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<title>um: Re-evaluate thread flags repeatedly</title>
<updated>2025-08-28T14:28:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-04T12:34:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b9e2f2246eb2b5617d53af7b5e4e1b8c916f26a8 ]

The thread flags may change during their processing.
For example a task_work can queue a new signal to be sent.
This signal should be delivered before returning to usespace again.

Evaluate the flags repeatedly similar to other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nam Cao &lt;namcao@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250704-uml-thread_flags-v1-1-0e293fd8d627@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b9e2f2246eb2b5617d53af7b5e4e1b8c916f26a8 ]

The thread flags may change during their processing.
For example a task_work can queue a new signal to be sent.
This signal should be delivered before returning to usespace again.

Evaluate the flags repeatedly similar to other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nam Cao &lt;namcao@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250704-uml-thread_flags-v1-1-0e293fd8d627@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: Fix the return value of elf_core_copy_task_fpregs</title>
<updated>2024-12-09T09:32:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiwei Bie</name>
<email>tiwei.btw@antgroup.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-13T02:33:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 865e3845eeaa21e9a62abc1361644e67124f1ec0 ]

This function is expected to return a boolean value, which should be
true on success and false on failure.

Fixes: d1254b12c93e ("uml: fix x86_64 core dump crash")
Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie &lt;tiwei.btw@antgroup.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240913023302.130300-1-tiwei.btw@antgroup.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 865e3845eeaa21e9a62abc1361644e67124f1ec0 ]

This function is expected to return a boolean value, which should be
true on success and false on failure.

Fixes: d1254b12c93e ("uml: fix x86_64 core dump crash")
Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie &lt;tiwei.btw@antgroup.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240913023302.130300-1-tiwei.btw@antgroup.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: Fix naming clash between UML and scheduler</title>
<updated>2024-02-05T20:14:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Ivanov</name>
<email>anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-21T14:34:44+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 541d4e4d435c8b9bfd29f70a1da4a2db97794e0a ]

__cant_sleep was already used and exported by the scheduler.
The name had to be changed to a UML specific one.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Lafreniere &lt;peter@n8pjl.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 541d4e4d435c8b9bfd29f70a1da4a2db97794e0a ]

__cant_sleep was already used and exported by the scheduler.
The name had to be changed to a UML specific one.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Lafreniere &lt;peter@n8pjl.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch/idle: Change arch_cpu_idle() behavior: always exit with IRQs disabled</title>
<updated>2023-01-13T10:48:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-12T19:43:35+00:00</published>
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Current arch_cpu_idle() is called with IRQs disabled, but will return
with IRQs enabled.

However, the very first thing the generic code does after calling
arch_cpu_idle() is raw_local_irq_disable(). This means that
architectures that can idle with IRQs disabled end up doing a
pointless 'enable-disable' dance.

Therefore, push this IRQ disabling into the idle function, meaning
that those architectures can avoid the pointless IRQ state flipping.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;gautham.shenoy@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; [arm64]
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.618076436@infradead.org
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Current arch_cpu_idle() is called with IRQs disabled, but will return
with IRQs enabled.

However, the very first thing the generic code does after calling
arch_cpu_idle() is raw_local_irq_disable(). This means that
architectures that can idle with IRQs disabled end up doing a
pointless 'enable-disable' dance.

Therefore, push this IRQ disabling into the idle function, meaning
that those architectures can avoid the pointless IRQ state flipping.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;gautham.shenoy@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; [arm64]
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.618076436@infradead.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-elfcore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T02:18:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T02:18:34+00:00</published>
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Pull elf coredumping updates from Al Viro:
 "Unification of regset and non-regset sides of ELF coredump handling.

  Collecting per-thread register values is the only thing that needs to
  be ifdefed there..."

* tag 'pull-elfcore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  [elf] get rid of get_note_info_size()
  [elf] unify regset and non-regset cases
  [elf][non-regset] use elf_core_copy_task_regs() for dumper as well
  [elf][non-regset] uninline elf_core_copy_task_fpregs() (and lose pt_regs argument)
  elf_core_copy_task_regs(): task_pt_regs is defined everywhere
  [elf][regset] simplify thread list handling in fill_note_info()
  [elf][regset] clean fill_note_info() a bit
  kill extern of vsyscall32_sysctl
  kill coredump_params-&gt;regs
  kill signal_pt_regs()
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Pull elf coredumping updates from Al Viro:
 "Unification of regset and non-regset sides of ELF coredump handling.

  Collecting per-thread register values is the only thing that needs to
  be ifdefed there..."

