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<title>arm64: fix show_regs fallout from KERN_CONT changes</title>
<updated>2016-10-20T14:27:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-20T11:23:16+00:00</published>
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Recently in commit 4bcc595ccd80decb ("printk: reinstate KERN_CONT for
printing continuation lines"), the behaviour of printk changed w.r.t.
KERN_CONT. Now, KERN_CONT is mandatory to continue existing lines.
Without this, prefixes are inserted, making output illegible, e.g.

[ 1007.069010] pc : [&lt;ffff00000871898c&gt;] lr : [&lt;ffff000008718948&gt;] pstate: 40000145
[ 1007.076329] sp : ffff000008d53ec0
[ 1007.079606] x29: ffff000008d53ec0 [ 1007.082797] x28: 0000000080c50018
[ 1007.086160]
[ 1007.087630] x27: ffff000008e0c7f8 [ 1007.090820] x26: ffff80097631ca00
[ 1007.094183]
[ 1007.095653] x25: 0000000000000001 [ 1007.098843] x24: 000000ea68b61cac
[ 1007.102206]

... or when dumped with the userpace dmesg tool, which has slightly
different implicit newline behaviour. e.g.

[ 1007.069010] pc : [&lt;ffff00000871898c&gt;] lr : [&lt;ffff000008718948&gt;] pstate: 40000145
[ 1007.076329] sp : ffff000008d53ec0
[ 1007.079606] x29: ffff000008d53ec0
[ 1007.082797] x28: 0000000080c50018
[ 1007.086160]
[ 1007.087630] x27: ffff000008e0c7f8
[ 1007.090820] x26: ffff80097631ca00
[ 1007.094183]
[ 1007.095653] x25: 0000000000000001
[ 1007.098843] x24: 000000ea68b61cac
[ 1007.102206]

We can't simply always use KERN_CONT for lines which may or may not be
continuations. That causes line prefixes (e.g. timestamps) to be
supressed, and the alignment of all but the first line will be broken.

For even more fun, we can't simply insert some dummy empty-string printk
calls, as GCC warns for an empty printk string, and even if we pass
KERN_DEFAULT explcitly to silence the warning, the prefix gets swallowed
unless there is an additional part to the string.

Instead, we must manually iterate over pairs of registers, which gives
us the legible output we want in either case, e.g.

[  169.771790] pc : [&lt;ffff00000871898c&gt;] lr : [&lt;ffff000008718948&gt;] pstate: 40000145
[  169.779109] sp : ffff000008d53ec0
[  169.782386] x29: ffff000008d53ec0 x28: 0000000080c50018
[  169.787650] x27: ffff000008e0c7f8 x26: ffff80097631de00
[  169.792913] x25: 0000000000000001 x24: 00000027827b2cf4

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Recently in commit 4bcc595ccd80decb ("printk: reinstate KERN_CONT for
printing continuation lines"), the behaviour of printk changed w.r.t.
KERN_CONT. Now, KERN_CONT is mandatory to continue existing lines.
Without this, prefixes are inserted, making output illegible, e.g.

[ 1007.069010] pc : [&lt;ffff00000871898c&gt;] lr : [&lt;ffff000008718948&gt;] pstate: 40000145
[ 1007.076329] sp : ffff000008d53ec0
[ 1007.079606] x29: ffff000008d53ec0 [ 1007.082797] x28: 0000000080c50018
[ 1007.086160]
[ 1007.087630] x27: ffff000008e0c7f8 [ 1007.090820] x26: ffff80097631ca00
[ 1007.094183]
[ 1007.095653] x25: 0000000000000001 [ 1007.098843] x24: 000000ea68b61cac
[ 1007.102206]

... or when dumped with the userpace dmesg tool, which has slightly
different implicit newline behaviour. e.g.

[ 1007.069010] pc : [&lt;ffff00000871898c&gt;] lr : [&lt;ffff000008718948&gt;] pstate: 40000145
[ 1007.076329] sp : ffff000008d53ec0
[ 1007.079606] x29: ffff000008d53ec0
[ 1007.082797] x28: 0000000080c50018
[ 1007.086160]
[ 1007.087630] x27: ffff000008e0c7f8
[ 1007.090820] x26: ffff80097631ca00
[ 1007.094183]
[ 1007.095653] x25: 0000000000000001
[ 1007.098843] x24: 000000ea68b61cac
[ 1007.102206]

We can't simply always use KERN_CONT for lines which may or may not be
continuations. That causes line prefixes (e.g. timestamps) to be
supressed, and the alignment of all but the first line will be broken.

