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<title>efi/arm64: Store Runtime Services revision</title>
<updated>2014-09-05T23:36:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Semen Protsenko</name>
<email>semen.protsenko@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-15T13:22:44+00:00</published>
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commit 6a7519e81321343165f89abb8b616df186d3e57a upstream.

"efi" global data structure contains "runtime_version" field which must
be assigned in order to use it later in Runtime Services virtual calls
(virt_efi_* functions).

Before this patch "runtime_version" was unassigned (0), so each
Runtime Service virtual call that checks revision would fail.

Signed-off-by: Semen Protsenko &lt;semen.protsenko@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6a7519e81321343165f89abb8b616df186d3e57a upstream.

"efi" global data structure contains "runtime_version" field which must
be assigned in order to use it later in Runtime Services virtual calls
(virt_efi_* functions).

Before this patch "runtime_version" was unassigned (0), so each
Runtime Service virtual call that checks revision would fail.

Signed-off-by: Semen Protsenko &lt;semen.protsenko@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>arm64: don't call break hooks for BRK exceptions from EL0</title>
<updated>2014-09-05T23:36:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-31T10:36:08+00:00</published>
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commit c878e0cff5c5e56b216951cbe75f7a3dd500a736 upstream.

Our break hooks are used to handle brk exceptions from kgdb (and potentially
kprobes if that code ever resurfaces), so don't bother calling them if
the BRK exception comes from userspace.

This prevents userspace from trapping to a kdb shell on systems where
kgdb is enabled and active.

Reported-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@osandov.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c878e0cff5c5e56b216951cbe75f7a3dd500a736 upstream.

Our break hooks are used to handle brk exceptions from kgdb (and potentially
kprobes if that code ever resurfaces), so don't bother calling them if
the BRK exception comes from userspace.

This prevents userspace from trapping to a kdb shell on systems where
kgdb is enabled and active.

Reported-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@osandov.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'efi-urgent' into x86/urgent</title>
<updated>2014-07-14T20:45:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-14T20:45:44+00:00</published>
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 * Remove a duplicate copy of linux_banner from the arm64 EFI stub
   which, apart from reducing code duplication also stops the arm64 stub
   being rebuilt every time make is invoked - Ard Biesheuvel

 * Fix the EFI fdt code to not report a boot error if UEFI is
   unavailable since booting without UEFI parameters is a valid use case
   for non-UEFI platforms - Catalin Marinas

 * Include a .bss section in the EFI boot stub PE/COFF headers to fix a
   memory corruption bug - Michael Brown

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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 * Remove a duplicate copy of linux_banner from the arm64 EFI stub
   which, apart from reducing code duplication also stops the arm64 stub
   being rebuilt every time make is invoked - Ard Biesheuvel

 * Fix the EFI fdt code to not report a boot error if UEFI is
   unavailable since booting without UEFI parameters is a valid use case
   for non-UEFI platforms - Catalin Marinas

 * Include a .bss section in the EFI boot stub PE/COFF headers to fix a
   memory corruption bug - Michael Brown

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efi/arm64: efistub: remove local copy of linux_banner</title>
<updated>2014-07-07T06:26:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-13T11:11:51+00:00</published>
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The shared efistub code for ARM and arm64 contains a local copy of
linux_banner, allowing it to be referenced from separate executables
such as the ARM decompressor. However, this introduces a dependency on
generated header files, causing unnecessary rebuilds of the stub itself
and, in case of arm64, vmlinux which contains it.

On arm64, the copy is not actually needed since we can reference the
original symbol directly, and as it turns out, there may be better ways
to deal with this for ARM as well, so let's remove it from the shared
code. If it still needs to be reintroduced for ARM later, it should live
under arch/arm anyway and not in shared code.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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The shared efistub code for ARM and arm64 contains a local copy of
linux_banner, allowing it to be referenced from separate executables
such as the ARM decompressor. However, this introduces a dependency on
generated header files, causing unnecessary rebuilds of the stub itself
and, in case of arm64, vmlinux which contains it.

