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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Fix bootup crashes by sanitizing the argument of the 'clearcpuid=' command-line option</title>
<updated>2017-06-07T22:46:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukasz Odzioba</name>
<email>lukasz.odzioba@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-28T13:55:40+00:00</published>
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commit dd853fd216d1485ed3045ff772079cc8689a9a4a upstream.

A negative number can be specified in the cmdline which will be used as
setup_clear_cpu_cap() argument. With that we can clear/set some bit in
memory predceeding boot_cpu_data/cpu_caps_cleared which may cause kernel
to misbehave. This patch adds lower bound check to setup_disablecpuid().

Boris Petkov reproduced a crash:

  [    1.234575] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff858bd540
  [    1.236535] IP: memcpy_erms+0x6/0x10

Signed-off-by: Lukasz Odzioba &lt;lukasz.odzioba@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: andi.kleen@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Cc: slaoub@gmail.com
Fixes: ac72e7888a61 ("x86: add generic clearcpuid=... option")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482933340-11857-1-git-send-email-lukasz.odzioba@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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commit dd853fd216d1485ed3045ff772079cc8689a9a4a upstream.

A negative number can be specified in the cmdline which will be used as
setup_clear_cpu_cap() argument. With that we can clear/set some bit in
memory predceeding boot_cpu_data/cpu_caps_cleared which may cause kernel
to misbehave. This patch adds lower bound check to setup_disablecpuid().

Boris Petkov reproduced a crash:

  [    1.234575] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff858bd540
  [    1.236535] IP: memcpy_erms+0x6/0x10

Signed-off-by: Lukasz Odzioba &lt;lukasz.odzioba@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: andi.kleen@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Cc: slaoub@gmail.com
Fixes: ac72e7888a61 ("x86: add generic clearcpuid=... option")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482933340-11857-1-git-send-email-lukasz.odzioba@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Fix SMAP check in PVOPS environments</title>
<updated>2015-12-09T18:40:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Cooper</name>
<email>andrew.cooper3@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-03T09:31:14+00:00</published>
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commit 581b7f158fe0383b492acd1ce3fb4e99d4e57808 upstream.

There appears to be no formal statement of what pv_irq_ops.save_fl() is
supposed to return precisely.  Native returns the full flags, while lguest and
Xen only return the Interrupt Flag, and both have comments by the
implementations stating that only the Interrupt Flag is looked at.  This may
have been true when initially implemented, but no longer is.

To make matters worse, the Xen PVOP leaves the upper bits undefined, making
the BUG_ON() undefined behaviour.  Experimentally, this now trips for 32bit PV
guests on Broadwell hardware.  The BUG_ON() is consistent for an individual
build, but not consistent for all builds.  It has also been a sitting timebomb
since SMAP support was introduced.

Use native_save_fl() instead, which will obtain an accurate view of the AC
flag.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Tested-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;lguest@lists.ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Xen-devel &lt;xen-devel@lists.xen.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433323874-6927-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 581b7f158fe0383b492acd1ce3fb4e99d4e57808 upstream.

There appears to be no formal statement of what pv_irq_ops.save_fl() is
supposed to return precisely.  Native returns the full flags, while lguest and
Xen only return the Interrupt Flag, and both have comments by the
implementations stating that only the Interrupt Flag is looked at.  This may
have been true when initially implemented, but no longer is.

To make matters worse, the Xen PVOP leaves the upper bits undefined, making
the BUG_ON() undefined behaviour.  Experimentally, this now trips for 32bit PV
guests on Broadwell hardware.  The BUG_ON() is consistent for an individual
build, but not consistent for all builds.  It has also been a sitting timebomb
since SMAP support was introduced.

Use native_save_fl() instead, which will obtain an accurate view of the AC
flag.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Tested-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;lguest@lists.ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Xen-devel &lt;xen-devel@lists.xen.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433323874-6927-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Require exact match for 'noxsave' command line option</title>
<updated>2014-12-06T23:05:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
<email>dave.hansen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-11T22:01:33+00:00</published>
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commit 2cd3949f702692cf4c5d05b463f19cd706a92dd3 upstream.

We have some very similarly named command-line options:

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsave", x86_xsave_setup);
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsaveopt", x86_xsaveopt_setup);
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsaves", x86_xsaves_setup);

__setup() is designed to match options that take arguments, like
"foo=bar" where you would have:

	__setup("foo", x86_foo_func...);

The problem is that "noxsave" actually _matches_ "noxsaves" in
the same way that "foo" matches "foo=bar".  If you boot an old
kernel that does not know about "noxsaves" with "noxsaves" on the
command line, it will interpret the argument as "noxsave", which
is not what you want at all.

