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<title>arm64: bpf: lift restriction on last instruction</title>
<updated>2015-01-08T18:30:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zi Shen Lim</name>
<email>zlim.lnx@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-03T08:38:01+00:00</published>
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commit 51c9fbb1b146f3336a93d398c439b6fbfe5ab489 upstream.

Earlier implementation assumed last instruction is BPF_EXIT.
Since this is no longer a restriction in eBPF, we remove this
limitation.

Per Alexei Starovoitov [1]:
&gt; classic BPF has a restriction that last insn is always BPF_RET.
&gt; eBPF doesn't have BPF_RET instruction and this restriction.
&gt; It has BPF_EXIT insn which can appear anywhere in the program
&gt; one or more times and it doesn't have to be last insn.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/27/2

Fixes: e54bcde3d69d ("arm64: eBPF JIT compiler")
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.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 51c9fbb1b146f3336a93d398c439b6fbfe5ab489 upstream.

Earlier implementation assumed last instruction is BPF_EXIT.
Since this is no longer a restriction in eBPF, we remove this
limitation.

Per Alexei Starovoitov [1]:
&gt; classic BPF has a restriction that last insn is always BPF_RET.
&gt; eBPF doesn't have BPF_RET instruction and this restriction.
&gt; It has BPF_EXIT insn which can appear anywhere in the program
&gt; one or more times and it doesn't have to be last insn.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/27/2

Fixes: e54bcde3d69d ("arm64: eBPF JIT compiler")
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.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>arm64: Add COMPAT_HWCAP_LPAE</title>
<updated>2015-01-08T18:30:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-17T10:37:40+00:00</published>
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commit 7d57511d2dba03a8046c8b428dd9192a4bfc1e73 upstream.

Commit a469abd0f868 (ARM: elf: add new hwcap for identifying atomic
ldrd/strd instructions) introduces HWCAP_ELF for 32-bit ARM
applications. As LPAE is always present on arm64, report the
corresponding compat HWCAP to user space.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.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 7d57511d2dba03a8046c8b428dd9192a4bfc1e73 upstream.

Commit a469abd0f868 (ARM: elf: add new hwcap for identifying atomic
ldrd/strd instructions) introduces HWCAP_ELF for 32-bit ARM
applications. As LPAE is always present on arm64, report the
corresponding compat HWCAP to user space.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.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>clocksource: arch_timer: Fix code to use physical timers when requested</title>
<updated>2015-01-08T18:30:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sonny Rao</name>
<email>sonnyrao@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-24T07:02:44+00:00</published>
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commit 0b46b8a718c6e90910a1b1b0fe797be3c167e186 upstream.

This is a bug fix for using physical arch timers when
the arch_timer_use_virtual boolean is false.  It restores the
arch_counter_get_cntpct() function after removal in

0d651e4e "clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters"

We need this on certain ARMv7 systems which are architected like this:

* The firmware doesn't know and doesn't care about hypervisor mode and
  we don't want to add the complexity of hypervisor there.

* The firmware isn't involved in SMP bringup or resume.

* The ARCH timer come up with an uninitialized offset between the
  virtual and physical counters.  Each core gets a different random
  offset.

* The device boots in "Secure SVC" mode.

* Nothing has touched the reset value of CNTHCTL.PL1PCEN or
  CNTHCTL.PL1PCTEN (both default to 1 at reset)

One example of such as system is RK3288 where it is much simpler to
use the physical counter since there's nobody managing the offset and
each time a core goes down and comes back up it will get reinitialized
to some other random value.

Fixes: 0d651e4e65e9 ("clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters")
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao &lt;sonnyrao@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0b46b8a718c6e90910a1b1b0fe797be3c167e186 upstream.

This is a bug fix for using physical arch timers when
the arch_timer_use_virtual boolean is false.  It restores the
arch_counter_get_cntpct() function after removal in

0d651e4e "clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters"

We need this on certain ARMv7 systems which are architected like this:

* The firmware doesn't know and doesn't care about hypervisor mode and
  we don't want to add the complexity of hypervisor there.

