callbacks are global, it's possible for
readers to run in parallel with an unregisters, and thus a module
implementing the callbacks can be unloaded while readers are in flight,
resulting in a use-after-free.  Fixed by a synchronize_rcu() call when
unregistering callbacks.

Bug #1 escaped notice because it's extremely unlikely a compiler will
reload perf_guest_cbs in this sequence.  perf_guest_cbs does get reloaded
for future derefs, e.g. for -&gt;is_user_mode(), but the -&gt;is_in_guest()
guard all but guarantees the consumer will win the race, e.g. to nullify
perf_guest_cbs, KVM has to completely exit the guest and teardown down
all VMs before KVM start its module unload / unregister sequence.  This
also makes it all but impossible to encounter bug #3.

Bug #2 has not been a problem because all architectures that register
callbacks are strongly ordered and/or have a static set of callbacks.

But with help, unloading kvm_intel can trigger bug #1 e.g. wrapping
perf_guest_cbs with READ_ONCE in perf_misc_flags() while spamming
kvm_intel module load/unload leads to:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  CPU: 6 PID: 1825 Comm: stress Not tainted 5.14.0-rc2+ #459
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:perf_misc_flags+0x1c/0x70
  Call Trace:
   perf_prepare_sample+0x53/0x6b0
   perf_event_output_forward+0x67/0x160
   __perf_event_overflow+0x52/0xf0
   handle_pmi_common+0x207/0x300
   intel_pmu_handle_irq+0xcf/0x410
   perf_event_nmi_handler+0x28/0x50
   nmi_handle+0xc7/0x260
   default_do_nmi+0x6b/0x170
   exc_nmi+0x103/0x130
   asm_exc_nmi+0x76/0xbf

Fixes: 39447b386c84 ("perf: Enhance perf to allow for guest statistic collection from host")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111020738.2512932-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ff083a2d972f56bebfd82409ca62e5dfce950961 upstream.

Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU to fix multiple possible errors.  Luckily,
all paths that read perf_guest_cbs already require RCU protection, e.g. to
protect the callback chains, so only the direct perf_guest_cbs touchpoints
need to be modified.

Bug #1 is a simple lack of WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE behavior to ensure
perf_guest_cbs isn't reloaded between a !NULL check and a dereference.
Fixed via the READ_ONCE() in rcu_dereference().

Bug #2 is that on weakly-ordered architectures, updates to the callbacks
themselves are not guaranteed to be visible before the pointer is made
visible to readers.  Fixed by the smp_store_release() in
rcu_assign_pointer() when the new pointer is non-NULL.

Bug #3 is that, because the callbacks are global, it's possible for
readers to run in parallel with an unregisters, and thus a module
implementing the callbacks can be unloaded while readers are in flight,
resulting in a use-after-free.  Fixed by a synchronize_rcu() call when
unregistering callbacks.

Bug #1 escaped notice because it's extremely unlikely a compiler will
reload perf_guest_cbs in this sequence.  perf_guest_cbs does get reloaded
for future derefs, e.g. for -&gt;is_user_mode(), but the -&gt;is_in_guest()
guard all but guarantees the consumer will win the race, e.g. to nullify
perf_guest_cbs, KVM has to completely exit the guest and teardown down
all VMs before KVM start its module unload / unregister sequence.  This
also makes it all but impossible to encounter bug #3.

Bug #2 has not been a problem because all architectures that register
callbacks are strongly ordered and/or have a static set of callbacks.

But with help, unloading kvm_intel can trigger bug #1 e.g. wrapping
perf_guest_cbs with READ_ONCE in perf_misc_flags() while spamming
kvm_intel module load/unload leads to:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  CPU: 6 PID: 1825 Comm: stress Not tainted 5.14.0-rc2+ #459
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:perf_misc_flags+0x1c/0x70
  Call Trace:
   perf_prepare_sample+0x53/0x6b0
   perf_event_output_forward+0x67/0x160
   __perf_event_overflow+0x52/0xf0
   handle_pmi_common+0x207/0x300
   intel_pmu_handle_irq+0xcf/0x410
   perf_event_nmi_handler+0x28/0x50
   nmi_handle+0xc7/0x260
   default_do_nmi+0x6b/0x170
   exc_nmi+0x103/0x130
   asm_exc_nmi+0x76/0xbf

Fixes: 39447b386c84 ("perf: Enhance perf to allow for guest statistic collection from host")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111020738.2512932-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9169/1: entry: fix Thumb2 bug in iWMMXt exception handling</title>
<updated>2021-12-29T11:23:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-15T08:31:36+00:00</published>
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commit 8536a5ef886005bc443c2da9b842d69fd3d7647f upstream.

