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<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-05-16T22:15:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-16T22:15:17+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - MSR access API fixes and enhancements (Andy Lutomirski)

   - early exception handling improvements (Andy Lutomirski)

   - user-space FS/GS prctl usage fixes and improvements (Andy
     Lutomirski)

   - Remove the cpu_has_*() APIs and replace them with equivalents
     (Borislav Petkov)

   - task switch micro-optimization (Brian Gerst)

   - 32-bit entry code simplification (Denys Vlasenko)

   - enhance PAT handling in enumated CPUs (Toshi Kani)

  ... and lots of other cleanups/fixlets"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits)
  x86/arch_prctl/64: Restore accidentally removed put_cpu() in ARCH_SET_GS
  x86/entry/32: Remove asmlinkage_protect()
  x86/entry/32: Remove GET_THREAD_INFO() from entry code
  x86/entry, sched/x86: Don't save/restore EFLAGS on task switch
  x86/asm/entry/32: Simplify pushes of zeroed pt_regs-&gt;REGs
  selftests/x86/ldt_gdt: Test set_thread_area() deletion of an active segment
  x86/tls: Synchronize segment registers in set_thread_area()
  x86/asm/64: Rename thread_struct's fs and gs to fsbase and gsbase
  x86/arch_prctl/64: Remove FSBASE/GSBASE &lt; 4G optimization
  x86/segments/64: When load_gs_index fails, clear the base
  x86/segments/64: When loadsegment(fs, ...) fails, clear the base
  x86/asm: Make asm/alternative.h safe from assembly
  x86/asm: Stop depending on ptrace.h in alternative.h
  x86/entry: Rename is_{ia32,x32}_task() to in_{ia32,x32}_syscall()
  x86/asm: Make sure verify_cpu() has a good stack
  x86/extable: Add a comment about early exception handlers
  x86/msr: Set the return value to zero when native_rdmsr_safe() fails
  x86/paravirt: Make "unsafe" MSR accesses unsafe even if PARAVIRT=y
  x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}_msr()
  x86/msr: Carry on after a non-"safe" MSR access fails
  ...
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - MSR access API fixes and enhancements (Andy Lutomirski)

   - early exception handling improvements (Andy Lutomirski)

   - user-space FS/GS prctl usage fixes and improvements (Andy
     Lutomirski)

   - Remove the cpu_has_*() APIs and replace them with equivalents
     (Borislav Petkov)

   - task switch micro-optimization (Brian Gerst)

   - 32-bit entry code simplification (Denys Vlasenko)

   - enhance PAT handling in enumated CPUs (Toshi Kani)

  ... and lots of other cleanups/fixlets"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits)
  x86/arch_prctl/64: Restore accidentally removed put_cpu() in ARCH_SET_GS
  x86/entry/32: Remove asmlinkage_protect()
  x86/entry/32: Remove GET_THREAD_INFO() from entry code
  x86/entry, sched/x86: Don't save/restore EFLAGS on task switch
  x86/asm/entry/32: Simplify pushes of zeroed pt_regs-&gt;REGs
  selftests/x86/ldt_gdt: Test set_thread_area() deletion of an active segment
  x86/tls: Synchronize segment registers in set_thread_area()
  x86/asm/64: Rename thread_struct's fs and gs to fsbase and gsbase
  x86/arch_prctl/64: Remove FSBASE/GSBASE &lt; 4G optimization
  x86/segments/64: When load_gs_index fails, clear the base
  x86/segments/64: When loadsegment(fs, ...) fails, clear the base
  x86/asm: Make asm/alternative.h safe from assembly
  x86/asm: Stop depending on ptrace.h in alternative.h
  x86/entry: Rename is_{ia32,x32}_task() to in_{ia32,x32}_syscall()
  x86/asm: Make sure verify_cpu() has a good stack
  x86/extable: Add a comment about early exception handlers
  x86/msr: Set the return value to zero when native_rdmsr_safe() fails
  x86/paravirt: Make "unsafe" MSR accesses unsafe even if PARAVIRT=y
  x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}_msr()
  x86/msr: Carry on after a non-"safe" MSR access fails
  ...
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<entry>
<title>locking/rwsem: Fix comment on register clobbering</title>
<updated>2016-05-16T10:35:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-16T09:34:28+00:00</published>
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Document explicitly that %edx can get clobbered on the slow path, on
32-bit kernels. Something I learned the hard way. :-\

