linux-stable.git/arch/ia64/include, branch linux-4.7.y

ia64: copy_from_user() should zero the destination on access_ok() failure

2016-09-24T08:09:40+00:00

commit a5e541f796f17228793694d64b507f5f57db4cd7 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators

2016-06-24T22:09:37+00:00

We've had the thread info allocated together with the thread stack for
most architectures for a long time (since the thread_info was split off
from the task struct), but that is about to change.

But the patches that move the thread info to be off-stack (and a part of
the task struct instead) made it clear how confused the allocator and
freeing functions are.

Because the common case was that we share an allocation with the thread
stack and the thread_info, the two pointers were identical.  That
identity then meant that we would have things like

	ti = alloc_thread_info_node(tsk, node);
	...
	tsk->stack = ti;

which certainly _worked_ (since stack and thread_info have the same
value), but is rather confusing: why are we assigning a thread_info to
the stack? And if we move the thread_info away, the "confusing" code
just gets to be entirely bogus.

So remove all this confusion, and make it clear that we are doing the
stack allocation by renaming and clarifying the function names to be
about the stack.  The fact that the thread_info then shares the
allocation is an implementation detail, and not really about the
allocation itself.

This is a pure renaming and type fix: we pass in the same pointer, it's
just that we clarify what the pointer means.

The ia64 code that actually only has one single allocation (for all of
task_struct, thread_info and kernel thread stack) now looks a bit odd,
but since "tsk->stack" is actually not even used there, that oddity
doesn't matter.  It would be a separate thing to clean that up, I
intentionally left the ia64 changes as a pure brute-force renaming and
type change.

Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2016-05-18T00:05:30+00:00

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (21 commits)
  gitignore: fix wording
  mfd: ab8500-debugfs: fix "between" in printk
  memstick: trivial fix of spelling mistake on management
  cpupowerutils: bench: fix "average"
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  IB/mlx4: printk fix
  pinctrl: sirf/atlas7: fix printk spelling
  serial: mctrl_gpio: Grammar s/lines GPIOs/line GPIOs/, /sets/set/
  w1: comment spelling s/minmum/minimum/
  Blackfin: comment spelling s/divsor/divisor/
  metag: Fix misspellings in comments.
  ia64: Fix misspellings in comments.
  hexagon: Fix misspellings in comments.
  tools/perf: Fix misspellings in comments.
  cris: Fix misspellings in comments.
  c6x: Fix misspellings in comments.
  blackfin: Fix misspelling of 'register' in comment.
  avr32: Fix misspelling of 'definitions' in comment.
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  Doc: treewide : Fix typos in DocBook/filesystem.xml
  ...

Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2016-05-16T22:15:17+00:00

Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - MSR access API fixes and enhancements (Andy Lutomirski)

   - early exception handling improvements (Andy Lutomirski)

   - user-space FS/GS prctl usage fixes and improvements (Andy
     Lutomirski)

   - Remove the cpu_has_*() APIs and replace them with equivalents
     (Borislav Petkov)

   - task switch micro-optimization (Brian Gerst)

   - 32-bit entry code simplification (Denys Vlasenko)

   - enhance PAT handling in enumated CPUs (Toshi Kani)

  ... and lots of other cleanups/fixlets"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits)
  x86/arch_prctl/64: Restore accidentally removed put_cpu() in ARCH_SET_GS
  x86/entry/32: Remove asmlinkage_protect()
  x86/entry/32: Remove GET_THREAD_INFO() from entry code
  x86/entry, sched/x86: Don't save/restore EFLAGS on task switch
  x86/asm/entry/32: Simplify pushes of zeroed pt_regs->REGs
  selftests/x86/ldt_gdt: Test set_thread_area() deletion of an active segment
  x86/tls: Synchronize segment registers in set_thread_area()
  x86/asm/64: Rename thread_struct's fs and gs to fsbase and gsbase
  x86/arch_prctl/64: Remove FSBASE/GSBASE < 4G optimization
  x86/segments/64: When load_gs_index fails, clear the base
  x86/segments/64: When loadsegment(fs, ...) fails, clear the base
  x86/asm: Make asm/alternative.h safe from assembly
  x86/asm: Stop depending on ptrace.h in alternative.h
  x86/entry: Rename is_{ia32,x32}_task() to in_{ia32,x32}_syscall()
  x86/asm: Make sure verify_cpu() has a good stack
  x86/extable: Add a comment about early exception handlers
  x86/msr: Set the return value to zero when native_rdmsr_safe() fails
  x86/paravirt: Make "unsafe" MSR accesses unsafe even if PARAVIRT=y
  x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}_msr()
  x86/msr: Carry on after a non-"safe" MSR access fails
  ...

ia64: Fix misspellings in comments.

