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<title>arm64: Handle el1 synchronous instruction aborts cleanly</title>
<updated>2016-08-12T16:58:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laura Abbott</name>
<email>labbott@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-10T01:25:26+00:00</published>
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Executing from a non-executable area gives an ugly message:

lkdtm: Performing direct entry EXEC_RODATA
lkdtm: attempting ok execution at ffff0000084c0e08
lkdtm: attempting bad execution at ffff000008880700
Bad mode in Synchronous Abort handler detected on CPU2, code 0x8400000e -- IABT (current EL)
CPU: 2 PID: 998 Comm: sh Not tainted 4.7.0-rc2+ #13
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
task: ffff800077e35780 ti: ffff800077970000 task.ti: ffff800077970000
PC is at lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing+0x0/0x8
LR is at execute_location+0x74/0x88

The 'IABT (current EL)' indicates the error but it's a bit cryptic
without knowledge of the ARM ARM. There is also no indication of the
specific address which triggered the fault. The increase in kernel
page permissions makes hitting this case more likely as well.
Handling the case in the vectors gives a much more familiar looking
error message:

lkdtm: Performing direct entry EXEC_RODATA
lkdtm: attempting ok execution at ffff0000084c0840
lkdtm: attempting bad execution at ffff000008880680
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff000008880680
pgd = ffff8000089b2000
[ffff000008880680] *pgd=00000000489b4003, *pud=0000000048904003, *pmd=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 8400000e [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 997 Comm: sh Not tainted 4.7.0-rc1+ #24
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
task: ffff800077f9f080 ti: ffff800008a1c000 task.ti: ffff800008a1c000
PC is at lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing+0x0/0x8
LR is at execute_location+0x74/0x88

Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Executing from a non-executable area gives an ugly message:

lkdtm: Performing direct entry EXEC_RODATA
lkdtm: attempting ok execution at ffff0000084c0e08
lkdtm: attempting bad execution at ffff000008880700
Bad mode in Synchronous Abort handler detected on CPU2, code 0x8400000e -- IABT (current EL)
CPU: 2 PID: 998 Comm: sh Not tainted 4.7.0-rc2+ #13
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
task: ffff800077e35780 ti: ffff800077970000 task.ti: ffff800077970000
PC is at lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing+0x0/0x8
LR is at execute_location+0x74/0x88

The 'IABT (current EL)' indicates the error but it's a bit cryptic
without knowledge of the ARM ARM. There is also no indication of the
specific address which triggered the fault. The increase in kernel
page permissions makes hitting this case more likely as well.
Handling the case in the vectors gives a much more familiar looking
error message:

lkdtm: Performing direct entry EXEC_RODATA
lkdtm: attempting ok execution at ffff0000084c0840
lkdtm: attempting bad execution at ffff000008880680
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff000008880680
pgd = ffff8000089b2000
[ffff000008880680] *pgd=00000000489b4003, *pud=0000000048904003, *pmd=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 8400000e [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 997 Comm: sh Not tainted 4.7.0-rc1+ #24
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
task: ffff800077f9f080 ti: ffff800008a1c000 task.ti: ffff800008a1c000
PC is at lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing+0x0/0x8
LR is at execute_location+0x74/0x88

Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2016-07-27T18:16:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-27T18:16:05+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - Kexec support for arm64

 - Kprobes support

 - Expose MIDR_EL1 and REVIDR_EL1 CPU identification registers to sysfs

 - Trapping of user space cache maintenance operations and emulation in
   the kernel (CPU errata workaround)

 - Clean-up of the early page tables creation (kernel linear mapping,
   EFI run-time maps) to avoid splitting larger blocks (e.g.  pmds) into
   smaller ones (e.g.  ptes)

 - VDSO support for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW in clock_gettime()

 - ARCH_HAS_KCOV enabled for arm64

 - Optimise IP checksum helpers

 - SWIOTLB optimisation to only allocate/initialise the buffer if the
   available RAM is beyond the 32-bit mask

 - Properly handle the "nosmp" command line argument

 - Fix for the initialisation of the CPU debug state during early boot

 - vdso-offsets.h build dependency workaround

 - Build fix when RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled with MODULES off

