linux-stable.git/arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c, branch v3.2.97

MIPS: Fix mips_atomic_set() retry condition

2017-10-12T14:27:11+00:00

commit 2ec420b26f7b6ff332393f0bb5a7d245f7ad87f0 upstream.

The inline asm retry check in the MIPS_ATOMIC_SET operation of the
sysmips system call has been backwards since commit f1e39a4a616c ("MIPS:
Rewrite sysmips(MIPS_ATOMIC_SET, ...) in C with inline assembler")
merged in v2.6.32, resulting in the non R10000_LLSC_WAR case retrying
until the operation was inatomic, before returning the new value that
was probably just written multiple times instead of the old value.

Invert the branch condition to fix that particular issue.

Fixes: f1e39a4a616c ("MIPS: Rewrite sysmips(MIPS_ATOMIC_SET, ...) in C with inline assembler")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16148/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

MIPS: Move arch_get_unmapped_area and gang to new file.

2011-05-19T08:55:49+00:00

It never really belonged into syscall.c and it's about to become well more
complex.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Cleanup arch_get_unmapped_area

2011-05-19T08:55:49+00:00

As noticed by Kevin Cernekee  in
http://www.linux-mips.org/cgi-bin/extract-mesg.cgi?a=linux-mips&m=2011-05&i=BANLkTikq04wuK%3Dbz%2BLieavmm3oDtoYWKxg%40mail.gmail.com

Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2387/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Remove unused code from arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c

2011-03-14T20:07:26+00:00

The variable arg3 in _sys_sysmips() is unused.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: David Daney 
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2034/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Clear the correct flag in sysmips(MIPS_FIXADE, ...).

2011-03-14T20:07:25+00:00

The sysmips(MIPS_FIXADE, ...) case contains an obvious copy-and-paste
error in the handling of the TIF_LOGADE flag. Fix that

Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1997/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer

2010-08-18T01:07:43+00:00

Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:

arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to.  This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel().  A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().

do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.

Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.

This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const

2010-08-13T23:53:13+00:00

Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't.  The list includes:

 (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
     syscalls and some mount syscalls.

 (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.

 (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

MIPS: Enable heap randomization.

2010-08-05T12:26:06+00:00

Based somewhat on the PPC implementation.

32-bit processes have the heap randomized in an 8MB space, 256MB for
64-bit processes.

Signed-off-by: David Daney 
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1479/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Randomize mmap if randomize_va_space is set

2010-08-05T12:26:05+00:00

Fairly straight forward: For 32-bit address spaces randomize within a
16MB space, for 64-bit within a 256MB space.

Signed-off-by: David Daney 
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1480/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Preliminary VDSO

2010-04-12T16:26:14+00:00

This is a preliminary patch to add a vdso to all user processes.  Still
missing are ELF headers and .eh_frame information.  But it is enough to
allow us to move signal trampolines off of the stack.  Note that emulation
of branch delay slots in the FPU emulator still requires the stack.

We allocate a single page (the vdso) and write all possible signal
trampolines into it.  The stack is moved down by one page and the vdso is
mapped into this space.

Signed-off-by: David Daney 
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/975/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle