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<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Leave SVE enabled on syscall if we don't context switch</title>
<updated>2022-11-29T15:01:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-15T09:46:39+00:00</published>
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The syscall ABI says that the SVE register state not shared with FPSIMD
may not be preserved on syscall, and this is the only mechanism we have
in the ABI to stop tracking the extra SVE state for a process. Currently
we do this unconditionally by means of disabling SVE for the process on
syscall, causing userspace to take a trap to EL1 if it uses SVE again.
These extra traps result in a noticeable overhead for using SVE instead
of FPSIMD in some workloads, especially for simple syscalls where we can
return directly to userspace and would not otherwise need to update the
floating point registers. Tests with fp-pidbench show an approximately
70% overhead on a range of implementations when SVE is in use - while
this is an extreme and entirely artificial benchmark it is clear that
there is some useful room for improvement here.

Now that we have the ability to track the decision about what to save
seprately to TIF_SVE we can improve things by leaving TIF_SVE enabled on
syscall but only saving the FPSIMD registers if we are in a syscall.
This means that if we need to restore the register state from memory
(eg, after a context switch or kernel mode NEON) we will drop TIF_SVE
and reenable traps for userspace but if we can just return to userspace
then traps will remain disabled.

Since our current implementation and hence ABI has the effect of zeroing
all the SVE register state not shared with FPSIMD on syscall we replace
the disabling of TIF_SVE with a flush of the non-shared register state,
this means that there is still some overhead for syscalls when SVE is in
use but it is very much reduced.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221115094640.112848-8-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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The syscall ABI says that the SVE register state not shared with FPSIMD
may not be preserved on syscall, and this is the only mechanism we have
in the ABI to stop tracking the extra SVE state for a process. Currently
we do this unconditionally by means of disabling SVE for the process on
syscall, causing userspace to take a trap to EL1 if it uses SVE again.
These extra traps result in a noticeable overhead for using SVE instead
of FPSIMD in some workloads, especially for simple syscalls where we can
return directly to userspace and would not otherwise need to update the
floating point registers. Tests with fp-pidbench show an approximately
70% overhead on a range of implementations when SVE is in use - while
this is an extreme and entirely artificial benchmark it is clear that
there is some useful room for improvement here.

Now that we have the ability to track the decision about what to save
seprately to TIF_SVE we can improve things by leaving TIF_SVE enabled on
syscall but only saving the FPSIMD registers if we are in a syscall.
This means that if we need to restore the register state from memory
(eg, after a context switch or kernel mode NEON) we will drop TIF_SVE
and reenable traps for userspace but if we can just return to userspace
then traps will remain disabled.

Since our current implementation and hence ABI has the effect of zeroing
all the SVE register state not shared with FPSIMD on syscall we replace
the disabling of TIF_SVE with a flush of the non-shared register state,
this means that there is still some overhead for syscalls when SVE is in
use but it is very much reduced.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221115094640.112848-8-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible, part 1</title>
<updated>2022-10-11T23:42:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-05T15:23:53+00:00</published>
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Rather than truncate a 32-bit value to a 16-bit value or an 8-bit value,
simply use the get_random_{u8,u16}() functions, which are faster than
wasting the additional bytes from a 32-bit value. This was done
mechanically with this coccinelle script:

@@
expression E;
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u16;
typedef __be16;
typedef __le16;
typedef u8;
@@
(
- (get_random_u32() &amp; 0xffff)
+ get_random_u16()
|
- (get_random_u32() &amp; 0xff)
+ get_random_u8()
|
- (get_random_u32() % 65536)
+ get_random_u16()
|
- (get_random_u32() % 256)
+ get_random_u8()
|
- (get_random_u32() &gt;&gt; 16)
+ get_random_u16()
|
- (get_random_u32() &gt;&gt; 24)
+ get_random_u8()
|
- (u16)get_random_u32()
+ get_random_u16()
|
- (u8)get_random_u32()
+ get_random_u8()
|
- (__be16)get_random_u32()
+ (__be16)get_random_u16()
|
- (__le16)get_random_u32()
+ (__le16)get_random_u16()
|
- prandom_u32_max(65536)
+ get_random_u16()
|
- prandom_u32_max(256)
+ get_random_u8()
|
- E-&gt;inet_id = get_random_u32()
+ E-&gt;inet_id = get_random_u16()
)