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516093428.GA26108@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Document explicitly that %edx can get clobbered on the slow path, on
32-bit kernels. Something I learned the hard way. :-\

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516093428.GA26108@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/rwsem, x86: Add frame annotation for call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable()</title>
<updated>2016-04-22T06:58:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-13T09:57:12+00:00</published>
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3387a535ce62 ("x86/asm: Create stack frames in rwsem functions") has
added FRAME_{BEGIN,END} annotations to rwsem asm stubs. The patch
which has added call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable() was based on an
older tree so it didn't know about annotations. Let's add them.

This addresses the following objtool warning:

  arch/x86/lib/rwsem.o: warning: objtool: call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable()+0xe: call without frame pointer save/setup

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&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: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460541432-21631-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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3387a535ce62 ("x86/asm: Create stack frames in rwsem functions") has
added FRAME_{BEGIN,END} annotations to rwsem asm stubs. The patch
which has added call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable() was based on an
older tree so it didn't know about annotations. Let's add them.

This addresses the following objtool warning:

  arch/x86/lib/rwsem.o: warning: objtool: call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable()+0xe: call without frame pointer save/setup

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&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: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460541432-21631-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/rwsem, x86: Provide __down_write_killable()</title>
<updated>2016-04-13T08:42:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-07T15:12:30+00:00</published>
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which uses the same fast path as __down_write() except it falls back to
call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable() slow path and return -EINTR if
killed. To prevent from code duplication extract the skeleton of
__down_write() into a helper macro which just takes the semaphore
and the slow path function to be called.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Signed-off-by: Jason Low &lt;jason.low2@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460041951-22347-11-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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which uses the same fast path as __down_write() except it falls back to
call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable() slow path and return -EINTR if
killed. To prevent from code duplication extract the skeleton of
__down_write() into a helper macro which just takes the semaphore
and the slow path function to be called.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Signed-off-by: Jason Low &lt;jason.low2@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460041951-22347-11-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpufeature: Remove cpu_has_xmm2</title>
<updated>2016-03-31T11:35:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-29T15:42:00+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-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: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459266123-21878-8-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-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: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459266123-21878-8-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-24T16:47:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-24T16:47:32+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc fixes:

   - fix hotplug bugs
   - fix irq live lock
   - fix various topology handling bugs
   - fix APIC ACK ordering
   - fix PV iopl handling
   - fix speling
   - fix/tweak memcpy_mcsafe() return value
   - fix fbcon bug
   - remove stray prototypes"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/msr: Remove unused native_read_tscp()
  x86/apic: Remove declaration of unused hw_nmi_is_cpu_stuck
  x86/oprofile/nmi: Add missing hotplug FROZEN handling
  x86/hpet: Use proper mask to modify hotplug action
  x86/apic/uv: Fix the hotplug notifier
  x86/apb/timer: Use proper mask to modify hotplug action
  x86/topology: Use total_cpus not nr_cpu_ids for logical packages
  x86/topology: Fix Intel HT disable
  x86/topology: Fix logical package mapping
  x86/irq: Cure live lock in fixup_irqs()
  x86/tsc: Prevent NULL pointer deref in calibrate_delay_is_known()
  x86/apic: Fix suspicious RCU usage in smp_trace_call_function_interrupt()
  x86/iopl: Fix iopl capability check on Xen PV
  x86/iopl/64: Properly context-switch IOPL on Xen PV
  selftests/x86: Add an iopl test
  x86/mm, x86/mce: Fix return type/value for memcpy_mcsafe()
  x86/video: Don't assume all FB devices are PCI devices
  arch/x86/irq: Purge useless handler declarations from hw_irq.h
  x86: Fix misspellings in comments
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Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc fixes:

   - fix hotplug bugs
   - fix irq live lock
   - fix various topology handling bugs
   - fix APIC ACK ordering
   - fix PV iopl handling
   - fix speling
   - fix/tweak memcpy_mcsafe() return value
   - fix fbcon bug
   - remove stray prototypes"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/msr: Remove unused native_read_tscp()
  x86/apic: Remove declaration of unused hw_nmi_is_cpu_stuck
  x86/oprofile/nmi: Add missing hotplug FROZEN handling
  x86/hpet: Use proper mask to modify hotplug action
  x86/apic/uv: Fix the hotplug notifier
  x86/apb/timer: Use proper mask to modify hotplug action
  x86/topology: Use total_cpus not nr_cpu_ids for logical packages
  x86/topology: Fix Intel HT disable
  x86/topology: Fix logical package mapping
  x86/irq: Cure live lock in fixup_irqs()
  x86/tsc: Prevent NULL pointer deref in calibrate_delay_is_known()
  x86/apic: Fix suspicious RCU usage in smp_trace_call_function_interrupt()
  x86/iopl: Fix iopl capability check on Xen PV
  x86/iopl/64: Properly context-switch IOPL on Xen PV
  selftests/x86: Add an iopl test
  x86/mm, x86/mce: Fix return type/value for memcpy_mcsafe()
  x86/video: Don't assume all FB devices are PCI devices
  arch/x86/irq: Purge useless handler declarations from hw_irq.h
  x86: Fix misspellings in comments
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: add kcov code coverage</title>
<updated>2016-03-22T22:36:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Vyukov</name>
<email>dvyukov@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-22T21:27:30+00:00</published>
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kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing
(randomized testing).  Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique
that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a
system.  A notable user-space example is AFL
(http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).  However, this technique is not
widely used for kernel testing due to missing compiler and kernel
support.

kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible.  It aims to
collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs.
To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard
interrupts and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic or
non-interesting parts of kernel is disbled (e.g.  scheduler, locking).

Currently there is a single coverage collection mode (tracing), but the
API anticipates additional collection modes.  Initially I also
implemented a second mode which exposes coverage in a fixed-size hash
table of counters (what Quentin used in his original patch).  I've
dropped the second mode for simplicity.

This patch adds the necessary support on kernel side.  The complimentary
compiler support was added in gcc revision 231296.

We've used this support to build syzkaller system call fuzzer, which has
found 90 kernel bugs in just 2 months:

  https://github.com/google/syzkaller/wiki/Found-Bugs

We've also found 30+ bugs in our internal systems with syzkaller.
Another (yet unexplored) direction where kcov coverage would greatly
help is more traditional "blob mutation".  For example, mounting a
random blob as a filesystem, or receiving a random blob over wire.

Why not gcov.  Typical fuzzing loop looks as follows: (1) reset
coverage, (2) execute a bit of code, (3) collect coverage, repeat.  A
typical coverage can be just a dozen of basic blocks (e.g.  an invalid
input).  In such context gcov becomes prohibitively expensive as
reset/collect coverage steps depend on total number of basic
blocks/edges in program (in case of kernel it is about 2M).  Cost of
kcov depends only on number of executed basic blocks/edges.  On top of
that, kernel requires per-thread coverage because there are always
background threads and unrelated processes that also produce coverage.
With inlined gcov instrumentation per-thread coverage is not possible.

kcov exposes kernel PCs and control flow to user-space which is
insecure.  But debugfs should not be mapped as user accessible.

Based on a patch by Quentin Casasnovas.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make task_struct.kcov_mode have type `enum kcov_mode']
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak allmodconfig]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: follow x86 Makefile layout standards]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: syzkaller &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tavis Ormandy &lt;taviso@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Kostya Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Drysdale &lt;drysdale@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.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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kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing
(randomized testing).  Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique
that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a
system.  A notable user-space example is AFL
(http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).  However, this technique is not
widely used for kernel testing due to missing compiler and kernel
support.

kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible.  It aims to
collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs.
To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard
interrupts and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic or
non-interesting parts of kernel is disbled (e.g.  scheduler, locking).

Currently there is a single coverage collection mode (tracing), but the
API anticipates additional collection modes.  Initially I also
implemented a second mode which exposes coverage in a fixed-size hash
table of counters (what Quentin used in his original patch).  I've
dropped the second mode for simplicity.

This patch adds the necessary support on kernel side.  The complimentary
compiler support was added in gcc revision 231296.

We've used this support to build syzkaller system call fuzzer, which has
found 90 kernel bugs in just 2 months:

  https://github.com/google/syzkaller/wiki/Found-Bugs

We've also found 30+ bugs in our internal systems with syzkaller.
Another (yet unexplored) direction where kcov coverage would greatly
help is more traditional "blob mutation".  For example, mounting a
random blob as a filesystem, or receiving a random blob over wire.

Why not gcov.  Typical fuzzing loop looks as follows: (1) reset
coverage, (2) execute a bit of code, (3) collect coverage, repeat.  A
typical coverage can be just a dozen of basic blocks (e.g.  an invalid
input).  In such context gcov becomes prohibitively expensive as
reset/collect coverage steps depend on total number of basic
blocks/edges in program (in case of kernel it is about 2M).  Cost of
kcov depends only on number of executed basic blocks/edges.  On top of
that, kernel requires per-thread coverage because there are always
background threads and unrelated processes that also produce coverage.
With inlined gcov instrumentation per-thread coverage is not possible.

kcov exposes kernel PCs and control flow to user-space which is
insecure.  But debugfs should not be mapped as user accessible.

Based on a patch by Quentin Casasnovas.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make task_struct.kcov_mode have type `enum kcov_mode']
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak allmodconfig]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: follow x86 Makefile layout standards]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: syzkaller &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tavis Ormandy &lt;taviso@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Kostya Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Drysdale &lt;drysdale@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.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>
<title>Merge branch 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T01:23:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-21T01:23:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=26660a4046b171a752e72a1dd32153230234fe3a'/>
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Pull 'objtool' stack frame validation from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds a new kernel build-time object file validation feature
  (ONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y): kernel stack frame correctness validation.
  It was written by and is maintained by Josh Poimboeuf.

  The motivation: there's a category of hard to find kernel bugs, most
  of them in assembly code (but also occasionally in C code), that
  degrades the quality of kernel stack dumps/backtraces.  These bugs are
  hard to detect at the source code level.  Such bugs result in
  incorrect/incomplete backtraces most of time - but can also in some
  rare cases result in crashes or other undefined behavior.

  The build time correctness checking is done via the new 'objtool'
  user-space utility that was written for this purpose and which is
  hosted in the kernel repository in tools/objtool/.  The tool's (very
  simple) UI and source code design is shaped after Git and perf and
  shares quite a bit of infrastructure with tools/perf (which tooling
  infrastructure sharing effort got merged via perf and is already
  upstream).  Objtool follows the well-known kernel coding style.

  Objtool does not try to check .c or .S files, it instead analyzes the
  resulting .o generated machine code from first principles: it decodes
  the instruction stream and interprets it.  (Right now objtool supports
  the x86-64 architecture.)

  From tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt:

   "The kernel CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option enables a host tool named
    objtool which runs at compile time.  It has a "check" subcommand
    which analyzes every .o file and ensures the validity of its stack
    metadata.  It enforces a set of rules on asm code and C inline
    assembly code so that stack traces can be reliable.

    Currently it only checks frame pointer usage, but there are plans to
    add CFI validation for C files and CFI generation for asm files.

    For each function, it recursively follows all possible code paths
    and validates the correct frame pointer state at each instruction.

    It also follows code paths involving special sections, like
    .altinstructions, __jump_table, and __ex_table, which can add
    alternative execution paths to a given instruction (or set of
    instructions).  Similarly, it knows how to follow switch statements,
    for which gcc sometimes uses jump tables."

  When this new kernel option is enabled (it's disabled by default), the
  tool, if it finds any suspicious assembly code pattern, outputs
  warnings in compiler warning format:

    warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2e7: frame pointer state mismatch
    warning: objtool: cik_tiling_mode_table_init()+0x6ce: call without frame pointer save/setup
    warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3c0: duplicate frame pointer save
    warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3fd: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer

  ... so that scripts that pick up compiler warnings will notice them.
  All known warnings triggered by the tool are fixed by the tree, most
  of the commits in fact prepare the kernel to be warning-free.  Most of
  them are bugfixes or cleanups that stand on their own, but there are
  also some annotations of 'special' stack frames for justified cases
  such entries to JIT-ed code (BPF) or really special boot time code.

