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<title>sparc64: fix incorrect sign extension in sys_sparc64_personality</title>
<updated>2016-03-03T23:06:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry V. Levin</name>
<email>ldv@altlinux.org</email>
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<published>2015-12-26T23:13:27+00:00</published>
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commit 525fd5a94e1be0776fa652df5c687697db508c91 upstream.

The value returned by sys_personality has type "long int".
It is saved to a variable of type "int", which is not a problem
yet because the type of task_struct-&gt;pesonality is "unsigned int".
The problem is the sign extension from "int" to "long int"
that happens on return from sys_sparc64_personality.

For example, a userspace call personality((unsigned) -EINVAL) will
result to any subsequent personality call, including absolutely
harmless read-only personality(0xffffffff) call, failing with
errno set to EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin &lt;ldv@altlinux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 525fd5a94e1be0776fa652df5c687697db508c91 upstream.

The value returned by sys_personality has type "long int".
It is saved to a variable of type "int", which is not a problem
yet because the type of task_struct-&gt;pesonality is "unsigned int".
The problem is the sign extension from "int" to "long int"
that happens on return from sys_sparc64_personality.

For example, a userspace call personality((unsigned) -EINVAL) will
result to any subsequent personality call, including absolutely
harmless read-only personality(0xffffffff) call, failing with
errno set to EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin &lt;ldv@altlinux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>uml: flush stdout before forking</title>
<updated>2016-03-03T23:06:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vegard Nossum</name>
<email>vegard.nossum@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-18T20:28:53+00:00</published>
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commit 0754fb298f2f2719f0393491d010d46cfb25d043 upstream.

I was seeing some really weird behaviour where piping UML's output
somewhere would cause output to get duplicated:

  $ ./vmlinux | head -n 40
  Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Checking advanced syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE

This is because these tests do a fork() which duplicates the non-empty
stdout buffer, then glibc flushes the duplicated buffer as each child
exits.

A simple workaround is to flush before forking.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0754fb298f2f2719f0393491d010d46cfb25d043 upstream.

I was seeing some really weird behaviour where piping UML's output
somewhere would cause output to get duplicated:

  $ ./vmlinux | head -n 40
  Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Checking advanced syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE

This is because these tests do a fork() which duplicates the non-empty
stdout buffer, then glibc flushes the duplicated buffer as each child
exits.

A simple workaround is to flush before forking.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>s390: fix normalization bug in exception table sorting</title>
<updated>2016-03-03T23:06:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-01T12:39:22+00:00</published>
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commit bcb7825a77f41c7dd91da6f7ac10b928156a322e upstream.

The normalization pass in the sorting routine of the relative exception
table serves two purposes:
- it ensures that the address fields of the exception table entries are
  fully ordered, so that no ambiguities arise between entries with
  identical instruction offsets (i.e., when two instructions that are
  exactly 8 bytes apart each have an exception table entry associated with
  them)
- it ensures that the offsets of both the instruction and the fixup fields
  of each entry are relative to their final location after sorting.

Commit eb608fb366de ("s390/exceptions: switch to relative exception table
entries") ported the relative exception table format from x86, but modified
the sorting routine to only normalize the instruction offset field and not
the fixup offset field. The result is that the fixup offset of each entry
will be relative to the original location of the entry before sorting,
likely leading to crashes when those entries are dereferenced.

Fixes: eb608fb366de ("s390/exceptions: switch to relative exception table entries")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit bcb7825a77f41c7dd91da6f7ac10b928156a322e upstream.

The normalization pass in the sorting routine of the relative exception
table serves two purposes:
- it ensures that the address fields of the exception table entries are
  fully ordered, so that no ambiguities arise between entries with
  identical instruction offsets (i.e., when two instructions that are
  exactly 8 bytes apart each have an exception table entry associated with
  them)
- it ensures that the offsets of both the instruction and the fixup fields
  of each entry are relative to their final location after sorting.

Commit eb608fb366de ("s390/exceptions: switch to relative exception table
entries") ported the relative exception table format from x86, but modified
the sorting routine to only normalize the instruction offset field and not
the fixup offset field. The result is that the fixup offset of each entry
will be relative to the original location of the entry before sorting,
likely leading to crashes when those entries are dereferenced.

Fixes: eb608fb366de ("s390/exceptions: switch to relative exception table entries")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ARC: dw2 unwind: Remove falllback linear search thru FDE entries</title>
<updated>2016-03-03T23:06:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-23T14:02:51+00:00</published>
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commit 2e22502c080f27afeab5e6f11e618fb7bc7aea53 upstream.