@@
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u16;
identifier v;
@@
- u16 v = get_random_u32();
+ u16 v = get_random_u16();

@@
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u8;
identifier v;
@@
- u8 v = get_random_u32();
+ u8 v = get_random_u8();

@@
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u16;
u16 v;
@@
-  v = get_random_u32();
+  v = get_random_u16();

@@
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u8;
u8 v;
@@
-  v = get_random_u32();
+  v = get_random_u8();

// Find a potential literal
@literal_mask@
expression LITERAL;
type T;
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
position p;
@@

        ((T)get_random_u32()@p &amp; (LITERAL))

// Examine limits
@script:python add_one@
literal &lt;&lt; literal_mask.LITERAL;
RESULT;
@@

value = None
if literal.startswith('0x'):
        value = int(literal, 16)
elif literal[0] in '123456789':
        value = int(literal, 10)
if value is None:
        print("I don't know how to handle %s" % (literal))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif value &lt; 256:
        coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_ident("get_random_u8")
elif value &lt; 65536:
        coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_ident("get_random_u16")
else:
        print("Skipping large mask of %s" % (literal))
        cocci.include_match(False)

// Replace the literal mask with the calculated result.
@plus_one@
expression literal_mask.LITERAL;
position literal_mask.p;
identifier add_one.RESULT;
identifier FUNC;
@@

-       (FUNC()@p &amp; (LITERAL))
+       (RESULT() &amp; LITERAL)

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@toke.dk&gt; # for sch_cake
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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<pre>
Rather than truncate a 32-bit value to a 16-bit value or an 8-bit value,
simply use the get_random_{u8,u16}() functions, which are faster than
wasting the additional bytes from a 32-bit value. This was done
mechanically with this coccinelle script:

@@
expression E;
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u16;
typedef __be16;
typedef __le16;
typedef u8;
@@
(
- (get_random_u32() &amp; 0xffff)
+ get_random_u16()
|
- (get_random_u32() &amp; 0xff)
+ get_random_u8()
|
- (get_random_u32() % 65536)
+ get_random_u16()
|
- (get_random_u32() % 256)
+ get_random_u8()
|
- (get_random_u32() &gt;&gt; 16)
+ get_random_u16()
|
- (get_random_u32() &gt;&gt; 24)
+ get_random_u8()
|
- (u16)get_random_u32()
+ get_random_u16()
|
- (u8)get_random_u32()
+ get_random_u8()
|
- (__be16)get_random_u32()
+ (__be16)get_random_u16()
|
- (__le16)get_random_u32()
+ (__le16)get_random_u16()
|
- prandom_u32_max(65536)
+ get_random_u16()
|
- prandom_u32_max(256)
+ get_random_u8()
|
- E-&gt;inet_id = get_random_u32()
+ E-&gt;inet_id = get_random_u16()
)

@@
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u16;
identifier v;
@@
- u16 v = get_random_u32();
+ u16 v = get_random_u16();

@@
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u8;
identifier v;
@@
- u8 v = get_random_u32();
+ u8 v = get_random_u8();

@@
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u16;
u16 v;
@@
-  v = get_random_u32();
+  v = get_random_u16();

@@
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u8;
u8 v;
@@
-  v = get_random_u32();
+  v = get_random_u8();

// Find a potential literal
@literal_mask@
expression LITERAL;
type T;
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
position p;
@@

        ((T)get_random_u32()@p &amp; (LITERAL))

// Examine limits
@script:python add_one@
literal &lt;&lt; literal_mask.LITERAL;
RESULT;
@@

value = None
if literal.startswith('0x'):
        value = int(literal, 16)
elif literal[0] in '123456789':
        value = int(literal, 10)
if value is None:
        print("I don't know how to handle %s" % (literal))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif value &lt; 256:
        coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_ident("get_random_u8")
elif value &lt; 65536:
        coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_ident("get_random_u16")
else:
        print("Skipping large mask of %s" % (literal))
        cocci.include_match(False)

