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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/um/include/shared, branch v5.16.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2021-09-03T22:33:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-03T22:33:47+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Add -s option (strict mode) to merge_config.sh to make it fail when
   any symbol is redefined.

 - Show a warning if a different compiler is used for building external
   modules.

 - Infer --target from ARCH for CC=clang to let you cross-compile the
   kernel without CROSS_COMPILE.

 - Make the integrated assembler default (LLVM_IAS=1) for CC=clang.

 - Add &lt;linux/stdarg.h&gt; to the kernel source instead of borrowing
   &lt;stdarg.h&gt; from the compiler.

 - Add Nick Desaulniers as a Kbuild reviewer.

 - Drop stale cc-option tests.

 - Fix the combination of CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS and CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
   to handle symbols in inline assembly.

 - Show a warning if 'FORCE' is missing for if_changed rules.

 - Various cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (39 commits)
  kbuild: redo fake deps at include/ksym/*.h
  kbuild: clean up objtool_args slightly
  modpost: get the *.mod file path more simply
  checkkconfigsymbols.py: Fix the '--ignore' option
  kbuild: merge vmlinux_link() between ARCH=um and other architectures
  kbuild: do not remove 'linux' link in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
  kbuild: merge vmlinux_link() between the ordinary link and Clang LTO
  kbuild: remove stale *.symversions
  kbuild: remove unused quiet_cmd_update_lto_symversions
  gen_compile_commands: extract compiler command from a series of commands
  x86: remove cc-option-yn test for -mtune=
  arc: replace cc-option-yn uses with cc-option
  s390: replace cc-option-yn uses with cc-option
  ia64: move core-y in arch/ia64/Makefile to arch/ia64/Kbuild
  sparc: move the install rule to arch/sparc/Makefile
  security: remove unneeded subdir-$(CONFIG_...)
  kbuild: sh: remove unused install script
  kbuild: Fix 'no symbols' warning when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSD_KSYMS=y
  kbuild: Switch to 'f' variants of integrated assembler flag
  kbuild: Shuffle blank line to improve comment meaning
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Add -s option (strict mode) to merge_config.sh to make it fail when
   any symbol is redefined.

 - Show a warning if a different compiler is used for building external
   modules.

 - Infer --target from ARCH for CC=clang to let you cross-compile the
   kernel without CROSS_COMPILE.

 - Make the integrated assembler default (LLVM_IAS=1) for CC=clang.

 - Add &lt;linux/stdarg.h&gt; to the kernel source instead of borrowing
   &lt;stdarg.h&gt; from the compiler.

 - Add Nick Desaulniers as a Kbuild reviewer.

 - Drop stale cc-option tests.

 - Fix the combination of CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS and CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
   to handle symbols in inline assembly.

 - Show a warning if 'FORCE' is missing for if_changed rules.

 - Various cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (39 commits)
  kbuild: redo fake deps at include/ksym/*.h
  kbuild: clean up objtool_args slightly
  modpost: get the *.mod file path more simply
  checkkconfigsymbols.py: Fix the '--ignore' option
  kbuild: merge vmlinux_link() between ARCH=um and other architectures
  kbuild: do not remove 'linux' link in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
  kbuild: merge vmlinux_link() between the ordinary link and Clang LTO
  kbuild: remove stale *.symversions
  kbuild: remove unused quiet_cmd_update_lto_symversions
  gen_compile_commands: extract compiler command from a series of commands
  x86: remove cc-option-yn test for -mtune=
  arc: replace cc-option-yn uses with cc-option
  s390: replace cc-option-yn uses with cc-option
  ia64: move core-y in arch/ia64/Makefile to arch/ia64/Kbuild
  sparc: move the install rule to arch/sparc/Makefile
  security: remove unneeded subdir-$(CONFIG_...)
  kbuild: sh: remove unused install script
  kbuild: Fix 'no symbols' warning when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSD_KSYMS=y
  kbuild: Switch to 'f' variants of integrated assembler flag
  kbuild: Shuffle blank line to improve comment meaning
  ...
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<entry>
<title>isystem: trim/fixup stdarg.h and other headers</title>
<updated>2021-08-19T00:02:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-02T20:40:31+00:00</published>
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Delete/fixup few includes in anticipation of global -isystem compile
option removal.