The Thumb2 version of the FP exception handling entry code treats the
register holding the CP number (R8) differently, resulting in the iWMMXT
CP number check to be incorrect.

Fix this by unifying the ARM and Thumb2 code paths, and switch the
order of the additions of the TI_USED_CP offset and the shifted CP
index.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: b86040a59feb ("Thumb-2: Implementation of the unified start-up and exceptions code")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 8536a5ef886005bc443c2da9b842d69fd3d7647f upstream.

The Thumb2 version of the FP exception handling entry code treats the
register holding the CP number (R8) differently, resulting in the iWMMXT
CP number check to be incorrect.

Fix this by unifying the ARM and Thumb2 code paths, and switch the
order of the additions of the TI_USED_CP offset and the shifted CP
index.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: b86040a59feb ("Thumb-2: Implementation of the unified start-up and exceptions code")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: clang: Do not rely on lr register for stacktrace</title>
<updated>2021-11-17T08:48:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-21T00:55:17+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b3ea5d56f212ad81328c82454829a736197ebccc ]

Currently the stacktrace on clang compiled arm kernel uses the 'lr'
register to find the first frame address from pt_regs. However, that
is wrong after calling another function, because the 'lr' register
is used by 'bl' instruction and never be recovered.

As same as gcc arm kernel, directly use the frame pointer (r11) of
the pt_regs to find the first frame address.

Note that this fixes kretprobe stacktrace issue only with
CONFIG_UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER=y. For the CONFIG_UNWINDER_ARM,
we need another fix.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b3ea5d56f212ad81328c82454829a736197ebccc ]

Currently the stacktrace on clang compiled arm kernel uses the 'lr'
register to find the first frame address from pt_regs. However, that
is wrong after calling another function, because the 'lr' register
is used by 'bl' instruction and never be recovered.

As same as gcc arm kernel, directly use the frame pointer (r11) of
the pt_regs to find the first frame address.

Note that this fixes kretprobe stacktrace issue only with
CONFIG_UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER=y. For the CONFIG_UNWINDER_ARM,
we need another fix.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9141/1: only warn about XIP address when not compile testing</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T18:46:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-18T14:30:37+00:00</published>
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commit 48ccc8edf5b90622cdc4f8878e0042ab5883e2ca upstream.

In randconfig builds, we sometimes come across this warning:

arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: XIP start address may cause MPU programming issues

While this is helpful for actual systems to figure out why it
fails, the warning does not provide any benefit for build testing,
so guard it in a check for CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST, which is usually
set on randconfig builds.

Fixes: 216218308cfb ("ARM: 8713/1: NOMMU: Support MPU in XIP configuration")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 48ccc8edf5b90622cdc4f8878e0042ab5883e2ca upstream.

In randconfig builds, we sometimes come across this warning:

arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: XIP start address may cause MPU programming issues

While this is helpful for actual systems to figure out why it
fails, the warning does not provide any benefit for build testing,
so guard it in a check for CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST, which is usually
set on randconfig builds.

Fixes: 216218308cfb ("ARM: 8713/1: NOMMU: Support MPU in XIP configuration")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9098/1: ftrace: MODULE_PLT: Fix build problem without DYNAMIC_FTRACE</title>
<updated>2021-09-26T12:07:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Sverdlin</name>
<email>alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-22T17:00:34+00:00</published>
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commit 6fa630bf473827aee48cbf0efbbdf6f03134e890 upstream

FTRACE_ADDR is only defined when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE is defined, the
latter is even stronger requirement than CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER (which is
enough for MCOUNT_ADDR).

Link: https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@lists.01.org/thread/ZUVCQBHDMFVR7CCB7JPESLJEWERZDJ3T/

Fixes: 1f12fb25c5c5d22f ("ARM: 9079/1: ftrace: Add MODULE_PLTS support")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 6fa630bf473827aee48cbf0efbbdf6f03134e890 upstream

FTRACE_ADDR is only defined when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE is defined, the
latter is even stronger requirement than CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER (which is
enough for MCOUNT_ADDR).