// Replace the literal mask with the calculated result.
@plus_one@
expression literal_mask.LITERAL;
position literal_mask.p;
identifier add_one.RESULT;
identifier FUNC;
@@

-       (FUNC()@p &amp; (LITERAL))
+       (RESULT() &amp; LITERAL)

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@toke.dk&gt; # for sch_cake
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sme: Remove _EL0 from name of SVCR - FIXME sysreg.h</title>
<updated>2022-05-16T18:50:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-10T16:12:01+00:00</published>
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The defines for SVCR call it SVCR_EL0 however the architecture calls the
register SVCR with no _EL0 suffix. In preparation for generating the sysreg
definitions rename to match the architecture, no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220510161208.631259-6-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<pre>
The defines for SVCR call it SVCR_EL0 however the architecture calls the
register SVCR with no _EL0 suffix. In preparation for generating the sysreg
definitions rename to match the architecture, no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220510161208.631259-6-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sme: Implement traps and syscall handling for SME</title>
<updated>2022-04-22T17:51:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-19T11:22:24+00:00</published>
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By default all SME operations in userspace will trap.  When this happens
we allocate storage space for the SME register state, set up the SVE
registers and disable traps.  We do not need to initialize ZA since the
architecture guarantees that it will be zeroed when enabled and when we
trap ZA is disabled.

On syscall we exit streaming mode if we were previously in it and ensure
that all but the lower 128 bits of the registers are zeroed while
preserving the state of ZA. This follows the aarch64 PCS for SME, ZA
state is preserved over a function call and streaming mode is exited.
Since the traps for SME do not distinguish between streaming mode SVE
and ZA usage if ZA is in use rather than reenabling traps we instead
zero the parts of the SVE registers not shared with FPSIMD and leave SME
enabled, this simplifies handling SME traps. If ZA is not in use then we
reenable SME traps and fall through to normal handling of SVE.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220419112247.711548-17-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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By default all SME operations in userspace will trap.  When this happens
we allocate storage space for the SME register state, set up the SVE
registers and disable traps.  We do not need to initialize ZA since the
architecture guarantees that it will be zeroed when enabled and when we
trap ZA is disabled.

On syscall we exit streaming mode if we were previously in it and ensure
that all but the lower 128 bits of the registers are zeroed while
preserving the state of ZA. This follows the aarch64 PCS for SME, ZA
state is preserved over a function call and streaming mode is exited.
Since the traps for SME do not distinguish between streaming mode SVE
and ZA usage if ZA is in use rather than reenabling traps we instead
zero the parts of the SVE registers not shared with FPSIMD and leave SME
enabled, this simplifies handling SME traps. If ZA is not in use then we
reenable SME traps and fall through to normal handling of SVE.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220419112247.711548-17-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Snapshot thread flags</title>
<updated>2021-11-30T23:06:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-29T13:06:48+00:00</published>
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Some thread flags can be set remotely, and so even when IRQs are disabled,
the flags can change under our feet. Generally this is unlikely to cause a
problem in practice, but it is somewhat unsound, and KCSAN will
legitimately warn that there is a data race.

To avoid such issues, a snapshot of the flags has to be taken prior to
using them. Some places already use READ_ONCE() for that, others do not.

Convert them all to the new flag accessor helpers.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130653.2037928-7-mark.rutland@arm.com

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<pre>
Some thread flags can be set remotely, and so even when IRQs are disabled,
the flags can change under our feet. Generally this is unlikely to cause a
problem in practice, but it is somewhat unsound, and KCSAN will
legitimately warn that there is a data race.

To avoid such issues, a snapshot of the flags has to be taken prior to
using them. Some places already use READ_ONCE() for that, others do not.