* The firmware isn't involved in SMP bringup or resume.

* The ARCH timer come up with an uninitialized offset between the
  virtual and physical counters.  Each core gets a different random
  offset.

* The device boots in "Secure SVC" mode.

* Nothing has touched the reset value of CNTHCTL.PL1PCEN or
  CNTHCTL.PL1PCTEN (both default to 1 at reset)

One example of such as system is RK3288 where it is much simpler to
use the physical counter since there's nobody managing the offset and
each time a core goes down and comes back up it will get reinitialized
to some other random value.

Fixes: 0d651e4e65e9 ("clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters")
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao &lt;sonnyrao@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>arm64: KVM: Handle traps of ICC_SRE_EL1 as RAZ/WI</title>
<updated>2014-11-26T13:40:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-19T11:23:54+00:00</published>
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When running on a system with a GICv3, we currenly don't allow the guest
to access the system register interface of the GICv3.  We do this by
clearing the ICC_SRE_EL2.Enable, which causes all guest accesses to
ICC_SRE_EL1 to trap to EL2 and causes all guest accesses to other ICC_
registers to cause an undefined exception in the guest.

However, we currently don't handle the trap of guest accesses to
ICC_SRE_EL1 and will spill out a warning.  The trap just needs to handle
the access as RAZ/WI, and a guest that tries to prod this register and
set ICC_SRE_EL1.SRE=1, must read back the value (which Linux already
does) to see if it succeeded, and will thus observe that ICC_SRE_EL1.SRE
was not set.

Add the simple trap handler in the sorted table of the system registers.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
[ardb: added cp15 handling]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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When running on a system with a GICv3, we currenly don't allow the guest
to access the system register interface of the GICv3.  We do this by
clearing the ICC_SRE_EL2.Enable, which causes all guest accesses to
ICC_SRE_EL1 to trap to EL2 and causes all guest accesses to other ICC_
registers to cause an undefined exception in the guest.

However, we currently don't handle the trap of guest accesses to
ICC_SRE_EL1 and will spill out a warning.  The trap just needs to handle
the access as RAZ/WI, and a guest that tries to prod this register and
set ICC_SRE_EL1.SRE=1, must read back the value (which Linux already
does) to see if it succeeded, and will thus observe that ICC_SRE_EL1.SRE
was not set.

Add the simple trap handler in the sorted table of the system registers.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
[ardb: added cp15 handling]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2014-11-14T22:24:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-14T22:24:33+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 fixes from Catalin Marinas:

 - fix EFI stub cache maintenance causing aborts during boot on certain
   platforms

 - handle byte stores in __clear_user without panicking

 - fix race condition in aarch64_insn_patch_text_sync() (instruction
   patching)

 - Couple of type fixes

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: ARCH_PFN_OFFSET should be unsigned long
  Correct the race condition in aarch64_insn_patch_text_sync()
  arm64: __clear_user: handle exceptions on strb
  arm64: Fix data type for physical address
  arm64: efi: Fix stub cache maintenance
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Pull arm64 fixes from Catalin Marinas:

 - fix EFI stub cache maintenance causing aborts during boot on certain
   platforms

 - handle byte stores in __clear_user without panicking

 - fix race condition in aarch64_insn_patch_text_sync() (instruction
   patching)

 - Couple of type fixes

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: ARCH_PFN_OFFSET should be unsigned long
  Correct the race condition in aarch64_insn_patch_text_sync()
  arm64: __clear_user: handle exceptions on strb
  arm64: Fix data type for physical address
  arm64: efi: Fix stub cache maintenance
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2014-11-14T01:54:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-14T01:54:08+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) sunhme driver lacks DMA mapping error checks, based upon a report by
    Meelis Roos.

 2) Fix memory leak in mvpp2 driver, from Sudip Mukherjee.

 3) DMA memory allocation sizes are wrong in systemport ethernet driver,
    fix from Florian Fainelli.

 4) Fix use after free in mac80211 defragmentation code, from Johannes
    Berg.

