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<title>powerpc/64: Fix incorrect return value from __copy_tofrom_user</title>
<updated>2017-02-23T03:50:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@ozlabs.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-11T11:25:47+00:00</published>
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commit 1a34439e5a0b2235e43f96816dbb15ee1154f656 upstream.

Debugging a data corruption issue with virtio-net/vhost-net led to
the observation that __copy_tofrom_user was occasionally returning
a value 16 larger than it should.  Since the return value from
__copy_tofrom_user is the number of bytes not copied, this means
that __copy_tofrom_user can occasionally return a value larger
than the number of bytes it was asked to copy.  In turn this can
cause higher-level copy functions such as copy_page_to_iter_iovec
to corrupt memory by copying data into the wrong memory locations.

It turns out that the failing case involves a fault on the store
at label 79, and at that point the first unmodified byte of the
destination is at R3 + 16.  Consequently the exception handler
for that store needs to add 16 to R3 before using it to work out
how many bytes were not copied, but in this one case it was not
adding the offset to R3.  To fix it, this moves the label 179 to
the point where we add 16 to R3.  I have checked manually all the
exception handlers for the loads and stores in this code and the
rest of them are correct (it would be excellent to have an
automated test of all the exception cases).

This bug has been present since this code was initially
committed in May 2002 to Linux version 2.5.20.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 1a34439e5a0b2235e43f96816dbb15ee1154f656 upstream.

Debugging a data corruption issue with virtio-net/vhost-net led to
the observation that __copy_tofrom_user was occasionally returning
a value 16 larger than it should.  Since the return value from
__copy_tofrom_user is the number of bytes not copied, this means
that __copy_tofrom_user can occasionally return a value larger
than the number of bytes it was asked to copy.  In turn this can
cause higher-level copy functions such as copy_page_to_iter_iovec
to corrupt memory by copying data into the wrong memory locations.

It turns out that the failing case involves a fault on the store
at label 79, and at that point the first unmodified byte of the
destination is at R3 + 16.  Consequently the exception handler
for that store needs to add 16 to R3 before using it to work out
how many bytes were not copied, but in this one case it was not
adding the offset to R3.  To fix it, this moves the label 179 to
the point where we add 16 to R3.  I have checked manually all the
exception handlers for the loads and stores in this code and the
rest of them are correct (it would be excellent to have an
automated test of all the exception cases).

This bug has been present since this code was initially
committed in May 2002 to Linux version 2.5.20.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add vr save/restore functions</title>
<updated>2014-06-09T12:28:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Schwab</name>
<email>schwab@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-30T14:31:17+00:00</published>
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commit 8fe9c93e7453e67b8bd09f263ec1bb0783c733fc upstream.

GCC 4.8 now generates out-of-line vr save/restore functions when
optimizing for size.  They are needed for the raid6 altivec support.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 8fe9c93e7453e67b8bd09f263ec1bb0783c733fc upstream.

GCC 4.8 now generates out-of-line vr save/restore functions when
optimizing for size.  They are needed for the raid6 altivec support.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Restore registers on error exit from csum_partial_copy_generic()</title>
<updated>2013-10-26T20:06:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-01T07:11:35+00:00</published>
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commit 8f21bd0090052e740944f9397e2be5ac7957ded7 upstream.

The csum_partial_copy_generic() function saves the PowerPC non-volatile
r14, r15, and r16 registers for the main checksum-and-copy loop.
Unfortunately, it fails to restore them upon error exit from this loop,
which results in silent corruption of these registers in the presumably
rare event of an access exception within that loop.

This commit therefore restores these register on error exit from the loop.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: register name macros use lower-case 'r']
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 8f21bd0090052e740944f9397e2be5ac7957ded7 upstream.

The csum_partial_copy_generic() function saves the PowerPC non-volatile
r14, r15, and r16 registers for the main checksum-and-copy loop.
Unfortunately, it fails to restore them upon error exit from this loop,
which results in silent corruption of these registers in the presumably
rare event of an access exception within that loop.

