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<title>xtensa: move trace_hardirqs_off call back to entry.S</title>
<updated>2022-06-09T08:25:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-04T04:29:46+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit de4415d0bac91192ee9c74e849bc61429efa9b42 ]

Context tracking call must be done after hardirq tracking call,
otherwise lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled called from rcu_eqs_exit gives
a warning. To avoid context tracking logic duplication for IRQ/exception
entry paths move trace_hardirqs_off call back to common entry code.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit de4415d0bac91192ee9c74e849bc61429efa9b42 ]

Context tracking call must be done after hardirq tracking call,
otherwise lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled called from rcu_eqs_exit gives
a warning. To avoid context tracking logic duplication for IRQ/exception
entry paths move trace_hardirqs_off call back to common entry code.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ptrace/xtensa: Replace PT_SINGLESTEP with TIF_SINGLESTEP</title>
<updated>2022-06-09T08:25:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-26T21:45:37+00:00</published>
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commit 4a3d2717d140401df7501a95e454180831a0c5af upstream.

xtensa is the last user of the PT_SINGLESTEP flag.  Changing tsk-&gt;ptrace in
user_enable_single_step and user_disable_single_step without locking could
potentiallly cause problems.

So use a thread info flag instead of a flag in tsk-&gt;ptrace.  Use TIF_SINGLESTEP
that xtensa already had defined but unused.

Remove the definitions of PT_SINGLESTEP and PT_BLOCKSTEP as they have no more users.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220505182645.497868-4-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 4a3d2717d140401df7501a95e454180831a0c5af upstream.

xtensa is the last user of the PT_SINGLESTEP flag.  Changing tsk-&gt;ptrace in
user_enable_single_step and user_disable_single_step without locking could
potentiallly cause problems.

So use a thread info flag instead of a flag in tsk-&gt;ptrace.  Use TIF_SINGLESTEP
that xtensa already had defined but unused.

Remove the definitions of PT_SINGLESTEP and PT_BLOCKSTEP as they have no more users.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220505182645.497868-4-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xtensa: fix a7 clobbering in coprocessor context load/store</title>
<updated>2022-04-27T12:41:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-14T05:44:36+00:00</published>
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commit 839769c35477d4acc2369e45000ca7b0b6af39a7 upstream.

Fast coprocessor exception handler saves a3..a6, but coprocessor context
load/store code uses a4..a7 as temporaries, potentially clobbering a7.
'Potentially' because coprocessor state load/store macros may not use
all four temporary registers (and neither FPU nor HiFi macros do).
Use a3..a6 as intended.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c658eac628aa ("[XTENSA] Add support for configurable registers and coprocessors")
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 839769c35477d4acc2369e45000ca7b0b6af39a7 upstream.

Fast coprocessor exception handler saves a3..a6, but coprocessor context
load/store code uses a4..a7 as temporaries, potentially clobbering a7.
'Potentially' because coprocessor state load/store macros may not use
all four temporary registers (and neither FPU nor HiFi macros do).
Use a3..a6 as intended.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c658eac628aa ("[XTENSA] Add support for configurable registers and coprocessors")
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xtensa: patch_text: Fixup last cpu should be master</title>
<updated>2022-04-27T12:41:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guo Ren</name>
<email>guoren@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-07T07:33:22+00:00</published>
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commit ee69d4be8fd064cd08270b4808d2dfece3614ee0 upstream.

These patch_text implementations are using stop_machine_cpuslocked
infrastructure with atomic cpu_count. The original idea: When the
master CPU patch_text, the others should wait for it. But current
implementation is using the first CPU as master, which couldn't
guarantee the remaining CPUs are waiting. This patch changes the
last CPU as the master to solve the potential risk.

Fixes: 64711f9a47d4 ("xtensa: implement jump_label support")
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20220407073323.743224-4-guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ee69d4be8fd064cd08270b4808d2dfece3614ee0 upstream.

These patch_text implementations are using stop_machine_cpuslocked
infrastructure with atomic cpu_count. The original idea: When the
master CPU patch_text, the others should wait for it. But current
implementation is using the first CPU as master, which couldn't
guarantee the remaining CPUs are waiting. This patch changes the
last CPU as the master to solve the potential risk.

Fixes: 64711f9a47d4 ("xtensa: implement jump_label support")
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20220407073323.743224-4-guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xtensa: add missing XCHAL_HAVE_WINDOWED check</title>
<updated>2022-04-08T11:58:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-28T09:20:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8c9ab55c0fbdc76cb876140c2dad75a610bb23ef ]

Add missing preprocessor conditions to secondary reset vector code.

Fixes: 09af39f649da ("xtensa: use register window specific opcodes only when present")
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8c9ab55c0fbdc76cb876140c2dad75a610bb23ef ]

Add missing preprocessor conditions to secondary reset vector code.

Fixes: 09af39f649da ("xtensa: use register window specific opcodes only when present")
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xtensa: fix stop_machine_cpuslocked call in patch_text</title>
<updated>2022-04-08T11:57:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-16T09:04:17+00:00</published>
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commit f406f2d03e07afc199dd8cf501f361dde6be8a69 upstream.

patch_text must invoke patch_text_stop_machine on all online CPUs, but
it calls stop_machine_cpuslocked with NULL cpumask. As a result only one
CPU runs patch_text_stop_machine potentially leaving stale icache
entries on other CPUs. Fix that by calling stop_machine_cpuslocked with
cpu_online_mask as the last argument.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 64711f9a47d4 ("xtensa: implement jump_label support")
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit f406f2d03e07afc199dd8cf501f361dde6be8a69 upstream.

patch_text must invoke patch_text_stop_machine on all online CPUs, but
it calls stop_machine_cpuslocked with NULL cpumask. As a result only one
CPU runs patch_text_stop_machine potentially leaving stale icache
entries on other CPUs. Fix that by calling stop_machine_cpuslocked with
cpu_online_mask as the last argument.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 64711f9a47d4 ("xtensa: implement jump_label support")
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2022-01-17T03:49:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-17T03:49:30+00:00</published>
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Pull signal/exit/ptrace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes deletes some dead code, makes a lot of cleanups
  which hopefully make the code easier to follow, and fixes bugs found
  along the way.

  The end-game which I have not yet reached yet is for fatal signals
  that generate coredumps to be short-circuit deliverable from
  complete_signal, for force_siginfo_to_task not to require changing
  userspace configured signal delivery state, and for the ptrace stops
  to always happen in locations where we can guarantee on all
  architectures that the all of the registers are saved and available on
  the stack.

  Removal of profile_task_ext, profile_munmap, and profile_handoff_task
  are the big successes for dead code removal this round.

  A bunch of small bug fixes are included, as most of the issues
  reported were small enough that they would not affect bisection so I
  simply added the fixes and did not fold the fixes into the changes
  they were fixing.

  There was a bug that broke coredumps piped to systemd-coredump. I
  dropped the change that caused that bug and replaced it entirely with
  something much more restrained. Unfortunately that required some
  rebasing.

  Some successes after this set of changes: There are few enough calls
  to do_exit to audit in a reasonable amount of time. The lifetime of
  struct kthread now matches the lifetime of struct task, and the
  pointer to struct kthread is no longer stored in set_child_tid. The
  flag SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP is removed. The field group_exit_task is
  removed. Issues where task-&gt;exit_code was examined with
  signal-&gt;group_exit_code should been examined were fixed.

  There are several loosely related changes included because I am
  cleaning up and if I don't include them they will probably get lost.

  The original postings of these changes can be found at:
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6ha4zsd.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bl1kunjj.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r19opkx1.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org

  I trimmed back the last set of changes to only the obviously correct
  once. Simply because there was less time for review than I had hoped"

* 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (44 commits)
  ptrace/m68k: Stop open coding ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove unused regs argument from ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove second setting of PT_SEIZED in ptrace_attach
  taskstats: Cleanup the use of task-&gt;exit_code
  exit: Use the correct exit_code in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat
  exit: Fix the exit_code for wait_task_zombie
  exit: Coredumps reach do_group_exit
  exit: Remove profile_handoff_task
  exit: Remove profile_task_exit &amp; profile_munmap
  signal: clean up kernel-doc comments
  signal: Remove the helper signal_group_exit
  signal: Rename group_exit_task group_exec_task
  coredump: Stop setting signal-&gt;group_exit_task
  signal: Remove SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: During coredumps set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT in zap_process
  signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal
  signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  signal: Have the oom killer detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  exit: Move force_uaccess back into do_exit
  exit: Guarantee make_task_dead leaks the tsk when calling do_task_exit
  ...
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Pull signal/exit/ptrace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes deletes some dead code, makes a lot of cleanups
  which hopefully make the code easier to follow, and fixes bugs found
  along the way.

  The end-game which I have not yet reached yet is for fatal signals
  that generate coredumps to be short-circuit deliverable from
  complete_signal, for force_siginfo_to_task not to require changing
  userspace configured signal delivery state, and for the ptrace stops
  to always happen in locations where we can guarantee on all
  architectures that the all of the registers are saved and available on
  the stack.

  Removal of profile_task_ext, profile_munmap, and profile_handoff_task
  are the big successes for dead code removal this round.

  A bunch of small bug fixes are included, as most of the issues
  reported were small enough that they would not affect bisection so I
  simply added the fixes and did not fold the fixes into the changes
  they were fixing.