Note: crypto/aegis128-neon-inner.c keeps &lt;stddef.h&gt; due to redefinition
of uintptr_t error (one definition comes from &lt;stddef.h&gt;, another from
&lt;linux/types.h&gt;).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Delete/fixup few includes in anticipation of global -isystem compile
option removal.

Note: crypto/aegis128-neon-inner.c keeps &lt;stddef.h&gt; due to redefinition
of uintptr_t error (one definition comes from &lt;stddef.h&gt;, another from
&lt;linux/types.h&gt;).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: Userspace format indexing support</title>
<updated>2021-07-19T09:57:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Down</name>
<email>chris@chrisdown.name</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-15T16:52:53+00:00</published>
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We have a number of systems industry-wide that have a subset of their
functionality that works as follows:

1. Receive a message from local kmsg, serial console, or netconsole;
2. Apply a set of rules to classify the message;
3. Do something based on this classification (like scheduling a
   remediation for the machine), rinse, and repeat.

As a couple of examples of places we have this implemented just inside
Facebook, although this isn't a Facebook-specific problem, we have this
inside our netconsole processing (for alarm classification), and as part
of our machine health checking. We use these messages to determine
fairly important metrics around production health, and it's important
that we get them right.

While for some kinds of issues we have counters, tracepoints, or metrics
with a stable interface which can reliably indicate the issue, in order
to react to production issues quickly we need to work with the interface
which most kernel developers naturally use when developing: printk.

Most production issues come from unexpected phenomena, and as such
usually the code in question doesn't have easily usable tracepoints or
other counters available for the specific problem being mitigated. We
have a number of lines of monitoring defence against problems in
production (host metrics, process metrics, service metrics, etc), and
where it's not feasible to reliably monitor at another level, this kind
of pragmatic netconsole monitoring is essential.

As one would expect, monitoring using printk is rather brittle for a
number of reasons -- most notably that the message might disappear
entirely in a new version of the kernel, or that the message may change
in some way that the regex or other classification methods start to
silently fail.

One factor that makes this even harder is that, under normal operation,
many of these messages are never expected to be hit. For example, there
may be a rare hardware bug which one wants to detect if it was to ever
happen again, but its recurrence is not likely or anticipated. This
precludes using something like checking whether the printk in question
was printed somewhere fleetwide recently to determine whether the
message in question is still present or not, since we don't anticipate
that it should be printed anywhere, but still need to monitor for its
future presence in the long-term.

This class of issue has happened on a number of occasions, causing
unhealthy machines with hardware issues to remain in production for
longer than ideal. As a recent example, some monitoring around
blk_update_request fell out of date and caused semi-broken machines to
remain in production for longer than would be desirable.

Searching through the codebase to find the message is also extremely
fragile, because many of the messages are further constructed beyond
their callsite (eg. btrfs_printk and other module-specific wrappers,
each with their own functionality). Even if they aren't, guessing the
format and formulation of the underlying message based on the aesthetics
of the message emitted is not a recipe for success at scale, and our
previous issues with fleetwide machine health checking demonstrate as
much.