On arm64, the copy is not actually needed since we can reference the
original symbol directly, and as it turns out, there may be better ways
to deal with this for ARM as well, so let's remove it from the shared
code. If it still needs to be reintroduced for ARM later, it should live
under arch/arm anyway and not in shared code.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: fix el2_setup check of CurrentEL</title>
<updated>2014-07-04T15:16:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-06T13:16:21+00:00</published>
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The CurrentEL system register reports the Current Exception Level
of the CPU. It doesn't say anything about the stack handling, and
yet we compare it to PSR_MODE_EL2t and PSR_MODE_EL2h.

It works by chance because PSR_MODE_EL2t happens to match the right
bits, but that's otherwise a very bad idea. Just check for the EL
value instead.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: fixed arch/arm64/kernel/efi-entry.S]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The CurrentEL system register reports the Current Exception Level
of the CPU. It doesn't say anything about the stack handling, and
yet we compare it to PSR_MODE_EL2t and PSR_MODE_EL2h.

It works by chance because PSR_MODE_EL2t happens to match the right
bits, but that's otherwise a very bad idea. Just check for the EL
value instead.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: fixed arch/arm64/kernel/efi-entry.S]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: ptrace: fix empty registers set in prstatus of aarch32 process core</title>
<updated>2014-06-18T11:41:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Victor Kamensky</name>
<email>victor.kamensky@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-03T18:21:30+00:00</published>
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Currently core file of aarch32 process prstatus note has empty
registers set. As result aarch32 core files create by V8 kernel are
not very useful.

It happens because compat_gpr_get and compat_gpr_set functions can
copy registers values to/from either kbuf or ubuf. ELF core file
collection function fill_thread_core_info calls compat_gpr_get
with kbuf set and ubuf set to 0. But current compat_gpr_get and
compat_gpr_set function handle copy to/from only ubuf case.

Fix is to handle kbuf and ubuf as two separate cases in similar
way as other functions like user_regset_copyout, user_regset_copyin do.

Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky &lt;victor.kamensky@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Currently core file of aarch32 process prstatus note has empty
registers set. As result aarch32 core files create by V8 kernel are
not very useful.

It happens because compat_gpr_get and compat_gpr_set functions can
copy registers values to/from either kbuf or ubuf. ELF core file
collection function fill_thread_core_info calls compat_gpr_get
with kbuf set and ubuf set to 0. But current compat_gpr_get and
compat_gpr_set function handle copy to/from only ubuf case.

Fix is to handle kbuf and ubuf as two separate cases in similar
way as other functions like user_regset_copyout, user_regset_copyin do.

Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky &lt;victor.kamensky@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: ptrace: change fs when passing kernel pointer to regset code</title>
<updated>2014-06-18T11:40:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-02T10:47:23+00:00</published>
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Our compat PTRACE_POKEUSR implementation simply passes the user data to
regset_copy_from_user after some simple range checking. Unfortunately,
the data in question has already been copied to the kernel stack by this
point, so the subsequent access_ok check fails and the ptrace request
returns -EFAULT. This causes problems tracing fork() with older versions
of strace.

This patch briefly changes the fs to KERNEL_DS, so that the access_ok
check passes even with a kernel address.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Our compat PTRACE_POKEUSR implementation simply passes the user data to
regset_copy_from_user after some simple range checking. Unfortunately,
the data in question has already been copied to the kernel stack by this
point, so the subsequent access_ok check fails and the ptrace request
returns -EFAULT. This causes problems tracing fork() with older versions
of strace.

This patch briefly changes the fs to KERNEL_DS, so that the access_ok
check passes even with a kernel address.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: ftrace: Fix comment typo 'CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST'</title>
<updated>2014-06-18T11:40:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Bolle</name>
<email>pebolle@tiscali.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-11T09:44:21+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Bug fix in stack alignment exception</title>
<updated>2014-06-18T11:40:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>ChiaHao</name>
<email>andy.jhshiu@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-12T14:32:33+00:00</published>
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The value of ESR has been stored into x1, and should be directly pass to
do_sp_pc_abort function, "MOV x1, x25" is an extra operation and do_sp_pc_abort
will get the wrong value of ESR.

