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<title>ARC: Re-enable MMU upon Machine Check exception</title>
<updated>2017-10-04T11:43:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jose Abreu</name>
<email>Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-01T16:00:23+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1ee55a8f7f6b7ca4c0c59e0b4b4e3584a085c2d3 ]

I recently came upon a scenario where I would get a double fault
machine check exception tiriggered by a kernel module.
However the ensuing crash stacktrace (ksym lookup) was not working
correctly.

Turns out that machine check auto-disables MMU while modules are allocated
in kernel vaddr spapce.

This patch re-enables the MMU before start printing the stacktrace
making stacktracing of modules work upon a fatal exception.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu &lt;joabreu@synopsys.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[vgupta: moved code into low level handler to avoid in 2 places]

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1ee55a8f7f6b7ca4c0c59e0b4b4e3584a085c2d3 ]

I recently came upon a scenario where I would get a double fault
machine check exception tiriggered by a kernel module.
However the ensuing crash stacktrace (ksym lookup) was not working
correctly.

Turns out that machine check auto-disables MMU while modules are allocated
in kernel vaddr spapce.

This patch re-enables the MMU before start printing the stacktrace
making stacktracing of modules work upon a fatal exception.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu &lt;joabreu@synopsys.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[vgupta: moved code into low level handler to avoid in 2 places]

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix DAR reporting when alignment handler faults</title>
<updated>2017-10-04T11:42:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-24T10:49:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f9effe925039cf54489b5c04e0d40073bb3a123d ]

Anton noticed that if we fault part way through emulating an unaligned
instruction, we don't update the DAR to reflect that.

The DAR value is eventually reported back to userspace as the address
in the SEGV signal, and if userspace is using that value to demand
fault then it can be confused by us not setting the value correctly.

This patch is ugly as hell, but is intended to be the minimal fix and
back ports easily.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f9effe925039cf54489b5c04e0d40073bb3a123d ]

Anton noticed that if we fault part way through emulating an unaligned
instruction, we don't update the DAR to reflect that.

The DAR value is eventually reported back to userspace as the address
in the SEGV signal, and if userspace is using that value to demand
fault then it can be confused by us not setting the value correctly.

This patch is ugly as hell, but is intended to be the minimal fix and
back ports easily.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/fsgsbase/64: Report FSBASE and GSBASE correctly in core dumps</title>
<updated>2017-10-04T01:36:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-01T14:11:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9584d98bed7a7a904d0702ad06bbcc94703cb5b4 ]

In ELF_COPY_CORE_REGS, we're copying from the current task, so
accessing thread.fsbase and thread.gsbase makes no sense.  Just read
the values from the CPU registers.

In practice, the old code would have been correct most of the time
simply because thread.fsbase and thread.gsbase usually matched the
CPU registers.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bpetkov@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chang Seok &lt;chang.seok.bae@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.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;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9584d98bed7a7a904d0702ad06bbcc94703cb5b4 ]

In ELF_COPY_CORE_REGS, we're copying from the current task, so
accessing thread.fsbase and thread.gsbase makes no sense.  Just read
the values from the CPU registers.

In practice, the old code would have been correct most of the time
simply because thread.fsbase and thread.gsbase usually matched the
CPU registers.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bpetkov@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chang Seok &lt;chang.seok.bae@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.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;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8692/1: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal</title>
<updated>2017-10-04T01:36:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-22T10:36:17+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 746a272e44141af24a02f6c9b0f65f4c4598ed42 ]

When there's a fatal signal pending, arm's do_page_fault()
implementation returns 0. The intent is that we'll return to the
faulting userspace instruction, delivering the signal on the way.

However, if we take a fatal signal during fixing up a uaccess, this
results in a return to the faulting kernel instruction, which will be
instantly retried, resulting in the same fault being taken forever. As
the task never reaches userspace, the signal is not delivered, and the
task is left unkillable. While the task is stuck in this state, it can
inhibit the forward progress of the system.

To avoid this, we must ensure that when a fatal signal is pending, we
apply any necessary fixup for a faulting kernel instruction. Thus we
will return to an error path, and it is up to that code to make forward
progress towards delivering the fatal signal.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 746a272e44141af24a02f6c9b0f65f4c4598ed42 ]

When there's a fatal signal pending, arm's do_page_fault()
implementation returns 0. The intent is that we'll return to the
faulting userspace instruction, delivering the signal on the way.

However, if we take a fatal signal during fixing up a uaccess, this
results in a return to the faulting kernel instruction, which will be
instantly retried, resulting in the same fault being taken forever. As
the task never reaches userspace, the signal is not delivered, and the
task is left unkillable. While the task is stuck in this state, it can
inhibit the forward progress of the system.