This makes the "noxsave" handler only return success when it finds
an *exact* match.

[ tglx: We really need to make __setup() more robust. ]

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141111220133.FE053984@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2cd3949f702692cf4c5d05b463f19cd706a92dd3 upstream.

We have some very similarly named command-line options:

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsave", x86_xsave_setup);
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsaveopt", x86_xsaveopt_setup);
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsaves", x86_xsaves_setup);

__setup() is designed to match options that take arguments, like
"foo=bar" where you would have:

	__setup("foo", x86_foo_func...);

The problem is that "noxsave" actually _matches_ "noxsaves" in
the same way that "foo" matches "foo=bar".  If you boot an old
kernel that does not know about "noxsaves" with "noxsaves" on the
command line, it will interpret the argument as "noxsave", which
is not what you want at all.

This makes the "noxsave" handler only return success when it finds
an *exact* match.

[ tglx: We really need to make __setup() more robust. ]

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141111220133.FE053984@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86_64, entry: Filter RFLAGS.NT on entry from userspace</title>
<updated>2014-11-14T16:47:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-01T18:49:04+00:00</published>
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commit 8c7aa698baca5e8f1ba9edb68081f1e7a1abf455 upstream.

The NT flag doesn't do anything in long mode other than causing IRET
to #GP.  Oddly, CPL3 code can still set NT using popf.

Entry via hardware or software interrupt clears NT automatically, so
the only relevant entries are fast syscalls.

If user code causes kernel code to run with NT set, then there's at
least some (small) chance that it could cause trouble.  For example,
user code could cause a call to EFI code with NT set, and who knows
what would happen?  Apparently some games on Wine sometimes do
this (!), and, if an IRET return happens, they will segfault.  That
segfault cannot be handled, because signal delivery fails, too.

This patch programs the CPU to clear NT on entry via SYSCALL (both
32-bit and 64-bit, by my reading of the AMD APM), and it clears NT
in software on entry via SYSENTER.

To save a few cycles, this borrows a trick from Jan Beulich in Xen:
it checks whether NT is set before trying to clear it.  As a result,
it seems to have very little effect on SYSENTER performance on my
machine.

There's another minor bug fix in here: it looks like the CFI
annotations were wrong if CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n.

Testers beware: on Xen, SYSENTER with NT set turns into a GPF.

I haven't touched anything on 32-bit kernels.

The syscall mask change comes from a variant of this patch by Anish
Bhatt.

Note to stable maintainers: there is no known security issue here.
A misguided program can set NT and cause the kernel to try and fail
to deliver SIGSEGV, crashing the program.  This patch fixes Far Cry
on Wine: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33275

Reported-by: Anish Bhatt &lt;anish@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/395749a5d39a29bd3e4b35899cf3a3c1340e5595.1412189265.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8c7aa698baca5e8f1ba9edb68081f1e7a1abf455 upstream.

The NT flag doesn't do anything in long mode other than causing IRET
to #GP.  Oddly, CPL3 code can still set NT using popf.

Entry via hardware or software interrupt clears NT automatically, so
the only relevant entries are fast syscalls.

If user code causes kernel code to run with NT set, then there's at
least some (small) chance that it could cause trouble.  For example,
user code could cause a call to EFI code with NT set, and who knows
what would happen?  Apparently some games on Wine sometimes do
this (!), and, if an IRET return happens, they will segfault.  That
segfault cannot be handled, because signal delivery fails, too.

This patch programs the CPU to clear NT on entry via SYSCALL (both
32-bit and 64-bit, by my reading of the AMD APM), and it clears NT
in software on entry via SYSENTER.

To save a few cycles, this borrows a trick from Jan Beulich in Xen:
it checks whether NT is set before trying to clear it.  As a result,
it seems to have very little effect on SYSENTER performance on my
machine.

There's another minor bug fix in here: it looks like the CFI
annotations were wrong if CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n.

Testers beware: on Xen, SYSENTER with NT set turns into a GPF.

I haven't touched anything on 32-bit kernels.

The syscall mask change comes from a variant of this patch by Anish
Bhatt.

