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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>parisc: Rename LEVEL to PA_ASM_LEVEL to avoid name clash with DRBD code</title>
<updated>2019-05-25T16:22:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-05T21:54:34+00:00</published>
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commit 1829dda0e87f4462782ca81be474c7890efe31ce upstream.

LEVEL is a very common word, and now after many years it suddenly
clashed with another LEVEL define in the DRBD code.
Rename it to PA_ASM_LEVEL instead.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1829dda0e87f4462782ca81be474c7890efe31ce upstream.

LEVEL is a very common word, and now after many years it suddenly
clashed with another LEVEL define in the DRBD code.
Rename it to PA_ASM_LEVEL instead.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Add memory barrier to asm pdc and sync instructions</title>
<updated>2019-05-25T16:21:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-27T21:57:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=62c78938e3ee3de18de59550eb20f3e18b0143c0'/>
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commit 2d94a832e246ac00fd32eec241e6f1aa6fbc5700 upstream.

Add compiler memory barriers to ensure the compiler doesn't reorder memory
operations around these instructions.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+
Fixes: 3847dab77421 ("parisc: Add alternative coding infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2d94a832e246ac00fd32eec241e6f1aa6fbc5700 upstream.

Add compiler memory barriers to ensure the compiler doesn't reorder memory
operations around these instructions.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+
Fixes: 3847dab77421 ("parisc: Add alternative coding infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Add memory clobber to TLB purges</title>
<updated>2019-05-25T16:21:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-21T23:47:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f4a05c586c3adabd48de69734cb7d78daa32c9ec'/>
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commit 44224bdb99150ad17cf394973b25736cb92c246a upstream.

The pdtlb and pitlb instructions are strongly ordered. The asms invoking
these instructions should be compiler memory barriers to ensure the
compiler doesn't reorder memory operations around these instructions.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+
Fixes: 3847dab77421 ("parisc: Add alternative coding infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 44224bdb99150ad17cf394973b25736cb92c246a upstream.

The pdtlb and pitlb instructions are strongly ordered. The asms invoking
these instructions should be compiler memory barriers to ensure the
compiler doesn't reorder memory operations around these instructions.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+
Fixes: 3847dab77421 ("parisc: Add alternative coding infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: also set iaoq_b in instruction_pointer_set()</title>
<updated>2019-04-17T06:39:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sven Schnelle</name>
<email>svens@stackframe.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-04T16:16:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b4dfbd47a494b634801f6186def12705926bce6b'/>
<id>b4dfbd47a494b634801f6186def12705926bce6b</id>
<content type='text'>
commit f324fa58327791b2696628b31480e7e21c745706 upstream.

When setting the instruction pointer on PA-RISC we also need
to set the back of the instruction queue to the new offset, otherwise
we will execute on instruction from the new location, and jumping
back to the old location stored in iaoq_b.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@stackframe.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Fixes: 75ebedf1d263 ("parisc: Add HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API feature")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f324fa58327791b2696628b31480e7e21c745706 upstream.

When setting the instruction pointer on PA-RISC we also need
to set the back of the instruction queue to the new offset, otherwise
we will execute on instruction from the new location, and jumping
back to the old location stored in iaoq_b.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@stackframe.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Fixes: 75ebedf1d263 ("parisc: Add HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API feature")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: regs_return_value() should return gpr28</title>
<updated>2019-04-17T06:39:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sven Schnelle</name>
<email>svens@stackframe.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-04T16:16:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=97ba69f226653e8818c424f9cbeaeae1bc58d332'/>
<id>97ba69f226653e8818c424f9cbeaeae1bc58d332</id>
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commit 45efd871bf0a47648f119d1b41467f70484de5bc upstream.

While working on kretprobes for PA-RISC I was wondering while the
kprobes sanity test always fails on kretprobes. This is caused by
returning gpr20 instead of gpr28.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@stackframe.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 45efd871bf0a47648f119d1b41467f70484de5bc upstream.