* tag 'pull-elfcore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  [elf] get rid of get_note_info_size()
  [elf] unify regset and non-regset cases
  [elf][non-regset] use elf_core_copy_task_regs() for dumper as well
  [elf][non-regset] uninline elf_core_copy_task_fpregs() (and lose pt_regs argument)
  elf_core_copy_task_regs(): task_pt_regs is defined everywhere
  [elf][regset] simplify thread list handling in fill_note_info()
  [elf][regset] clean fill_note_info() a bit
  kill extern of vsyscall32_sysctl
  kill coredump_params-&gt;regs
  kill signal_pt_regs()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[elf][non-regset] uninline elf_core_copy_task_fpregs() (and lose pt_regs argument)</title>
<updated>2022-11-25T04:24:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-04T00:23:56+00:00</published>
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Don't bother with pointless macros - we are not sharing it with aout coredumps
anymore.  Just convert the underlying functions to the same arguments (nobody
uses regs, actually) and call them elf_core_copy_task_fpregs().  And unexport
the entire bunch, while we are at it.

[added missing includes in arch/{csky,m68k,um}/kernel/process.c to avoid extra
warnings about the lack of externs getting added to huge piles for those
files.  Pointless, but...]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Don't bother with pointless macros - we are not sharing it with aout coredumps
anymore.  Just convert the underlying functions to the same arguments (nobody
uses regs, actually) and call them elf_core_copy_task_fpregs().  And unexport
the entire bunch, while we are at it.

[added missing includes in arch/{csky,m68k,um}/kernel/process.c to avoid extra
warnings about the lack of externs getting added to huge piles for those
files.  Pointless, but...]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function</title>
<updated>2022-11-18T01:15:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-10T02:44:02+00:00</published>
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This is a simple mechanical transformation done by:

@@
expression E;
@@
- prandom_u32_max
+ get_random_u32_below
  (E)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt; # for xfs
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt; # for damon
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt; # for infiniband
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt; # for arm
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt; # for mmc
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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This is a simple mechanical transformation done by:

@@
expression E;
@@
- prandom_u32_max
+ get_random_u32_below
  (E)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt; # for xfs
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt; # for damon
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt; # for infiniband
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt; # for arm
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt; # for mmc
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1</title>
<updated>2022-10-11T23:42:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-05T14:43:38+00:00</published>
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Rather than incurring a division or requesting too many random bytes for
the given range, use the prandom_u32_max() function, which only takes
the minimum required bytes from the RNG and avoids divisions. This was
done mechanically with this coccinelle script:

@basic@
expression E;
type T;
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u64;
@@
(
- ((T)get_random_u32() % (E))
+ prandom_u32_max(E)
|
- ((T)get_random_u32() &amp; ((E) - 1))
+ prandom_u32_max(E * XXX_MAKE_SURE_E_IS_POW2)
|
- ((u64)(E) * get_random_u32() &gt;&gt; 32)
+ prandom_u32_max(E)
|
- ((T)get_random_u32() &amp; ~PAGE_MASK)
+ prandom_u32_max(PAGE_SIZE)
)

@multi_line@
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
identifier RAND;
expression E;
@@

-       RAND = get_random_u32();
        ... when != RAND
-       RAND %= (E);
+       RAND = prandom_u32_max(E);

// Find a potential literal
@literal_mask@
expression LITERAL;
type T;
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
position p;
@@

        ((T)get_random_u32()@p &amp; (LITERAL))

// Add one to the literal.
@script:python add_one@
literal &lt;&lt; literal_mask.LITERAL;
RESULT;
@@

value = None
if literal.startswith('0x'):
        value = int(literal, 16)
elif literal[0] in '123456789':
        value = int(literal, 10)
if value is None:
        print("I don't know how to handle %s" % (literal))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif value == 2**32 - 1 or value == 2**31 - 1 or value == 2**24 - 1 or value == 2**16 - 1 or value == 2**8 - 1:
        print("Skipping 0x%x for cleanup elsewhere" % (value))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif value &amp; (value + 1) != 0:
        print("Skipping 0x%x because it's not a power of two minus one" % (value))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif literal.startswith('0x'):
        coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_expr("0x%x" % (value + 1))
else:
        coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_expr("%d" % (value + 1))

// Replace the literal mask with the calculated result.
@plus_one@
expression literal_mask.LITERAL;
position literal_mask.p;
expression add_one.RESULT;
identifier FUNC;
@@

-       (FUNC()@p &amp; (LITERAL))
+       prandom_u32_max(RESULT)