This provides a solution to the issue of silently changed or deleted
printks: we record pointers to all printk format strings known at
compile time into a new .printk_index section, both in vmlinux and
modules. At runtime, this can then be iterated by looking at
&lt;debugfs&gt;/printk/index/&lt;module&gt;, which emits the following format, both
readable by humans and able to be parsed by machines:

    $ head -1 vmlinux; shuf -n 5 vmlinux
    # &lt;level[,flags]&gt; filename:line function "format"
    &lt;5&gt; block/blk-settings.c:661 disk_stack_limits "%s: Warning: Device %s is misaligned\n"
    &lt;4&gt; kernel/trace/trace.c:8296 trace_create_file "Could not create tracefs '%s' entry\n"
    &lt;6&gt; arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:144 _hpet_print_config "hpet: %s(%d):\n"
    &lt;6&gt; init/do_mounts.c:605 prepare_namespace "Waiting for root device %s...\n"
    &lt;6&gt; drivers/acpi/osl.c:1410 acpi_no_auto_serialize_setup "ACPI: auto-serialization disabled\n"

This mitigates the majority of cases where we have a highly-specific
printk which we want to match on, as we can now enumerate and check
whether the format changed or the printk callsite disappeared entirely
in userspace. This allows us to catch changes to printks we monitor
earlier and decide what to do about it before it becomes problematic.

There is no additional runtime cost for printk callers or printk itself,
and the assembly generated is exactly the same.

Signed-off-by: Chris Down &lt;chris@chrisdown.name&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt; # for module.{c,h}
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e42070983637ac5e384f17fbdbe86d19c7b212a5.1623775748.git.chris@chrisdown.name
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<pre>
We have a number of systems industry-wide that have a subset of their
functionality that works as follows:

1. Receive a message from local kmsg, serial console, or netconsole;
2. Apply a set of rules to classify the message;
3. Do something based on this classification (like scheduling a
   remediation for the machine), rinse, and repeat.

As a couple of examples of places we have this implemented just inside
Facebook, although this isn't a Facebook-specific problem, we have this
inside our netconsole processing (for alarm classification), and as part
of our machine health checking. We use these messages to determine
fairly important metrics around production health, and it's important
that we get them right.

While for some kinds of issues we have counters, tracepoints, or metrics
with a stable interface which can reliably indicate the issue, in order
to react to production issues quickly we need to work with the interface
which most kernel developers naturally use when developing: printk.

Most production issues come from unexpected phenomena, and as such
usually the code in question doesn't have easily usable tracepoints or
other counters available for the specific problem being mitigated. We
have a number of lines of monitoring defence against problems in
production (host metrics, process metrics, service metrics, etc), and
where it's not feasible to reliably monitor at another level, this kind
of pragmatic netconsole monitoring is essential.

As one would expect, monitoring using printk is rather brittle for a
number of reasons -- most notably that the message might disappear
entirely in a new version of the kernel, or that the message may change
in some way that the regex or other classification methods start to
silently fail.

One factor that makes this even harder is that, under normal operation,
many of these messages are never expected to be hit. For example, there
may be a rare hardware bug which one wants to detect if it was to ever
happen again, but its recurrence is not likely or anticipated. This
precludes using something like checking whether the printk in question
was printed somewhere fleetwide recently to determine whether the
message in question is still present or not, since we don't anticipate
that it should be printed anywhere, but still need to monitor for its
future presence in the long-term.

This class of issue has happened on a number of occasions, causing
unhealthy machines with hardware issues to remain in production for
longer than ideal. As a recent example, some monitoring around
blk_update_request fell out of date and caused semi-broken machines to
remain in production for longer than would be desirable.

Searching through the codebase to find the message is also extremely
fragile, because many of the messages are further constructed beyond
their callsite (eg. btrfs_printk and other module-specific wrappers,
each with their own functionality). Even if they aren't, guessing the
format and formulation of the underlying message based on the aesthetics
of the message emitted is not a recipe for success at scale, and our
previous issues with fleetwide machine health checking demonstrate as
much.

