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<title>ARM: 9430/1: entry: Do a dummy read from VMAP shadow</title>
<updated>2024-12-09T09:33:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linus.walleij@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2024-10-23T12:04:44+00:00</published>
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commit 44e9a3bb76e5f2eecd374c8176b2c5163c8bb2e2 upstream.

When switching task, in addition to a dummy read from the new
VMAP stack, also do a dummy read from the VMAP stack's
corresponding KASAN shadow memory to sync things up in
the new MM context.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a1c510d0adc6 ("ARM: implement support for vmap'ed stacks")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/a1a1d062-f3a2-4d05-9836-3b098de9db6d@foss.st.com/
Reported-by: Clement LE GOFFIC &lt;clement.legoffic@foss.st.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.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 44e9a3bb76e5f2eecd374c8176b2c5163c8bb2e2 upstream.

When switching task, in addition to a dummy read from the new
VMAP stack, also do a dummy read from the VMAP stack's
corresponding KASAN shadow memory to sync things up in
the new MM context.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a1c510d0adc6 ("ARM: implement support for vmap'ed stacks")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/a1a1d062-f3a2-4d05-9836-3b098de9db6d@foss.st.com/
Reported-by: Clement LE GOFFIC &lt;clement.legoffic@foss.st.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.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>of/fdt: add dt_phys arg to early_init_dt_scan and early_init_dt_verify</title>
<updated>2024-12-09T09:31:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Usama Arif</name>
<email>usamaarif642@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-23T17:14:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b2473a359763e27567993e7d8f37de82f57a0829 ]

 __pa() is only intended to be used for linear map addresses and using
it for initial_boot_params which is in fixmap for arm64 will give an
incorrect value. Hence save the physical address when it is known at
boot time when calling early_init_dt_scan for arm64 and use it at kexec
time instead of converting the virtual address using __pa().

Note that arm64 doesn't need the FDT region reserved in the DT as the
kernel explicitly reserves the passed in FDT. Therefore, only a debug
warning is fixed with this change.

Reported-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif &lt;usamaarif642@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: ac10be5cdbfa ("arm64: Use common of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt()")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241023171426.452688-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b2473a359763e27567993e7d8f37de82f57a0829 ]

 __pa() is only intended to be used for linear map addresses and using
it for initial_boot_params which is in fixmap for arm64 will give an
incorrect value. Hence save the physical address when it is known at
boot time when calling early_init_dt_scan for arm64 and use it at kexec
time instead of converting the virtual address using __pa().

Note that arm64 doesn't need the FDT region reserved in the DT as the
kernel explicitly reserves the passed in FDT. Therefore, only a debug
warning is fixed with this change.

Reported-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif &lt;usamaarif642@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: ac10be5cdbfa ("arm64: Use common of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt()")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241023171426.452688-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9420/1: smp: Fix SMP for xip kernels</title>
<updated>2024-12-09T09:31:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harith G</name>
<email>harith.g@alifsemi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-18T05:57:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9e9b0cf9319b4db143014477b0bc4b39894248f1 ]

Fix the physical address calculation of the following to get smp working
on xip kernels.
- secondary_data needed for secondary cpu bootup.
- secondary_startup address passed through psci.
- identity mapped code region needed for enabling mmu for secondary cpus.

Signed-off-by: Harith George &lt;harith.g@alifsemi.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9e9b0cf9319b4db143014477b0bc4b39894248f1 ]

Fix the physical address calculation of the following to get smp working
on xip kernels.
- secondary_data needed for secondary cpu bootup.
- secondary_startup address passed through psci.
- identity mapped code region needed for enabling mmu for secondary cpus.

Signed-off-by: Harith George &lt;harith.g@alifsemi.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9419/1: mm: Fix kernel memory mapping for xip kernels</title>
<updated>2024-11-22T14:38:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harith G</name>
<email>harith.g@alifsemi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-18T05:57:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ed6cbe6e5563452f305e89c15846820f2874e431 ]

The patchset introducing kernel_sec_start/end variables to separate the
kernel/lowmem memory mappings, broke the mapping of the kernel memory
for xipkernels.

kernel_sec_start/end variables are in RO area before the MMU is switched
on for xipkernels.
So these cannot be set early in boot in head.S. Fix this by setting these
after MMU is switched on.
xipkernels need two different mappings for kernel text (starting at
CONFIG_XIP_PHYS_ADDR) and data (starting at CONFIG_PHYS_OFFSET).
Also, move the kernel code mapping from devicemaps_init() to map_kernel().