This commit therefore restores these register on error exit from the loop.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: register name macros use lower-case 'r']
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix parameter clobber in csum_partial_copy_generic()</title>
<updated>2013-10-26T20:06:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-01T06:54:05+00:00</published>
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commit d9813c3681a36774b254c0cdc9cce53c9e22c756 upstream.

The csum_partial_copy_generic() uses register r7 to adjust the remaining
bytes to process.  Unfortunately, r7 also holds a parameter, namely the
address of the flag to set in case of access exceptions while reading
the source buffer.  Lacking a quantum implementation of PowerPC, this
commit instead uses register r9 to do the adjusting, leaving r7's
pointer uncorrupted.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit d9813c3681a36774b254c0cdc9cce53c9e22c756 upstream.

The csum_partial_copy_generic() uses register r7 to adjust the remaining
bytes to process.  Unfortunately, r7 also holds a parameter, namely the
address of the flag to set in case of access exceptions while reading
the source buffer.  Lacking a quantum implementation of PowerPC, this
commit instead uses register r9 to do the adjusting, leaving r7's
pointer uncorrupted.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Copy down exception vectors after feature fixups</title>
<updated>2011-11-16T03:47:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-14T12:54:47+00:00</published>
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kdump fails because we try to execute an HV only instruction. Feature
fixups are being applied after we copy the exception vectors down to 0
so they miss out on any updates.

We have always had this issue but it only became critical in v3.0
when we added CFAR support (breaks POWER5) and v3.1 when we added
POWERNV (breaks everyone).

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; [v3.0+]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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kdump fails because we try to execute an HV only instruction. Feature
fixups are being applied after we copy the exception vectors down to 0
so they miss out on any updates.

We have always had this issue but it only became critical in v3.0
when we added CFAR support (breaks POWER5) and v3.1 when we added
POWERNV (breaks everyone).

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; [v3.0+]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: various straight conversions from module.h --&gt; export.h</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:30:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-22T22:24:23+00:00</published>
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All these files were including module.h just for the basic
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.  We can shift them off to the
export.h header which is a way smaller footprint and thus
realize some compile time gains.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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All these files were including module.h just for the basic
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.  We can shift them off to the
export.h header which is a way smaller footprint and thus
realize some compile time gains.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2011-05-20T20:28:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-20T20:28:01+00:00</published>
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* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (152 commits)
  powerpc: Fix hard CPU IDs detection
  powerpc/pmac: Update via-pmu to new syscore_ops
  powerpc/kvm: Fix the build for 32-bit Book 3S (classic) processors
  powerpc/kvm: Fix kvmppc_core_pending_dec
  powerpc: Remove last piece of GEMINI
  powerpc: Fix for Pegasos keyboard and mouse
  powerpc: Make early memory scan more resilient to out of order nodes
  powerpc/pseries/iommu: Cleanup ddw naming
  powerpc/pseries/iommu: Find windows after kexec during boot
  powerpc/pseries/iommu: Remove ddw property when destroying window
  powerpc/pseries/iommu: Add additional checks when changing iommu mask
  powerpc/pseries/iommu: Use correct return type in dupe_ddw_if_already_created
  powerpc: Remove unused/obsolete CONFIG_XICS
  misc: Add CARMA DATA-FPGA Programmer support
  misc: Add CARMA DATA-FPGA Access Driver
  powerpc: Make IRQ_NOREQUEST last to clear, first to set
  powerpc: Integrated Flash controller device tree bindings
  powerpc/85xx: Create dts of each core in CAMP mode for P1020RDB
  powerpc/85xx: Fix PCIe IDSEL for Px020RDB
  powerpc/85xx: P2020 DTS: re-organize dts files
  ...
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* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (152 commits)
  powerpc: Fix hard CPU IDs detection
  powerpc/pmac: Update via-pmu to new syscore_ops
  powerpc/kvm: Fix the build for 32-bit Book 3S (classic) processors
  powerpc/kvm: Fix kvmppc_core_pending_dec
  powerpc: Remove last piece of GEMINI
  powerpc: Fix for Pegasos keyboard and mouse
  powerpc: Make early memory scan more resilient to out of order nodes
  powerpc/pseries/iommu: Cleanup ddw naming
  powerpc/pseries/iommu: Find windows after kexec during boot
  powerpc/pseries/iommu: Remove ddw property when destroying window
  powerpc/pseries/iommu: Add additional checks when changing iommu mask
  powerpc/pseries/iommu: Use correct return type in dupe_ddw_if_already_created
  powerpc: Remove unused/obsolete CONFIG_XICS
  misc: Add CARMA DATA-FPGA Programmer support
  misc: Add CARMA DATA-FPGA Access Driver
  powerpc: Make IRQ_NOREQUEST last to clear, first to set
  powerpc: Integrated Flash controller device tree bindings
  powerpc/85xx: Create dts of each core in CAMP mode for P1020RDB
  powerpc/85xx: Fix PCIe IDSEL for Px020RDB
  powerpc/85xx: P2020 DTS: re-organize dts files
  ...
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<entry>
<title>sanitize &lt;linux/prefetch.h&gt; usage</title>
<updated>2011-05-20T19:50:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-20T19:50:29+00:00</published>
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Commit e66eed651fd1 ("list: remove prefetching from regular list
iterators") removed the include of prefetch.h from list.h, which
uncovered several cases that had apparently relied on that rather
obscure header file dependency.