  There are two other long-term motivations behind this tool as well:

   - To improve the quality and reliability of kernel stack frames, so
     that they can be used for optimized live patching.

   - To create independent infrastructure to check the correctness of
     CFI stack frames at build time.  CFI debuginfo is notoriously
     unreliable and we cannot use it in the kernel as-is without extra
     checking done both on the kernel side and on the build side.

  The quality of kernel stack frames matters to debuggability as well,
  so IMO we can merge this without having to consider the live patching
  or CFI debuginfo angle"

* 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  objtool: Only print one warning per function
  objtool: Add several performance improvements
  tools: Copy hashtable.h into tools directory
  objtool: Fix false positive warnings for functions with multiple switch statements
  objtool: Rename some variables and functions
  objtool: Remove superflous INIT_LIST_HEAD
  objtool: Add helper macros for traversing instructions
  objtool: Fix false positive warnings related to sibling calls
  objtool: Compile with debugging symbols
  objtool: Detect infinite recursion
  objtool: Prevent infinite recursion in noreturn detection
  objtool: Detect and warn if libelf is missing and don't break the build
  tools: Support relative directory path for 'O='
  objtool: Support CROSS_COMPILE
  x86/asm/decoder: Use explicitly signed chars
  objtool: Enable stack metadata validation on 64-bit x86
  objtool: Add CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option
  objtool: Add tool to perform compile-time stack metadata validation
  x86/kprobes: Mark kretprobe_trampoline() stack frame as non-standard
  sched: Always inline context_switch()
  ...
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Pull 'objtool' stack frame validation from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds a new kernel build-time object file validation feature
  (ONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y): kernel stack frame correctness validation.
  It was written by and is maintained by Josh Poimboeuf.

  The motivation: there's a category of hard to find kernel bugs, most
  of them in assembly code (but also occasionally in C code), that
  degrades the quality of kernel stack dumps/backtraces.  These bugs are
  hard to detect at the source code level.  Such bugs result in
  incorrect/incomplete backtraces most of time - but can also in some
  rare cases result in crashes or other undefined behavior.

  The build time correctness checking is done via the new 'objtool'
  user-space utility that was written for this purpose and which is
  hosted in the kernel repository in tools/objtool/.  The tool's (very
  simple) UI and source code design is shaped after Git and perf and
  shares quite a bit of infrastructure with tools/perf (which tooling
  infrastructure sharing effort got merged via perf and is already
  upstream).  Objtool follows the well-known kernel coding style.

  Objtool does not try to check .c or .S files, it instead analyzes the
  resulting .o generated machine code from first principles: it decodes
  the instruction stream and interprets it.  (Right now objtool supports
  the x86-64 architecture.)

  From tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt:

   "The kernel CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option enables a host tool named
    objtool which runs at compile time.  It has a "check" subcommand
    which analyzes every .o file and ensures the validity of its stack
    metadata.  It enforces a set of rules on asm code and C inline
    assembly code so that stack traces can be reliable.

    Currently it only checks frame pointer usage, but there are plans to
    add CFI validation for C files and CFI generation for asm files.

    For each function, it recursively follows all possible code paths
    and validates the correct frame pointer state at each instruction.

    It also follows code paths involving special sections, like
    .altinstructions, __jump_table, and __ex_table, which can add
    alternative execution paths to a given instruction (or set of
    instructions).  Similarly, it knows how to follow switch statements,
    for which gcc sometimes uses jump tables."