Fixes: a91da5457085 ("ARM: 9089/1: Define kernel physical section start and end")
Signed-off-by: Harith George &lt;harith.g@alifsemi.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ed6cbe6e5563452f305e89c15846820f2874e431 ]

The patchset introducing kernel_sec_start/end variables to separate the
kernel/lowmem memory mappings, broke the mapping of the kernel memory
for xipkernels.

kernel_sec_start/end variables are in RO area before the MMU is switched
on for xipkernels.
So these cannot be set early in boot in head.S. Fix this by setting these
after MMU is switched on.
xipkernels need two different mappings for kernel text (starting at
CONFIG_XIP_PHYS_ADDR) and data (starting at CONFIG_PHYS_OFFSET).
Also, move the kernel code mapping from devicemaps_init() to map_kernel().

Fixes: a91da5457085 ("ARM: 9089/1: Define kernel physical section start and end")
Signed-off-by: Harith George &lt;harith.g@alifsemi.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 9406/1: Fix callchain_trace() return value</title>
<updated>2024-08-11T10:47:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jinjie Ruan</name>
<email>ruanjinjie@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-27T07:29:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4e7b4ff2dcaed228cb2fb7bfe720262c98ec1bb9 ]

perf_callchain_store() return 0 on success, -1 otherwise, fix
callchain_trace() to return correct bool value. So walk_stackframe() can
have a chance to stop walking the stack ahead.

Fixes: 70ccc7c0667b ("ARM: 9258/1: stacktrace: Make stack walk callback consistent with generic code")
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4e7b4ff2dcaed228cb2fb7bfe720262c98ec1bb9 ]

perf_callchain_store() return 0 on success, -1 otherwise, fix
callchain_trace() to return correct bool value. So walk_stackframe() can
have a chance to stop walking the stack ahead.

Fixes: 70ccc7c0667b ("ARM: 9258/1: stacktrace: Make stack walk callback consistent with generic code")
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9381/1: kasan: clear stale stack poison</title>
<updated>2024-05-17T10:02:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boy.Wu</name>
<email>boy.wu@mediatek.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-15T04:21:55+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c4238686f9093b98bd6245a348bcf059cdce23af ]

We found below OOB crash:

[   33.452494] ==================================================================
[   33.453513] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in refresh_cpu_vm_stats.constprop.0+0xcc/0x2ec
[   33.454660] Write of size 164 at addr c1d03d30 by task swapper/0/0
[   33.455515]
[   33.455767] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G           O       6.1.25-mainline #1
[   33.456880] Hardware name: Generic DT based system
[   33.457555]  unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x18/0x1c
[   33.458326]  show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x40/0x4c
[   33.459072]  dump_stack_lvl from print_report+0x158/0x4a4
[   33.459863]  print_report from kasan_report+0x9c/0x148
[   33.460616]  kasan_report from kasan_check_range+0x94/0x1a0
[   33.461424]  kasan_check_range from memset+0x20/0x3c
[   33.462157]  memset from refresh_cpu_vm_stats.constprop.0+0xcc/0x2ec
[   33.463064]  refresh_cpu_vm_stats.constprop.0 from tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick+0x180/0x53c
[   33.464181]  tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick from do_idle+0x264/0x354
[   33.465029]  do_idle from cpu_startup_entry+0x20/0x24
[   33.465769]  cpu_startup_entry from rest_init+0xf0/0xf4
[   33.466528]  rest_init from arch_post_acpi_subsys_init+0x0/0x18
[   33.467397]
[   33.467644] The buggy address belongs to stack of task swapper/0/0
[   33.468493]  and is located at offset 112 in frame:
[   33.469172]  refresh_cpu_vm_stats.constprop.0+0x0/0x2ec
[   33.469917]
[   33.470165] This frame has 2 objects:
[   33.470696]  [32, 76) 'global_zone_diff'
[   33.470729]  [112, 276) 'global_node_diff'
[   33.471294]
[   33.472095] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[   33.472862] page:3cd72da8 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x41d03
[   33.473944] flags: 0x1000(reserved|zone=0)
[   33.474565] raw: 00001000 ed741470 ed741470 00000000 00000000 00000000 ffffffff 00000001
[   33.475656] raw: 00000000
[   33.476050] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
[   33.476816]
[   33.477061] Memory state around the buggy address:
[   33.477732]  c1d03c00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[   33.478630]  c1d03c80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 00
[   33.479526] &gt;c1d03d00: 00 04 f2 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1
[   33.480415]                                                ^
[   33.481195]  c1d03d80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3
[   33.482088]  c1d03e00: f3 f3 f3 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[   33.482978] ==================================================================

We find the root cause of this OOB is that arm does not clear stale stack
poison in the case of cpuidle.

