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<title>Merge branch 'exit-cleanups-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2021-11-11T00:15:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-11T00:15:54+00:00</published>
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Pull exit cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "While looking at some issues related to the exit path in the kernel I
  found several instances where the code is not using the existing
  abstractions properly.

  This set of changes introduces force_fatal_sig a way of sending a
  signal and not allowing it to be caught, and corrects the misuse of
  the existing abstractions that I found.

  A lot of the misuse of the existing abstractions are silly things such
  as doing something after calling a no return function, rolling BUG by
  hand, doing more work than necessary to terminate a kernel thread, or
  calling do_exit(SIGKILL) instead of calling force_sig(SIGKILL).

  In the review a deficiency in force_fatal_sig and force_sig_seccomp
  where ptrace or sigaction could prevent the delivery of the signal was
  found. I have added a change that adds SA_IMMUTABLE to change that
  makes it impossible to interrupt the delivery of those signals, and
  allows backporting to fix force_sig_seccomp

  And Arnd found an issue where a function passed to kthread_run had the
  wrong prototype, and after my cleanup was failing to build."

* 'exit-cleanups-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (23 commits)
  soc: ti: fix wkup_m3_rproc_boot_thread return type
  signal: Add SA_IMMUTABLE to ensure forced siganls do not get changed
  signal: Replace force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV) with force_fatal_sig(SIGSEGV)
  exit/r8188eu: Replace the macro thread_exit with a simple return 0
  exit/rtl8712: Replace the macro thread_exit with a simple return 0
  exit/rtl8723bs: Replace the macro thread_exit with a simple return 0
  signal/x86: In emulate_vsyscall force a signal instead of calling do_exit
  signal/sparc32: In setup_rt_frame and setup_fram use force_fatal_sig
  signal/sparc32: Exit with a fatal signal when try_to_clear_window_buffer fails
  exit/syscall_user_dispatch: Send ordinary signals on failure
  signal: Implement force_fatal_sig
  exit/kthread: Have kernel threads return instead of calling do_exit
  signal/s390: Use force_sigsegv in default_trap_handler
  signal/vm86_32: Properly send SIGSEGV when the vm86 state cannot be saved.
  signal/vm86_32: Replace open coded BUG_ON with an actual BUG_ON
  signal/sparc: In setup_tsb_params convert open coded BUG into BUG
  signal/powerpc: On swapcontext failure force SIGSEGV
  signal/sh: Use force_sig(SIGKILL) instead of do_group_exit(SIGKILL)
  signal/mips: Update (_save|_restore)_fp_context to fail with -EFAULT
  signal/sparc32: Remove unreachable do_exit in do_sparc_fault
  ...
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Pull exit cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "While looking at some issues related to the exit path in the kernel I
  found several instances where the code is not using the existing
  abstractions properly.

  This set of changes introduces force_fatal_sig a way of sending a
  signal and not allowing it to be caught, and corrects the misuse of
  the existing abstractions that I found.

  A lot of the misuse of the existing abstractions are silly things such
  as doing something after calling a no return function, rolling BUG by
  hand, doing more work than necessary to terminate a kernel thread, or
  calling do_exit(SIGKILL) instead of calling force_sig(SIGKILL).

  In the review a deficiency in force_fatal_sig and force_sig_seccomp
  where ptrace or sigaction could prevent the delivery of the signal was
  found. I have added a change that adds SA_IMMUTABLE to change that
  makes it impossible to interrupt the delivery of those signals, and
  allows backporting to fix force_sig_seccomp

  And Arnd found an issue where a function passed to kthread_run had the
  wrong prototype, and after my cleanup was failing to build."

