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<title>linux-stable.git/arch, branch linux-2.6.20.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] POWERPC: Flush registers to proper task context</title>
<updated>2007-10-17T19:30:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-29T02:15:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f8707bac77f9cacb1ea18ca03b72fb41021b0fc8'/>
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commit 0ee6c15e7ba7b36a217cdadb292eeaf32a057a59 in mainline.

When we flush register state for FP, Altivec, or SPE in flush_*_to_thread
we need to respect the task_struct that the caller has passed to us.

Most cases we are called with current, however sometimes (ptrace) we may
be passed a different task_struct.

This showed up when using gdbserver debugging a simple program that used
floating point. When gdb tried to show the FP regs they all showed up as
0, because the child's FP registers were never properly flushed to memory.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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commit 0ee6c15e7ba7b36a217cdadb292eeaf32a057a59 in mainline.

When we flush register state for FP, Altivec, or SPE in flush_*_to_thread
we need to respect the task_struct that the caller has passed to us.

Most cases we are called with current, however sometimes (ptrace) we may
be passed a different task_struct.

This showed up when using gdbserver debugging a simple program that used
floating point. When gdb tried to show the FP regs they all showed up as
0, because the child's FP registers were never properly flushed to memory.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] SPARC64: Fix sparc64 task stack traces.</title>
<updated>2007-10-17T19:30:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-22T04:11:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=09e4df64162130fd6b062350beae93988e48004b'/>
<id>09e4df64162130fd6b062350beae93988e48004b</id>
<content type='text'>
It didn't handle that case at all, and now dump_stack()
can be implemented directly as show_stack(current, NULL)

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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It didn't handle that case at all, and now dump_stack()
can be implemented directly as show_stack(current, NULL)

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] i386: allow debuggers to access the vsyscall page with compat vDSO</title>
<updated>2007-10-17T19:30:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>jbeulich@novell.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-15T10:38:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2e4c8331d3245f8de7a0d59acc4f22bf13d061c0'/>
<id>2e4c8331d3245f8de7a0d59acc4f22bf13d061c0</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@novell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@novell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] x86_64: Zero extend all registers after ptrace in 32bit entry path.</title>
<updated>2007-09-23T09:12:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-21T14:16:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0d4a39318e6177ed424e92fe9ea75b514e782cdc'/>
<id>0d4a39318e6177ed424e92fe9ea75b514e782cdc</id>
<content type='text'>
Strictly it's only needed for eax.

It actually does a little more than strictly needed -- the other registers
are already zero extended.

Also remove the now unnecessary and non functional compat task check
in ptrace.

This is CVE-2007-4573

Found by Wojciech Purczynski

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
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<pre>
Strictly it's only needed for eax.

It actually does a little more than strictly needed -- the other registers
are already zero extended.

Also remove the now unnecessary and non functional compat task check
in ptrace.

This is CVE-2007-4573

Found by Wojciech Purczynski

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] UML: exports for hostfs</title>
<updated>2007-08-25T15:24:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Dike</name>
<email>jdike@addtoit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-10T16:49:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0ea4a21321478a85e9c4dfdb877f44a868e2a91a'/>
<id>0ea4a21321478a85e9c4dfdb877f44a868e2a91a</id>
<content type='text'>
Add some exports for hostfs that are required after Alberto Bertogli's
fixes for accessing unlinked host files.

Also did some style cleanups while I was here.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<pre>
Add some exports for hostfs that are required after Alberto Bertogli's
fixes for accessing unlinked host files.

Also did some style cleanups while I was here.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] acpi-cpufreq: Proper ReadModifyWrite of PERF_CTL MSR</title>
<updated>2007-08-25T15:24:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Venki Pallipadi</name>
<email>venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-16T20:57:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=78534eed45a917b1a1a933915eb5e742b400649f'/>
<id>78534eed45a917b1a1a933915eb5e742b400649f</id>
<content type='text'>
[CPUFREQ] acpi-cpufreq: Proper ReadModifyWrite of PERF_CTL MSR

During recent acpi-cpufreq changes, writing to PERF_CTL msr
changed from RMW of entire 64 bit to RMW of low 32 bit and clearing of
upper 32 bit. Fix it back to do a proper RMW of the MSR.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chuck Ebbert &lt;cebbert@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<pre>
[CPUFREQ] acpi-cpufreq: Proper ReadModifyWrite of PERF_CTL MSR

During recent acpi-cpufreq changes, writing to PERF_CTL msr
changed from RMW of entire 64 bit to RMW of low 32 bit and clearing of
upper 32 bit. Fix it back to do a proper RMW of the MSR.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chuck Ebbert &lt;cebbert@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] Fix sparc32 udelay() rounding errors.</title>
<updated>2007-08-25T15:24:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Fortescue</name>
<email>mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-25T04:45:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=924208714f0952c9db54121b99b885760917ef57'/>
<id>924208714f0952c9db54121b99b885760917ef57</id>
<content type='text'>
[SPARC32]: Fix rounding errors in ndelay/udelay implementation.