Fixes STAR 9000953410: "perf callgraph profiling causing RCU stalls"

| perf record -g -c 15000 -e cycles /sbin/hackbench
|
| INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
| 1: (1 GPs behind) idle=609/140000000000002/0 softirq=2914/2915 fqs=603
| Task dump for CPU 1:

in-kernel dwarf unwinder has a fast binary lookup and a fallback linear
search (which iterates thru each of ~11K entries) thus takes 2 orders of
magnitude longer (~3 million cycles vs. 2000). Routines written in hand
assembler lack dwarf info (as we don't support assembler CFI pseudo-ops
yet) fail the unwinder binary lookup, hit linear search, failing
nevertheless in the end.

However the linear search is pointless as binary lookup tables are created
from it in first place. It is impossible to have binary lookup fail while
succeed the linear search. It is pure waste of cycles thus removed by
this patch.

This manifested as RCU stalls / NMI watchdog splat when running
hackbench under perf with callgraph profiling. The triggering condition
was perf counter overflowing in routine lacking dwarf info (like memset)
leading to patheic 3 million cycle unwinder slow path and by the time it
returned new interrupts were already pending (Timer, IPI) and taken
rightaway. The original memset didn't make forward progress, system kept
accruing more interrupts and more unwinder delayes in a vicious feedback
loop, ultimately triggering the NMI diagnostic.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2e22502c080f27afeab5e6f11e618fb7bc7aea53 upstream.

Fixes STAR 9000953410: "perf callgraph profiling causing RCU stalls"

| perf record -g -c 15000 -e cycles /sbin/hackbench
|
| INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
| 1: (1 GPs behind) idle=609/140000000000002/0 softirq=2914/2915 fqs=603
| Task dump for CPU 1:

in-kernel dwarf unwinder has a fast binary lookup and a fallback linear
search (which iterates thru each of ~11K entries) thus takes 2 orders of
magnitude longer (~3 million cycles vs. 2000). Routines written in hand
assembler lack dwarf info (as we don't support assembler CFI pseudo-ops
yet) fail the unwinder binary lookup, hit linear search, failing
nevertheless in the end.

However the linear search is pointless as binary lookup tables are created
from it in first place. It is impossible to have binary lookup fail while
succeed the linear search. It is pure waste of cycles thus removed by
this patch.

This manifested as RCU stalls / NMI watchdog splat when running
hackbench under perf with callgraph profiling. The triggering condition
was perf counter overflowing in routine lacking dwarf info (like memset)
leading to patheic 3 million cycle unwinder slow path and by the time it
returned new interrupts were already pending (Timer, IPI) and taken
rightaway. The original memset didn't make forward progress, system kept
accruing more interrupts and more unwinder delayes in a vicious feedback
loop, ultimately triggering the NMI diagnostic.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: KVM: Uninit VCPU in vcpu_create error path</title>
<updated>2016-03-03T23:06:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-11T14:21:20+00:00</published>
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commit 585bb8f9a5e592f2ce7abbe5ed3112d5438d2754 upstream.

If either of the memory allocations in kvm_arch_vcpu_create() fail, the
vcpu which has been allocated and kvm_vcpu_init'd doesn't get uninit'd
in the error handling path. Add a call to kvm_vcpu_uninit() to fix this.

Fixes: 669e846e6c4e ("KVM/MIPS32: MIPS arch specific APIs for KVM")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 585bb8f9a5e592f2ce7abbe5ed3112d5438d2754 upstream.

If either of the memory allocations in kvm_arch_vcpu_create() fail, the
vcpu which has been allocated and kvm_vcpu_init'd doesn't get uninit'd
in the error handling path. Add a call to kvm_vcpu_uninit() to fix this.

Fixes: 669e846e6c4e ("KVM/MIPS32: MIPS arch specific APIs for KVM")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: KVM: Fix CACHE immediate offset sign extension</title>
<updated>2016-03-03T23:06:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-11T14:21:19+00:00</published>
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commit c5c2a3b998f1ff5a586f9d37e154070b8d550d17 upstream.

The immediate field of the CACHE instruction is signed, so ensure that
it gets sign extended by casting it to an int16_t rather than just
masking the low 16 bits.

Fixes: e685c689f3a8 ("KVM/MIPS32: Privileged instruction/target branch emulation.")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit c5c2a3b998f1ff5a586f9d37e154070b8d550d17 upstream.