* 'exit-cleanups-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (23 commits)
  soc: ti: fix wkup_m3_rproc_boot_thread return type
  signal: Add SA_IMMUTABLE to ensure forced siganls do not get changed
  signal: Replace force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV) with force_fatal_sig(SIGSEGV)
  exit/r8188eu: Replace the macro thread_exit with a simple return 0
  exit/rtl8712: Replace the macro thread_exit with a simple return 0
  exit/rtl8723bs: Replace the macro thread_exit with a simple return 0
  signal/x86: In emulate_vsyscall force a signal instead of calling do_exit
  signal/sparc32: In setup_rt_frame and setup_fram use force_fatal_sig
  signal/sparc32: Exit with a fatal signal when try_to_clear_window_buffer fails
  exit/syscall_user_dispatch: Send ordinary signals on failure
  signal: Implement force_fatal_sig
  exit/kthread: Have kernel threads return instead of calling do_exit
  signal/s390: Use force_sigsegv in default_trap_handler
  signal/vm86_32: Properly send SIGSEGV when the vm86 state cannot be saved.
  signal/vm86_32: Replace open coded BUG_ON with an actual BUG_ON
  signal/sparc: In setup_tsb_params convert open coded BUG into BUG
  signal/powerpc: On swapcontext failure force SIGSEGV
  signal/sh: Use force_sig(SIGKILL) instead of do_group_exit(SIGKILL)
  signal/mips: Update (_save|_restore)_fp_context to fail with -EFAULT
  signal/sparc32: Remove unreachable do_exit in do_sparc_fault
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2021-11-06T21:08:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-06T21:08:17+00:00</published>
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "257 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and
  mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache,
  gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc,
  pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools,
  memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm,
  vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram,
  cleanups, kfence, and damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (257 commits)
  mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback
  mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message
  mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands
  mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on
  mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization
  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM
  mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)
  selftests/damon: support watermarks
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks
  mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism
  tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights
  mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization
  mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas
  mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes
  ...
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<pre>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "257 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and
  mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache,
  gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc,
  pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools,
  memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm,
  vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram,
  cleanups, kfence, and damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (257 commits)
  mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback
  mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message
  mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands
  mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on
  mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization
  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM
  mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)
  selftests/damon: support watermarks
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks
  mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism
  tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights
  mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization
  mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas
  mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes
  ...
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<entry>
<title>memblock: use memblock_free for freeing virtual pointers</title>
<updated>2021-11-06T20:30:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-05T20:43:22+00:00</published>
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Rename memblock_free_ptr() to memblock_free() and use memblock_free()
when freeing a virtual pointer so that memblock_free() will be a
counterpart of memblock_alloc()

The callers are updated with the below semantic patch and manual
addition of (void *) casting to pointers that are represented by
unsigned long variables.

    @@
    identifier vaddr;
    expression size;
    @@
    (
    - memblock_phys_free(__pa(vaddr), size);
    + memblock_free(vaddr, size);
    |
    - memblock_free_ptr(vaddr, size);
    + memblock_free(vaddr, size);
    )

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211018192940.3d1d532f@canb.auug.org.au

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930185031.18648-7-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Shahab Vahedi &lt;Shahab.Vahedi@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Rename memblock_free_ptr() to memblock_free() and use memblock_free()
when freeing a virtual pointer so that memblock_free() will be a
counterpart of memblock_alloc()

The callers are updated with the below semantic patch and manual
addition of (void *) casting to pointers that are represented by
unsigned long variables.

    @@
    identifier vaddr;
    expression size;
    @@
    (
    - memblock_phys_free(__pa(vaddr), size);
    + memblock_free(vaddr, size);
    |
    - memblock_free_ptr(vaddr, size);
    + memblock_free(vaddr, size);
    )

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211018192940.3d1d532f@canb.auug.org.au

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930185031.18648-7-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Shahab Vahedi &lt;Shahab.Vahedi@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>memblock: rename memblock_free to memblock_phys_free</title>
<updated>2021-11-06T20:30:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-05T20:43:19+00:00</published>
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Since memblock_free() operates on a physical range, make its name
reflect it and rename it to memblock_phys_free(), so it will be a
logical counterpart to memblock_phys_alloc().

The callers are updated with the below semantic patch:

    @@
    expression addr;
    expression size;
    @@
    - memblock_free(addr, size);
    + memblock_phys_free(addr, size);

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930185031.18648-6-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Shahab Vahedi &lt;Shahab.Vahedi@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Since memblock_free() operates on a physical range, make its name
reflect it and rename it to memblock_phys_free(), so it will be a
logical counterpart to memblock_phys_alloc().

The callers are updated with the below semantic patch:

    @@
    expression addr;
    expression size;
    @@
    - memblock_free(addr, size);
    + memblock_phys_free(addr, size);

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930185031.18648-6-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Shahab Vahedi &lt;Shahab.Vahedi@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2021-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-11-01T20:48:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-01T20:48:52+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Revert the printk format based wchan() symbol resolution as it can
   leak the raw value in case that the symbol is not resolvable.

 - Make wchan() more robust and work with all kind of unwinders by
   enforcing that the task stays blocked while unwinding is in progress.

 - Prevent sched_fork() from accessing an invalid sched_task_group

 - Improve asymmetric packing logic

 - Extend scheduler statistics to RT and DL scheduling classes and add
   statistics for bandwith burst to the SCHED_FAIR class.

 - Properly account SCHED_IDLE entities

 - Prevent a potential deadlock when initial priority is assigned to a
   newly created kthread. A recent change to plug a race between cpuset
   and __sched_setscheduler() introduced a new lock dependency which is
   now triggered. Break the lock dependency chain by moving the priority
   assignment to the thread function.

 - Fix the idle time reporting in /proc/uptime for NOHZ enabled systems.

 - Improve idle balancing in general and especially for NOHZ enabled
   systems.

 - Provide proper interfaces for live patching so it does not have to
   fiddle with scheduler internals.

 - Add cluster aware scheduling support.

 - A small set of tweaks for RT (irqwork, wait_task_inactive(), various
   scheduler options and delaying mmdrop)

 - The usual small tweaks and improvements all over the place

* tag 'sched-core-2021-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (69 commits)
  sched/fair: Cleanup newidle_balance
  sched/fair: Remove sysctl_sched_migration_cost condition
  sched/fair: Wait before decaying max_newidle_lb_cost
  sched/fair: Skip update_blocked_averages if we are defering load balance
  sched/fair: Account update_blocked_averages in newidle_balance cost
  x86: Fix __get_wchan() for !STACKTRACE
  sched,x86: Fix L2 cache mask
  sched/core: Remove rq_relock()
  sched: Improve wake_up_all_idle_cpus() take #2
  irq_work: Also rcuwait for !IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ on PREEMPT_RT
  irq_work: Handle some irq_work in a per-CPU thread on PREEMPT_RT
  irq_work: Allow irq_work_sync() to sleep if irq_work() no IRQ support.
  sched/rt: Annotate the RT balancing logic irqwork as IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ
  sched: Add cluster scheduler level for x86
  sched: Add cluster scheduler level in core and related Kconfig for ARM64
  topology: Represent clusters of CPUs within a die
  sched: Disable -Wunused-but-set-variable
  sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked
  x86: Fix get_wchan() to support the ORC unwinder
  proc: Use task_is_running() for wchan in /proc/$pid/stat
  ...
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Revert the printk format based wchan() symbol resolution as it can
   leak the raw value in case that the symbol is not resolvable.

 - Make wchan() more robust and work with all kind of unwinders by
   enforcing that the task stays blocked while unwinding is in progress.

 - Prevent sched_fork() from accessing an invalid sched_task_group

 - Improve asymmetric packing logic

 - Extend scheduler statistics to RT and DL scheduling classes and add
   statistics for bandwith burst to the SCHED_FAIR class.

 - Properly account SCHED_IDLE entities

 - Prevent a potential deadlock when initial priority is assigned to a
   newly created kthread. A recent change to plug a race between cpuset
   and __sched_setscheduler() introduced a new lock dependency which is
   now triggered. Break the lock dependency chain by moving the priority
   assignment to the thread function.