Convert them all to the new flag accessor helpers.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130653.2037928-7-mark.rutland@arm.com

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: fix compat syscall return truncation</title>
<updated>2021-08-03T09:35:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-02T10:42:00+00:00</published>
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Due to inconsistencies in the way we manipulate compat GPRs, we have a
few issues today:

* For audit and tracing, where error codes are handled as a (native)
  long, negative error codes are expected to be sign-extended to the
  native 64-bits, or they may fail to be matched correctly. Thus a
  syscall which fails with an error may erroneously be identified as
  failing.

* For ptrace, *all* compat return values should be sign-extended for
  consistency with 32-bit arm, but we currently only do this for
  negative return codes.

* As we may transiently set the upper 32 bits of some compat GPRs while
  in the kernel, these can be sampled by perf, which is somewhat
  confusing. This means that where a syscall returns a pointer above 2G,
  this will be sign-extended, but will not be mistaken for an error as
  error codes are constrained to the inclusive range [-4096, -1] where
  no user pointer can exist.

To fix all of these, we must consistently use helpers to get/set the
compat GPRs, ensuring that we never write the upper 32 bits of the
return code, and always sign-extend when reading the return code.  This
patch does so, with the following changes:

* We re-organise syscall_get_return_value() to always sign-extend for
  compat tasks, and reimplement syscall_get_error() atop. We update
  syscall_trace_exit() to use syscall_get_return_value().

* We consistently use syscall_set_return_value() to set the return
  value, ensureing the upper 32 bits are never set unexpectedly.

* As the core audit code currently uses regs_return_value() rather than
  syscall_get_return_value(), we special-case this for
  compat_user_mode(regs) such that this will do the right thing. Going
  forward, we should try to move the core audit code over to
  syscall_get_return_value().

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: He Zhe &lt;zhe.he@windriver.com&gt;
Reported-by: weiyuchen &lt;weiyuchen3@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210802104200.21390-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Due to inconsistencies in the way we manipulate compat GPRs, we have a
few issues today:

* For audit and tracing, where error codes are handled as a (native)
  long, negative error codes are expected to be sign-extended to the
  native 64-bits, or they may fail to be matched correctly. Thus a
  syscall which fails with an error may erroneously be identified as
  failing.

* For ptrace, *all* compat return values should be sign-extended for
  consistency with 32-bit arm, but we currently only do this for
  negative return codes.

* As we may transiently set the upper 32 bits of some compat GPRs while
  in the kernel, these can be sampled by perf, which is somewhat
  confusing. This means that where a syscall returns a pointer above 2G,
  this will be sign-extended, but will not be mistaken for an error as
  error codes are constrained to the inclusive range [-4096, -1] where
  no user pointer can exist.

To fix all of these, we must consistently use helpers to get/set the
compat GPRs, ensuring that we never write the upper 32 bits of the
return code, and always sign-extend when reading the return code.  This
patch does so, with the following changes:

* We re-organise syscall_get_return_value() to always sign-extend for
  compat tasks, and reimplement syscall_get_error() atop. We update
  syscall_trace_exit() to use syscall_get_return_value().

* We consistently use syscall_set_return_value() to set the return
  value, ensureing the upper 32 bits are never set unexpectedly.

* As the core audit code currently uses regs_return_value() rather than
  syscall_get_return_value(), we special-case this for
  compat_user_mode(regs) such that this will do the right thing. Going
  forward, we should try to move the core audit code over to
  syscall_get_return_value().

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: He Zhe &lt;zhe.he@windriver.com&gt;
Reported-by: weiyuchen &lt;weiyuchen3@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210802104200.21390-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: entry: Enable random_kstack_offset support</title>
<updated>2021-04-08T12:12:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-01T23:23:46+00:00</published>
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Allow for a randomized stack offset on a per-syscall basis, with roughly
5 bits of entropy. (And include AAPCS rationale AAPCS thanks to Mark
Rutland.)