Link: https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@lists.01.org/thread/ZUVCQBHDMFVR7CCB7JPESLJEWERZDJ3T/

Fixes: 1f12fb25c5c5d22f ("ARM: 9079/1: ftrace: Add MODULE_PLTS support")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>ARM: 9079/1: ftrace: Add MODULE_PLTS support</title>
<updated>2021-09-26T12:07:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Sverdlin</name>
<email>alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-22T17:00:33+00:00</published>
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commit 79f32b221b18c15a98507b101ef4beb52444cc6f upstream

Teach ftrace_make_call() and ftrace_make_nop() about PLTs.
Teach PLT code about FTRACE and all its callbacks.
Otherwise the following might happen:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 14 PID: 2265 at .../arch/arm/kernel/insn.c:14 __arm_gen_branch+0x83/0x8c()
...
Hardware name: LSI Axxia AXM55XX
[&lt;c0314a49&gt;] (unwind_backtrace) from [&lt;c03115e9&gt;] (show_stack+0x11/0x14)
[&lt;c03115e9&gt;] (show_stack) from [&lt;c0519f51&gt;] (dump_stack+0x81/0xa8)
[&lt;c0519f51&gt;] (dump_stack) from [&lt;c032185d&gt;] (warn_slowpath_common+0x69/0x90)
[&lt;c032185d&gt;] (warn_slowpath_common) from [&lt;c03218f3&gt;] (warn_slowpath_null+0x17/0x1c)
[&lt;c03218f3&gt;] (warn_slowpath_null) from [&lt;c03143cf&gt;] (__arm_gen_branch+0x83/0x8c)
[&lt;c03143cf&gt;] (__arm_gen_branch) from [&lt;c0314337&gt;] (ftrace_make_nop+0xf/0x24)
[&lt;c0314337&gt;] (ftrace_make_nop) from [&lt;c038ebcb&gt;] (ftrace_process_locs+0x27b/0x3e8)
[&lt;c038ebcb&gt;] (ftrace_process_locs) from [&lt;c0378d79&gt;] (load_module+0x11e9/0x1a44)
[&lt;c0378d79&gt;] (load_module) from [&lt;c037974d&gt;] (SyS_finit_module+0x59/0x84)
[&lt;c037974d&gt;] (SyS_finit_module) from [&lt;c030e981&gt;] (ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x18)
---[ end trace e1b64ced7a89adcc ]---
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 14 PID: 2265 at .../kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1979 ftrace_bug+0x1b1/0x234()
...
Hardware name: LSI Axxia AXM55XX
[&lt;c0314a49&gt;] (unwind_backtrace) from [&lt;c03115e9&gt;] (show_stack+0x11/0x14)
[&lt;c03115e9&gt;] (show_stack) from [&lt;c0519f51&gt;] (dump_stack+0x81/0xa8)
[&lt;c0519f51&gt;] (dump_stack) from [&lt;c032185d&gt;] (warn_slowpath_common+0x69/0x90)
[&lt;c032185d&gt;] (warn_slowpath_common) from [&lt;c03218f3&gt;] (warn_slowpath_null+0x17/0x1c)
[&lt;c03218f3&gt;] (warn_slowpath_null) from [&lt;c038e87d&gt;] (ftrace_bug+0x1b1/0x234)
[&lt;c038e87d&gt;] (ftrace_bug) from [&lt;c038ebd5&gt;] (ftrace_process_locs+0x285/0x3e8)
[&lt;c038ebd5&gt;] (ftrace_process_locs) from [&lt;c0378d79&gt;] (load_module+0x11e9/0x1a44)
[&lt;c0378d79&gt;] (load_module) from [&lt;c037974d&gt;] (SyS_finit_module+0x59/0x84)
[&lt;c037974d&gt;] (SyS_finit_module) from [&lt;c030e981&gt;] (ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x18)
---[ end trace e1b64ced7a89adcd ]---
ftrace failed to modify [&lt;e9ef7006&gt;] 0xe9ef7006
actual: 02:f0:3b:fa
ftrace record flags: 0
(0) expected tramp: c0314265

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 79f32b221b18c15a98507b101ef4beb52444cc6f upstream