2016-04-18T10:45:54+00:00

Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

locking/rwsem, ia64: Provide __down_write_killable()

2016-04-13T08:42:21+00:00

Introduce ___down_write() for the fast path and reuse it for __down_write()
resp. __down_write_killable() each using the respective generic slow path
(rwsem_down_write_failed() resp. rwsem_down_write_failed_killable()).

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Signed-off-by: Jason Low 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460041951-22347-9-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/cpufeature: Remove cpu_has_x2apic

2016-03-31T11:35:08+00:00

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Tony Luck 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459266123-21878-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

[IA64] Enable preadv2 and pwritev2 syscalls for ia64

2016-03-25T21:37:32+00:00

New system calls added in:
      f17d8b35452cab31a70d224964cd583fb2845449
      vfs: vfs: Define new syscalls preadv2,pwritev2

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

ia64/extable: use generic search and sort routines

2016-03-22T22:36:02+00:00

Replace the arch specific versions of search_extable() and
sort_extable() with calls to the generic ones, which now support
relative exception tables as well.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Acked-by: Tony Luck 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2016-03-21T02:08:56+00:00

Pull x86 protection key support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds support for a new memory protection hardware feature
  that is available in upcoming Intel CPUs: 'protection keys' (pkeys).

  There's a background article at LWN.net:

      https://lwn.net/Articles/643797/

  The gist is that protection keys allow the encoding of
  user-controllable permission masks in the pte.  So instead of having a
  fixed protection mask in the pte (which needs a system call to change
  and works on a per page basis), the user can map a (handful of)
  protection mask variants and can change the masks runtime relatively
  cheaply, without having to change every single page in the affected
  virtual memory range.

  This allows the dynamic switching of the protection bits of large
  amounts of virtual memory, via user-space instructions.  It also
  allows more precise control of MMU permission bits: for example the
  executable bit is separate from the read bit (see more about that
  below).

  This tree adds the MM infrastructure and low level x86 glue needed for
  that, plus it adds a high level API to make use of protection keys -
  if a user-space application calls:

        mmap(..., PROT_EXEC);

  or

        mprotect(ptr, sz, PROT_EXEC);

  (note PROT_EXEC-only, without PROT_READ/WRITE), the kernel will notice
  this special case, and will set a special protection key on this
  memory range.  It also sets the appropriate bits in the Protection
  Keys User Rights (PKRU) register so that the memory becomes unreadable
  and unwritable.

  So using protection keys the kernel is able to implement 'true'
  PROT_EXEC on x86 CPUs: without protection keys PROT_EXEC implies
  PROT_READ as well.  Unreadable executable mappings have security
  advantages: they cannot be read via information leaks to figure out
  ASLR details, nor can they be scanned for ROP gadgets - and they
  cannot be used by exploits for data purposes either.

  We know about no user-space code that relies on pure PROT_EXEC
  mappings today, but binary loaders could start making use of this new
  feature to map binaries and libraries in a more secure fashion.

  There is other pending pkeys work that offers more high level system
  call APIs to manage protection keys - but those are not part of this
  pull request.

  Right now there's a Kconfig that controls this feature
  (CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS) that is default enabled
  (like most x86 CPU feature enablement code that has no runtime
  overhead), but it's not user-configurable at the moment.  If there's
  any serious problem with this then we can make it configurable and/or
  flip the default"

* 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix mismerge of protection keys CPUID bits
  mm/pkeys: Fix siginfo ABI breakage caused by new u64 field
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix access_error() denial of writes to write-only VMA
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add execute-only protection keys support
  x86/mm/pkeys: Create an x86 arch_calc_vm_prot_bits() for VMA flags
  x86/mm/pkeys: Allow kernel to modify user pkey rights register
  x86/fpu: Allow setting of XSAVE state
  x86/mm: Factor out LDT init from context init
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add arch_validate_pkey()
  mm/core, arch, powerpc: Pass a protection key in to calc_vm_flag_bits()
  x86/mm/pkeys: Actually enable Memory Protection Keys in the CPU
  x86/mm/pkeys: Add Kconfig prompt to existing config option
  x86/mm/pkeys: Dump pkey from VMA in /proc/pid/smaps
  x86/mm/pkeys: Dump PKRU with other kernel registers
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Differentiate instruction fetches
  x86/mm/pkeys: Optimize fault handling in access_error()
  mm/core: Do not enforce PKEY permissions on remote mm access
  um, pkeys: Add UML arch_*_access_permitted() methods
  mm/gup, x86/mm/pkeys: Check VMAs and PTEs for protection keys
  x86/mm/gup: Simplify get_user_pages() PTE bit handling
  ...