  When this new kernel option is enabled (it's disabled by default), the
  tool, if it finds any suspicious assembly code pattern, outputs
  warnings in compiler warning format:

    warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2e7: frame pointer state mismatch
    warning: objtool: cik_tiling_mode_table_init()+0x6ce: call without frame pointer save/setup
    warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3c0: duplicate frame pointer save
    warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3fd: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer

  ... so that scripts that pick up compiler warnings will notice them.
  All known warnings triggered by the tool are fixed by the tree, most
  of the commits in fact prepare the kernel to be warning-free.  Most of
  them are bugfixes or cleanups that stand on their own, but there are
  also some annotations of 'special' stack frames for justified cases
  such entries to JIT-ed code (BPF) or really special boot time code.

  There are two other long-term motivations behind this tool as well:

   - To improve the quality and reliability of kernel stack frames, so
     that they can be used for optimized live patching.

   - To create independent infrastructure to check the correctness of
     CFI stack frames at build time.  CFI debuginfo is notoriously
     unreliable and we cannot use it in the kernel as-is without extra
     checking done both on the kernel side and on the build side.

  The quality of kernel stack frames matters to debuggability as well,
  so IMO we can merge this without having to consider the live patching
  or CFI debuginfo angle"

* 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  objtool: Only print one warning per function
  objtool: Add several performance improvements
  tools: Copy hashtable.h into tools directory
  objtool: Fix false positive warnings for functions with multiple switch statements
  objtool: Rename some variables and functions
  objtool: Remove superflous INIT_LIST_HEAD
  objtool: Add helper macros for traversing instructions
  objtool: Fix false positive warnings related to sibling calls
  objtool: Compile with debugging symbols
  objtool: Detect infinite recursion
  objtool: Prevent infinite recursion in noreturn detection
  objtool: Detect and warn if libelf is missing and don't break the build
  tools: Support relative directory path for 'O='
  objtool: Support CROSS_COMPILE
  x86/asm/decoder: Use explicitly signed chars
  objtool: Enable stack metadata validation on 64-bit x86
  objtool: Add CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option
  objtool: Add tool to perform compile-time stack metadata validation
  x86/kprobes: Mark kretprobe_trampoline() stack frame as non-standard
  sched: Always inline context_switch()
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2016-03-19T17:05:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-19T17:05:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1200b6809dfd9d73bc4c7db76d288c35fa4b2ebe'/>
<id>1200b6809dfd9d73bc4c7db76d288c35fa4b2ebe</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Support more Realtek wireless chips, from Jes Sorenson.

   2) New BPF types for per-cpu hash and arrap maps, from Alexei
      Starovoitov.

   3) Make several TCP sysctls per-namespace, from Nikolay Borisov.

   4) Allow the use of SO_REUSEPORT in order to do per-thread processing
   of incoming TCP/UDP connections.  The muxing can be done using a
   BPF program which hashes the incoming packet.  From Craig Gallek.

   5) Add a multiplexer for TCP streams, to provide a messaged based
      interface.  BPF programs can be used to determine the message
      boundaries.  From Tom Herbert.

   6) Add 802.1AE MACSEC support, from Sabrina Dubroca.

   7) Avoid factorial complexity when taking down an inetdev interface
      with lots of configured addresses.  We were doing things like
      traversing the entire address less for each address removed, and
      flushing the entire netfilter conntrack table for every address as
      well.

   8) Add and use SKB bulk free infrastructure, from Jesper Brouer.

   9) Allow offloading u32 classifiers to hardware, and implement for
      ixgbe, from John Fastabend.

  10) Allow configuring IRQ coalescing parameters on a per-queue basis,
      from Kan Liang.

  11) Extend ethtool so that larger link mode masks can be supported.
      From David Decotigny.

  12) Introduce devlink, which can be used to configure port link types
      (ethernet vs Infiniband, etc.), port splitting, and switch device
      level attributes as a whole.  From Jiri Pirko.

  13) Hardware offload support for flower classifiers, from Amir Vadai.