While working on kretprobes for PA-RISC I was wondering while the
kprobes sanity test always fails on kretprobes. This is caused by
returning gpr20 instead of gpr28.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@stackframe.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2019-01-05T17:16:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-05T17:16:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a65981109f294ba7e64b33ad3b4575a4636fce66'/>
<id>a65981109f294ba7e64b33ad3b4575a4636fce66</id>
<content type='text'>
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - procfs updates

 - various misc bits

 - lib/ updates

 - epoll updates

 - autofs

 - fatfs

 - a few more MM bits

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (58 commits)
  mm/page_io.c: fix polled swap page in
  checkpatch: add Co-developed-by to signature tags
  docs: fix Co-Developed-by docs
  drivers/base/platform.c: kmemleak ignore a known leak
  fs: don't open code lru_to_page()
  fs/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  mm/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  arch/arc/mm/fault.c: remove caller signal_pending_branch predictions
  kernel/sched/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  kernel/locking/mutex.c: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  mm: select HAVE_MOVE_PMD on x86 for faster mremap
  mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions
  mm: treewide: remove unused address argument from pte_alloc functions
  initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs
  scripts/gdb: fix lx-version string output
  kernel/kcov.c: mark write_comp_data() as notrace
  kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl
  panic: add options to print system info when panic happens
  bfs: extra sanity checking and static inode bitmap
  exec: separate MM_ANONPAGES and RLIMIT_STACK accounting
  ...
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<pre>
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - procfs updates

 - various misc bits

 - lib/ updates

 - epoll updates

 - autofs

 - fatfs

 - a few more MM bits

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (58 commits)
  mm/page_io.c: fix polled swap page in
  checkpatch: add Co-developed-by to signature tags
  docs: fix Co-Developed-by docs
  drivers/base/platform.c: kmemleak ignore a known leak
  fs: don't open code lru_to_page()
  fs/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  mm/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  arch/arc/mm/fault.c: remove caller signal_pending_branch predictions
  kernel/sched/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  kernel/locking/mutex.c: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  mm: select HAVE_MOVE_PMD on x86 for faster mremap
  mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions
  mm: treewide: remove unused address argument from pte_alloc functions
  initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs
  scripts/gdb: fix lx-version string output
  kernel/kcov.c: mark write_comp_data() as notrace
  kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl
  panic: add options to print system info when panic happens
  bfs: extra sanity checking and static inode bitmap
  exec: separate MM_ANONPAGES and RLIMIT_STACK accounting
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: treewide: remove unused address argument from pte_alloc functions</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T21:13:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Fernandes (Google)</name>
<email>joel@joelfernandes.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T23:28:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4cf58924951ef80eec636b863e7a53973c44261a'/>
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<content type='text'>
Patch series "Add support for fast mremap".

This series speeds up the mremap(2) syscall by copying page tables at
the PMD level even for non-THP systems.  There is concern that the extra
'address' argument that mremap passes to pte_alloc may do something
subtle architecture related in the future that may make the scheme not
work.  Also we find that there is no point in passing the 'address' to
pte_alloc since its unused.  This patch therefore removes this argument
tree-wide resulting in a nice negative diff as well.  Also ensuring
along the way that the enabled architectures do not do anything funky
with the 'address' argument that goes unnoticed by the optimization.

Build and boot tested on x86-64.  Build tested on arm64.  The config
enablement patch for arm64 will be posted in the future after more
testing.

The changes were obtained by applying the following Coccinelle script.
(thanks Julia for answering all Coccinelle questions!).
Following fix ups were done manually:
* Removal of address argument from  pte_fragment_alloc
* Removal of pte_alloc_one_fast definitions from m68k and microblaze.

// Options: --include-headers --no-includes
// Note: I split the 'identifier fn' line, so if you are manually
// running it, please unsplit it so it runs for you.

virtual patch

@pte_alloc_func_def depends on patch exists@
identifier E2;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
type T2;
@@

 fn(...
- , T2 E2
 )
 { ... }

@pte_alloc_func_proto_noarg depends on patch exists@
type T1, T2, T3, T4;
identifier fn =~ "^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

(
- T3 fn(T1, T2);
+ T3 fn(T1);
|
- T3 fn(T1, T2, T4);
+ T3 fn(T1, T2);
)

@pte_alloc_func_proto depends on patch exists@
identifier E1, E2, E4;
type T1, T2, T3, T4;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

(
- T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2);
+ T3 fn(T1 E1);
|
- T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2, T4 E4);
+ T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2);
)

@pte_alloc_func_call depends on patch exists@
expression E2;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

 fn(...
-,  E2
 )

@pte_alloc_macro depends on patch exists@
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
identifier a, b, c;
expression e;
position p;
@@

(
- #define fn(a, b, c) e
+ #define fn(a, b) e
|
- #define fn(a, b) e
+ #define fn(a) e
)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108181201.88826-2-joelaf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: William Kucharski &lt;william.kucharski@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "Add support for fast mremap".