  There was a bug that broke coredumps piped to systemd-coredump. I
  dropped the change that caused that bug and replaced it entirely with
  something much more restrained. Unfortunately that required some
  rebasing.

  Some successes after this set of changes: There are few enough calls
  to do_exit to audit in a reasonable amount of time. The lifetime of
  struct kthread now matches the lifetime of struct task, and the
  pointer to struct kthread is no longer stored in set_child_tid. The
  flag SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP is removed. The field group_exit_task is
  removed. Issues where task-&gt;exit_code was examined with
  signal-&gt;group_exit_code should been examined were fixed.

  There are several loosely related changes included because I am
  cleaning up and if I don't include them they will probably get lost.

  The original postings of these changes can be found at:
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6ha4zsd.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bl1kunjj.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r19opkx1.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org

  I trimmed back the last set of changes to only the obviously correct
  once. Simply because there was less time for review than I had hoped"

* 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (44 commits)
  ptrace/m68k: Stop open coding ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove unused regs argument from ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove second setting of PT_SEIZED in ptrace_attach
  taskstats: Cleanup the use of task-&gt;exit_code
  exit: Use the correct exit_code in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat
  exit: Fix the exit_code for wait_task_zombie
  exit: Coredumps reach do_group_exit
  exit: Remove profile_handoff_task
  exit: Remove profile_task_exit &amp; profile_munmap
  signal: clean up kernel-doc comments
  signal: Remove the helper signal_group_exit
  signal: Rename group_exit_task group_exec_task
  coredump: Stop setting signal-&gt;group_exit_task
  signal: Remove SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: During coredumps set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT in zap_process
  signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal
  signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  signal: Have the oom killer detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  exit: Move force_uaccess back into do_exit
  exit: Guarantee make_task_dead leaks the tsk when calling do_task_exit
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/mempolicy: wire up syscall set_mempolicy_home_node</title>
<updated>2022-01-15T14:30:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-14T22:08:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=21b084fdf2a49ca1634e8e360e9ab6f9ff0dee11'/>
<id>21b084fdf2a49ca1634e8e360e9ab6f9ff0dee11</id>
<content type='text'>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211202123810.267175-4-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Widawsky &lt;ben.widawsky@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-api@vger.kernel.org&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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Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211202123810.267175-4-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Widawsky &lt;ben.widawsky@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-api@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>exit/xtensa: In arch/xtensa/entry.S:Linvalid_mask call make_task_dead</title>
<updated>2022-01-08T16:46:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
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There have historically been two big uses of do_exit.  The first is
it's design use to be the guts of the exit(2) system call.  The second
use is to terminate a task after something catastrophic has happened
like a NULL pointer in kernel code.  The function make_task_dead
has been added to accomidate the second use.

The call to do_exit in Linvalidmask is clearly not a normal userspace
exit.  As failure handling there are two possible ways to go.
If userspace can trigger the issue force_exit_sig should be called.
Otherwise make_task_dead probably from the implementation of die
is appropriate.

Replace the call of do_exit in Linvalidmask with make_task_dead as
I don't know xtensa and especially xtensa assembly language well
enough to do anything else.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YdUmN7n4W5YETUhW@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk
Suggested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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There have historically been two big uses of do_exit.  The first is
it's design use to be the guts of the exit(2) system call.  The second
use is to terminate a task after something catastrophic has happened
like a NULL pointer in kernel code.  The function make_task_dead
has been added to accomidate the second use.

The call to do_exit in Linvalidmask is clearly not a normal userspace
exit.  As failure handling there are two possible ways to go.
If userspace can trigger the issue force_exit_sig should be called.
Otherwise make_task_dead probably from the implementation of die
is appropriate.

Replace the call of do_exit in Linvalidmask with make_task_dead as
I don't know xtensa and especially xtensa assembly language well
enough to do anything else.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YdUmN7n4W5YETUhW@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk
Suggested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>exit: Add and use make_task_dead.</title>
<updated>2021-12-13T18:04:45+00:00</updated>
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There are two big uses of do_exit.  The first is it's design use to be
the guts of the exit(2) system call.  The second use is to terminate
a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer
in kernel code.

Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as
do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle
catastrophic failure.  In time this can probably be reduced to just a
light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so
that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new
concept.

Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic
task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code
is doing.

As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit
rewind_stack_and_make_dead.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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There are two big uses of do_exit.  The first is it's design use to be
the guts of the exit(2) system call.  The second use is to terminate
a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer
in kernel code.

Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as
do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle
catastrophic failure.  In time this can probably be reduced to just a
light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so
that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new
concept.

Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic
task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code
is doing.

As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit
rewind_stack_and_make_dead.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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