 5) Some networking uapi headers missing from Kbuild file, from Stephen
    Hemminger.

 6) TUN driver gets csum_start offset wrong when VLAN accel is enabled,
    and macvtap has a similar bug, from Herbert Xu.

 7) Adjust several tunneling drivers to set dev-&gt;iflink after registry,
    because registry sets that to -1 overwriting whatever we did.  From
    Steffen Klassert.

 8) Geneve forgets to set inner tunneling type, causing GSO segmentation
    to fail on some NICs.  From Jesse Gross.

 9) Fix several locking bugs in stmmac driver, from Fabrice Gasnier and
    Giuseppe CAVALLARO.

10) Fix spurious timeouts with NewReno on low traffic connections, from
    Marcelo Leitner.

11) Fix descriptor updates in enic driver, from Govindarajulu
    Varadarajan.

12) PPP calls bpf_prog_create() with locks held, which isn't kosher.
    Fix from Takashi Iwai.

13) Fix NULL deref in SCTP with malformed INIT packets, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

14) psock_fanout selftest accesses past the end of the mmap ring, fix
    from Shuah Khan.

15) Fix PTP timestamping for VLAN packets, from Richard Cochran.

16) netlink_unbind() calls in netlink pass wrong initial argument, from
    Hiroaki SHIMODA.

17) vxlan socket reuse accidently reuses a socket when the address
    family is different, so we have to explicitly check this, from
    Marcelo Lietner.

18) Fix missing include in nft_reject_bridge.c breaking the build on ppc
    and other architectures, from Guenter Roeck.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (75 commits)
  vxlan: Do not reuse sockets for a different address family
  smsc911x: power-up phydev before doing a software reset.
  lib: rhashtable - Remove weird non-ASCII characters from comments
  net/smsc911x: Fix delays in the PHY enable/disable routines
  net/smsc911x: Fix rare soft reset timeout issue due to PHY power-down mode
  netlink: Properly unbind in error conditions.
  net: ptp: fix time stamp matching logic for VLAN packets.
  cxgb4 : dcb open-lldp interop fixes
  selftests/net: psock_fanout seg faults in sock_fanout_read_ring()
  net: bcmgenet: apply MII configuration in bcmgenet_open()
  net: bcmgenet: connect and disconnect from the PHY state machine
  net: qualcomm: Fix dependency
  ixgbe: phy: fix uninitialized status in ixgbe_setup_phy_link_tnx
  net: phy: Correctly handle MII ioctl which changes autonegotiation.
  ipv6: fix IPV6_PKTINFO with v4 mapped
  net: sctp: fix memory leak in auth key management
  net: sctp: fix NULL pointer dereference in af-&gt;from_addr_param on malformed packet
  net: ppp: Don't call bpf_prog_create() in ppp_lock
  net/mlx4_en: Advertize encapsulation offloads features only when VXLAN tunnel is set
  cxgb4 : Fix bug in DCB app deletion
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) sunhme driver lacks DMA mapping error checks, based upon a report by
    Meelis Roos.

 2) Fix memory leak in mvpp2 driver, from Sudip Mukherjee.

 3) DMA memory allocation sizes are wrong in systemport ethernet driver,
    fix from Florian Fainelli.

 4) Fix use after free in mac80211 defragmentation code, from Johannes
    Berg.

 5) Some networking uapi headers missing from Kbuild file, from Stephen
    Hemminger.

 6) TUN driver gets csum_start offset wrong when VLAN accel is enabled,
    and macvtap has a similar bug, from Herbert Xu.

 7) Adjust several tunneling drivers to set dev-&gt;iflink after registry,
    because registry sets that to -1 overwriting whatever we did.  From
    Steffen Klassert.

 8) Geneve forgets to set inner tunneling type, causing GSO segmentation
    to fail on some NICs.  From Jesse Gross.

 9) Fix several locking bugs in stmmac driver, from Fabrice Gasnier and
    Giuseppe CAVALLARO.

