linux-stable.git/arch/frv/kernel, branch v4.0

all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct

2015-02-13T02:54:12+00:00

If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target.  This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.

Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.

Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.

It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: David Miller 
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt 
Cc: Steven Miao 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Jesper Nilsson 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Richard Kuo 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman  (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman  (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Chen Liqin 
Cc: Lennox Wu 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

frv: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED

2014-10-10T02:26:03+00:00

Remove the IRQF_DISABLED flag from FRV architecture code.  It's a NOOP
since 2.6.35 and it will be removed one day.

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker 
Cc: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

frv: remove unused cpuinfo_frv and friends to fix future build error

2014-10-10T02:26:03+00:00

Frv has a macro named cpu_data, interfering with variables and struct
members with the same name:

include/linux/pm_domain.h:75:24: error: expected identifier or '('
before '&' token
  struct gpd_cpu_data *cpu_data;

As struct cpuinfo_frv, boot_cpu_data, cpu_data, and current_cpu_data are
not used, removed them to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Reported-by: kbuild test robot 
Cc: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

frv: Use sigsp()

2014-08-06T11:04:08+00:00

Use sigsp() instead of the open coded variant.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

frv: Use get_signal() signal_setup_done()

2014-08-06T11:02:13+00:00

Use the more generic functions get_signal() signal_setup_done()
for signal delivery.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

frv: delete __cpuinit usage from all frv files

2013-07-14T23:36:55+00:00

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

This removes all the arch/frv uses of the __cpuinit macros from
all C files.  Currently frv does not have any __CPUINIT used in
assembly files.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2013-07-04T18:40:58+00:00

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "The usual stuff from trivial tree"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  treewide: relase -> release
  Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt: fix stat file documentation
  sysctl/net.txt: delete reference to obsolete 2.4.x kernel
  spinlock_api_smp.h: fix preprocessor comments
  treewide: Fix typo in printk
  doc: device tree: clarify stuff in usage-model.txt.
  open firmware: "/aliasas" -> "/aliases"
  md: bcache: Fixed a typo with the word 'arithmetic'
  irq/generic-chip: fix a few kernel-doc entries
  frv: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  sgi: xpc: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  doc: clk: Fix incorrect wording
  Documentation/arm/IXP4xx fix a typo
  Documentation/networking/ieee802154 fix a typo
  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l fix a typo
  Documentation/video4linux/si476x.txt fix a typo
  Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt fix a typo
  Documentation/early-userspace/README fix a typo
  Documentation/video4linux/soc-camera.txt fix a typo
  lguest: fix CONFIG_PAE -> CONFIG_x86_PAE in comment
  ...

Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton)

2013-07-04T00:12:13+00:00

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - various misc bits
 - I'm been patchmonkeying ocfs2 for a while, as Joel and Mark have been
   distracted.  There has been quite a bit of activity.
 - About half the MM queue
 - Some backlight bits
 - Various lib/ updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - zillions more little rtc patches
 - ptrace
 - signals
 - exec
 - procfs
 - rapidio
 - nbd
 - aoe
 - pps
 - memstick
 - tools/testing/selftests updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (445 commits)
  tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts
  selftests: add .gitignore for kcmp
  selftests: fix clean target in kcmp Makefile
  selftests: add .gitignore for vm
  selftests: add hugetlbfstest
  self-test: fix make clean
  selftests: exit 1 on failure
  kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource
  aio: fix wrong comment in aio_complete()
  drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2408.c: add magic sequence to disable P0 test mode
  drivers/memstick/host/r592.c: convert to module_pci_driver
  drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms: convert to module_pci_driver
  pps-gpio: add device-tree binding and support
  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to module_platform_driver
  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to devm_* helpers
  drivers/parport/share.c: use kzalloc
  Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: avoid strncpy in accounting tool
  aoe: update internal version number to v83
  aoe: update copyright date
  aoe: perform I/O completions in parallel
  ...

arch/frv/kernel/setup.c: use strncmp() instead of memcmp()

2013-07-03T23:07:41+00:00

'cmdline' is a NUL terminated string, when its length < 4, memcmp()
will cause memory access out of boundary.

So use strncmp() instead of memcmp().

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang 
Cc: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

arch/frv/kernel/traps.c: using vsnprintf() instead of vsprintf()

2013-07-03T23:07:41+00:00

Since die_if_kernel() is an extern common used function, better always
check the buffer length to avoid memory overflow by a long 'str'.

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang 
Cc: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds