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<title>x86-64: Fix the failure case in copy_user_handle_tail()</title>
<updated>2013-03-28T19:12:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>CQ Tang</name>
<email>cq.tang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-18T15:02:21+00:00</published>
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commit 66db3feb486c01349f767b98ebb10b0c3d2d021b upstream.

The increment of "to" in copy_user_handle_tail() will have incremented
before a failure has been noted.  This causes us to skip a byte in the
failure case.

Only do the increment when assured there is no failure.

Signed-off-by: CQ Tang &lt;cq.tang@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130318150221.8439.993.stgit@phlsvslse11.ph.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn &lt;mike.marciniszyn@intel.com&gt;
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 66db3feb486c01349f767b98ebb10b0c3d2d021b upstream.

The increment of "to" in copy_user_handle_tail() will have incremented
before a failure has been noted.  This causes us to skip a byte in the
failure case.

Only do the increment when assured there is no failure.

Signed-off-by: CQ Tang &lt;cq.tang@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130318150221.8439.993.stgit@phlsvslse11.ph.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn &lt;mike.marciniszyn@intel.com&gt;
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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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-04-17T01:35:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-17T01:35:21+00:00</published>
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Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Handle failures of parsing immediate operands in the instruction decoder
  perf archive: Correct cutting of symbolic link
  perf tools: Ignore auto-generated bison/flex files
  perf tools: Fix parsers' rules to dependencies
  perf tools: fix NO_GTK2 Makefile config error
  perf session: Skip event correctly for unknown id/machine
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Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Handle failures of parsing immediate operands in the instruction decoder
  perf archive: Correct cutting of symbolic link
  perf tools: Ignore auto-generated bison/flex files
  perf tools: Fix parsers' rules to dependencies
  perf tools: fix NO_GTK2 Makefile config error
  perf session: Skip event correctly for unknown id/machine
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<entry>
<title>x86: Handle failures of parsing immediate operands in the instruction decoder</title>
<updated>2012-04-16T06:56:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-13T03:24:27+00:00</published>
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This can happen if the instruction is much longer than the maximum length,
or if insn-&gt;opnd_bytes is manually changed.

This patch also fixes warnings from -Wswitch-default flag.

Reported-by: Prashanth Nageshappa &lt;prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jim Keniston &lt;jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linux-mm &lt;linux-mm@kvack.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Arapov &lt;anton@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120413032427.32577.42602.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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This can happen if the instruction is much longer than the maximum length,
or if insn-&gt;opnd_bytes is manually changed.

This patch also fixes warnings from -Wswitch-default flag.

Reported-by: Prashanth Nageshappa &lt;prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jim Keniston &lt;jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linux-mm &lt;linux-mm@kvack.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Arapov &lt;anton@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120413032427.32577.42602.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86-32: fix up strncpy_from_user() sign error</title>
<updated>2012-04-16T00:23:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-16T00:23:00+00:00</published>
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The 'max' range needs to be unsigned, since the size of the user address
space is bigger than 2GB.

We know that 'count' is positive in 'long' (that is checked in the
caller), so we will truncate 'max' down to something that fits in a
signed long, but before we actually do that, that comparison needs to be
done in unsigned.

Bug introduced in commit 92ae03f2ef99 ("x86: merge 32/64-bit versions of
'strncpy_from_user()' and speed it up").  On x86-64 you can't trigger
this, since the user address space is much smaller than 63 bits, and on
x86-32 it works in practice, since you would seldom hit the strncpy
limits anyway.

I had actually tested the corner-cases, I had only tested them on
x86-64.  Besides, I had only worried about the case of a pointer *close*
to the end of the address space, rather than really far away from it ;)

This also changes the "we hit the user-specified maximum" to return
'res', for the trivial reason that gcc seems to generate better code
that way.  'res' and 'count' are the same in that case, so it really
doesn't matter which one we return.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The 'max' range needs to be unsigned, since the size of the user address
space is bigger than 2GB.

We know that 'count' is positive in 'long' (that is checked in the
caller), so we will truncate 'max' down to something that fits in a
signed long, but before we actually do that, that comparison needs to be
done in unsigned.

Bug introduced in commit 92ae03f2ef99 ("x86: merge 32/64-bit versions of
'strncpy_from_user()' and speed it up").  On x86-64 you can't trigger
this, since the user address space is much smaller than 63 bits, and on
x86-32 it works in practice, since you would seldom hit the strncpy
limits anyway.

I had actually tested the corner-cases, I had only tested them on
x86-64.  Besides, I had only worried about the case of a pointer *close*
to the end of the address space, rather than really far away from it ;)

This also changes the "we hit the user-specified maximum" to return
'res', for the trivial reason that gcc seems to generate better code
that way.  'res' and 'count' are the same in that case, so it really
doesn't matter which one we return.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: merge 32/64-bit versions of 'strncpy_from_user()' and speed it up</title>
<updated>2012-04-11T16:41:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-06T21:32:32+00:00</published>
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This merges the 32- and 64-bit versions of the x86 strncpy_from_user()
by just rewriting it in C rather than the ancient inline asm versions
that used lodsb/stosb and had been duplicated for (trivial) differences
between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

While doing that, it also speeds them up by doing the accesses a word at
a time.  Finally, the new routines also properly handle the case of
hitting the end of the address space, which we have never done correctly
before (fs/namei.c has a hack around it for that reason).

Despite all these improvements, it actually removes more lines than it
adds, due to the de-duplication.  Also, we no longer export (or define)
the legacy __strncpy_from_user() function (that was defined to not do
the user permission checks), since it's not actually used anywhere, and
the user address space checks are built in to the new code.

Other architecture maintainers have been notified that the old hack in
fs/namei.c will be going away in the 3.5 merge window, in case they
copied the x86 approach of being a bit cavalier about the end of the
address space.

Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This merges the 32- and 64-bit versions of the x86 strncpy_from_user()
by just rewriting it in C rather than the ancient inline asm versions
that used lodsb/stosb and had been duplicated for (trivial) differences
between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

While doing that, it also speeds them up by doing the accesses a word at
a time.  Finally, the new routines also properly handle the case of
hitting the end of the address space, which we have never done correctly
before (fs/namei.c has a hack around it for that reason).

Despite all these improvements, it actually removes more lines than it
adds, due to the de-duplication.  Also, we no longer export (or define)
the legacy __strncpy_from_user() function (that was defined to not do
the user permission checks), since it's not actually used anywhere, and
the user address space checks are built in to the new code.

Other architecture maintainers have been notified that the old hack in
fs/namei.c will be going away in the 3.5 merge window, in case they
copied the x86 approach of being a bit cavalier about the end of the
address space.

Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-atomic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T16:23:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-22T16:23:57+00:00</published>
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Pull x86/atomic changes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'x86-atomic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: atomic64 assembly improvements
  x86: Adjust asm constraints in atomic64 wrappers
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Pull x86/atomic changes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'x86-atomic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: atomic64 assembly improvements
  x86: Adjust asm constraints in atomic64 wrappers
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T16:13:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-22T16:13:24+00:00</published>
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Pull x86/asm changes from Ingo Molnar

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Include probe_roms.h in probe_roms.c
  x86/32: Print control and debug registers for kerenel context
  x86: Tighten dependencies of CPU_SUP_*_32
  x86/numa: Improve internode cache alignment
  x86: Fix the NMI nesting comments
  x86-64: Improve insn scheduling in SAVE_ARGS_IRQ
  x86-64: Fix CFI annotations for NMI nesting code
  bitops: Add missing parentheses to new get_order macro
  bitops: Optimise get_order()
  bitops: Adjust the comment on get_order() to describe the size==0 case
  x86/spinlocks: Eliminate TICKET_MASK
  x86-64: Handle byte-wise tail copying in memcpy() without a loop
  x86-64: Fix memcpy() to support sizes of 4Gb and above
  x86-64: Fix memset() to support sizes of 4Gb and above
  x86-64: Slightly shorten copy_page()
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Pull x86/asm changes from Ingo Molnar

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Include probe_roms.h in probe_roms.c
  x86/32: Print control and debug registers for kerenel context
  x86: Tighten dependencies of CPU_SUP_*_32
  x86/numa: Improve internode cache alignment
  x86: Fix the NMI nesting comments
  x86-64: Improve insn scheduling in SAVE_ARGS_IRQ
  x86-64: Fix CFI annotations for NMI nesting code
  bitops: Add missing parentheses to new get_order macro
  bitops: Optimise get_order()
  bitops: Adjust the comment on get_order() to describe the size==0 case
  x86/spinlocks: Eliminate TICKET_MASK
  x86-64: Handle byte-wise tail copying in memcpy() without a loop
  x86-64: Fix memcpy() to support sizes of 4Gb and above
  x86-64: Fix memset() to support sizes of 4Gb and above
  x86-64: Slightly shorten copy_page()
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kmap_atomic' of git://github.com/congwang/linux</title>
<updated>2012-03-21T16:40:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-21T16:40:26+00:00</published>
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Pull kmap_atomic cleanup from Cong Wang.

It's been in -next for a long time, and it gets rid of the (no longer
used) second argument to k[un]map_atomic().

Fix up a few trivial conflicts in various drivers, and do an "evil
merge" to catch some new uses that have come in since Cong's tree.

* 'kmap_atomic' of git://github.com/congwang/linux: (59 commits)
  feature-removal-schedule.txt: schedule the deprecated form of kmap_atomic() for removal
  highmem: kill all __kmap_atomic() [swarren@nvidia.com: highmem: Fix ARM build break due to __kmap_atomic rename]
  drbd: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  zcache: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  gma500: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  dm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  tomoyo: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  sunrpc: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  rds: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  net: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  mm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  lib: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  power: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  kdb: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  udf: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  ubifs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  squashfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  reiserfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  ocfs2: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  ntfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  ...
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Pull kmap_atomic cleanup from Cong Wang.

It's been in -next for a long time, and it gets rid of the (no longer
used) second argument to k[un]map_atomic().

Fix up a few trivial conflicts in various drivers, and do an "evil
merge" to catch some new uses that have come in since Cong's tree.

* 'kmap_atomic' of git://github.com/congwang/linux: (59 commits)
  feature-removal-schedule.txt: schedule the deprecated form of kmap_atomic() for removal
  highmem: kill all __kmap_atomic() [swarren@nvidia.com: highmem: Fix ARM build break due to __kmap_atomic rename]
  drbd: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  zcache: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  gma500: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  dm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  tomoyo: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  sunrpc: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  rds: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  net: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  mm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  lib: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  power: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  kdb: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  udf: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  ubifs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  squashfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  reiserfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  ocfs2: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  ntfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()</title>
<updated>2012-03-20T13:48:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cong Wang</name>
<email>amwang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-25T15:14:17+00:00</published>
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Acked-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
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Acked-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core</title>
<updated>2012-03-12T19:44:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-12T19:44:07+00:00</published>
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Merge reason: We are going to queue up a dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Merge reason: We are going to queue up a dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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