@collapse_ret@
type T;
identifier VAR;
expression E;
@@

 {
-       T VAR;
-       VAR = (E);
-       return VAR;
+       return E;
 }

@drop_var@
type T;
identifier VAR;
@@

 {
-       T VAR;
        ... when != VAR
 }

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: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt; # for ext4 and sbitmap
Reviewed-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt; # for drbd
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt; # for s390
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt; # for mmc
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt; # for xfs
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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Rather than incurring a division or requesting too many random bytes for
the given range, use the prandom_u32_max() function, which only takes
the minimum required bytes from the RNG and avoids divisions. This was
done mechanically with this coccinelle script:

@basic@
expression E;
type T;
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u64;
@@
(
- ((T)get_random_u32() % (E))
+ prandom_u32_max(E)
|
- ((T)get_random_u32() &amp; ((E) - 1))
+ prandom_u32_max(E * XXX_MAKE_SURE_E_IS_POW2)
|
- ((u64)(E) * get_random_u32() &gt;&gt; 32)
+ prandom_u32_max(E)
|
- ((T)get_random_u32() &amp; ~PAGE_MASK)
+ prandom_u32_max(PAGE_SIZE)
)

@multi_line@
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
identifier RAND;
expression E;
@@

-       RAND = get_random_u32();
        ... when != RAND
-       RAND %= (E);
+       RAND = prandom_u32_max(E);

// Find a potential literal
@literal_mask@
expression LITERAL;
type T;
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
position p;
@@

        ((T)get_random_u32()@p &amp; (LITERAL))

// Add one to the literal.
@script:python add_one@
literal &lt;&lt; literal_mask.LITERAL;
RESULT;
@@

value = None
if literal.startswith('0x'):
        value = int(literal, 16)
elif literal[0] in '123456789':
        value = int(literal, 10)
if value is None:
        print("I don't know how to handle %s" % (literal))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif value == 2**32 - 1 or value == 2**31 - 1 or value == 2**24 - 1 or value == 2**16 - 1 or value == 2**8 - 1:
        print("Skipping 0x%x for cleanup elsewhere" % (value))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif value &amp; (value + 1) != 0:
        print("Skipping 0x%x because it's not a power of two minus one" % (value))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif literal.startswith('0x'):
        coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_expr("0x%x" % (value + 1))
else:
        coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_expr("%d" % (value + 1))

// Replace the literal mask with the calculated result.
@plus_one@
expression literal_mask.LITERAL;
position literal_mask.p;
expression add_one.RESULT;
identifier FUNC;
@@

-       (FUNC()@p &amp; (LITERAL))
+       prandom_u32_max(RESULT)

@collapse_ret@
type T;
identifier VAR;
expression E;
@@

 {
-       T VAR;
-       VAR = (E);
-       return VAR;
+       return E;
 }

@drop_var@
type T;
identifier VAR;
@@

 {
-       T VAR;
        ... when != VAR
 }

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: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt; # for ext4 and sbitmap
Reviewed-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt; # for drbd
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt; # for s390
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt; # for mmc
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt; # for xfs
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ptrace_stop-cleanup-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2022-06-03T23:13:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-03T23:13:25+00:00</published>
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Pull ptrace_stop cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "While looking at the ptrace problems with PREEMPT_RT and the problems
  Peter Zijlstra was encountering with ptrace in his freezer rewrite I
  identified some cleanups to ptrace_stop that make sense on their own
  and move make resolving the other problems much simpler.

  The biggest issue is the habit of the ptrace code to change
  task-&gt;__state from the tracer to suppress TASK_WAKEKILL from waking up
  the tracee. No other code in the kernel does that and it is straight
  forward to update signal_wake_up and friends to make that unnecessary.

  Peter's task freezer sets frozen tasks to a new state TASK_FROZEN and
  then it stores them by calling "wake_up_state(t, TASK_FROZEN)" relying
  on the fact that all stopped states except the special stop states can
  tolerate spurious wake up and recover their state.

  The state of stopped and traced tasked is changed to be stored in
  task-&gt;jobctl as well as in task-&gt;__state. This makes it possible for
  the freezer to recover tasks in these special states, as well as
  serving as a general cleanup. With a little more work in that
  direction I believe TASK_STOPPED can learn to tolerate spurious wake
  ups and become an ordinary stop state.

  The TASK_TRACED state has to remain a special state as the registers
  for a process are only reliably available when the process is stopped
  in the scheduler. Fundamentally ptrace needs acess to the saved
  register values of a task.

  There are bunch of semi-random ptrace related cleanups that were found
  while looking at these issues.