The immediate field of the CACHE instruction is signed, so ensure that
it gets sign extended by casting it to an int16_t rather than just
masking the low 16 bits.

Fixes: e685c689f3a8 ("KVM/MIPS32: Privileged instruction/target branch emulation.")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MIPS: KVM: Fix ASID restoration logic</title>
<updated>2016-03-03T23:06:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-11T14:21:18+00:00</published>
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commit 002374f371bd02df864cce1fe85d90dc5b292837 upstream.

ASID restoration on guest resume should determine the guest execution
mode based on the guest Status register rather than bit 30 of the guest
PC.

Fix the two places in locore.S that do this, loading the guest status
from the cop0 area. Note, this assembly is specific to the trap &amp;
emulate implementation of KVM, so it doesn't need to check the
supervisor bit as that mode is not implemented in the guest.

Fixes: b680f70fc111 ("KVM/MIPS32: Entry point for trampolining to...")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 002374f371bd02df864cce1fe85d90dc5b292837 upstream.

ASID restoration on guest resume should determine the guest execution
mode based on the guest Status register rather than bit 30 of the guest
PC.

Fix the two places in locore.S that do this, loading the guest status
from the cop0 area. Note, this assembly is specific to the trap &amp;
emulate implementation of KVM, so it doesn't need to check the
supervisor bit as that mode is not implemented in the guest.

Fixes: b680f70fc111 ("KVM/MIPS32: Entry point for trampolining to...")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: Disable interrupts around EFI calls, not in the epilog/prolog calls</title>
<updated>2016-03-03T23:06:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-03T06:34:33+00:00</published>
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commit 23a0d4e8fa6d3a1d7fb819f79bcc0a3739c30ba9 upstream.

Tapasweni Pathak reported that we do a kmalloc() in efi_call_phys_prolog()
on x86-64 while having interrupts disabled, which is a big no-no, as
kmalloc() can sleep.

Solve this by removing the irq disabling from the prolog/epilog calls
around EFI calls: it's unnecessary, as in this stage we are single
threaded in the boot thread, and we don't ever execute this from
interrupt contexts.

Reported-by: Tapasweni Pathak &lt;tapaswenipathak@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.10: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 23a0d4e8fa6d3a1d7fb819f79bcc0a3739c30ba9 upstream.

Tapasweni Pathak reported that we do a kmalloc() in efi_call_phys_prolog()
on x86-64 while having interrupts disabled, which is a big no-no, as
kmalloc() can sleep.

Solve this by removing the irq disabling from the prolog/epilog calls
around EFI calls: it's unnecessary, as in this stage we are single
threaded in the boot thread, and we don't ever execute this from
interrupt contexts.

Reported-by: Tapasweni Pathak &lt;tapaswenipathak@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.10: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm/irq: Stop relying on magic JMP behavior for early_idt_handlers</title>
<updated>2016-02-25T19:57:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-22T23:15:47+00:00</published>
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commit 425be5679fd292a3c36cb1fe423086708a99f11a upstream.

The early_idt_handlers asm code generates an array of entry
points spaced nine bytes apart.  It's not really clear from that
code or from the places that reference it what's going on, and
the code only works in the first place because GAS never
generates two-byte JMP instructions when jumping to global
labels.

Clean up the code to generate the correct array stride (member size)
explicitly. This should be considerably more robust against
screw-ups, as GAS will warn if a .fill directive has a negative
count.  Using '. =' to advance would have been even more robust
(it would generate an actual error if it tried to move
backwards), but it would pad with nulls, confusing anyone who
tries to disassemble the code.  The new scheme should be much
clearer to future readers.

While we're at it, improve the comments and rename the array and
common code.

Binutils may start relaxing jumps to non-weak labels.  If so,
this change will fix our build, and we may need to backport this
change.

Before, on x86_64:

  0000000000000000 &lt;early_idt_handlers&gt;:
     0:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     2:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     4:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   9 &lt;early_idt_handlers+0x9&gt;
                          5: R_X86_64_PC32        early_idt_handler-0x4
  ...
    48:   66 90                   xchg   %ax,%ax
    4a:   6a 08                   pushq  $0x8
    4c:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   51 &lt;early_idt_handlers+0x51&gt;
                          4d: R_X86_64_PC32       early_idt_handler-0x4
  ...
   117:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
   119:   6a 1f                   pushq  $0x1f
   11b:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   120 &lt;early_idt_handler&gt;
                          11c: R_X86_64_PC32      early_idt_handler-0x4

After:

  0000000000000000 &lt;early_idt_handler_array&gt;:
     0:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     2:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     4:   e9 14 01 00 00          jmpq   11d &lt;early_idt_handler_common&gt;
  ...
    48:   6a 08                   pushq  $0x8
    4a:   e9 d1 00 00 00          jmpq   120 &lt;early_idt_handler_common&gt;
    4f:   cc                      int3
    50:   cc                      int3
  ...
   117:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
   119:   6a 1f                   pushq  $0x1f
   11b:   eb 03                   jmp    120 &lt;early_idt_handler_common&gt;
   11d:   cc                      int3
   11e:   cc                      int3
   11f:   cc                      int3

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Binutils &lt;binutils@sourceware.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: H.J. Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;JBeulich@suse.com&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;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac027962af343b0c599cbfcf50b945ad2ef3d7a8.1432336324.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 425be5679fd292a3c36cb1fe423086708a99f11a upstream.

The early_idt_handlers asm code generates an array of entry
points spaced nine bytes apart.  It's not really clear from that
code or from the places that reference it what's going on, and
the code only works in the first place because GAS never
generates two-byte JMP instructions when jumping to global
labels.

Clean up the code to generate the correct array stride (member size)
explicitly. This should be considerably more robust against
screw-ups, as GAS will warn if a .fill directive has a negative
count.  Using '. =' to advance would have been even more robust
(it would generate an actual error if it tried to move
backwards), but it would pad with nulls, confusing anyone who
tries to disassemble the code.  The new scheme should be much
clearer to future readers.

While we're at it, improve the comments and rename the array and
common code.

Binutils may start relaxing jumps to non-weak labels.  If so,
this change will fix our build, and we may need to backport this
change.

Before, on x86_64:

  0000000000000000 &lt;early_idt_handlers&gt;:
     0:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     2:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     4:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   9 &lt;early_idt_handlers+0x9&gt;
                          5: R_X86_64_PC32        early_idt_handler-0x4
  ...
    48:   66 90                   xchg   %ax,%ax
    4a:   6a 08                   pushq  $0x8
    4c:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   51 &lt;early_idt_handlers+0x51&gt;
                          4d: R_X86_64_PC32       early_idt_handler-0x4
  ...
   117:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
   119:   6a 1f                   pushq  $0x1f
   11b:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   120 &lt;early_idt_handler&gt;
                          11c: R_X86_64_PC32      early_idt_handler-0x4

After:

  0000000000000000 &lt;early_idt_handler_array&gt;:
     0:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     2:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
     4:   e9 14 01 00 00          jmpq   11d &lt;early_idt_handler_common&gt;
  ...
    48:   6a 08                   pushq  $0x8
    4a:   e9 d1 00 00 00          jmpq   120 &lt;early_idt_handler_common&gt;
    4f:   cc                      int3
    50:   cc                      int3
  ...
   117:   6a 00                   pushq  $0x0
   119:   6a 1f                   pushq  $0x1f
   11b:   eb 03                   jmp    120 &lt;early_idt_handler_common&gt;
   11d:   cc                      int3
   11e:   cc                      int3
   11f:   cc                      int3

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Binutils &lt;binutils@sourceware.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: H.J. Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;JBeulich@suse.com&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;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac027962af343b0c599cbfcf50b945ad2ef3d7a8.1432336324.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>m32r: fix m32104ut_defconfig build fail</title>
<updated>2016-02-25T19:57:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sudip Mukherjee</name>
<email>sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-14T23:16:47+00:00</published>
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commit 601f1db653217f205ffa5fb33514b4e1711e56d1 upstream.

The build of m32104ut_defconfig for m32r arch was failing for long long
time with the error:

  ERROR: "memory_start" [fs/udf/udf.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "memory_end" [fs/udf/udf.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "memory_end" [drivers/scsi/sg.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "memory_start" [drivers/scsi/sg.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "memory_end" [drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "memory_start" [drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.ko] undefined!

As done in other architectures export the symbols to fix the error.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee &lt;sudip@vectorindia.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 601f1db653217f205ffa5fb33514b4e1711e56d1 upstream.

The build of m32104ut_defconfig for m32r arch was failing for long long
time with the error:

  ERROR: "memory_start" [fs/udf/udf.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "memory_end" [fs/udf/udf.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "memory_end" [drivers/scsi/sg.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "memory_start" [drivers/scsi/sg.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "memory_end" [drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "memory_start" [drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.ko] undefined!

As done in other architectures export the symbols to fix the error.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee &lt;sudip@vectorindia.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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