For even more fun, we can't simply insert some dummy empty-string printk
calls, as GCC warns for an empty printk string, and even if we pass
KERN_DEFAULT explcitly to silence the warning, the prefix gets swallowed
unless there is an additional part to the string.

Instead, we must manually iterate over pairs of registers, which gives
us the legible output we want in either case, e.g.

[  169.771790] pc : [&lt;ffff00000871898c&gt;] lr : [&lt;ffff000008718948&gt;] pstate: 40000145
[  169.779109] sp : ffff000008d53ec0
[  169.782386] x29: ffff000008d53ec0 x28: 0000000080c50018
[  169.787650] x27: ffff000008e0c7f8 x26: ffff80097631de00
[  169.792913] x25: 0000000000000001 x24: 00000027827b2cf4

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: suspend: Reconfigure PSTATE after resume from idle</title>
<updated>2016-10-20T08:50:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-18T10:27:48+00:00</published>
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The suspend/resume path in kernel/sleep.S, as used by cpu-idle, does not
save/restore PSTATE. As a result of this cpufeatures that were detected
and have bits in PSTATE get lost when we resume from idle.

UAO gets set appropriately on the next context switch. PAN will be
re-enabled next time we return from user-space, but on a preemptible
kernel we may run work accessing user space before this point.

Add code to re-enable theses two features in __cpu_suspend_exit().
We re-use uao_thread_switch() passing current.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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The suspend/resume path in kernel/sleep.S, as used by cpu-idle, does not
save/restore PSTATE. As a result of this cpufeatures that were detected
and have bits in PSTATE get lost when we resume from idle.

UAO gets set appropriately on the next context switch. PAN will be
re-enabled next time we return from user-space, but on a preemptible
kernel we may run work accessing user space before this point.

Add code to re-enable theses two features in __cpu_suspend_exit().
We re-use uao_thread_switch() passing current.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: use simpler API for random address requests</title>
<updated>2016-10-11T22:06:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Cooper</name>
<email>jason@lakedaemon.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-11T20:54:02+00:00</published>
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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/20160803233913.32511-5-jason@lakedaemon.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper &lt;jason@lakedaemon.net&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "Russell King - ARM Linux" &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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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/20160803233913.32511-5-jason@lakedaemon.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper &lt;jason@lakedaemon.net&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "Russell King - ARM Linux" &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: simplify sysreg manipulation</title>
<updated>2016-09-09T10:43:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-08T12:55:38+00:00</published>
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A while back we added {read,write}_sysreg accessors to handle accesses
to system registers, without the usual boilerplate asm volatile,
temporary variable, etc.

This patch makes use of these across arm64 to make code shorter and
clearer. For sequences with a trailing ISB, the existing isb() macro is
also used so that asm blocks can be removed entirely.

A few uses of inline assembly for msr/mrs are left as-is. Those
manipulating sp_el0 for the current thread_info value have special
clobber requiremends.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<pre>
A while back we added {read,write}_sysreg accessors to handle accesses
to system registers, without the usual boilerplate asm volatile,
temporary variable, etc.

This patch makes use of these across arm64 to make code shorter and
clearer. For sequences with a trailing ISB, the existing isb() macro is
also used so that asm blocks can be removed entirely.

A few uses of inline assembly for msr/mrs are left as-is. Those
manipulating sp_el0 for the current thread_info value have special
clobber requiremends.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>exit_thread: remove empty bodies</title>
<updated>2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-21T00:00:16+00:00</published>
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Define HAVE_EXIT_THREAD for archs which want to do something in
exit_thread. For others, let's define exit_thread as an empty inline.

This is a cleanup before we change the prototype of exit_thread to
accept a task parameter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Define HAVE_EXIT_THREAD for archs which want to do something in
exit_thread. For others, let's define exit_thread as an empty inline.

This is a cleanup before we change the prototype of exit_thread to
accept a task parameter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: do not enforce strict 16 byte alignment to stack pointer</title>
<updated>2016-05-12T13:20:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.king@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-11T16:56:54+00:00</published>
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copy_thread should not be enforcing 16 byte aligment and returning
-EINVAL. Other architectures trap misaligned stack access with SIGBUS
so arm64 should follow this convention, so remove the strict enforcement
check.

For example, currently clone(2) fails with -EINVAL when passing
a misaligned stack and this gives little clue to what is wrong. Instead,
it is arguable that a SIGBUS on the fist access to a misaligned stack
allows one to figure out that it is a misaligned stack issue rather
than trying to figure out why an unconventional (and undocumented)
-EINVAL is being returned.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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copy_thread should not be enforcing 16 byte aligment and returning
-EINVAL. Other architectures trap misaligned stack access with SIGBUS
so arm64 should follow this convention, so remove the strict enforcement
check.