This patch refer to arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S to resolve this issue.

From cited commit [1] that explain the problem

Functions which the compiler has instrumented for KASAN place poison on
the stack shadow upon entry and remove this poison prior to returning.

In the case of cpuidle, CPUs exit the kernel a number of levels deep in
C code.  Any instrumented functions on this critical path will leave
portions of the stack shadow poisoned.

If CPUs lose context and return to the kernel via a cold path, we
restore a prior context saved in __cpu_suspend_enter are forgotten, and
we never remove the poison they placed in the stack shadow area by
functions calls between this and the actual exit of the kernel.

Thus, (depending on stackframe layout) subsequent calls to instrumented
functions may hit this stale poison, resulting in (spurious) KASAN
splats to the console.

To avoid this, clear any stale poison from the idle thread for a CPU
prior to bringing a CPU online.

From cited commit [2]

Extend to check for CONFIG_KASAN_STACK

[1] commit 0d97e6d8024c ("arm64: kasan: clear stale stack poison")
[2] commit d56a9ef84bd0 ("kasan, arm64: unpoison stack only with CONFIG_KASAN_STACK")

Signed-off-by: Boy Wu &lt;boy.wu@mediatek.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Fixes: 5615f69bc209 ("ARM: 9016/2: Initialize the mapping of KASan shadow memory")
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c4238686f9093b98bd6245a348bcf059cdce23af ]

We found below OOB crash:

[   33.452494] ==================================================================
[   33.453513] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in refresh_cpu_vm_stats.constprop.0+0xcc/0x2ec
[   33.454660] Write of size 164 at addr c1d03d30 by task swapper/0/0
[   33.455515]
[   33.455767] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G           O       6.1.25-mainline #1
[   33.456880] Hardware name: Generic DT based system
[   33.457555]  unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x18/0x1c
[   33.458326]  show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x40/0x4c
[   33.459072]  dump_stack_lvl from print_report+0x158/0x4a4
[   33.459863]  print_report from kasan_report+0x9c/0x148
[   33.460616]  kasan_report from kasan_check_range+0x94/0x1a0
[   33.461424]  kasan_check_range from memset+0x20/0x3c
[   33.462157]  memset from refresh_cpu_vm_stats.constprop.0+0xcc/0x2ec
[   33.463064]  refresh_cpu_vm_stats.constprop.0 from tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick+0x180/0x53c
[   33.464181]  tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick from do_idle+0x264/0x354
[   33.465029]  do_idle from cpu_startup_entry+0x20/0x24
[   33.465769]  cpu_startup_entry from rest_init+0xf0/0xf4
[   33.466528]  rest_init from arch_post_acpi_subsys_init+0x0/0x18
[   33.467397]
[   33.467644] The buggy address belongs to stack of task swapper/0/0
[   33.468493]  and is located at offset 112 in frame:
[   33.469172]  refresh_cpu_vm_stats.constprop.0+0x0/0x2ec
[   33.469917]
[   33.470165] This frame has 2 objects:
[   33.470696]  [32, 76) 'global_zone_diff'
[   33.470729]  [112, 276) 'global_node_diff'
[   33.471294]
[   33.472095] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[   33.472862] page:3cd72da8 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x41d03
[   33.473944] flags: 0x1000(reserved|zone=0)
[   33.474565] raw: 00001000 ed741470 ed741470 00000000 00000000 00000000 ffffffff 00000001
[   33.475656] raw: 00000000
[   33.476050] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
[   33.476816]
[   33.477061] Memory state around the buggy address:
[   33.477732]  c1d03c00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[   33.478630]  c1d03c80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 00
[   33.479526] &gt;c1d03d00: 00 04 f2 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1
[   33.480415]                                                ^
[   33.481195]  c1d03d80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 f3 f3 f3 f3 f3
[   33.482088]  c1d03e00: f3 f3 f3 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[   33.482978] ==================================================================

We find the root cause of this OOB is that arm does not clear stale stack
poison in the case of cpuidle.

This patch refer to arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S to resolve this issue.