__ndelay and __udelay have not been delayung &gt;= specified time.
The problem with __ndelay has been tacked down to the rounding of the
multiplier constant. By changing this, delays &gt; app 18us are correctly
calculated.
The problem with __udelay has also been tracked down to rounding issues.
Changing the multiplier constant (to match that used in sparc64) corrects
for large delays and adding in a rounding constant corrects for trunctaion
errors in the claculations.
Many short delays will return without looping. This is not an error as there
is the fixed delay of doing all the maths to calculate the loop count.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue &lt;mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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[SPARC32]: Fix rounding errors in ndelay/udelay implementation.

__ndelay and __udelay have not been delayung &gt;= specified time.
The problem with __ndelay has been tacked down to the rounding of the
multiplier constant. By changing this, delays &gt; app 18us are correctly
calculated.
The problem with __udelay has also been tracked down to rounding issues.
Changing the multiplier constant (to match that used in sparc64) corrects
for large delays and adding in a rounding constant corrects for trunctaion
errors in the claculations.
Many short delays will return without looping. This is not an error as there
is the fixed delay of doing all the maths to calculate the loop count.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue &lt;mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] Fix sparc32 memset()</title>
<updated>2007-08-25T15:24:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Shmelev</name>
<email>ashmelev@task.sun.mcst.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-25T04:44:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=461da1de5ee6ee7f4848840d296c28a60c8b50e7'/>
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<content type='text'>
[SPARC32]: Fix bug in sparc optimized memset.

Sparc optimized memset (arch/sparc/lib/memset.S) does not fill last
byte of the memory area, if area size is less than 8 bytes and start
address is not word (4-bytes) aligned.

Here is code chunk where bug located:
/* %o0 - memory address, %o1 - size, %g3 - value */
8:
     add    %o0, 1, %o0
    subcc    %o1, 1, %o1
    bne,a    8b
     stb %g3, [%o0 - 1]

This code should write byte every loop iteration, but last time delay
instruction stb is not executed because branch instruction sets
"annul" bit.

Patch replaces bne,a by bne instruction.

Error can be reproduced by simple kernel module:

--------------------
#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/config.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/errno.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;

static void do_memset(void **p, int size)
{
        memset(p, 0x00, size);
}

static int __init memset_test_init(void)
{
    char fooc[8];
    int *fooi;
    memset(fooc, 0xba, sizeof(fooc));

    do_memset((void**)(fooc + 3), 1);

    fooi = (int*) fooc;
    printk("%08X %08X\n", fooi[0], fooi[1]);

    return -1;
}

static void __exit memset_test_cleanup(void)
{
    return;
}

module_init(memset_test_init);
module_exit(memset_test_cleanup);

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS;
------------------------

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shmelev &lt;ashmelev@task.sun.mcst.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<pre>
[SPARC32]: Fix bug in sparc optimized memset.

Sparc optimized memset (arch/sparc/lib/memset.S) does not fill last
byte of the memory area, if area size is less than 8 bytes and start
address is not word (4-bytes) aligned.

Here is code chunk where bug located:
/* %o0 - memory address, %o1 - size, %g3 - value */
8:
     add    %o0, 1, %o0
    subcc    %o1, 1, %o1
    bne,a    8b
     stb %g3, [%o0 - 1]

This code should write byte every loop iteration, but last time delay
instruction stb is not executed because branch instruction sets
"annul" bit.

Patch replaces bne,a by bne instruction.

Error can be reproduced by simple kernel module:

--------------------
#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/config.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/errno.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;

static void do_memset(void **p, int size)
{
        memset(p, 0x00, size);
}

static int __init memset_test_init(void)
{
    char fooc[8];
    int *fooi;
    memset(fooc, 0xba, sizeof(fooc));

    do_memset((void**)(fooc + 3), 1);

    fooi = (int*) fooc;
    printk("%08X %08X\n", fooi[0], fooi[1]);

    return -1;
}

static void __exit memset_test_cleanup(void)
{
    return;
}

module_init(memset_test_init);
module_exit(memset_test_cleanup);

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS;
------------------------

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shmelev &lt;ashmelev@task.sun.mcst.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] Sparc64 bootup assembler bug</title>
<updated>2007-08-25T15:24:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-20T05:06:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8dd61f5b0bd0cc1eb3c925a3d1195c6f7ce132cc'/>
<id>8dd61f5b0bd0cc1eb3c925a3d1195c6f7ce132cc</id>
<content type='text'>
[SPARC64]: Fix two year old bug in early bootup asm.