For example, currently clone(2) fails with -EINVAL when passing
a misaligned stack and this gives little clue to what is wrong. Instead,
it is arguable that a SIGBUS on the fist access to a misaligned stack
allows one to figure out that it is a misaligned stack issue rather
than trying to figure out why an unconventional (and undocumented)
-EINVAL is being returned.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: kernel: Fix incorrect brk randomization</title>
<updated>2016-05-11T10:38:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-10T17:55:49+00:00</published>
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This fixes two issues with the arm64 brk randomziation. First, the
STACK_RND_MASK was being used incorrectly. The original code was:

	unsigned long range_end = base + (STACK_RND_MASK &lt;&lt; PAGE_SHIFT) + 1;

STACK_RND_MASK is 0x7ff (32-bit) or 0x3ffff (64-bit), with 4K pages where
PAGE_SHIFT is 12:

	#define STACK_RND_MASK	(test_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT) ? \
						0x7ff &gt;&gt; (PAGE_SHIFT - 12) : \
						0x3ffff &gt;&gt; (PAGE_SHIFT - 12))

This means the resulting offset from base would be 0x7ff0001 or 0x3ffff0001,
which is wrong since it creates an unaligned end address. It was likely
intended to be:

	unsigned long range_end = base + ((STACK_RND_MASK + 1) &lt;&lt; PAGE_SHIFT)

Which would result in offsets of 0x800000 (32-bit) and 0x40000000 (64-bit).

However, even this corrected 32-bit compat offset (0x00800000) is much
smaller than native ARM's brk randomization value (0x02000000):

	unsigned long arch_randomize_brk(struct mm_struct *mm)
	{
	        unsigned long range_end = mm-&gt;brk + 0x02000000;
	        return randomize_range(mm-&gt;brk, range_end, 0) ? : mm-&gt;brk;
	}

So, instead of basing arm64's brk randomization on mistaken STACK_RND_MASK
calculations, just use specific corrected values for compat (0x2000000)
and native arm64 (0x40000000).

Reviewed-by: Jon Medhurst &lt;tixy@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
[will: use is_compat_task() as suggested by tixy]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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This fixes two issues with the arm64 brk randomziation. First, the
STACK_RND_MASK was being used incorrectly. The original code was:

	unsigned long range_end = base + (STACK_RND_MASK &lt;&lt; PAGE_SHIFT) + 1;

STACK_RND_MASK is 0x7ff (32-bit) or 0x3ffff (64-bit), with 4K pages where
PAGE_SHIFT is 12:

	#define STACK_RND_MASK	(test_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT) ? \
						0x7ff &gt;&gt; (PAGE_SHIFT - 12) : \
						0x3ffff &gt;&gt; (PAGE_SHIFT - 12))

This means the resulting offset from base would be 0x7ff0001 or 0x3ffff0001,
which is wrong since it creates an unaligned end address. It was likely
intended to be:

	unsigned long range_end = base + ((STACK_RND_MASK + 1) &lt;&lt; PAGE_SHIFT)

Which would result in offsets of 0x800000 (32-bit) and 0x40000000 (64-bit).

However, even this corrected 32-bit compat offset (0x00800000) is much
smaller than native ARM's brk randomization value (0x02000000):

	unsigned long arch_randomize_brk(struct mm_struct *mm)
	{
	        unsigned long range_end = mm-&gt;brk + 0x02000000;
	        return randomize_range(mm-&gt;brk, range_end, 0) ? : mm-&gt;brk;
	}

So, instead of basing arm64's brk randomization on mistaken STACK_RND_MASK
calculations, just use specific corrected values for compat (0x2000000)
and native arm64 (0x40000000).

Reviewed-by: Jon Medhurst &lt;tixy@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
[will: use is_compat_task() as suggested by tixy]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Remove the get_thread_info() function</title>
<updated>2016-02-18T17:27:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-18T15:50:04+00:00</published>
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This function was introduced by previous commits implementing UAO.
However, it can be replaced with task_thread_info() in
uao_thread_switch() or get_fs() in do_page_fault() (the latter being
called only on the current context, so no need for using the saved
pt_regs).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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This function was introduced by previous commits implementing UAO.
However, it can be replaced with task_thread_info() in
uao_thread_switch() or get_fs() in do_page_fault() (the latter being
called only on the current context, so no need for using the saved
pt_regs).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: kernel: Add support for User Access Override</title>
<updated>2016-02-18T17:27:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-05T14:58:48+00:00</published>
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'User Access Override' is a new ARMv8.2 feature which allows the
unprivileged load and store instructions to be overridden to behave in
the normal way.

