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<title>um: Fix FP register size for XSTATE/XSAVE</title>
<updated>2019-08-04T07:33:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Meyer</name>
<email>thomas@m3y3r.de</email>
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<published>2017-07-29T15:03:23+00:00</published>
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commit 6f602afda7275c24c20ba38b5b6cd4ed08561fff upstream.

Hard code max size. Taken from
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=gdb/common/x86-xstate.h

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alessio Balsini &lt;balsini@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6f602afda7275c24c20ba38b5b6cd4ed08561fff upstream.

Hard code max size. Taken from
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=gdb/common/x86-xstate.h

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alessio Balsini &lt;balsini@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>um: Fix ptrace GETREGS/SETREGS bugs</title>
<updated>2016-01-10T20:49:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mickaël Salaün</name>
<email>mic@digikod.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-29T20:35:44+00:00</published>
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This fix two related bugs:
* PTRACE_GETREGS doesn't get the right orig_ax (syscall) value
* PTRACE_SETREGS can't set the orig_ax value (erased by initial value)

Get rid of the now useless and error-prone get_syscall().

Fix inconsistent behavior in the ptrace implementation for i386 when
updating orig_eax automatically update the syscall number as well. This
is now updated in handle_syscall().

Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün &lt;mic@digikod.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Iooss &lt;nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;aivanov@brocade.com&gt;
Cc: Meredydd Luff &lt;meredydd@senatehouse.org&gt;
Cc: David Drysdale &lt;drysdale@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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This fix two related bugs:
* PTRACE_GETREGS doesn't get the right orig_ax (syscall) value
* PTRACE_SETREGS can't set the orig_ax value (erased by initial value)

Get rid of the now useless and error-prone get_syscall().

Fix inconsistent behavior in the ptrace implementation for i386 when
updating orig_eax automatically update the syscall number as well. This
is now updated in handle_syscall().

Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün &lt;mic@digikod.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Iooss &lt;nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;aivanov@brocade.com&gt;
Cc: Meredydd Luff &lt;meredydd@senatehouse.org&gt;
Cc: David Drysdale &lt;drysdale@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Update UBD to use pread/pwrite family of functions</title>
<updated>2016-01-10T20:49:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Ivanov</name>
<email>aivanov@brocade.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-21T18:54:00+00:00</published>
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This decreases the number of syscalls per read/write by half.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;aivanov@brocade.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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This decreases the number of syscalls per read/write by half.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;aivanov@brocade.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Switch clocksource to hrtimers</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T21:54:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Ivanov</name>
<email>aivanov@brocade.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-02T16:16:37+00:00</published>
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UML is using an obsolete itimer call for
all timers and "polls" for kernel space timer firing
in its userspace portion resulting in a long list
of bugs and incorrect behaviour(s). It also uses
ITIMER_VIRTUAL for its timer which results in the
timer being dependent on it running and the cpu
load.

This patch fixes this by moving to posix high resolution
timers firing off CLOCK_MONOTONIC and relaying the timer
correctly to the UML userspace.

Fixes:
 - crashes when hosts suspends/resumes
 - broken userspace timers - effecive ~40Hz instead
   of what they should be. Note - this modifies skas behavior
   by no longer setting an itimer per clone(). Timer events
   are relayed instead.
 - kernel network packet scheduling disciplines
 - tcp behaviour especially under load
 - various timer related corner cases

Finally, overall responsiveness of userspace is better.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;aivanov@brocade.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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UML is using an obsolete itimer call for
all timers and "polls" for kernel space timer firing
in its userspace portion resulting in a long list
of bugs and incorrect behaviour(s). It also uses
ITIMER_VIRTUAL for its timer which results in the
timer being dependent on it running and the cpu
load.

This patch fixes this by moving to posix high resolution
timers firing off CLOCK_MONOTONIC and relaying the timer
correctly to the UML userspace.