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (64 commits)
  arm64: arm: Fix-up the removal of the arm64 regs_query_register_name() prototype
  arm64: Only select ARM64_MODULE_PLTS if MODULES=y
  arm64: mm: run pgtable_page_ctor() on non-swapper translation table pages
  arm64: mm: make create_mapping_late() non-allocating
  arm64: Honor nosmp kernel command line option
  arm64: Fix incorrect per-cpu usage for boot CPU
  arm64: kprobes: Add KASAN instrumentation around stack accesses
  arm64: kprobes: Cleanup jprobe_return
  arm64: kprobes: Fix overflow when saving stack
  arm64: kprobes: WARN if attempting to step with PSTATE.D=1
  arm64: debug: remove unused local_dbg_{enable, disable} macros
  arm64: debug: remove redundant spsr manipulation
  arm64: debug: unmask PSTATE.D earlier
  arm64: localise Image objcopy flags
  arm64: ptrace: remove extra define for CPSR's E bit
  kprobes: Add arm64 case in kprobe example module
  arm64: Add kernel return probes support (kretprobes)
  arm64: Add trampoline code for kretprobes
  arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support
  arm64: Treat all entry code as non-kprobe-able
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - Kexec support for arm64

 - Kprobes support

 - Expose MIDR_EL1 and REVIDR_EL1 CPU identification registers to sysfs

 - Trapping of user space cache maintenance operations and emulation in
   the kernel (CPU errata workaround)

 - Clean-up of the early page tables creation (kernel linear mapping,
   EFI run-time maps) to avoid splitting larger blocks (e.g.  pmds) into
   smaller ones (e.g.  ptes)

 - VDSO support for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW in clock_gettime()

 - ARCH_HAS_KCOV enabled for arm64

 - Optimise IP checksum helpers

 - SWIOTLB optimisation to only allocate/initialise the buffer if the
   available RAM is beyond the 32-bit mask

 - Properly handle the "nosmp" command line argument

 - Fix for the initialisation of the CPU debug state during early boot

 - vdso-offsets.h build dependency workaround

 - Build fix when RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled with MODULES off

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (64 commits)
  arm64: arm: Fix-up the removal of the arm64 regs_query_register_name() prototype
  arm64: Only select ARM64_MODULE_PLTS if MODULES=y
  arm64: mm: run pgtable_page_ctor() on non-swapper translation table pages
  arm64: mm: make create_mapping_late() non-allocating
  arm64: Honor nosmp kernel command line option
  arm64: Fix incorrect per-cpu usage for boot CPU
  arm64: kprobes: Add KASAN instrumentation around stack accesses
  arm64: kprobes: Cleanup jprobe_return
  arm64: kprobes: Fix overflow when saving stack
  arm64: kprobes: WARN if attempting to step with PSTATE.D=1
  arm64: debug: remove unused local_dbg_{enable, disable} macros
  arm64: debug: remove redundant spsr manipulation
  arm64: debug: unmask PSTATE.D earlier
  arm64: localise Image objcopy flags
  arm64: ptrace: remove extra define for CPSR's E bit
  kprobes: Add arm64 case in kprobe example module
  arm64: Add kernel return probes support (kretprobes)
  arm64: Add trampoline code for kretprobes
  arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support
  arm64: Treat all entry code as non-kprobe-able
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-next/kprobes' into for-next/core</title>
<updated>2016-07-21T17:20:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-21T17:20:41+00:00</published>
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* kprobes:
  arm64: kprobes: Add KASAN instrumentation around stack accesses
  arm64: kprobes: Cleanup jprobe_return
  arm64: kprobes: Fix overflow when saving stack
  arm64: kprobes: WARN if attempting to step with PSTATE.D=1
  kprobes: Add arm64 case in kprobe example module
  arm64: Add kernel return probes support (kretprobes)
  arm64: Add trampoline code for kretprobes
  arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support
  arm64: Treat all entry code as non-kprobe-able
  arm64: Blacklist non-kprobe-able symbol
  arm64: Kprobes with single stepping support
  arm64: add conditional instruction simulation support
  arm64: Add more test functions to insn.c
  arm64: Add HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API feature
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* kprobes:
  arm64: kprobes: Add KASAN instrumentation around stack accesses
  arm64: kprobes: Cleanup jprobe_return
  arm64: kprobes: Fix overflow when saving stack
  arm64: kprobes: WARN if attempting to step with PSTATE.D=1
  kprobes: Add arm64 case in kprobe example module
  arm64: Add kernel return probes support (kretprobes)
  arm64: Add trampoline code for kretprobes
  arm64: kprobes instruction simulation support
  arm64: Treat all entry code as non-kprobe-able
  arm64: Blacklist non-kprobe-able symbol
  arm64: Kprobes with single stepping support
  arm64: add conditional instruction simulation support
  arm64: Add more test functions to insn.c
  arm64: Add HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API feature
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Treat all entry code as non-kprobe-able</title>
<updated>2016-07-19T14:03:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pratyush Anand</name>
<email>panand@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-08T16:35:50+00:00</published>
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Entry symbols are not kprobe safe. So blacklist them for kprobing.

Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand &lt;panand@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David A. Long &lt;dave.long@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: Do not include syscall wrappers in .entry.text]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Entry symbols are not kprobe safe. So blacklist them for kprobing.

Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand &lt;panand@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David A. Long &lt;dave.long@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: Do not include syscall wrappers in .entry.text]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: kernel: Save and restore UAO and addr_limit on exception entry</title>
<updated>2016-07-07T14:55:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-20T17:28:01+00:00</published>
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If we take an exception while at EL1, the exception handler inherits
the original context's addr_limit and PSTATE.UAO values. To be consistent
always reset addr_limit and PSTATE.UAO on (re-)entry to EL1. This
prevents accidental re-use of the original context's addr_limit.

Based on a similar patch for arm from Russell King.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.6-
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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If we take an exception while at EL1, the exception handler inherits
the original context's addr_limit and PSTATE.UAO values. To be consistent
always reset addr_limit and PSTATE.UAO on (re-)entry to EL1. This
prevents accidental re-use of the original context's addr_limit.

Based on a similar patch for arm from Russell King.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.6-
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: trap userspace "dc cvau" cache operation on errata-affected core</title>
<updated>2016-07-01T10:46:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andre Przywara</name>
<email>andre.przywara@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-28T17:07:32+00:00</published>
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The ARM errata 819472, 826319, 827319 and 824069 for affected
Cortex-A53 cores demand to promote "dc cvau" instructions to
"dc civac". Since we allow userspace to also emit those instructions,
we should make sure that "dc cvau" gets promoted there too.
So lets grasp the nettle here and actually trap every userland cache
maintenance instruction once we detect at least one affected core in
the system.
We then emulate the instruction by executing it on behalf of userland,
promoting "dc cvau" to "dc civac" on the way and injecting access
fault back into userspace.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: s/set_segfault/arm64_notify_segfault/]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The ARM errata 819472, 826319, 827319 and 824069 for affected
Cortex-A53 cores demand to promote "dc cvau" instructions to
"dc civac". Since we allow userspace to also emit those instructions,
we should make sure that "dc cvau" gets promoted there too.
So lets grasp the nettle here and actually trap every userland cache
maintenance instruction once we detect at least one affected core in
the system.
We then emulate the instruction by executing it on behalf of userland,
promoting "dc cvau" to "dc civac" on the way and injecting access
fault back into userspace.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: s/set_segfault/arm64_notify_segfault/]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: kill ESR_LNX_EXEC</title>
<updated>2016-06-21T16:07:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-31T11:33:03+00:00</published>
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Currently we treat ESR_EL1 bit 24 as software-defined for distinguishing
instruction aborts from data aborts, but this bit is architecturally
RES0 for instruction aborts, and could be allocated for an arbitrary
purpose in future. Additionally, we hard-code the value in entry.S
without the mnemonic, making the code difficult to understand.

Instead, remove ESR_LNX_EXEC, and distinguish aborts based on the esr,
which we already pass to the sole use of ESR_LNX_EXEC. A new helper,
is_el0_instruction_abort() is added to make the logic clear. Any
instruction aborts taken from EL1 will already have been handled by
bad_mode, so we need not handle that case in the helper.

For consistency, the existing permission_fault helper is renamed to
is_permission_fault, and the return type is changed to bool. There
should be no functional changes as the return value was a boolean
expression, and the result is only used in another boolean expression.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave P Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Shijie &lt;shijie.huang@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Currently we treat ESR_EL1 bit 24 as software-defined for distinguishing
instruction aborts from data aborts, but this bit is architecturally
RES0 for instruction aborts, and could be allocated for an arbitrary
purpose in future. Additionally, we hard-code the value in entry.S
without the mnemonic, making the code difficult to understand.

Instead, remove ESR_LNX_EXEC, and distinguish aborts based on the esr,
which we already pass to the sole use of ESR_LNX_EXEC. A new helper,
is_el0_instruction_abort() is added to make the logic clear. Any
instruction aborts taken from EL1 will already have been handled by
bad_mode, so we need not handle that case in the helper.

For consistency, the existing permission_fault helper is renamed to
is_permission_fault, and the return type is changed to bool. There
should be no functional changes as the return value was a boolean
expression, and the result is only used in another boolean expression.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave P Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Shijie &lt;shijie.huang@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/kernel: fix incorrect EL0 check in inv_entry macro</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T12:05:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-18T09:58:09+00:00</published>
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The implementation of macro inv_entry refers to its 'el' argument without
the required leading backslash, which results in an undefined symbol
'el' to be passed into the kernel_entry macro rather than the index of
the exception level as intended.