Teach ftrace_make_call() and ftrace_make_nop() about PLTs.
Teach PLT code about FTRACE and all its callbacks.
Otherwise the following might happen:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 14 PID: 2265 at .../arch/arm/kernel/insn.c:14 __arm_gen_branch+0x83/0x8c()
...
Hardware name: LSI Axxia AXM55XX
[&lt;c0314a49&gt;] (unwind_backtrace) from [&lt;c03115e9&gt;] (show_stack+0x11/0x14)
[&lt;c03115e9&gt;] (show_stack) from [&lt;c0519f51&gt;] (dump_stack+0x81/0xa8)
[&lt;c0519f51&gt;] (dump_stack) from [&lt;c032185d&gt;] (warn_slowpath_common+0x69/0x90)
[&lt;c032185d&gt;] (warn_slowpath_common) from [&lt;c03218f3&gt;] (warn_slowpath_null+0x17/0x1c)
[&lt;c03218f3&gt;] (warn_slowpath_null) from [&lt;c03143cf&gt;] (__arm_gen_branch+0x83/0x8c)
[&lt;c03143cf&gt;] (__arm_gen_branch) from [&lt;c0314337&gt;] (ftrace_make_nop+0xf/0x24)
[&lt;c0314337&gt;] (ftrace_make_nop) from [&lt;c038ebcb&gt;] (ftrace_process_locs+0x27b/0x3e8)
[&lt;c038ebcb&gt;] (ftrace_process_locs) from [&lt;c0378d79&gt;] (load_module+0x11e9/0x1a44)
[&lt;c0378d79&gt;] (load_module) from [&lt;c037974d&gt;] (SyS_finit_module+0x59/0x84)
[&lt;c037974d&gt;] (SyS_finit_module) from [&lt;c030e981&gt;] (ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x18)
---[ end trace e1b64ced7a89adcc ]---
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 14 PID: 2265 at .../kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1979 ftrace_bug+0x1b1/0x234()
...
Hardware name: LSI Axxia AXM55XX
[&lt;c0314a49&gt;] (unwind_backtrace) from [&lt;c03115e9&gt;] (show_stack+0x11/0x14)
[&lt;c03115e9&gt;] (show_stack) from [&lt;c0519f51&gt;] (dump_stack+0x81/0xa8)
[&lt;c0519f51&gt;] (dump_stack) from [&lt;c032185d&gt;] (warn_slowpath_common+0x69/0x90)
[&lt;c032185d&gt;] (warn_slowpath_common) from [&lt;c03218f3&gt;] (warn_slowpath_null+0x17/0x1c)
[&lt;c03218f3&gt;] (warn_slowpath_null) from [&lt;c038e87d&gt;] (ftrace_bug+0x1b1/0x234)
[&lt;c038e87d&gt;] (ftrace_bug) from [&lt;c038ebd5&gt;] (ftrace_process_locs+0x285/0x3e8)
[&lt;c038ebd5&gt;] (ftrace_process_locs) from [&lt;c0378d79&gt;] (load_module+0x11e9/0x1a44)
[&lt;c0378d79&gt;] (load_module) from [&lt;c037974d&gt;] (SyS_finit_module+0x59/0x84)
[&lt;c037974d&gt;] (SyS_finit_module) from [&lt;c030e981&gt;] (ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x18)
---[ end trace e1b64ced7a89adcd ]---
ftrace failed to modify [&lt;e9ef7006&gt;] 0xe9ef7006
actual: 02:f0:3b:fa
ftrace record flags: 0
(0) expected tramp: c0314265

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9078/1: Add warn suppress parameter to arm_gen_branch_link()</title>
<updated>2021-09-26T12:07:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Sverdlin</name>
<email>alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-22T17:00:32+00:00</published>
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commit 890cb057a46d323fd8c77ebecb6485476614cd21 upstream

Will be used in the following patch. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 890cb057a46d323fd8c77ebecb6485476614cd21 upstream

Will be used in the following patch. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 9077/1: PLT: Move struct plt_entries definition to header</title>
<updated>2021-09-26T12:07:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Sverdlin</name>
<email>alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-22T17:00:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=490be340c86cb8d52401477381d2e36946ad675f'/>
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commit 4e271701c17dee70c6e1351c4d7d42e70405c6a9 upstream

No functional change, later it will be re-used in several files.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 4e271701c17dee70c6e1351c4d7d42e70405c6a9 upstream

No functional change, later it will be re-used in several files.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin &lt;alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8918/2: only build return_address() if needed</title>
<updated>2021-09-12T06:56:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Dooks</name>
<email>ben-linux@fluff.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-04T17:15:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a8146f149028e4588c9e9e60dbc59fd546f58581'/>
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commit fb033c95c94ca1ee3d16e04ebdb85d65fb55fff8 upstream.

