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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/um/os-Linux, branch v6.7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>um,ethertap: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy()</title>
<updated>2023-09-29T18:37:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Justin Stitt</name>
<email>justinstitt@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-11T17:52:44+00:00</published>
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`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].

`gate_buf` should always be NUL-terminated and does not require
NUL-padding. It is used as a string arg inside an argv array given to
`run_helper()`. Due to this, let's use `strscpy` as it guarantees
NUL-terminated on the destination buffer preventing potential buffer
overreads [2].

This exact invocation was changed from `strcpy` to `strncpy` in commit
7879b1d94badb ("um,ethertap: use strncpy") back in 2015. Let's continue
hardening our `str*cpy` apis and use the newer and safer `strscpy`!

Link: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings[1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230911-strncpy-arch-um-os-linux-drivers-ethertap_user-c-v1-1-d9e53f52ab32@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].

`gate_buf` should always be NUL-terminated and does not require
NUL-padding. It is used as a string arg inside an argv array given to
`run_helper()`. Due to this, let's use `strscpy` as it guarantees
NUL-terminated on the destination buffer preventing potential buffer
overreads [2].

This exact invocation was changed from `strcpy` to `strncpy` in commit
7879b1d94badb ("um,ethertap: use strncpy") back in 2015. Let's continue
hardening our `str*cpy` apis and use the newer and safer `strscpy`!

Link: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings[1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230911-strncpy-arch-um-os-linux-drivers-ethertap_user-c-v1-1-d9e53f52ab32@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'hardening-v6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T19:59:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T19:59:45+00:00</published>
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Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "As has become normal, changes are scattered around the tree (either
  explicitly maintainer Acked or for trivial stuff that went ignored):

   - Carve out the new CONFIG_LIST_HARDENED as a more focused subset of
     CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST (Marco Elver)

   - Fix kallsyms lookup failure under Clang LTO (Yonghong Song)

   - Clarify documentation for CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP (Jann Horn)

   - Flexible array member conversion not carried in other tree (Gustavo
     A. R. Silva)

   - Various strlcpy() and strncpy() removals not carried in other trees
     (Azeem Shaikh, Justin Stitt)

   - Convert nsproxy.count to refcount_t (Elena Reshetova)

   - Add handful of __counted_by annotations not carried in other trees,
     as well as an LKDTM test

   - Fix build failure with gcc-plugins on GCC 14+

   - Fix selftests to respect SKIP for signal-delivery tests

   - Fix CFI warning for paravirt callback prototype

   - Clarify documentation for seq_show_option_n() usage"

* tag 'hardening-v6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (23 commits)
  LoadPin: Annotate struct dm_verity_loadpin_trusted_root_digest with __counted_by
  kallsyms: Change func signature for cleanup_symbol_name()
  kallsyms: Fix kallsyms_selftest failure
  nsproxy: Convert nsproxy.count to refcount_t
  integrity: Annotate struct ima_rule_opt_list with __counted_by
  lkdtm: Add FAM_BOUNDS test for __counted_by
  Compiler Attributes: counted_by: Adjust name and identifier expansion
  um: refactor deprecated strncpy to memcpy
  um: vector: refactor deprecated strncpy
  alpha: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
  hardening: Move BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION to hardening options
  list: Introduce CONFIG_LIST_HARDENED
  list_debug: Introduce inline wrappers for debug checks
  compiler_types: Introduce the Clang __preserve_most function attribute
  gcc-plugins: Rename last_stmt() for GCC 14+
  selftests/harness: Actually report SKIP for signal tests
  x86/paravirt: Fix tlb_remove_table function callback prototype warning
  EISA: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
  perf: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
  um: Remove strlcpy declaration
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Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "As has become normal, changes are scattered around the tree (either
  explicitly maintainer Acked or for trivial stuff that went ignored):

   - Carve out the new CONFIG_LIST_HARDENED as a more focused subset of
     CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST (Marco Elver)

   - Fix kallsyms lookup failure under Clang LTO (Yonghong Song)

   - Clarify documentation for CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP (Jann Horn)

   - Flexible array member conversion not carried in other tree (Gustavo
     A. R. Silva)

   - Various strlcpy() and strncpy() removals not carried in other trees
     (Azeem Shaikh, Justin Stitt)

   - Convert nsproxy.count to refcount_t (Elena Reshetova)

   - Add handful of __counted_by annotations not carried in other trees,
     as well as an LKDTM test

   - Fix build failure with gcc-plugins on GCC 14+

   - Fix selftests to respect SKIP for signal-delivery tests

   - Fix CFI warning for paravirt callback prototype

   - Clarify documentation for seq_show_option_n() usage"