Fixes:
 - crashes when hosts suspends/resumes
 - broken userspace timers - effecive ~40Hz instead
   of what they should be. Note - this modifies skas behavior
   by no longer setting an itimer per clone(). Timer events
   are relayed instead.
 - kernel network packet scheduling disciplines
 - tcp behaviour especially under load
 - various timer related corner cases

Finally, overall responsiveness of userspace is better.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;aivanov@brocade.com&gt;
[rw: massaged commit message]
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Store syscall number after syscall_trace_enter()</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T21:49:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-25T18:54:33+00:00</published>
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To support changing syscall numbers we have to store
it after syscall_trace_enter().

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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To support changing syscall numbers we have to store
it after syscall_trace_enter().

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Move syscall() declaration into os.h</title>
<updated>2015-05-31T11:14:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-31T11:11:19+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Remove SKAS3/4 support</title>
<updated>2015-04-13T19:00:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-18T20:31:27+00:00</published>
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Before we had SKAS0 UML had two modes of operation
TT (tracing thread) and SKAS3/4 (separated kernel address space).
TT was known to be insecure and got removed a long time ago.
SKAS3/4 required a few (3 or 4) patches on the host side which never went
mainline. The last host patch is 10 years old.

With SKAS0 mode (separated kernel address space using 0 host patches),
default since 2005, SKAS3/4 is obsolete and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Before we had SKAS0 UML had two modes of operation
TT (tracing thread) and SKAS3/4 (separated kernel address space).
TT was known to be insecure and got removed a long time ago.
SKAS3/4 required a few (3 or 4) patches on the host side which never went
mainline. The last host patch is 10 years old.

With SKAS0 mode (separated kernel address space using 0 host patches),
default since 2005, SKAS3/4 is obsolete and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Memory corruption on startup</title>
<updated>2014-04-20T21:57:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Ivanov</name>
<email>antivano@cisco.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-07T18:37:47+00:00</published>
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The reverse case of this race (you must msync before read) is
well known. This is the not so common one.

It can be triggered only on systems which do a lot of task
switching and only at UML startup. If you are starting 200+ UMLs
~ 0.5% will always die without this fix.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;antivano@cisco.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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The reverse case of this race (you must msync before read) is
well known. This is the not so common one.

It can be triggered only on systems which do a lot of task
switching and only at UML startup. If you are starting 200+ UMLs
~ 0.5% will always die without this fix.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;antivano@cisco.com&gt;
[rw: minor whitespace fixes]
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Make stack trace reliable against kernel mode faults</title>
<updated>2013-11-17T10:27:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-23T15:38:02+00:00</published>
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As UML uses an alternative signal stack we cannot use
the current stack pointer for stack dumping if UML itself
dies by SIGSEGV. To bypass this issue we save regs taken
from mcontext in our segv handler into thread_struct and
use these regs to obtain the stack pointer in show_stack().

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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As UML uses an alternative signal stack we cannot use
the current stack pointer for stack dumping if UML itself
dies by SIGSEGV. To bypass this issue we save regs taken
from mcontext in our segv handler into thread_struct and
use these regs to obtain the stack pointer in show_stack().

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Cleanup SIGTERM handling</title>
<updated>2013-09-07T08:56:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-18T11:30:08+00:00</published>
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Richard reported that some UML processes survive if the UML
main process receives a SIGTERM.
This issue was caused by a wrongly placed signal(SIGTERM, SIG_DFL)
in init_new_thread_signals().
It disabled the UML exit handler accidently for some processes.
The correct solution is to disable the fatal handler for all
UML helper threads/processes.
Such that last_ditch_exit() does not get called multiple times
and all processes can exit due to SIGTERM.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Richard reported that some UML processes survive if the UML
main process receives a SIGTERM.
This issue was caused by a wrongly placed signal(SIGTERM, SIG_DFL)
in init_new_thread_signals().
It disabled the UML exit handler accidently for some processes.
The correct solution is to disable the fatal handler for all
UML helper threads/processes.
Such that last_ditch_exit() does not get called multiple times
and all processes can exit due to SIGTERM.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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