This series speeds up the mremap(2) syscall by copying page tables at
the PMD level even for non-THP systems.  There is concern that the extra
'address' argument that mremap passes to pte_alloc may do something
subtle architecture related in the future that may make the scheme not
work.  Also we find that there is no point in passing the 'address' to
pte_alloc since its unused.  This patch therefore removes this argument
tree-wide resulting in a nice negative diff as well.  Also ensuring
along the way that the enabled architectures do not do anything funky
with the 'address' argument that goes unnoticed by the optimization.

Build and boot tested on x86-64.  Build tested on arm64.  The config
enablement patch for arm64 will be posted in the future after more
testing.

The changes were obtained by applying the following Coccinelle script.
(thanks Julia for answering all Coccinelle questions!).
Following fix ups were done manually:
* Removal of address argument from  pte_fragment_alloc
* Removal of pte_alloc_one_fast definitions from m68k and microblaze.

// Options: --include-headers --no-includes
// Note: I split the 'identifier fn' line, so if you are manually
// running it, please unsplit it so it runs for you.

virtual patch

@pte_alloc_func_def depends on patch exists@
identifier E2;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
type T2;
@@

 fn(...
- , T2 E2
 )
 { ... }

@pte_alloc_func_proto_noarg depends on patch exists@
type T1, T2, T3, T4;
identifier fn =~ "^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

(
- T3 fn(T1, T2);
+ T3 fn(T1);
|
- T3 fn(T1, T2, T4);
+ T3 fn(T1, T2);
)

@pte_alloc_func_proto depends on patch exists@
identifier E1, E2, E4;
type T1, T2, T3, T4;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

(
- T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2);
+ T3 fn(T1 E1);
|
- T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2, T4 E4);
+ T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2);
)

@pte_alloc_func_call depends on patch exists@
expression E2;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

 fn(...
-,  E2
 )

@pte_alloc_macro depends on patch exists@
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
identifier a, b, c;
expression e;
position p;
@@

(
- #define fn(a, b, c) e
+ #define fn(a, b) e
|
- #define fn(a, b) e
+ #define fn(a) e
)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108181201.88826-2-joelaf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: William Kucharski &lt;william.kucharski@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fls: change parameter to unsigned int</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T21:13:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T23:26:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3fc2579e6f162fcff964f5aa01c8a29438ca5c05'/>
<id>3fc2579e6f162fcff964f5aa01c8a29438ca5c05</id>
<content type='text'>
When testing in userspace, UBSAN pointed out that shifting into the sign
bit is undefined behaviour.  It doesn't really make sense to ask for the
highest set bit of a negative value, so just turn the argument type into
an unsigned int.

Some architectures (eg ppc) already had it declared as an unsigned int,
so I don't expect too many problems.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105221117.31828-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
When testing in userspace, UBSAN pointed out that shifting into the sign
bit is undefined behaviour.  It doesn't really make sense to ask for the
highest set bit of a negative value, so just turn the argument type into
an unsigned int.

Some architectures (eg ppc) already had it declared as an unsigned int,
so I don't expect too many problems.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105221117.31828-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=96d4f267e40f9509e8a66e2b39e8b95655617693'/>
<id>96d4f267e40f9509e8a66e2b39e8b95655617693</id>
<content type='text'>
Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>parisc: generate uapi header and system call table files</title>
<updated>2018-12-10T07:26:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Firoz Khan</name>
<email>firoz.khan@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-19T06:34:36+00:00</published>
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System call table generation script must be run to gener-
ate unistd_32/64.h and syscall_table_32/64/c32.h files.
This patch will have changes which will invokes the script.

This patch will generate unistd_32/64.h and syscall_table-
_32/64/c32.h files by the syscall table generation script
invoked by parisc/Makefile and the generated files against
the removed files must be identical.

The generated uapi header file will be included in uapi/-
asm/unistd.h and generated system call table header file
will be included by kernel/syscall.S file.

Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan &lt;firoz.khan@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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System call table generation script must be run to gener-
ate unistd_32/64.h and syscall_table_32/64/c32.h files.
This patch will have changes which will invokes the script.

This patch will generate unistd_32/64.h and syscall_table-
_32/64/c32.h files by the syscall table generation script
invoked by parisc/Makefile and the generated files against
the removed files must be identical.

The generated uapi header file will be included in uapi/-
asm/unistd.h and generated system call table header file
will be included by kernel/syscall.S file.

Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan &lt;firoz.khan@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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