* tag 'hardening-v6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (23 commits)
  LoadPin: Annotate struct dm_verity_loadpin_trusted_root_digest with __counted_by
  kallsyms: Change func signature for cleanup_symbol_name()
  kallsyms: Fix kallsyms_selftest failure
  nsproxy: Convert nsproxy.count to refcount_t
  integrity: Annotate struct ima_rule_opt_list with __counted_by
  lkdtm: Add FAM_BOUNDS test for __counted_by
  Compiler Attributes: counted_by: Adjust name and identifier expansion
  um: refactor deprecated strncpy to memcpy
  um: vector: refactor deprecated strncpy
  alpha: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
  hardening: Move BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION to hardening options
  list: Introduce CONFIG_LIST_HARDENED
  list_debug: Introduce inline wrappers for debug checks
  compiler_types: Introduce the Clang __preserve_most function attribute
  gcc-plugins: Rename last_stmt() for GCC 14+
  selftests/harness: Actually report SKIP for signal tests
  x86/paravirt: Fix tlb_remove_table function callback prototype warning
  EISA: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
  perf: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
  um: Remove strlcpy declaration
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "um: Use swap() to make code cleaner"</title>
<updated>2023-07-27T20:07:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-24T14:31:31+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 9b0da3f22307af693be80f5d3a89dc4c7f360a85.

The sigio.c is clearly user space code which is handled by
arch/um/scripts/Makefile.rules (see USER_OBJS rule).

The above mentioned commit simply broke this agreement,
we may not use Linux kernel internal headers in them without
thorough thinking.

Hence, revert the wrong commit.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230724143131.30090-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202307212304.cH79zJp1-lkp@intel.com/
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: Herve Codina &lt;herve.codina@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Yang Guang &lt;yang.guang5@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 9b0da3f22307af693be80f5d3a89dc4c7f360a85.

The sigio.c is clearly user space code which is handled by
arch/um/scripts/Makefile.rules (see USER_OBJS rule).

The above mentioned commit simply broke this agreement,
we may not use Linux kernel internal headers in them without
thorough thinking.

Hence, revert the wrong commit.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230724143131.30090-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202307212304.cH79zJp1-lkp@intel.com/
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: Herve Codina &lt;herve.codina@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Yang Guang &lt;yang.guang5@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: Remove strlcpy declaration</title>
<updated>2023-07-27T15:51:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Azeem Shaikh</name>
<email>azeemshaikh38@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-03T16:06:41+00:00</published>
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strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
This read may exceed the destination size limit.
This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
strlcpy() here with strscpy().
No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89

Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh &lt;azeemshaikh38@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230703160641.1790935-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
This read may exceed the destination size limit.
This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
strlcpy() here with strscpy().
No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89

Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh &lt;azeemshaikh38@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230703160641.1790935-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2023-07-01T16:24:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-01T16:24:31+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove the deprecated rule to build *.dtbo from *.dts

 - Refactor section mismatch detection in modpost

 - Fix bogus ARM section mismatch detections

 - Fix error of 'make gtags' with O= option

 - Add Clang's target triple to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS to fix a build error
   with the latest LLVM version

 - Rebuild the built-in initrd when KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is changed

 - Ignore more compiler-generated symbols for kallsyms

 - Fix 'make local*config' to handle the ${CONFIG_FOO} form in Makefiles

 - Enable more kernel-doc warnings with W=2

 - Refactor &lt;linux/export.h&gt; by generating KSYMTAB data by modpost

 - Deprecate &lt;asm/export.h&gt; and &lt;asm-generic/export.h&gt;

 - Remove the EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL macro

 - Move the check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL back to modpost, which makes
   the build faster

 - Re-implement CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS with one-pass algorithm

 - Warn missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION when building modules with W=1

 - Make 'make clean' robust against too long argument error

 - Exclude more objects from GCOV to fix CFI failures with GCOV

 - Allow 'make modules_install' to install modules.builtin and
   modules.builtin.modinfo even when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled

 - Include modules.builtin and modules.builtin.modinfo in the
   linux-image Debian package even when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled

 - Revive "Entering directory" logging for the latest Make version

* tag 'kbuild-v6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (72 commits)
  modpost: define more R_ARM_* for old distributions
  kbuild: revive "Entering directory" for Make &gt;= 4.4.1
  kbuild: set correct abs_srctree and abs_objtree for package builds
  scripts/mksysmap: Ignore prefixed KCFI symbols
  kbuild: deb-pkg: remove the CONFIG_MODULES check in buildeb
  kbuild: builddeb: always make modules_install, to install modules.builtin*
  modpost: continue even with unknown relocation type
  modpost: factor out Elf_Sym pointer calculation to section_rel()
  modpost: factor out inst location calculation to section_rel()
  kbuild: Disable GCOV for *.mod.o
  kbuild: Fix CFI failures with GCOV
  kbuild: make clean rule robust against too long argument error
  script: modpost: emit a warning when the description is missing
  kbuild: make modules_install copy modules.builtin(.modinfo)
  linux/export.h: rename 'sec' argument to 'license'
  modpost: show offset from symbol for section mismatch warnings
  modpost: merge two similar section mismatch warnings
  kbuild: implement CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS without recursion
  modpost: use null string instead of NULL pointer for default namespace
  modpost: squash sym_update_namespace() into sym_add_exported()
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove the deprecated rule to build *.dtbo from *.dts

 - Refactor section mismatch detection in modpost

 - Fix bogus ARM section mismatch detections

 - Fix error of 'make gtags' with O= option

 - Add Clang's target triple to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS to fix a build error
   with the latest LLVM version

 - Rebuild the built-in initrd when KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is changed

 - Ignore more compiler-generated symbols for kallsyms

 - Fix 'make local*config' to handle the ${CONFIG_FOO} form in Makefiles

 - Enable more kernel-doc warnings with W=2

 - Refactor &lt;linux/export.h&gt; by generating KSYMTAB data by modpost

 - Deprecate &lt;asm/export.h&gt; and &lt;asm-generic/export.h&gt;

 - Remove the EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL macro

 - Move the check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL back to modpost, which makes
   the build faster

 - Re-implement CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS with one-pass algorithm

 - Warn missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION when building modules with W=1

 - Make 'make clean' robust against too long argument error

 - Exclude more objects from GCOV to fix CFI failures with GCOV

 - Allow 'make modules_install' to install modules.builtin and
   modules.builtin.modinfo even when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled

 - Include modules.builtin and modules.builtin.modinfo in the
   linux-image Debian package even when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled

 - Revive "Entering directory" logging for the latest Make version

* tag 'kbuild-v6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (72 commits)
  modpost: define more R_ARM_* for old distributions
  kbuild: revive "Entering directory" for Make &gt;= 4.4.1
  kbuild: set correct abs_srctree and abs_objtree for package builds
  scripts/mksysmap: Ignore prefixed KCFI symbols
  kbuild: deb-pkg: remove the CONFIG_MODULES check in buildeb
  kbuild: builddeb: always make modules_install, to install modules.builtin*
  modpost: continue even with unknown relocation type
  modpost: factor out Elf_Sym pointer calculation to section_rel()
  modpost: factor out inst location calculation to section_rel()
  kbuild: Disable GCOV for *.mod.o
  kbuild: Fix CFI failures with GCOV
  kbuild: make clean rule robust against too long argument error
  script: modpost: emit a warning when the description is missing
  kbuild: make modules_install copy modules.builtin(.modinfo)
  linux/export.h: rename 'sec' argument to 'license'
  modpost: show offset from symbol for section mismatch warnings
  modpost: merge two similar section mismatch warnings
  kbuild: implement CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS without recursion
  modpost: use null string instead of NULL pointer for default namespace
  modpost: squash sym_update_namespace() into sym_add_exported()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>uml: Replace strlcpy with strscpy</title>
<updated>2023-06-20T20:35:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Azeem Shaikh</name>
<email>azeemshaikh38@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-14T00:36:04+00:00</published>
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strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
This read may exceed the destination size limit.
This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
strlcpy() here with strscpy().
No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89

Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh &lt;azeemshaikh38@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230614003604.1021205-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com
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strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
This read may exceed the destination size limit.
This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
strlcpy() here with strscpy().
No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89

Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh &lt;azeemshaikh38@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230614003604.1021205-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "[PATCH] uml: export symbols added by GCC hardened"</title>
<updated>2023-06-14T19:47:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-10T09:13:10+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit cead61a6717a9873426b08d73a34a325e3546f5d.

It exported __stack_smash_handler and __guard, while they may not be
defined by anyone.

The code *declares* __stack_smash_handler and __guard. It does not
create weak symbols. If no external library is linked, they are left
undefined, but yet exported.

If a loadable module tries to access non-existing symbols, bad things
(a page fault, NULL pointer dereference, etc.) will happen. So, the
current code is wrong and dangerous.

If the code were written as follows, it would *define* them as weak
symbols so modules would be able to get access to them.

  void (*__stack_smash_handler)(void *) __attribute__((weak));
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_smash_handler);

  long __guard __attribute__((weak));
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__guard);

In fact, modpost forbids exporting undefined symbols. It shows an error
message if it detects such a mistake.