In order to avoid unconditional stack canaries on syscall entry (due to
the use of alloca()), also disable stack protector to avoid triggering
needless checks and slowing down the entry path. As there is no general
way to control stack protector coverage with a function attribute[1],
this must be disabled at the compilation unit level. This isn't a problem
here, though, since stack protector was not triggered before: examining
the resulting syscall.o, there are no changes in canary coverage (none
before, none now).

[1] a working __attribute__((no_stack_protector)) has been added to GCC
and Clang but has not been released in any version yet:
https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=gcc.git;h=346b302d09c1e6db56d9fe69048acb32fbb97845
https://reviews.llvm.org/rG4fbf84c1732fca596ad1d6e96015e19760eb8a9b

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210401232347.2791257-6-keescook@chromium.org

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Allow for a randomized stack offset on a per-syscall basis, with roughly
5 bits of entropy. (And include AAPCS rationale AAPCS thanks to Mark
Rutland.)

In order to avoid unconditional stack canaries on syscall entry (due to
the use of alloca()), also disable stack protector to avoid triggering
needless checks and slowing down the entry path. As there is no general
way to control stack protector coverage with a function attribute[1],
this must be disabled at the compilation unit level. This isn't a problem
here, though, since stack protector was not triggered before: examining
the resulting syscall.o, there are no changes in canary coverage (none
before, none now).

[1] a working __attribute__((no_stack_protector)) has been added to GCC
and Clang but has not been released in any version yet:
https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=gcc.git;h=346b302d09c1e6db56d9fe69048acb32fbb97845
https://reviews.llvm.org/rG4fbf84c1732fca596ad1d6e96015e19760eb8a9b

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210401232347.2791257-6-keescook@chromium.org

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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: entry: consolidate Cortex-A76 erratum 1463225 workaround</title>
<updated>2021-02-08T17:39:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-02T12:03:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6459b8469753e9feaa8b34691d097cffad905931'/>
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The workaround for Cortex-A76 erratum 1463225 is split across the
syscall and debug handlers in separate files. This structure currently
forces us to do some redundant work for debug exceptions from EL0, is a
little difficult to follow, and gets in the way of some future rework of
the exception entry code as it requires exceptions to be unmasked late
in the syscall handling path.

To simplify things, and as a preparatory step for future rework of
exception entry, this patch moves all the workaround logic into
entry-common.c. As the debug handler only needs to run for EL1 debug
exceptions, we no longer call it for EL0 debug exceptions, and no longer
need to check user_mode(regs) as this is always false. For clarity
cortex_a76_erratum_1463225_debug_handler() is changed to return bool.

In the SVC path, the workaround is applied earlier, but this should have
no functional impact as exceptions are still masked. In the debug path
we run the fixup before explicitly disabling preemption, but we will not
attempt to preempt before returning from the exception.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210202120341.28858-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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The workaround for Cortex-A76 erratum 1463225 is split across the
syscall and debug handlers in separate files. This structure currently
forces us to do some redundant work for debug exceptions from EL0, is a
little difficult to follow, and gets in the way of some future rework of
the exception entry code as it requires exceptions to be unmasked late
in the syscall handling path.

To simplify things, and as a preparatory step for future rework of
exception entry, this patch moves all the workaround logic into
entry-common.c. As the debug handler only needs to run for EL1 debug
exceptions, we no longer call it for EL0 debug exceptions, and no longer
need to check user_mode(regs) as this is always false. For clarity
cortex_a76_erratum_1463225_debug_handler() is changed to return bool.

In the SVC path, the workaround is applied earlier, but this should have
no functional impact as exceptions are still masked. In the debug path
we run the fixup before explicitly disabling preemption, but we will not
attempt to preempt before returning from the exception.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210202120341.28858-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: syscall: include prototype for EL0 SVC functions</title>
<updated>2021-01-15T10:05:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-14T12:48:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b6d8878d24e39f213df0f3ea7abebd15edc7be21'/>
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The kbuild test robot reports that when building with W=1, GCC will warn
for a couple of missing prototypes in syscall.c:

|  arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:157:6: warning: no previous prototype for 'do_el0_svc' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
|    157 | void do_el0_svc(struct pt_regs *regs)
|        |      ^~~~~~~~~~
|  arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:164:6: warning: no previous prototype for 'do_el0_svc_compat' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
|    164 | void do_el0_svc_compat(struct pt_regs *regs)
|        |      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

While this isn't a functional problem, as a general policy we should
include the prototype for functions wherever possible to catch any
accidental divergence between the prototype and implementation. Here we
can easily include &lt;asm/exception.h&gt;, so let's do so.