This provides a solution to the issue of silently changed or deleted
printks: we record pointers to all printk format strings known at
compile time into a new .printk_index section, both in vmlinux and
modules. At runtime, this can then be iterated by looking at
&lt;debugfs&gt;/printk/index/&lt;module&gt;, which emits the following format, both
readable by humans and able to be parsed by machines:

    $ head -1 vmlinux; shuf -n 5 vmlinux
    # &lt;level[,flags]&gt; filename:line function "format"
    &lt;5&gt; block/blk-settings.c:661 disk_stack_limits "%s: Warning: Device %s is misaligned\n"
    &lt;4&gt; kernel/trace/trace.c:8296 trace_create_file "Could not create tracefs '%s' entry\n"
    &lt;6&gt; arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:144 _hpet_print_config "hpet: %s(%d):\n"
    &lt;6&gt; init/do_mounts.c:605 prepare_namespace "Waiting for root device %s...\n"
    &lt;6&gt; drivers/acpi/osl.c:1410 acpi_no_auto_serialize_setup "ACPI: auto-serialization disabled\n"

This mitigates the majority of cases where we have a highly-specific
printk which we want to match on, as we can now enumerate and check
whether the format changed or the printk callsite disappeared entirely
in userspace. This allows us to catch changes to printks we monitor
earlier and decide what to do about it before it becomes problematic.

There is no additional runtime cost for printk callers or printk itself,
and the assembly generated is exactly the same.

Signed-off-by: Chris Down &lt;chris@chrisdown.name&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt; # for module.{c,h}
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e42070983637ac5e384f17fbdbe86d19c7b212a5.1623775748.git.chris@chrisdown.name
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: Remove the repeated declaration</title>
<updated>2021-06-17T20:11:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaokun Zhang</name>
<email>zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-31T03:17:07+00:00</published>
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Function 'os_flush_stdout' is declared twice, so remove the
repeated declaration.

Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaokun Zhang &lt;zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Function 'os_flush_stdout' is declared twice, so remove the
repeated declaration.

Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaokun Zhang &lt;zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: Add support for host CPU flags and alignment</title>
<updated>2021-06-17T20:01:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Ivanov</name>
<email>anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-12T15:16:07+00:00</published>
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1. Reflect host cpu flags into the UML instance so they can
be used to select the correct implementations for xor, crypto, etc.

2. Reflect host cache alignment into UML instance. This is
important when running 32 bit on a 64 bit host as 32 bit by
default aligns to 32 while the actual alignment should be 64.
Ditto for some Xeons which align at 128.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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1. Reflect host cpu flags into the UML instance so they can
be used to select the correct implementations for xor, crypto, etc.

2. Reflect host cache alignment into UML instance. This is
important when running 32 bit on a 64 bit host as 32 bit by
default aligns to 32 while the actual alignment should be 64.
Ditto for some Xeons which align at 128.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: time-travel/signals: fix ndelay() in interrupt</title>
<updated>2021-06-17T19:44:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-05T12:19:56+00:00</published>
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We should be able to ndelay() from any context, even from an
interrupt context! However, this is broken (not functionally,
but locking-wise) in time-travel because we'll get into the
time-travel code and enable interrupts to handle messages on
other time-travel aware subsystems (only virtio for now).

Luckily, I've already reworked the time-travel aware signal
(interrupt) delivery for suspend/resume to have a time travel
handler, which runs directly in the context of the signal and
not from the Linux interrupt.

In order to fix this time-travel issue then, we need to do a
few things:

 1) rework the signal handling code to call time-travel handlers
    (only) if interrupts are disabled but signals aren't blocked,
    instead of marking it only pending there. This is needed to
    not deadlock other communication.
 2) rework time-travel to not enable interrupts while it's
    waiting for a message;
 3) rework time-travel to not (just) disable interrupts but
    rather block signals at a lower level while it needs them
    disabled for communicating with the controller.

Finally, since now we can actually spend even virtual time
in interrupts-disabled sections, the delay warning when we
deliver a time-travel delayed interrupt is no longer valid,
things can (and should) now get delayed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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We should be able to ndelay() from any context, even from an
interrupt context! However, this is broken (not functionally,
but locking-wise) in time-travel because we'll get into the
time-travel code and enable interrupts to handle messages on
other time-travel aware subsystems (only virtio for now).