So this fixes things up a bit, using

   grep -L linux/prefetch.h $(git grep -l '[^a-z_]prefetchw*(' -- '*.[ch]')
   grep -L 'prefetchw*(' $(git grep -l 'linux/prefetch.h' -- '*.[ch]')

to guide us in finding files that either need &lt;linux/prefetch.h&gt;
inclusion, or have it despite not needing it.

There are more of them around (mostly network drivers), but this gets
many core ones.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit e66eed651fd1 ("list: remove prefetching from regular list
iterators") removed the include of prefetch.h from list.h, which
uncovered several cases that had apparently relied on that rather
obscure header file dependency.

So this fixes things up a bit, using

   grep -L linux/prefetch.h $(git grep -l '[^a-z_]prefetchw*(' -- '*.[ch]')
   grep -L 'prefetchw*(' $(git grep -l 'linux/prefetch.h' -- '*.[ch]')

to guide us in finding files that either need &lt;linux/prefetch.h&gt;
inclusion, or have it despite not needing it.

There are more of them around (mostly network drivers), but this gets
many core ones.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove alloc_maybe_bootmem for zalloc version</title>
<updated>2011-05-19T05:30:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milton Miller</name>
<email>miltonm@bga.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-10T19:29:24+00:00</published>
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Replace all remaining callers of alloc_maybe_bootmem with
zalloc_maybe_bootmem.   The callsite in pci_dn is followed with a
memset to clear the memory, and not zeroing at the other callsites
in the celleb fake pci code could lead to following uninitialized
memory as pointers or even freeing said pointers on error paths.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Replace all remaining callers of alloc_maybe_bootmem with
zalloc_maybe_bootmem.   The callsite in pci_dn is followed with a
memset to clear the memory, and not zeroing at the other callsites
in the celleb fake pci code could lead to following uninitialized
memory as pointers or even freeing said pointers on error paths.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove ioremap_flags</title>
<updated>2011-05-19T04:30:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-08T21:43:47+00:00</published>
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We have a confusing number of ioremap functions. Make things just a
bit simpler by merging ioremap_flags and ioremap_prot.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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We have a confusing number of ioremap functions. Make things just a
bit simpler by merging ioremap_flags and ioremap_prot.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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