This patch converts {get,put}_user() and friends to use ldtr*/sttr*
instructions - so that they can only access EL0 memory, then enables
UAO when fs==KERNEL_DS so that these functions can access kernel memory.

This allows user space's read/write permissions to be checked against the
page tables, instead of testing addr&lt;USER_DS, then using the kernel's
read/write permissions.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: move uao_thread_switch() above dsb()]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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'User Access Override' is a new ARMv8.2 feature which allows the
unprivileged load and store instructions to be overridden to behave in
the normal way.

This patch converts {get,put}_user() and friends to use ldtr*/sttr*
instructions - so that they can only access EL0 memory, then enables
UAO when fs==KERNEL_DS so that these functions can access kernel memory.

This allows user space's read/write permissions to be checked against the
page tables, instead of testing addr&lt;USER_DS, then using the kernel's
read/write permissions.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: move uao_thread_switch() above dsb()]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: ftrace: fix a stack tracer's output under function graph tracer</title>
<updated>2015-12-21T17:26:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>AKASHI Takahiro</name>
<email>takahiro.akashi@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-15T08:33:41+00:00</published>
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Function graph tracer modifies a return address (LR) in a stack frame
to hook a function return. This will result in many useless entries
(return_to_handler) showing up in
 a) a stack tracer's output
 b) perf call graph (with perf record -g)
 c) dump_backtrace (at panic et al.)

For example, in case of a),
  $ echo function_graph &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
  $ echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/stack_trace_enabled
  $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace
        Depth    Size   Location    (54 entries)
        -----    ----   --------
  0)     4504      16   gic_raise_softirq+0x28/0x150
  1)     4488      80   smp_cross_call+0x38/0xb8
  2)     4408      48   return_to_handler+0x0/0x40
  3)     4360      32   return_to_handler+0x0/0x40
  ...

In case of b),
  $ echo function_graph &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
  $ perf record -e mem:XXX:x -ag -- sleep 10
  $ perf report
                  ...
                  |          |          |--0.22%-- 0x550f8
                  |          |          |          0x10888
                  |          |          |          el0_svc_naked
                  |          |          |          sys_openat
                  |          |          |          return_to_handler
                  |          |          |          return_to_handler
                  ...

In case of c),
  $ echo function_graph &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
  $ echo c &gt; /proc/sysrq-trigger
  ...
  Call trace:
  [&lt;ffffffc00044d3ac&gt;] sysrq_handle_crash+0x24/0x30
  [&lt;ffffffc000092250&gt;] return_to_handler+0x0/0x40
  [&lt;ffffffc000092250&gt;] return_to_handler+0x0/0x40
  ...

This patch replaces such entries with real addresses preserved in
current-&gt;ret_stack[] at unwind_frame(). This way, we can cover all
the cases.

Reviewed-by: Jungseok Lee &lt;jungseoklee85@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
[will: fixed minor context changes conflicting with irq stack bits]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Function graph tracer modifies a return address (LR) in a stack frame
to hook a function return. This will result in many useless entries
(return_to_handler) showing up in
 a) a stack tracer's output
 b) perf call graph (with perf record -g)
 c) dump_backtrace (at panic et al.)

For example, in case of a),
  $ echo function_graph &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
  $ echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/stack_trace_enabled
  $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/stack_trace
        Depth    Size   Location    (54 entries)
        -----    ----   --------
  0)     4504      16   gic_raise_softirq+0x28/0x150
  1)     4488      80   smp_cross_call+0x38/0xb8
  2)     4408      48   return_to_handler+0x0/0x40
  3)     4360      32   return_to_handler+0x0/0x40
  ...

In case of b),
  $ echo function_graph &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
  $ perf record -e mem:XXX:x -ag -- sleep 10
  $ perf report
                  ...
                  |          |          |--0.22%-- 0x550f8
                  |          |          |          0x10888
                  |          |          |          el0_svc_naked
                  |          |          |          sys_openat
                  |          |          |          return_to_handler
                  |          |          |          return_to_handler
                  ...

In case of c),
  $ echo function_graph &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
  $ echo c &gt; /proc/sysrq-trigger
  ...
  Call trace:
  [&lt;ffffffc00044d3ac&gt;] sysrq_handle_crash+0x24/0x30
  [&lt;ffffffc000092250&gt;] return_to_handler+0x0/0x40
  [&lt;ffffffc000092250&gt;] return_to_handler+0x0/0x40
  ...

This patch replaces such entries with real addresses preserved in
current-&gt;ret_stack[] at unwind_frame(). This way, we can cover all
the cases.

Reviewed-by: Jungseok Lee &lt;jungseoklee85@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
[will: fixed minor context changes conflicting with irq stack bits]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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