10) Fix spurious timeouts with NewReno on low traffic connections, from
    Marcelo Leitner.

11) Fix descriptor updates in enic driver, from Govindarajulu
    Varadarajan.

12) PPP calls bpf_prog_create() with locks held, which isn't kosher.
    Fix from Takashi Iwai.

13) Fix NULL deref in SCTP with malformed INIT packets, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

14) psock_fanout selftest accesses past the end of the mmap ring, fix
    from Shuah Khan.

15) Fix PTP timestamping for VLAN packets, from Richard Cochran.

16) netlink_unbind() calls in netlink pass wrong initial argument, from
    Hiroaki SHIMODA.

17) vxlan socket reuse accidently reuses a socket when the address
    family is different, so we have to explicitly check this, from
    Marcelo Lietner.

18) Fix missing include in nft_reject_bridge.c breaking the build on ppc
    and other architectures, from Guenter Roeck.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (75 commits)
  vxlan: Do not reuse sockets for a different address family
  smsc911x: power-up phydev before doing a software reset.
  lib: rhashtable - Remove weird non-ASCII characters from comments
  net/smsc911x: Fix delays in the PHY enable/disable routines
  net/smsc911x: Fix rare soft reset timeout issue due to PHY power-down mode
  netlink: Properly unbind in error conditions.
  net: ptp: fix time stamp matching logic for VLAN packets.
  cxgb4 : dcb open-lldp interop fixes
  selftests/net: psock_fanout seg faults in sock_fanout_read_ring()
  net: bcmgenet: apply MII configuration in bcmgenet_open()
  net: bcmgenet: connect and disconnect from the PHY state machine
  net: qualcomm: Fix dependency
  ixgbe: phy: fix uninitialized status in ixgbe_setup_phy_link_tnx
  net: phy: Correctly handle MII ioctl which changes autonegotiation.
  ipv6: fix IPV6_PKTINFO with v4 mapped
  net: sctp: fix memory leak in auth key management
  net: sctp: fix NULL pointer dereference in af-&gt;from_addr_param on malformed packet
  net: ppp: Don't call bpf_prog_create() in ppp_lock
  net/mlx4_en: Advertize encapsulation offloads features only when VXLAN tunnel is set
  cxgb4 : Fix bug in DCB app deletion
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arm64: ARCH_PFN_OFFSET should be unsigned long</title>
<updated>2014-11-13T15:21:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Neil Zhang</name>
<email>zhangwm@marvell.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-28T05:44:01+00:00</published>
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pfns are unsigned long, but PHYS_PFN_OFFSET is phys_addr_t. This leads
to page_to_pfn() returning phys_addr_t which cause type mismatches in
some print statements.

Signed-off-by: Neil Zhang &lt;zhangwm@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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pfns are unsigned long, but PHYS_PFN_OFFSET is phys_addr_t. This leads
to page_to_pfn() returning phys_addr_t which cause type mismatches in
some print statements.

Signed-off-by: Neil Zhang &lt;zhangwm@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Correct the race condition in aarch64_insn_patch_text_sync()</title>
<updated>2014-11-13T15:21:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>William Cohen</name>
<email>wcohen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-11T14:41:27+00:00</published>
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When experimenting with patches to provide kprobes support for aarch64
smp machines would hang when inserting breakpoints into kernel code.
The hangs were caused by a race condition in the code called by
aarch64_insn_patch_text_sync().  The first processor in the
aarch64_insn_patch_text_cb() function would patch the code while other
processors were still entering the function and incrementing the
cpu_count field.  This resulted in some processors never observing the
exit condition and exiting the function.  Thus, processors in the
system hung.

The first processor to enter the patching function performs the
patching and signals that the patching is complete with an increment
of the cpu_count field. When all the processors have incremented the
cpu_count field the cpu_count will be num_cpus_online()+1 and they
will return to normal execution.