  14) Add "Local Checksum Offload".  Basically, for a tunneled packet
      the checksum of the outer header is 'constant' (because with the
      checksum field filled into the inner protocol header, the payload
      of the outer frame checksums to 'zero'), and we can take advantage
      of that in various ways.  From Edward Cree"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1548 commits)
  bonding: fix bond_get_stats()
  net: bcmgenet: fix dma api length mismatch
  net/mlx4_core: Fix backward compatibility on VFs
  phy: mdio-thunder: Fix some Kconfig typos
  lan78xx: add ndo_get_stats64
  lan78xx: handle statistics counter rollover
  RDS: TCP: Remove unused constant
  RDS: TCP: Add sysctl tunables for sndbuf/rcvbuf on rds-tcp socket
  net: smc911x: convert pxa dma to dmaengine
  team: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST
  bonding: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST
  net: fix a comment typo
  ethernet: micrel: fix some error codes
  ip_tunnels, bpf: define IP_TUNNEL_OPTS_MAX and use it
  bpf, dst: add and use dst_tclassid helper
  bpf: make skb-&gt;tc_classid also readable
  net: mvneta: bm: clarify dependencies
  cls_bpf: reset class and reuse major in da
  ldmvsw: Checkpatch sunvnet.c and sunvnet_common.c
  ldmvsw: Add ldmvsw.c driver code
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Support more Realtek wireless chips, from Jes Sorenson.

   2) New BPF types for per-cpu hash and arrap maps, from Alexei
      Starovoitov.

   3) Make several TCP sysctls per-namespace, from Nikolay Borisov.

   4) Allow the use of SO_REUSEPORT in order to do per-thread processing
   of incoming TCP/UDP connections.  The muxing can be done using a
   BPF program which hashes the incoming packet.  From Craig Gallek.

   5) Add a multiplexer for TCP streams, to provide a messaged based
      interface.  BPF programs can be used to determine the message
      boundaries.  From Tom Herbert.

   6) Add 802.1AE MACSEC support, from Sabrina Dubroca.

   7) Avoid factorial complexity when taking down an inetdev interface
      with lots of configured addresses.  We were doing things like
      traversing the entire address less for each address removed, and
      flushing the entire netfilter conntrack table for every address as
      well.

   8) Add and use SKB bulk free infrastructure, from Jesper Brouer.

   9) Allow offloading u32 classifiers to hardware, and implement for
      ixgbe, from John Fastabend.

  10) Allow configuring IRQ coalescing parameters on a per-queue basis,
      from Kan Liang.

  11) Extend ethtool so that larger link mode masks can be supported.
      From David Decotigny.

  12) Introduce devlink, which can be used to configure port link types
      (ethernet vs Infiniband, etc.), port splitting, and switch device
      level attributes as a whole.  From Jiri Pirko.

  13) Hardware offload support for flower classifiers, from Amir Vadai.

  14) Add "Local Checksum Offload".  Basically, for a tunneled packet
      the checksum of the outer header is 'constant' (because with the
      checksum field filled into the inner protocol header, the payload
      of the outer frame checksums to 'zero'), and we can take advantage
      of that in various ways.  From Edward Cree"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1548 commits)
  bonding: fix bond_get_stats()
  net: bcmgenet: fix dma api length mismatch
  net/mlx4_core: Fix backward compatibility on VFs
  phy: mdio-thunder: Fix some Kconfig typos
  lan78xx: add ndo_get_stats64
  lan78xx: handle statistics counter rollover
  RDS: TCP: Remove unused constant
  RDS: TCP: Add sysctl tunables for sndbuf/rcvbuf on rds-tcp socket
  net: smc911x: convert pxa dma to dmaengine
  team: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST
  bonding: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST
  net: fix a comment typo
  ethernet: micrel: fix some error codes
  ip_tunnels, bpf: define IP_TUNNEL_OPTS_MAX and use it
  bpf, dst: add and use dst_tclassid helper
  bpf: make skb-&gt;tc_classid also readable
  net: mvneta: bm: clarify dependencies
  cls_bpf: reset class and reuse major in da
  ldmvsw: Checkpatch sunvnet.c and sunvnet_common.c
  ldmvsw: Add ldmvsw.c driver code
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/cleanups' into x86/urgent</title>
<updated>2016-03-17T08:44:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-17T08:44:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=00f526850151e91fdad0896a1436341687ad2582'/>
<id>00f526850151e91fdad0896a1436341687ad2582</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull in some merge window leftovers.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Pull in some merge window leftovers.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
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