 - Fix the idle time reporting in /proc/uptime for NOHZ enabled systems.

 - Improve idle balancing in general and especially for NOHZ enabled
   systems.

 - Provide proper interfaces for live patching so it does not have to
   fiddle with scheduler internals.

 - Add cluster aware scheduling support.

 - A small set of tweaks for RT (irqwork, wait_task_inactive(), various
   scheduler options and delaying mmdrop)

 - The usual small tweaks and improvements all over the place

* tag 'sched-core-2021-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (69 commits)
  sched/fair: Cleanup newidle_balance
  sched/fair: Remove sysctl_sched_migration_cost condition
  sched/fair: Wait before decaying max_newidle_lb_cost
  sched/fair: Skip update_blocked_averages if we are defering load balance
  sched/fair: Account update_blocked_averages in newidle_balance cost
  x86: Fix __get_wchan() for !STACKTRACE
  sched,x86: Fix L2 cache mask
  sched/core: Remove rq_relock()
  sched: Improve wake_up_all_idle_cpus() take #2
  irq_work: Also rcuwait for !IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ on PREEMPT_RT
  irq_work: Handle some irq_work in a per-CPU thread on PREEMPT_RT
  irq_work: Allow irq_work_sync() to sleep if irq_work() no IRQ support.
  sched/rt: Annotate the RT balancing logic irqwork as IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ
  sched: Add cluster scheduler level for x86
  sched: Add cluster scheduler level in core and related Kconfig for ARM64
  topology: Represent clusters of CPUs within a die
  sched: Disable -Wunused-but-set-variable
  sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked
  x86: Fix get_wchan() to support the ORC unwinder
  proc: Use task_is_running() for wchan in /proc/$pid/stat
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Replace force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV) with force_fatal_sig(SIGSEGV)</title>
<updated>2021-10-29T19:31:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-25T15:50:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e21294a7aaae32c5d7154b187113a04db5852e37'/>
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<content type='text'>
Now that force_fatal_sig exists it is unnecessary and a bit confusing
to use force_sigsegv in cases where the simpler force_fatal_sig is
wanted.  So change every instance we can to make the code clearer.

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé &lt;f4bug@amsat.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/877de7jrev.fsf@disp2133
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<pre>
Now that force_fatal_sig exists it is unnecessary and a bit confusing
to use force_sigsegv in cases where the simpler force_fatal_sig is
wanted.  So change every instance we can to make the code clearer.

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé &lt;f4bug@amsat.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/877de7jrev.fsf@disp2133
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/alternative: Implement .retpoline_sites support</title>
<updated>2021-10-28T21:25:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T12:01:42+00:00</published>
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Rewrite retpoline thunk call sites to be indirect calls for
spectre_v2=off. This ensures spectre_v2=off is as near to a
RETPOLINE=n build as possible.

This is the replacement for objtool writing alternative entries to
ensure the same and achieves feature-parity with the previous
approach.

One noteworthy feature is that it relies on the thunks to be in
machine order to compute the register index.

Specifically, this does not yet address the Jcc __x86_indirect_thunk_*
calls generated by clang, a future patch will add this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120310.232495794@infradead.org
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Rewrite retpoline thunk call sites to be indirect calls for
spectre_v2=off. This ensures spectre_v2=off is as near to a
RETPOLINE=n build as possible.

This is the replacement for objtool writing alternative entries to
ensure the same and achieves feature-parity with the previous
approach.

One noteworthy feature is that it relies on the thunks to be in
machine order to compute the register index.