We try to fetch the CIF entry pointer from %o4, but that
can get clobbered by the early OBP calls.  It is saved
in %l7 already, so actually this "mov %o4, %l7" can just
be completely removed with no other changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
[SPARC64]: Fix two year old bug in early bootup asm.

We try to fetch the CIF entry pointer from %o4, but that
can get clobbered by the early OBP calls.  It is saved
in %l7 already, so actually this "mov %o4, %l7" can just
be completely removed with no other changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] i386: fix infinite loop with singlestep int80 syscalls</title>
<updated>2007-08-15T08:02:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wessel</name>
<email>jason.wessel@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-02T20:53:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c18580083923eb018b7f9157c061f2a655a342c3'/>
<id>c18580083923eb018b7f9157c061f2a655a342c3</id>
<content type='text'>
The commit 635cf99a80f4ebee59d70eb64bb85ce829e4591f introduced a
regression.  Executing a ptrace single step after certain int80
accesses will infinitely loop and never advance the PC.

The TIF_SINGLESTEP check should be done on the return from the syscall
and not before it.

The new test case is below:

/* Test whether singlestep through an int80 syscall works.
 */
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/ptrace.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/wait.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
#include &lt;asm/user.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;

static int child, status;
static struct user_regs_struct regs;

static void do_child()
{
	char str[80] = "child: int80 test\n";

	ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, 0, 0);
	kill(getpid(), SIGUSR1);
	write(fileno(stdout),str,strlen(str));
	asm ("int $0x80" : : "a" (20)); /* getpid */
}

static void do_parent()
{
	unsigned long eip, expected = 0;
again:
	waitpid(child, &amp;status, 0);
	if (WIFEXITED(status) || WIFSIGNALED(status))
		return;

	if (WIFSTOPPED(status)) {
		ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGS, child, 0, &amp;regs);
		eip = regs.eip;
		if (expected)
			fprintf(stderr, "child stop @ %08lx, expected %08lx %s\n",
					eip, expected,
					eip == expected ? "" : " &lt;== ERROR");

		if (*(unsigned short *)eip == 0x80cd) {
			fprintf(stderr, "int 0x80 at %08x\n", (unsigned int)eip);
			expected = eip + 2;
		} else
			expected = 0;

		ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, child, NULL, NULL);
	}
	goto again;
}

int main(int argc, char * const argv[])
{
	child = fork();
	if (child)
		do_parent();
	else
		do_child();
	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@goop.org&gt;
Cc: Chuck Ebbert &lt;cebbert@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The commit 635cf99a80f4ebee59d70eb64bb85ce829e4591f introduced a
regression.  Executing a ptrace single step after certain int80
accesses will infinitely loop and never advance the PC.

The TIF_SINGLESTEP check should be done on the return from the syscall
and not before it.

The new test case is below:

/* Test whether singlestep through an int80 syscall works.
 */
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/ptrace.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/wait.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
#include &lt;asm/user.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;

static int child, status;
static struct user_regs_struct regs;

static void do_child()
{
	char str[80] = "child: int80 test\n";

	ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, 0, 0);
	kill(getpid(), SIGUSR1);
	write(fileno(stdout),str,strlen(str));
	asm ("int $0x80" : : "a" (20)); /* getpid */
}

static void do_parent()
{
	unsigned long eip, expected = 0;
again:
	waitpid(child, &amp;status, 0);
	if (WIFEXITED(status) || WIFSIGNALED(status))
		return;

	if (WIFSTOPPED(status)) {
		ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGS, child, 0, &amp;regs);
		eip = regs.eip;
		if (expected)
			fprintf(stderr, "child stop @ %08lx, expected %08lx %s\n",
					eip, expected,
					eip == expected ? "" : " &lt;== ERROR");

		if (*(unsigned short *)eip == 0x80cd) {
			fprintf(stderr, "int 0x80 at %08x\n", (unsigned int)eip);
			expected = eip + 2;
		} else
			expected = 0;

		ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, child, NULL, NULL);
	}
	goto again;
}

int main(int argc, char * const argv[])
{
	child = fork();
	if (child)
		do_parent();
	else
		do_child();
	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@goop.org&gt;
Cc: Chuck Ebbert &lt;cebbert@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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