  One cleanup that deserves to be called out is from commit 57b6de08b5f6
  ("ptrace: Admit ptrace_stop can generate spuriuos SIGTRAPs"). This
  makes a change that is technically user space visible, in the handling
  of what happens to a tracee when a tracer dies unexpectedly. According
  to our testing and our understanding of userspace nothing cares that
  spurious SIGTRAPs can be generated in that case"

* tag 'ptrace_stop-cleanup-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  sched,signal,ptrace: Rework TASK_TRACED, TASK_STOPPED state
  ptrace: Always take siglock in ptrace_resume
  ptrace: Don't change __state
  ptrace: Admit ptrace_stop can generate spuriuos SIGTRAPs
  ptrace: Document that wait_task_inactive can't fail
  ptrace: Reimplement PTRACE_KILL by always sending SIGKILL
  signal: Use lockdep_assert_held instead of assert_spin_locked
  ptrace: Remove arch_ptrace_attach
  ptrace/xtensa: Replace PT_SINGLESTEP with TIF_SINGLESTEP
  ptrace/um: Replace PT_DTRACE with TIF_SINGLESTEP
  signal: Replace __group_send_sig_info with send_signal_locked
  signal: Rename send_signal send_signal_locked
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Pull ptrace_stop cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "While looking at the ptrace problems with PREEMPT_RT and the problems
  Peter Zijlstra was encountering with ptrace in his freezer rewrite I
  identified some cleanups to ptrace_stop that make sense on their own
  and move make resolving the other problems much simpler.

  The biggest issue is the habit of the ptrace code to change
  task-&gt;__state from the tracer to suppress TASK_WAKEKILL from waking up
  the tracee. No other code in the kernel does that and it is straight
  forward to update signal_wake_up and friends to make that unnecessary.

  Peter's task freezer sets frozen tasks to a new state TASK_FROZEN and
  then it stores them by calling "wake_up_state(t, TASK_FROZEN)" relying
  on the fact that all stopped states except the special stop states can
  tolerate spurious wake up and recover their state.

  The state of stopped and traced tasked is changed to be stored in
  task-&gt;jobctl as well as in task-&gt;__state. This makes it possible for
  the freezer to recover tasks in these special states, as well as
  serving as a general cleanup. With a little more work in that
  direction I believe TASK_STOPPED can learn to tolerate spurious wake
  ups and become an ordinary stop state.

  The TASK_TRACED state has to remain a special state as the registers
  for a process are only reliably available when the process is stopped
  in the scheduler. Fundamentally ptrace needs acess to the saved
  register values of a task.

  There are bunch of semi-random ptrace related cleanups that were found
  while looking at these issues.

  One cleanup that deserves to be called out is from commit 57b6de08b5f6
  ("ptrace: Admit ptrace_stop can generate spuriuos SIGTRAPs"). This
  makes a change that is technically user space visible, in the handling
  of what happens to a tracee when a tracer dies unexpectedly. According
  to our testing and our understanding of userspace nothing cares that
  spurious SIGTRAPs can be generated in that case"

* tag 'ptrace_stop-cleanup-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  sched,signal,ptrace: Rework TASK_TRACED, TASK_STOPPED state
  ptrace: Always take siglock in ptrace_resume
  ptrace: Don't change __state
  ptrace: Admit ptrace_stop can generate spuriuos SIGTRAPs
  ptrace: Document that wait_task_inactive can't fail
  ptrace: Reimplement PTRACE_KILL by always sending SIGKILL
  signal: Use lockdep_assert_held instead of assert_spin_locked
  ptrace: Remove arch_ptrace_attach
  ptrace/xtensa: Replace PT_SINGLESTEP with TIF_SINGLESTEP
  ptrace/um: Replace PT_DTRACE with TIF_SINGLESTEP
  signal: Replace __group_send_sig_info with send_signal_locked
  signal: Rename send_signal send_signal_locked
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<entry>
<title>ptrace/um: Replace PT_DTRACE with TIF_SINGLESTEP</title>
<updated>2022-05-11T19:33:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-26T21:30:17+00:00</published>
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User mode linux is the last user of the PT_DTRACE flag.  Using the flag to indicate
single stepping is a little confusing and worse changing tsk-&gt;ptrace without locking
could potentionally cause problems.

So use a thread info flag with a better name instead of flag in tsk-&gt;ptrace.

Remove the definition PT_DTRACE as uml is the last user.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220505182645.497868-3-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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User mode linux is the last user of the PT_DTRACE flag.  Using the flag to indicate
single stepping is a little confusing and worse changing tsk-&gt;ptrace without locking
could potentionally cause problems.

So use a thread info flag with a better name instead of flag in tsk-&gt;ptrace.

Remove the definition PT_DTRACE as uml is the last user.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220505182645.497868-3-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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