From cited commit [1] that explain the problem

Functions which the compiler has instrumented for KASAN place poison on
the stack shadow upon entry and remove this poison prior to returning.

In the case of cpuidle, CPUs exit the kernel a number of levels deep in
C code.  Any instrumented functions on this critical path will leave
portions of the stack shadow poisoned.

If CPUs lose context and return to the kernel via a cold path, we
restore a prior context saved in __cpu_suspend_enter are forgotten, and
we never remove the poison they placed in the stack shadow area by
functions calls between this and the actual exit of the kernel.

Thus, (depending on stackframe layout) subsequent calls to instrumented
functions may hit this stale poison, resulting in (spurious) KASAN
splats to the console.

To avoid this, clear any stale poison from the idle thread for a CPU
prior to bringing a CPU online.

From cited commit [2]

Extend to check for CONFIG_KASAN_STACK

[1] commit 0d97e6d8024c ("arm64: kasan: clear stale stack poison")
[2] commit d56a9ef84bd0 ("kasan, arm64: unpoison stack only with CONFIG_KASAN_STACK")

Signed-off-by: Boy Wu &lt;boy.wu@mediatek.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Fixes: 5615f69bc209 ("ARM: 9016/2: Initialize the mapping of KASan shadow memory")
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9352/1: iwmmxt: Remove support for PJ4/PJ4B cores</title>
<updated>2024-04-03T13:28:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-14T07:03:24+00:00</published>
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PJ4 is a v7 core that incorporates a iWMMXt coprocessor. However, GCC
does not support this combination (its iWMMXt configuration always
implies v5te), and so there is no v6/v7 user space that actually makes
use of this, beyond generic support for things like setjmp() that
preserve/restore the iWMMXt register file using generic LDC/STC
instructions emitted in assembler.  As [0] appears to imply, this logic
is triggered for the init process at boot, and so most user threads will
have a iWMMXt register context associated with it, even though it is
never used.

At this point, it is highly unlikely that such GCC support will ever
materialize (and Clang does not implement support for iWMMXt to begin
with).

This means that advertising iWMMXt support on these cores results in
context switch overhead without any associated benefit, and so it is
better to simply ignore the iWMMXt unit on these systems. So rip out the
support. Doing so also fixes the issue reported in [0] related to UNDEF
handling of co-processor #0/#1 instructions issued from user space
running in Thumb2 mode.

The PJ4 cores are used in four platforms: Armada 370/xp, Dove (Cubox,
d2plug), MMP2 (xo-1.75) and Berlin (Google TV). Out of these, only the
first is still widely used, but that one actually doesn't have iWMMXt
but instead has only VFPV3-D16, and so it is not impacted by this
change.

Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218427 [0]

Fixes: 8bcba70cb5c22 ("ARM: entry: Disregard Thumb undef exception ...")
Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
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: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b9920fdd5a751df129808e7fa512e9928223ee05 ]

PJ4 is a v7 core that incorporates a iWMMXt coprocessor. However, GCC
does not support this combination (its iWMMXt configuration always
implies v5te), and so there is no v6/v7 user space that actually makes
use of this, beyond generic support for things like setjmp() that
preserve/restore the iWMMXt register file using generic LDC/STC
instructions emitted in assembler.  As [0] appears to imply, this logic
is triggered for the init process at boot, and so most user threads will
have a iWMMXt register context associated with it, even though it is
never used.

At this point, it is highly unlikely that such GCC support will ever
materialize (and Clang does not implement support for iWMMXt to begin
with).

This means that advertising iWMMXt support on these cores results in
context switch overhead without any associated benefit, and so it is
better to simply ignore the iWMMXt unit on these systems. So rip out the
support. Doing so also fixes the issue reported in [0] related to UNDEF
handling of co-processor #0/#1 instructions issued from user space
running in Thumb2 mode.

The PJ4 cores are used in four platforms: Armada 370/xp, Dove (Cubox,
d2plug), MMP2 (xo-1.75) and Berlin (Google TV). Out of these, only the
first is still widely used, but that one actually doesn't have iWMMXt
but instead has only VFPV3-D16, and so it is not impacted by this
change.

Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218427 [0]

Fixes: 8bcba70cb5c22 ("ARM: entry: Disregard Thumb undef exception ...")
Acked-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
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: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>kernel/Kconfig.kexec: drop select of KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP</title>
<updated>2023-12-13T17:45:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Baoquan He</name>
<email>bhe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-28T05:44:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit dccf78d39f1069a5ddf4328bf0c97aa5f2f4296e ]

Ignat Korchagin complained that a potential config regression was
introduced by commit 89cde455915f ("kexec: consolidate kexec and crash
options into kernel/Kconfig.kexec").  Before the commit, CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
has no dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC.  After the commit, CRASH_DUMP selects
KEXEC.  That enforces system to have CONFIG_KEXEC=y as long as
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=Y which people may not want.

In Ignat's case, he sets CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y, CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y and
CONFIG_KEXEC=n because kexec_load interface could have security issue if
kernel/initrd has no chance to be signed and verified.

CRASH_DUMP has select of KEXEC because Eric, author of above commit, met a
LKP report of build failure when posting patch of earlier version.  Please
see below link to get detail of the LKP report:

    https://lore.kernel.org/all/3e8eecd1-a277-2cfb-690e-5de2eb7b988e@oracle.com/T/#u

In fact, that LKP report is triggered because arm's &lt;asm/kexec.h&gt; is
wrapped in CONFIG_KEXEC ifdeffery scope.  That is wrong.  CONFIG_KEXEC
controls the enabling/disabling of kexec_load interface, but not kexec
feature.  Removing the wrongly added CONFIG_KEXEC ifdeffery scope in
&lt;asm/kexec.h&gt; of arm allows us to drop the select KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP.
Meanwhile, change arch/arm/kernel/Makefile to let machine_kexec.o
relocate_kernel.o depend on KEXEC_CORE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231128054457.659452-1-bhe@redhat.com
Fixes: 89cde455915f ("kexec: consolidate kexec and crash options into kernel/Kconfig.kexec")
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ignat Korchagin &lt;ignat@cloudflare.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ignat Korchagin &lt;ignat@cloudflare.com&gt;	[compile-time only]
Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric DeVolder &lt;eric_devolder@yahoo.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric DeVolder &lt;eric_devolder@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit dccf78d39f1069a5ddf4328bf0c97aa5f2f4296e ]

Ignat Korchagin complained that a potential config regression was
introduced by commit 89cde455915f ("kexec: consolidate kexec and crash
options into kernel/Kconfig.kexec").  Before the commit, CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
has no dependency on CONFIG_KEXEC.  After the commit, CRASH_DUMP selects
KEXEC.  That enforces system to have CONFIG_KEXEC=y as long as
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=Y which people may not want.

In Ignat's case, he sets CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y, CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y and
CONFIG_KEXEC=n because kexec_load interface could have security issue if
kernel/initrd has no chance to be signed and verified.

CRASH_DUMP has select of KEXEC because Eric, author of above commit, met a
LKP report of build failure when posting patch of earlier version.  Please
see below link to get detail of the LKP report:

    https://lore.kernel.org/all/3e8eecd1-a277-2cfb-690e-5de2eb7b988e@oracle.com/T/#u

In fact, that LKP report is triggered because arm's &lt;asm/kexec.h&gt; is
wrapped in CONFIG_KEXEC ifdeffery scope.  That is wrong.  CONFIG_KEXEC
controls the enabling/disabling of kexec_load interface, but not kexec
feature.  Removing the wrongly added CONFIG_KEXEC ifdeffery scope in
&lt;asm/kexec.h&gt; of arm allows us to drop the select KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP.
Meanwhile, change arch/arm/kernel/Makefile to let machine_kexec.o
relocate_kernel.o depend on KEXEC_CORE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231128054457.659452-1-bhe@redhat.com
Fixes: 89cde455915f ("kexec: consolidate kexec and crash options into kernel/Kconfig.kexec")
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ignat Korchagin &lt;ignat@cloudflare.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ignat Korchagin &lt;ignat@cloudflare.com&gt;	[compile-time only]
Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric DeVolder &lt;eric_devolder@yahoo.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric DeVolder &lt;eric_devolder@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2023-08-31T19:49:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-31T19:49:10+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - Refactor VFP code and convert to C code (Ard Biesheuvel)