Fixes: ae16480785de arm64: introduce interfaces to hotpatch kernel and module code
Signed-off-by: William Cohen &lt;wcohen@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-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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When experimenting with patches to provide kprobes support for aarch64
smp machines would hang when inserting breakpoints into kernel code.
The hangs were caused by a race condition in the code called by
aarch64_insn_patch_text_sync().  The first processor in the
aarch64_insn_patch_text_cb() function would patch the code while other
processors were still entering the function and incrementing the
cpu_count field.  This resulted in some processors never observing the
exit condition and exiting the function.  Thus, processors in the
system hung.

The first processor to enter the patching function performs the
patching and signals that the patching is complete with an increment
of the cpu_count field. When all the processors have incremented the
cpu_count field the cpu_count will be num_cpus_online()+1 and they
will return to normal execution.

Fixes: ae16480785de arm64: introduce interfaces to hotpatch kernel and module code
Signed-off-by: William Cohen &lt;wcohen@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-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>
<title>arm64: __clear_user: handle exceptions on strb</title>
<updated>2014-11-13T15:21:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kyle McMartin</name>
<email>kyle@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-12T21:07:44+00:00</published>
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ARM64 currently doesn't fix up faults on the single-byte (strb) case of
__clear_user... which means that we can cause a nasty kernel panic as an
ordinary user with any multiple PAGE_SIZE+1 read from /dev/zero.
i.e.: dd if=/dev/zero of=foo ibs=1 count=1 (or ibs=65537, etc.)

This is a pretty obscure bug in the general case since we'll only
__do_kernel_fault (since there's no extable entry for pc) if the
mmap_sem is contended. However, with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM enabled, we'll
always fault.

if (!down_read_trylock(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem)) {
	if (!user_mode(regs) &amp;&amp; !search_exception_tables(regs-&gt;pc))
		goto no_context;
retry:
	down_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);
} else {
	/*
	 * The above down_read_trylock() might have succeeded in
	 * which
	 * case, we'll have missed the might_sleep() from
	 * down_read().
	 */
	might_sleep();
	if (!user_mode(regs) &amp;&amp; !search_exception_tables(regs-&gt;pc))
		goto no_context;
}

Fix that by adding an extable entry for the strb instruction, since it
touches user memory, similar to the other stores in __clear_user.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Miloš Prchlík &lt;mprchlik@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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ARM64 currently doesn't fix up faults on the single-byte (strb) case of
__clear_user... which means that we can cause a nasty kernel panic as an
ordinary user with any multiple PAGE_SIZE+1 read from /dev/zero.
i.e.: dd if=/dev/zero of=foo ibs=1 count=1 (or ibs=65537, etc.)

This is a pretty obscure bug in the general case since we'll only
__do_kernel_fault (since there's no extable entry for pc) if the
mmap_sem is contended. However, with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM enabled, we'll
always fault.

if (!down_read_trylock(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem)) {
	if (!user_mode(regs) &amp;&amp; !search_exception_tables(regs-&gt;pc))
		goto no_context;
retry:
	down_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);
} else {
	/*
	 * The above down_read_trylock() might have succeeded in
	 * which
	 * case, we'll have missed the might_sleep() from
	 * down_read().
	 */
	might_sleep();
	if (!user_mode(regs) &amp;&amp; !search_exception_tables(regs-&gt;pc))
		goto no_context;
}

Fix that by adding an extable entry for the strb instruction, since it
touches user memory, similar to the other stores in __clear_user.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Miloš Prchlík &lt;mprchlik@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Fix data type for physical address</title>
<updated>2014-11-13T14:58:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Min-Hua Chen</name>
<email>orca.chen@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-08T15:45:59+00:00</published>
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Use phys_addr_t for physical address in alloc_init_pud. Although
phys_addr_t and unsigned long are 64 bit in arm64, it is better
to use phys_addr_t to describe physical addresses.

Signed-off-by: Min-Hua Chen &lt;orca.chen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Use phys_addr_t for physical address in alloc_init_pud. Although
phys_addr_t and unsigned long are 64 bit in arm64, it is better
to use phys_addr_t to describe physical addresses.

Signed-off-by: Min-Hua Chen &lt;orca.chen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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