Note to stable maintainers: there is no known security issue here.
A misguided program can set NT and cause the kernel to try and fail
to deliver SIGSEGV, crashing the program.  This patch fixes Far Cry
on Wine: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33275

Reported-by: Anish Bhatt &lt;anish@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/395749a5d39a29bd3e4b35899cf3a3c1340e5595.1412189265.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, smap: Don't enable SMAP if CONFIG_X86_SMAP is disabled</title>
<updated>2014-02-22T20:41:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-13T15:34:30+00:00</published>
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commit 03bbd596ac04fef47ce93a730b8f086d797c3021 upstream.

If SMAP support is not compiled into the kernel, don't enable SMAP in
CR4 -- in fact, we should clear it, because the kernel doesn't contain
the proper STAC/CLAC instructions for SMAP support.

Found by Fengguang Wu's test system.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140213124550.GA30497@localhost
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 03bbd596ac04fef47ce93a730b8f086d797c3021 upstream.

If SMAP support is not compiled into the kernel, don't enable SMAP in
CR4 -- in fact, we should clear it, because the kernel doesn't contain
the proper STAC/CLAC instructions for SMAP support.

Found by Fengguang Wu's test system.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140213124550.GA30497@localhost
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, cpu: Expand cpufeature facility to include cpu bugs</title>
<updated>2013-04-02T17:12:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-20T14:07:23+00:00</published>
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We add another 32-bit vector at the end of the -&gt;x86_capability
bitvector which collects bugs present in CPUs. After all, a CPU bug is a
kind of a capability, albeit a strange one.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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We add another 32-bit vector at the end of the -&gt;x86_capability
bitvector which collects bugs present in CPUs. After all, a CPU bug is a
kind of a capability, albeit a strange one.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP</title>
<updated>2013-01-31T21:19:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-21T07:44:24+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
In 64 bit, load ucode on AP in cpu_init().

In 32 bit, show ucode loading info on AP in cpu_init(). Microcode has been
loaded earlier before paging. Now it is safe to show the loading microcode
info on this AP.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-5-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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In 64 bit, load ucode on AP in cpu_init().

In 32 bit, show ucode loading info on AP in cpu_init(). Microcode has been
loaded earlier before paging. Now it is safe to show the loading microcode
info on this AP.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-5-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function</title>
<updated>2013-01-31T21:18:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-21T07:44:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d288e1cf8e62f3e4034f1f021f047009c4ac0b3c'/>
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<content type='text'>
Remove static declaration in have_cpuid_p() to make it a global function. The
function will be called in early loading microcode.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-4-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Remove static declaration in have_cpuid_p() to make it a global function. The
function will be called in early loading microcode.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-4-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal</title>
<updated>2012-12-12T20:22:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-12T20:22:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9977d9b379cb77e0f67bd6f4563618106e58e11d'/>
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Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
 "All architectures are converted to new model.  Quite a bit of that
  stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
  literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.

  A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):

   - kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.

     We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
     or kernel_execve():

     kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
     return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
     successful do_execve() before returning.

     kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
     do transition to user mode anymore.

     As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
     arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
     resp.  sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
     architecture-independent.

   - daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c

   - struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
     copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/-&gt;load_binary/do_coredump.

   - sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
     still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
     pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
     kernel/fork.c now."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
  do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
  get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
  new helper: signal_pt_regs()
  unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
  flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
  death to idle_regs()
  don't pass regs to copy_process()
  flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
  bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
  xtensa: switch to generic clone()
  openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
  unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
  score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
  take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
  mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  tile: switch to generic clone()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
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Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
 "All architectures are converted to new model.  Quite a bit of that
  stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
  literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.

  A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):

   - kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.

     We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
     or kernel_execve():

     kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
     return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
     successful do_execve() before returning.

     kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
     do transition to user mode anymore.

     As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
     arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
     resp.  sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
     architecture-independent.

   - daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c

   - struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
     copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/-&gt;load_binary/do_coredump.

   - sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
     still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
     pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
     kernel/fork.c now."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
  do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
  get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
  new helper: signal_pt_regs()
  unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
  flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
  death to idle_regs()
  don't pass regs to copy_process()
  flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
  bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
  xtensa: switch to generic clone()
  openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
  unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
  score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
  take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
  mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  tile: switch to generic clone()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
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<title>death to idle_regs()</title>
<updated>2012-11-29T04:43:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2012-10-23T02:53:20+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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