 - Fix hardware breakpoint single-stepping using bpf_overflow_handler

 - Make SMP stop calls asynchronous allowing panic from irq context to
   work

 - Fix for kernel-doc warnings for locomo

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  Revert part of ae1f8d793a19 ("ARM: 9304/1: add prototype for function called only from asm")
  ARM: 9318/1: locomo: move kernel-doc to prevent warnings
  ARM: 9317/1: kexec: Make smp stop calls asynchronous
  ARM: 9316/1: hw_breakpoint: fix single-stepping when using bpf_overflow_handler
  ARM: entry: Make asm coproc dispatch code NWFPE only
  ARM: iwmmxt: Use undef hook to enable coprocessor for task
  ARM: entry: Disregard Thumb undef exception in coproc dispatch
  ARM: vfp: Use undef hook for handling VFP exceptions
  ARM: kernel: Get rid of thread_info::used_cp[] array
  ARM: vfp: Reimplement VFP exception entry in C code
  ARM: vfp: Remove workaround for Feroceon CPUs
  ARM: vfp: Record VFP bounces as perf emulation faults
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - Refactor VFP code and convert to C code (Ard Biesheuvel)

 - Fix hardware breakpoint single-stepping using bpf_overflow_handler

 - Make SMP stop calls asynchronous allowing panic from irq context to
   work

 - Fix for kernel-doc warnings for locomo

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  Revert part of ae1f8d793a19 ("ARM: 9304/1: add prototype for function called only from asm")
  ARM: 9318/1: locomo: move kernel-doc to prevent warnings
  ARM: 9317/1: kexec: Make smp stop calls asynchronous
  ARM: 9316/1: hw_breakpoint: fix single-stepping when using bpf_overflow_handler
  ARM: entry: Make asm coproc dispatch code NWFPE only
  ARM: iwmmxt: Use undef hook to enable coprocessor for task
  ARM: entry: Disregard Thumb undef exception in coproc dispatch
  ARM: vfp: Use undef hook for handling VFP exceptions
  ARM: kernel: Get rid of thread_info::used_cp[] array
  ARM: vfp: Reimplement VFP exception entry in C code
  ARM: vfp: Remove workaround for Feroceon CPUs
  ARM: vfp: Record VFP bounces as perf emulation faults
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-08-31T19:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-31T19:20:12+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen:
 "This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part of Intel's
  Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET).

  CET consists of two related security features: shadow stacks and
  indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the shadow stack
  part of this feature, and just for userspace.

  The main use case for shadow stack is providing protection against
  return oriented programming attacks. It works by maintaining a
  secondary (shadow) stack using a special memory type that has
  protections against modification. When executing a CALL instruction,
  the processor pushes the return address to both the normal stack and
  to the special permission shadow stack. Upon RET, the processor pops
  the shadow stack copy and compares it to the normal stack copy.

  For more information, refer to the links below for the earlier
  versions of this patch set"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220130211838.8382-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/

* tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  x86/shstk: Change order of __user in type
  x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm
  x86/shstk: Don't retry vm_munmap() on -EINTR
  x86/kbuild: Fix Documentation/ reference
  x86/shstk: Move arch detail comment out of core mm
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK
  x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack
  selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface
  x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status
  x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace
  x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall
  x86/shstk: Check that signal frame is shadow stack mem
  x86/shstk: Check that SSP is aligned on sigreturn
  x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk
  x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support
  ...
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Pull x86 shadow stack support from Dave Hansen:
 "This is the long awaited x86 shadow stack support, part of Intel's
  Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET).

  CET consists of two related security features: shadow stacks and
  indirect branch tracking. This series implements just the shadow stack
  part of this feature, and just for userspace.

  The main use case for shadow stack is providing protection against
  return oriented programming attacks. It works by maintaining a
  secondary (shadow) stack using a special memory type that has
  protections against modification. When executing a CALL instruction,
  the processor pushes the return address to both the normal stack and
  to the special permission shadow stack. Upon RET, the processor pops
  the shadow stack copy and compares it to the normal stack copy.

  For more information, refer to the links below for the earlier
  versions of this patch set"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220130211838.8382-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230613001108.3040476-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/

* tag 'x86_shstk_for_6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  x86/shstk: Change order of __user in type
  x86/ibt: Convert IBT selftest to asm
  x86/shstk: Don't retry vm_munmap() on -EINTR
  x86/kbuild: Fix Documentation/ reference
  x86/shstk: Move arch detail comment out of core mm
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS
  x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_UNLOCK
  x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack
  selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable CET CR4 bit for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface
  x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status
  x86/shstk: Support WRSS for userspace
  x86/shstk: Introduce map_shadow_stack syscall
  x86/shstk: Check that signal frame is shadow stack mem
  x86/shstk: Check that SSP is aligned on sigreturn
  x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Introduce routines modifying shstk
  x86/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack
  x86/shstk: Add user-mode shadow stack support
  ...
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