  ERROR: modpost: "..." [...] was exported without definition

Unfortunately, it is checked only when the code is built as modular.
The problem described above has been unnoticed for a long time because
arch/um/os-Linux/user_syms.c is always built-in.

With a planned change in Kbuild, exporting undefined symbols will always
result in a build error instead of a run-time error. It is a good thing,
but we need to fix the breakage in advance.

One fix is to define weak symbols as shown above. An alternative is to
export them conditionally as follows:

  #ifdef CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR
  extern void __stack_smash_handler(void *);
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_smash_handler);

  external long __guard;
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__guard);
  #endif

This is what other architectures do; EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_guard)
is guarded by #ifdef CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR.

However, adding the #ifdef guard is not sensible because UML cannot
enable the stack-protector in the first place! (Please note UML does
not select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR in Kconfig.)

So, the code is already broken (and unused) in multiple ways.

Just remove.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
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This reverts commit cead61a6717a9873426b08d73a34a325e3546f5d.

It exported __stack_smash_handler and __guard, while they may not be
defined by anyone.

The code *declares* __stack_smash_handler and __guard. It does not
create weak symbols. If no external library is linked, they are left
undefined, but yet exported.

If a loadable module tries to access non-existing symbols, bad things
(a page fault, NULL pointer dereference, etc.) will happen. So, the
current code is wrong and dangerous.

If the code were written as follows, it would *define* them as weak
symbols so modules would be able to get access to them.

  void (*__stack_smash_handler)(void *) __attribute__((weak));
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_smash_handler);

  long __guard __attribute__((weak));
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__guard);

In fact, modpost forbids exporting undefined symbols. It shows an error
message if it detects such a mistake.

  ERROR: modpost: "..." [...] was exported without definition

Unfortunately, it is checked only when the code is built as modular.
The problem described above has been unnoticed for a long time because
arch/um/os-Linux/user_syms.c is always built-in.

With a planned change in Kbuild, exporting undefined symbols will always
result in a build error instead of a run-time error. It is a good thing,
but we need to fix the breakage in advance.

One fix is to define weak symbols as shown above. An alternative is to
export them conditionally as follows:

  #ifdef CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR
  extern void __stack_smash_handler(void *);
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_smash_handler);

  external long __guard;
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__guard);
  #endif

This is what other architectures do; EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_guard)
is guarded by #ifdef CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR.

However, adding the #ifdef guard is not sensible because UML cannot
enable the stack-protector in the first place! (Please note UML does
not select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR in Kconfig.)

So, the code is already broken (and unused) in multiple ways.

Just remove.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'uml-for-linus-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux</title>
<updated>2023-05-04T02:02:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-04T02:02:03+00:00</published>
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Pull uml updates from Richard Weinberger:

 - Make stub data pages configurable

 - Make it harder to mix user and kernel code by accident

* tag 'uml-for-linus-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux:
  um: make stub data pages size tweakable
  um: prevent user code in modules
  um: further clean up user_syms
  um: don't export printf()
  um: hostfs: define our own API boundary
  um: add __weak for exported functions
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Pull uml updates from Richard Weinberger:

 - Make stub data pages configurable

 - Make it harder to mix user and kernel code by accident

* tag 'uml-for-linus-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux:
  um: make stub data pages size tweakable
  um: prevent user code in modules
  um: further clean up user_syms
  um: don't export printf()
  um: hostfs: define our own API boundary
  um: add __weak for exported functions
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<entry>
<title>um: make stub data pages size tweakable</title>
<updated>2023-04-20T21:08:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-14T13:46:39+00:00</published>
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There's a lot of code here that hard-codes that the
data is a single page, and right now that seems to
be sufficient, but to make it easier to change this
in the future, add a new STUB_DATA_PAGES constant
and use it throughout the code.

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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There's a lot of code here that hard-codes that the
data is a single page, and right now that seems to
be sufficient, but to make it easier to change this
in the future, add a new STUB_DATA_PAGES constant
and use it throughout the code.

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>
<entry>
<title>um: further clean up user_syms</title>
<updated>2023-04-20T21:05:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-10T21:05:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5d90cf6dcc6a4cb85a51ffe007a8e34375799164'/>
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Make some cleanups, add and fix some comments and document
here that we shouldn't export (libc) symbols for "_user.c"
code, rather such should work like hostfs does now.

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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Make some cleanups, add and fix some comments and document
here that we shouldn't export (libc) symbols for "_user.c"
code, rather such should work like hostfs does now.

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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