Signed-off-by: ChiaHao &lt;andy.jhshiu@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
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The value of ESR has been stored into x1, and should be directly pass to
do_sp_pc_abort function, "MOV x1, x25" is an extra operation and do_sp_pc_abort
will get the wrong value of ESR.

Signed-off-by: ChiaHao &lt;andy.jhshiu@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-06T17:43:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-06T17:43:28+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 - Optimised assembly string/memory routines (based on the AArch64
   Cortex Strings library contributed to glibc but re-licensed under
   GPLv2)
 - Optimised crypto algorithms making use of the ARMv8 crypto extensions
   (together with kernel API for using FPSIMD instructions in interrupt
   context)
 - Ftrace support
 - CPU topology parsing from DT
 - ESR_EL1 (Exception Syndrome Register) exposed to user space signal
   handlers for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS (useful to emulation tools like Qemu)
 - 1GB section linear mapping if applicable
 - Barriers usage clean-up
 - Default pgprot clean-up

Conflicts as per Catalin.

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (57 commits)
  arm64: kernel: initialize broadcast hrtimer based clock event device
  arm64: ftrace: Add system call tracepoint
  arm64: ftrace: Add CALLER_ADDRx macros
  arm64: ftrace: Add dynamic ftrace support
  arm64: Add ftrace support
  ftrace: Add arm64 support to recordmcount
  arm64: Add 'notrace' attribute to unwind_frame() for ftrace
  arm64: add __ASSEMBLY__ in asm/insn.h
  arm64: Fix linker script entry point
  arm64: lib: Implement optimized string length routines
  arm64: lib: Implement optimized string compare routines
  arm64: lib: Implement optimized memcmp routine
  arm64: lib: Implement optimized memset routine
  arm64: lib: Implement optimized memmove routine
  arm64: lib: Implement optimized memcpy routine
  arm64: defconfig: enable a few more common/useful options in defconfig
  ftrace: Make CALLER_ADDRx macros more generic
  arm64: Fix deadlock scenario with smp_send_stop()
  arm64: Fix machine_shutdown() definition
  arm64: Support arch_irq_work_raise() via self IPIs
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 - Optimised assembly string/memory routines (based on the AArch64
   Cortex Strings library contributed to glibc but re-licensed under
   GPLv2)
 - Optimised crypto algorithms making use of the ARMv8 crypto extensions
   (together with kernel API for using FPSIMD instructions in interrupt
   context)
 - Ftrace support
 - CPU topology parsing from DT
 - ESR_EL1 (Exception Syndrome Register) exposed to user space signal
   handlers for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS (useful to emulation tools like Qemu)
 - 1GB section linear mapping if applicable
 - Barriers usage clean-up
 - Default pgprot clean-up

Conflicts as per Catalin.

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (57 commits)
  arm64: kernel: initialize broadcast hrtimer based clock event device
  arm64: ftrace: Add system call tracepoint
  arm64: ftrace: Add CALLER_ADDRx macros
  arm64: ftrace: Add dynamic ftrace support
  arm64: Add ftrace support
  ftrace: Add arm64 support to recordmcount
  arm64: Add 'notrace' attribute to unwind_frame() for ftrace
  arm64: add __ASSEMBLY__ in asm/insn.h
  arm64: Fix linker script entry point
  arm64: lib: Implement optimized string length routines
  arm64: lib: Implement optimized string compare routines
  arm64: lib: Implement optimized memcmp routine
  arm64: lib: Implement optimized memset routine
  arm64: lib: Implement optimized memmove routine
  arm64: lib: Implement optimized memcpy routine
  arm64: defconfig: enable a few more common/useful options in defconfig
  ftrace: Make CALLER_ADDRx macros more generic
  arm64: Fix deadlock scenario with smp_send_stop()
  arm64: Fix machine_shutdown() definition
  arm64: Support arch_irq_work_raise() via self IPIs
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