The system currently warns if the config conditions for
building return_address in arch/arm/kernel/return_address.c
are not met, leaving just an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(return_address)
of a function defined to be 'static linline'.
This is a result of aeea3592a13b ("ARM: 8158/1: LLVMLinux: use static inline in ARM ftrace.h").

Since we're not going to build anything other than an exported
symbol for something that is already being defined to be an
inline-able return of NULL, just avoid building the code to
remove the following warning:

Fixes: aeea3592a13b ("ARM: 8158/1: LLVMLinux: use static inline in ARM ftrace.h")
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit fb033c95c94ca1ee3d16e04ebdb85d65fb55fff8 upstream.

The system currently warns if the config conditions for
building return_address in arch/arm/kernel/return_address.c
are not met, leaving just an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(return_address)
of a function defined to be 'static linline'.
This is a result of aeea3592a13b ("ARM: 8158/1: LLVMLinux: use static inline in ARM ftrace.h").

Since we're not going to build anything other than an exported
symbol for something that is already being defined to be an
inline-able return of NULL, just avoid building the code to
remove the following warning:

Fixes: aeea3592a13b ("ARM: 8158/1: LLVMLinux: use static inline in ARM ftrace.h")
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm_pmu: Fix write counter incorrect in ARMv7 big-endian mode</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T14:53:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Jihong</name>
<email>yangjihong1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-30T01:26:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=efdcd77660f8ce66e579a6fe6e122c792af05696'/>
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commit fdbef8c4e68ad423416aa6cc93d1616d6f8ac5b3 upstream.

Commit 3a95200d3f89 ("arm_pmu: Change API to support 64bit counter values")
changes the input "value" type from 32-bit to 64-bit, which introduces the
following problem: ARMv7 PMU counters is 32-bit width, in big-endian mode,
write counter uses high 32-bit, which writes an incorrect value.

Before:

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

              2.22 msec task-clock                #    0.675 CPUs utilized
                 0      context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                49      page-faults               #    0.022 M/sec
        2150476593      cycles                    #  966.663 GHz
        2148588788      instructions              #    1.00  insn per cycle
        2147745484      branches                  # 965435.074 M/sec
        2147508540      branch-misses             #   99.99% of all branches

None of the above hw event counters are correct.

Solution:

"value" forcibly converted to 32-bit type before being written to PMU register.

After:

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

              2.09 msec task-clock                #    0.681 CPUs utilized
                 0      context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                46      page-faults               #    0.022 M/sec
           2807301      cycles                    #    1.344 GHz
           1060159      instructions              #    0.38  insn per cycle
            250496      branches                  #  119.914 M/sec
             23192      branch-misses             #    9.26% of all branches

Fixes: 3a95200d3f89 ("arm_pmu: Change API to support 64bit counter values")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong &lt;yangjihong1@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210430012659.232110-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit fdbef8c4e68ad423416aa6cc93d1616d6f8ac5b3 upstream.

Commit 3a95200d3f89 ("arm_pmu: Change API to support 64bit counter values")
changes the input "value" type from 32-bit to 64-bit, which introduces the
following problem: ARMv7 PMU counters is 32-bit width, in big-endian mode,
write counter uses high 32-bit, which writes an incorrect value.

Before:

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

              2.22 msec task-clock                #    0.675 CPUs utilized
                 0      context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                49      page-faults               #    0.022 M/sec
        2150476593      cycles                    #  966.663 GHz
        2148588788      instructions              #    1.00  insn per cycle
        2147745484      branches                  # 965435.074 M/sec
        2147508540      branch-misses             #   99.99% of all branches

None of the above hw event counters are correct.

Solution:

"value" forcibly converted to 32-bit type before being written to PMU register.

After:

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

              2.09 msec task-clock                #    0.681 CPUs utilized
                 0      context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec
                 0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
                46      page-faults               #    0.022 M/sec
           2807301      cycles                    #    1.344 GHz
           1060159      instructions              #    0.38  insn per cycle
            250496      branches                  #  119.914 M/sec
             23192      branch-misses             #    9.26% of all branches

Fixes: 3a95200d3f89 ("arm_pmu: Change API to support 64bit counter values")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong &lt;yangjihong1@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210430012659.232110-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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