Specifically, this does not yet address the Jcc __x86_indirect_thunk_*
calls generated by clang, a future patch will add this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120310.232495794@infradead.org
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<title>sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked</title>
<updated>2021-10-15T09:25:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-29T22:02:14+00:00</published>
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Having a stable wchan means the process must be blocked and for it to
stay that way while performing stack unwinding.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt; [arm]
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; [arm64]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211008111626.332092234@infradead.org
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Having a stable wchan means the process must be blocked and for it to
stay that way while performing stack unwinding.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt; [arm]
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; [arm64]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211008111626.332092234@infradead.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-5.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml</title>
<updated>2021-09-09T20:45:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-09T20:45:26+00:00</published>
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Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger:

 - Support for VMAP_STACK

 - Support for splice_write in hostfs

 - Fixes for virt-pci

 - Fixes for virtio_uml

 - Various fixes

* tag 'for-linus-5.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml:
  um: fix stub location calculation
  um: virt-pci: fix uapi documentation
  um: enable VMAP_STACK
  um: virt-pci: don't do DMA from stack
  hostfs: support splice_write
  um: virtio_uml: fix memory leak on init failures
  um: virtio_uml: include linux/virtio-uml.h
  lib/logic_iomem: fix sparse warnings
  um: make PCI emulation driver init/exit static
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Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger:

 - Support for VMAP_STACK

 - Support for splice_write in hostfs

 - Fixes for virt-pci

 - Fixes for virtio_uml

 - Various fixes

* tag 'for-linus-5.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml:
  um: fix stub location calculation
  um: virt-pci: fix uapi documentation
  um: enable VMAP_STACK
  um: virt-pci: don't do DMA from stack
  hostfs: support splice_write
  um: virtio_uml: fix memory leak on init failures
  um: virtio_uml: include linux/virtio-uml.h
  lib/logic_iomem: fix sparse warnings
  um: make PCI emulation driver init/exit static
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2021-09-08T19:55:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-08T19:55:35+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "147 patches, based on 7d2a07b769330c34b4deabeed939325c77a7ec2f.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memory-hotplug, rmap,
  ioremap, highmem, cleanups, secretmem, kfence, damon, and vmscan),
  alpha, percpu, procfs, misc, core-kernel, MAINTAINERS, lib,
  checkpatch, epoll, init, nilfs2, coredump, fork, pids, criu, kconfig,
  selftests, ipc, and scripts"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (94 commits)
  scripts: check_extable: fix typo in user error message
  mm/workingset: correct kernel-doc notations
  ipc: replace costly bailout check in sysvipc_find_ipc()
  selftests/memfd: remove unused variable
  Kconfig.debug: drop selecting non-existing HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
  configs: remove the obsolete CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV
  prctl: allow to setup brk for et_dyn executables
  pid: cleanup the stale comment mentioning pidmap_init().
  kernel/fork.c: unexport get_{mm,task}_exe_file
  coredump: fix memleak in dump_vma_snapshot()
  fs/coredump.c: log if a core dump is aborted due to changed file permissions
  nilfs2: use refcount_dec_and_lock() to fix potential UAF
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group
  nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group
  trap: cleanup trap_init()
  init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs()
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "147 patches, based on 7d2a07b769330c34b4deabeed939325c77a7ec2f.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memory-hotplug, rmap,
  ioremap, highmem, cleanups, secretmem, kfence, damon, and vmscan),
  alpha, percpu, procfs, misc, core-kernel, MAINTAINERS, lib,
  checkpatch, epoll, init, nilfs2, coredump, fork, pids, criu, kconfig,
  selftests, ipc, and scripts"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (94 commits)
  scripts: check_extable: fix typo in user error message
  mm/workingset: correct kernel-doc notations
  ipc: replace costly bailout check in sysvipc_find_ipc()
  selftests/memfd: remove unused variable
  Kconfig.debug: drop selecting non-existing HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
  configs: remove the obsolete CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV
  prctl: allow to setup brk for et_dyn executables
  pid: cleanup the stale comment mentioning pidmap_init().
  kernel/fork.c: unexport get_{mm,task}_exe_file
  coredump: fix memleak in dump_vma_snapshot()
  fs/coredump.c: log if a core dump is aborted due to changed file permissions
  nilfs2: use refcount_dec_and_lock() to fix potential UAF
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group
  nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group
  trap: cleanup trap_init()
  init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs()
  ...
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