Luckily, I've already reworked the time-travel aware signal
(interrupt) delivery for suspend/resume to have a time travel
handler, which runs directly in the context of the signal and
not from the Linux interrupt.

In order to fix this time-travel issue then, we need to do a
few things:

 1) rework the signal handling code to call time-travel handlers
    (only) if interrupts are disabled but signals aren't blocked,
    instead of marking it only pending there. This is needed to
    not deadlock other communication.
 2) rework time-travel to not enable interrupts while it's
    waiting for a message;
 3) rework time-travel to not (just) disable interrupts but
    rather block signals at a lower level while it needs them
    disabled for communicating with the controller.

Finally, since now we can actually spend even virtual time
in interrupts-disabled sections, the delay warning when we
deliver a time-travel delayed interrupt is no longer valid,
things can (and should) now get delayed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: expose time-travel mode to userspace side</title>
<updated>2021-06-17T19:44:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-05T12:19:55+00:00</published>
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This will be necessary in the userspace side to fix the
signal/interrupt handling in time-travel=ext mode, which
is the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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This will be necessary in the userspace side to fix the
signal/interrupt handling in time-travel=ext mode, which
is the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>um: export signals_enabled directly</title>
<updated>2021-06-17T19:44:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-05T12:19:54+00:00</published>
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Use signals_enabled instead of always jumping through
a function call to read it, there's not much point in
that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Use signals_enabled instead of always jumping through
a function call to read it, there's not much point in
that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: remove unused smp_sigio_handler() declaration</title>
<updated>2021-06-17T19:44:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-05T12:19:53+00:00</published>
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This function doesn't exist, remove its declaration.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Acked-By: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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This function doesn't exist, remove its declaration.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Acked-By: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>um: remove process stub VMA</title>
<updated>2021-02-12T20:37:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-13T21:09:44+00:00</published>
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This mostly reverts the old commit 3963333fe676 ("uml: cover stubs
with a VMA") which had added a VMA to the existing PTEs. However,
there's no real reason to have the PTEs in the first place and the
VMA cannot be 'fixed' in place, which leads to bugs that userspace
could try to unmap them and be forcefully killed, or such. Also,
there's a bit of an ugly hole in userspace's address space.

Simplify all this: just install the stub code/page at the top of
the (inner) address space, i.e. put it just above TASK_SIZE. The
pages are simply hard-coded to be mapped in the userspace process
we use to implement an mm context, and they're out of reach of the
inner mmap/munmap/mprotect etc. since they're above TASK_SIZE.

Getting rid of the VMA also makes vma_merge() no longer hit one of
the VM_WARN_ON()s there because we installed a VMA while the code
assumes the stack VMA is the first one.

It also removes a lockdep warning about mmap_sem usage since we no
longer have uml_setup_stubs() and thus no longer need to do any
manipulation that would require mmap_sem in activate_mm().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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This mostly reverts the old commit 3963333fe676 ("uml: cover stubs
with a VMA") which had added a VMA to the existing PTEs. However,
there's no real reason to have the PTEs in the first place and the
VMA cannot be 'fixed' in place, which leads to bugs that userspace
could try to unmap them and be forcefully killed, or such. Also,
there's a bit of an ugly hole in userspace's address space.

Simplify all this: just install the stub code/page at the top of
the (inner) address space, i.e. put it just above TASK_SIZE. The
pages are simply hard-coded to be mapped in the userspace process
we use to implement an mm context, and they're out of reach of the
inner mmap/munmap/mprotect etc. since they're above TASK_SIZE.

Getting rid of the VMA also makes vma_merge() no longer hit one of
the VM_WARN_ON()s there because we installed a VMA while the code
assumes the stack VMA is the first one.

It also removes a lockdep warning about mmap_sem usage since we no
longer have uml_setup_stubs() and thus no longer need to do any
manipulation that would require mmap_sem in activate_mm().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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