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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c, branch v6.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'random-6.1-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random</title>
<updated>2022-10-16T22:27:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-16T22:27:07+00:00</published>
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Pull more random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld:
 "This time with some large scale treewide cleanups.

  The intent of this pull is to clean up the way callers fetch random
  integers. The current rules for doing this right are:

   - If you want a secure or an insecure random u64, use get_random_u64()

   - If you want a secure or an insecure random u32, use get_random_u32()

     The old function prandom_u32() has been deprecated for a while
     now and is just a wrapper around get_random_u32(). Same for
     get_random_int().

   - If you want a secure or an insecure random u16, use get_random_u16()

   - If you want a secure or an insecure random u8, use get_random_u8()

   - If you want secure or insecure random bytes, use get_random_bytes().

     The old function prandom_bytes() has been deprecated for a while
     now and has long been a wrapper around get_random_bytes()

   - If you want a non-uniform random u32, u16, or u8 bounded by a
     certain open interval maximum, use prandom_u32_max()

     I say "non-uniform", because it doesn't do any rejection sampling
     or divisions. Hence, it stays within the prandom_*() namespace, not
     the get_random_*() namespace.

     I'm currently investigating a "uniform" function for 6.2. We'll see
     what comes of that.

  By applying these rules uniformly, we get several benefits:

   - By using prandom_u32_max() with an upper-bound that the compiler
     can prove at compile-time is ≤65536 or ≤256, internally
     get_random_u16() or get_random_u8() is used, which wastes fewer
     batched random bytes, and hence has higher throughput.

   - By using prandom_u32_max() instead of %, when the upper-bound is
     not a constant, division is still avoided, because
     prandom_u32_max() uses a faster multiplication-based trick instead.

   - By using get_random_u16() or get_random_u8() in cases where the
     return value is intended to indeed be a u16 or a u8, we waste fewer
     batched random bytes, and hence have higher throughput.

  This series was originally done by hand while I was on an airplane
  without Internet. Later, Kees and I worked on retroactively figuring
  out what could be done with Coccinelle and what had to be done
  manually, and then we split things up based on that.

  So while this touches a lot of files, the actual amount of code that's
  hand fiddled is comfortably small"

* tag 'random-6.1-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random:
  prandom: remove unused functions
  treewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible
  treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible, part 2
  treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible, part 1
  treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 2
  treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1
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Pull more random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld:
 "This time with some large scale treewide cleanups.

  The intent of this pull is to clean up the way callers fetch random
  integers. The current rules for doing this right are:

   - If you want a secure or an insecure random u64, use get_random_u64()

   - If you want a secure or an insecure random u32, use get_random_u32()

     The old function prandom_u32() has been deprecated for a while
     now and is just a wrapper around get_random_u32(). Same for
     get_random_int().

   - If you want a secure or an insecure random u16, use get_random_u16()

   - If you want a secure or an insecure random u8, use get_random_u8()

   - If you want secure or insecure random bytes, use get_random_bytes().

     The old function prandom_bytes() has been deprecated for a while
     now and has long been a wrapper around get_random_bytes()

   - If you want a non-uniform random u32, u16, or u8 bounded by a
     certain open interval maximum, use prandom_u32_max()

     I say "non-uniform", because it doesn't do any rejection sampling
     or divisions. Hence, it stays within the prandom_*() namespace, not
     the get_random_*() namespace.

     I'm currently investigating a "uniform" function for 6.2. We'll see
     what comes of that.

  By applying these rules uniformly, we get several benefits:

   - By using prandom_u32_max() with an upper-bound that the compiler
     can prove at compile-time is ≤65536 or ≤256, internally
     get_random_u16() or get_random_u8() is used, which wastes fewer
     batched random bytes, and hence has higher throughput.

   - By using prandom_u32_max() instead of %, when the upper-bound is
     not a constant, division is still avoided, because
     prandom_u32_max() uses a faster multiplication-based trick instead.

   - By using get_random_u16() or get_random_u8() in cases where the
     return value is intended to indeed be a u16 or a u8, we waste fewer
     batched random bytes, and hence have higher throughput.

  This series was originally done by hand while I was on an airplane
  without Internet. Later, Kees and I worked on retroactively figuring
  out what could be done with Coccinelle and what had to be done
  manually, and then we split things up based on that.