While there are a number of warnings elsewhere and some warnings enabled
under W=1 are of questionable benefit, this change helps to make the
code more robust as it evolved and reduces the noise somewhat, so it
seems worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202101141046.n8iPO3mw-lkp@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210114124812.17754-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The kbuild test robot reports that when building with W=1, GCC will warn
for a couple of missing prototypes in syscall.c:

|  arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:157:6: warning: no previous prototype for 'do_el0_svc' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
|    157 | void do_el0_svc(struct pt_regs *regs)
|        |      ^~~~~~~~~~
|  arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:164:6: warning: no previous prototype for 'do_el0_svc_compat' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
|    164 | void do_el0_svc_compat(struct pt_regs *regs)
|        |      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

While this isn't a functional problem, as a general policy we should
include the prototype for functions wherever possible to catch any
accidental divergence between the prototype and implementation. Here we
can easily include &lt;asm/exception.h&gt;, so let's do so.

While there are a number of warnings elsewhere and some warnings enabled
under W=1 are of questionable benefit, this change helps to make the
code more robust as it evolved and reduces the noise somewhat, so it
seems worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202101141046.n8iPO3mw-lkp@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210114124812.17754-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: entry: remove redundant IRQ flag tracing</title>
<updated>2021-01-13T12:51:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-07T14:53:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=df06824767cc9a32fbdb0e3d3b7e169292a5b5fe'/>
<id>df06824767cc9a32fbdb0e3d3b7e169292a5b5fe</id>
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All EL0 returns go via ret_to_user(), which masks IRQs and notifies
lockdep and tracing before calling into do_notify_resume(). Therefore,
there's no need for do_notify_resume() to call trace_hardirqs_off(), and
the comment is stale. The call is simply redundant.

In ret_to_user() we call exit_to_user_mode(), which notifies lockdep and
tracing the IRQs will be enabled in userspace, so there's no need for
el0_svc_common() to call trace_hardirqs_on() before returning. Further,
at the start of ret_to_user() we call trace_hardirqs_off(), so not only
is this redundant, but it is immediately undone.

In addition to being redundant, the trace_hardirqs_on() in
el0_svc_common() leaves lockdep inconsistent with the hardware state,
and is liable to cause issues for any C code or instrumentation
between this and the call to trace_hardirqs_off() which undoes it in
ret_to_user().

This patch removes the redundant tracing calls and associated stale
comments.

Fixes: 23529049c684 ("arm64: entry: fix non-NMI user&lt;-&gt;kernel transitions")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210107145310.44616-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<pre>
All EL0 returns go via ret_to_user(), which masks IRQs and notifies
lockdep and tracing before calling into do_notify_resume(). Therefore,
there's no need for do_notify_resume() to call trace_hardirqs_off(), and
the comment is stale. The call is simply redundant.

In ret_to_user() we call exit_to_user_mode(), which notifies lockdep and
tracing the IRQs will be enabled in userspace, so there's no need for
el0_svc_common() to call trace_hardirqs_on() before returning. Further,
at the start of ret_to_user() we call trace_hardirqs_off(), so not only
is this redundant, but it is immediately undone.

In addition to being redundant, the trace_hardirqs_on() in
el0_svc_common() leaves lockdep inconsistent with the hardware state,
and is liable to cause issues for any C code or instrumentation
between this and the call to trace_hardirqs_off() which undoes it in
ret_to_user().

This patch removes the redundant tracing calls and associated stale
comments.

Fixes: 23529049c684 ("arm64: entry: fix non-NMI user&lt;-&gt;kernel transitions")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210107145310.44616-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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