This undefined symbol strangely enough does not result in build failures,
although it is visible in vmlinux:

     $ nm -n vmlinux |head
                      U el
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_flags_le_hi32
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_offset_le_hi32
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_size_le_hi32
     000000000000000a A _kernel_flags_le_lo32
     .....

However, it does result in incorrect code being generated for invalid
exceptions taken from EL0, since the argument check in kernel_entry
assumes EL1 if its argument does not equal '0'.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The implementation of macro inv_entry refers to its 'el' argument without
the required leading backslash, which results in an undefined symbol
'el' to be passed into the kernel_entry macro rather than the index of
the exception level as intended.

This undefined symbol strangely enough does not result in build failures,
although it is visible in vmlinux:

     $ nm -n vmlinux |head
                      U el
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_flags_le_hi32
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_offset_le_hi32
     0000000000000000 A _kernel_size_le_hi32
     000000000000000a A _kernel_flags_le_lo32
     .....

However, it does result in incorrect code being generated for invalid
exceptions taken from EL0, since the argument check in kernel_entry
assumes EL1 if its argument does not equal '0'.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: entry: remove pointless SPSR mode check</title>
<updated>2016-01-06T15:40:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-05T17:33:34+00:00</published>
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In work_pending, we may skip work if the stacked SPSR value represents
anything other than an EL0 context. We then immediately invoke the
kernel_exit 0 macro as part of ret_to_user, assuming a return to EL0.
This is somewhat confusing.

We use work_pending as part of the ret_to_user/ret_fast_syscall state
machine. We only use ret_fast_syscall in the return from an SVC issued
from EL0. We use ret_to_user for return from EL0 exception handlers and
also for return from ret_from_fork in the case the task was not a kernel
thread (i.e. it is a user task).

Thus in all cases the stacked SPSR value must represent an EL0 context,
and the check is redundant. This patch removes it, along with the now
unused no_work_pending label.

Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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In work_pending, we may skip work if the stacked SPSR value represents
anything other than an EL0 context. We then immediately invoke the
kernel_exit 0 macro as part of ret_to_user, assuming a return to EL0.
This is somewhat confusing.

We use work_pending as part of the ret_to_user/ret_fast_syscall state
machine. We only use ret_fast_syscall in the return from an SVC issued
from EL0. We use ret_to_user for return from EL0 exception handlers and
also for return from ret_from_fork in the case the task was not a kernel
thread (i.e. it is a user task).

Thus in all cases the stacked SPSR value must represent an EL0 context,
and the check is redundant. This patch removes it, along with the now
unused no_work_pending label.

Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: remove irq_count and do_softirq_own_stack()</title>
<updated>2015-12-21T17:26:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
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<published>2015-12-18T16:01:47+00:00</published>
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sysrq_handle_reboot() re-enables interrupts while on the irq stack. The
irq_stack implementation wrongly assumed this would only ever happen
via the softirq path, allowing it to update irq_count late, in
do_softirq_own_stack().

This means if an irq occurs in sysrq_handle_reboot(), during
emergency_restart() the stack will be corrupted, as irq_count wasn't
updated.

Lose the optimisation, and instead of moving the adding/subtracting of
irq_count into irq_stack_entry/irq_stack_exit, remove it, and compare
sp_el0 (struct thread_info) with sp &amp; ~(THREAD_SIZE - 1). This tells us
if we are on a task stack, if so, we can safely switch to the irq stack.
Finally, remove do_softirq_own_stack(), we don't need it anymore.

Reported-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
[will: use get_thread_info macro]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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sysrq_handle_reboot() re-enables interrupts while on the irq stack. The
irq_stack implementation wrongly assumed this would only ever happen
via the softirq path, allowing it to update irq_count late, in
do_softirq_own_stack().

This means if an irq occurs in sysrq_handle_reboot(), during
emergency_restart() the stack will be corrupted, as irq_count wasn't
updated.

Lose the optimisation, and instead of moving the adding/subtracting of
irq_count into irq_stack_entry/irq_stack_exit, remove it, and compare
sp_el0 (struct thread_info) with sp &amp; ~(THREAD_SIZE - 1). This tells us
if we are on a task stack, if so, we can safely switch to the irq stack.
Finally, remove do_softirq_own_stack(), we don't need it anymore.

Reported-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
[will: use get_thread_info macro]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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