  So while this touches a lot of files, the actual amount of code that's
  hand fiddled is comfortably small"

* tag 'random-6.1-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random:
  prandom: remove unused functions
  treewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible
  treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible, part 2
  treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible, part 1
  treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 2
  treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1
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<entry>
<title>treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible</title>
<updated>2022-10-11T23:42:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-05T15:43:22+00:00</published>
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The prandom_u32() function has been a deprecated inline wrapper around
get_random_u32() for several releases now, and compiles down to the
exact same code. Replace the deprecated wrapper with a direct call to
the real function. The same also applies to get_random_int(), which is
just a wrapper around get_random_u32(). This was done as a basic find
and replace.

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt; # for ext4
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@toke.dk&gt; # for sch_cake
Acked-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt; # for nfsd
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt; # for thunderbolt
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt; # for xfs
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # for parisc
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt; # for s390
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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The prandom_u32() function has been a deprecated inline wrapper around
get_random_u32() for several releases now, and compiles down to the
exact same code. Replace the deprecated wrapper with a direct call to
the real function. The same also applies to get_random_int(), which is
just a wrapper around get_random_u32(). This was done as a basic find
and replace.

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt; # for ext4
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@toke.dk&gt; # for sch_cake
Acked-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt; # for nfsd
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt; # for thunderbolt
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt; # for xfs
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # for parisc
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt; # for s390
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: exit: cleanup release_thread()</title>
<updated>2022-09-12T04:55:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-19T01:44:06+00:00</published>
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Only x86 has own release_thread(), introduce a new weak release_thread()
function to clean empty definitions in other ARCHs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220819014406.32266-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;				[csky]
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;			[powerpc]
Acked-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;			[openrisc]
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;		[arm64]
Acked-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;			[LoongArch]
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt; [csky]
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;richard.henderson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Xuerui Wang &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.osdn.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Only x86 has own release_thread(), introduce a new weak release_thread()
function to clean empty definitions in other ARCHs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220819014406.32266-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;				[csky]
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;			[powerpc]
Acked-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;			[openrisc]
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;		[arm64]
Acked-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;			[LoongArch]
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt; [csky]
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;richard.henderson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Xuerui Wang &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.osdn.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2022-06-03T23:03:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-03T23:03:05+00:00</published>
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Pull kthread updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This updates init and user mode helper tasks to be ordinary user mode
  tasks.

  Commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for
  all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call
  kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct
  kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of
  struct kthread possible.

  Here, commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for
  init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple
  enough to be backportable.

  The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things
  up and cause the code to make sense.

  In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks
  I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was
  detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of
  PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using
  flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors
  was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace
  thread.

  I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review
  I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code
  sitting in linux-next"

* tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
  fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
  fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
  init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
  fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling
  fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread
  fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread
  kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh
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<pre>
Pull kthread updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This updates init and user mode helper tasks to be ordinary user mode
  tasks.

  Commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for
  all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call
  kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct
  kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of
  struct kthread possible.

  Here, commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for
  init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple
  enough to be backportable.

  The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things
  up and cause the code to make sense.

  In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks
  I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was
  detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of
  PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using
  flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors
  was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace
  thread.

  I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review
  I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code
  sitting in linux-next"

* tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
  fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
  fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
  init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
  fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling
  fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread
  fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread
  kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Use do_kernel_power_off()</title>
<updated>2022-05-19T17:30:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Osipenko</name>
<email>dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-09T23:32:21+00:00</published>
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Kernel now supports chained power-off handlers. Use do_kernel_power_off()
that invokes chained power-off handlers. It also invokes legacy
pm_power_off() for now, which will be removed once all drivers will
be converted to the new sys-off API.

Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Reviewed-by: Michał Mirosław &lt;mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Kernel now supports chained power-off handlers. Use do_kernel_power_off()
that invokes chained power-off handlers. It also invokes legacy
pm_power_off() for now, which will be removed once all drivers will
be converted to the new sys-off API.

Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Reviewed-by: Michał Mirosław &lt;mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling</title>
<updated>2022-05-07T14:01:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-12T15:18:48+00:00</published>
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Add fn and fn_arg members into struct kernel_clone_args and test for
them in copy_thread (instead of testing for PF_KTHREAD | PF_IO_WORKER).
This allows any task that wants to be a user space task that only runs
in kernel mode to use this functionality.

The code on x86 is an exception and still retains a PF_KTHREAD test
because x86 unlikely everything else handles kthreads slightly
differently than user space tasks that start with a function.

The functions that created tasks that start with a function
have been updated to set ".fn" and ".fn_arg" instead of
".stack" and ".stack_size".  These functions are fork_idle(),
create_io_thread(), kernel_thread(), and user_mode_thread().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-4-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Add fn and fn_arg members into struct kernel_clone_args and test for
them in copy_thread (instead of testing for PF_KTHREAD | PF_IO_WORKER).
This allows any task that wants to be a user space task that only runs
in kernel mode to use this functionality.

The code on x86 is an exception and still retains a PF_KTHREAD test
because x86 unlikely everything else handles kthreads slightly
differently than user space tasks that start with a function.

The functions that created tasks that start with a function
have been updated to set ".fn" and ".fn_arg" instead of
".stack" and ".stack_size".  These functions are fork_idle(),
create_io_thread(), kernel_thread(), and user_mode_thread().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-4-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread</title>
<updated>2022-05-07T14:01:59+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2022-04-11T21:17:28+00:00</published>
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The architectures ia64 and parisc have special handling for the idle
thread in copy_process.  Add a flag named idle to kernel_clone_args
and use it to explicity test if an idle process is being created.

Fullfill the expectations of the rest of the copy_thread
implemetations and pass a function pointer in .stack from fork_idle().
This makes what is happening in copy_thread better defined, and is
useful to make idle threads less special.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-3-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The architectures ia64 and parisc have special handling for the idle
thread in copy_process.  Add a flag named idle to kernel_clone_args
and use it to explicity test if an idle process is being created.

Fullfill the expectations of the rest of the copy_thread
implemetations and pass a function pointer in .stack from fork_idle().
This makes what is happening in copy_thread better defined, and is
useful to make idle threads less special.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-3-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread</title>
<updated>2022-05-07T14:01:48+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2022-04-08T23:07:50+00:00</published>
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With io_uring we have started supporting tasks that are for most
purposes user space tasks that exclusively run code in kernel mode.

The kernel task that exec's init and tasks that exec user mode
helpers are also user mode tasks that just run kernel code
until they call kernel execve.

Pass kernel_clone_args into copy_thread so these oddball
tasks can be supported more cleanly and easily.

v2: Fix spelling of kenrel_clone_args on h8300
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-2-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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With io_uring we have started supporting tasks that are for most
purposes user space tasks that exclusively run code in kernel mode.

The kernel task that exec's init and tasks that exec user mode
helpers are also user mode tasks that just run kernel code
until they call kernel execve.

Pass kernel_clone_args into copy_thread so these oddball
tasks can be supported more cleanly and easily.

v2: Fix spelling of kenrel_clone_args on h8300
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-2-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>parisc: Rewrite arch_cpu_idle_dead() for CPU hotplugging</title>
<updated>2022-03-29T19:37:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2022-03-25T13:27:21+00:00</published>
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Let the PDC firmware put the CPU into firmware idle loop with the
pdc_cpu_rendezvous() function.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Let the PDC firmware put the CPU into firmware idle loop with the
pdc_cpu_rendezvous() function.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>asm-generic: Refactor dereference_[kernel]_function_descriptor()</title>
<updated>2022-02-16T12:25:11+00:00</updated>
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<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
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<published>2022-02-15T12:41:04+00:00</published>
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dereference_function_descriptor() and
dereference_kernel_function_descriptor() are identical on the
three architectures implementing them.

Make them common and put them out-of-line in kernel/extable.c
which is one of the users and has similar type of functions.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/449db09b2eba57f4ab05f80102a67d8675bc8bcd.1644928018.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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dereference_function_descriptor() and
dereference_kernel_function_descriptor() are identical on the
three architectures implementing them.

Make them common and put them out-of-line in kernel/extable.c
which is one of the users and has similar type of functions.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/449db09b2eba57f4ab05f80102a67d8675bc8bcd.1644928018.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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