To avoid this, we must ensure that when a fatal signal is pending, we
apply any necessary fixup for a faulting kernel instruction. Thus we
will return to an error path, and it is up to that code to make forward
progress towards delivering the fatal signal.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: uapi: Add support for __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__</title>
<updated>2017-10-04T01:36:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>ben@decadent.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-01T00:35:55+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit cec80d82142ab25c71eee24b529cfeaf17c43062 ]

This fixes compiler errors in perf such as:

tests/attr.c: In function 'store_event':
tests/attr.c:66:27: error: format '%llu' expects argument of type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type '__u64 {aka long unsigned int}' [-Werror=format=]
  snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/event-%d-%llu-%d", dir,
                           ^

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Cree &lt;mcree@orcon.net.nz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit cec80d82142ab25c71eee24b529cfeaf17c43062 ]

This fixes compiler errors in perf such as:

tests/attr.c: In function 'store_event':
tests/attr.c:66:27: error: format '%llu' expects argument of type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type '__u64 {aka long unsigned int}' [-Werror=format=]
  snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/event-%d-%llu-%d", dir,
                           ^

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Cree &lt;mcree@orcon.net.nz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: fpsimd: Prevent registers leaking across exec</title>
<updated>2017-10-04T01:36:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-18T15:57:01+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 096622104e14d8a1db4860bd557717067a0515d2 ]

There are some tricky dependencies between the different stages of
flushing the FPSIMD register state during exec, and these can race
with context switch in ways that can cause the old task's regs to
leak across.  In particular, a context switch during the memset() can
cause some of the task's old FPSIMD registers to reappear.

Disabling preemption for this small window would be no big deal for
performance: preemption is already disabled for similar scenarios
like updating the FPSIMD registers in sigreturn.

So, instead of rearranging things in ways that might swap existing
subtle bugs for new ones, this patch just disables preemption
around the FPSIMD state flushing so that races of this type can't
occur here.  This brings fpsimd_flush_thread() into line with other
code paths.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 674c242c9323 ("arm64: flush FP/SIMD state correctly after execve()")
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 096622104e14d8a1db4860bd557717067a0515d2 ]

There are some tricky dependencies between the different stages of
flushing the FPSIMD register state during exec, and these can race
with context switch in ways that can cause the old task's regs to
leak across.  In particular, a context switch during the memset() can
cause some of the task's old FPSIMD registers to reappear.

Disabling preemption for this small window would be no big deal for
performance: preemption is already disabled for similar scenarios
like updating the FPSIMD registers in sigreturn.

So, instead of rearranging things in ways that might swap existing
subtle bugs for new ones, this patch just disables preemption
around the FPSIMD state flushing so that races of this type can't
occur here.  This brings fpsimd_flush_thread() into line with other
code paths.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 674c242c9323 ("arm64: flush FP/SIMD state correctly after execve()")
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/io: Add "memory" clobber to insb/insw/insl/outsb/outsw/outsl</title>
<updated>2017-10-04T01:36:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-19T12:53:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7206f9bf108eb9513d170c73f151367a1bdf3dbf ]

The x86 version of insb/insw/insl uses an inline assembly that does
not have the target buffer listed as an output. This can confuse
the compiler, leading it to think that a subsequent access of the
buffer is uninitialized:

  drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c: In function ‘wl3501_mgmt_scan_confirm’:
  drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c:665:9: error: ‘sig.status’ is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
  drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c:668:12: error: ‘sig.cap_info’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
  drivers/net/sb1000.c: In function 'sb1000_rx':
  drivers/net/sb1000.c:775:9: error: 'st[0]' is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
  drivers/net/sb1000.c:776:10: error: 'st[1]' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
  drivers/net/sb1000.c:784:11: error: 'st[1]' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

I tried to mark the exact input buffer as an output here, but couldn't
figure it out. As suggested by Linus, marking all memory as clobbered
however is good enough too. For the outs operations, I also add the
memory clobber, to force the input to be written to local variables.
This is probably already guaranteed by the "asm volatile", but it can't
hurt to do this for symmetry.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170719125310.2487451-5-arnd@arndb.de
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/12/605
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7206f9bf108eb9513d170c73f151367a1bdf3dbf ]

The x86 version of insb/insw/insl uses an inline assembly that does
not have the target buffer listed as an output. This can confuse
the compiler, leading it to think that a subsequent access of the
buffer is uninitialized:

  drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c: In function ‘wl3501_mgmt_scan_confirm’:
  drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c:665:9: error: ‘sig.status’ is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
  drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c:668:12: error: ‘sig.cap_info’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
  drivers/net/sb1000.c: In function 'sb1000_rx':
  drivers/net/sb1000.c:775:9: error: 'st[0]' is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
  drivers/net/sb1000.c:776:10: error: 'st[1]' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
  drivers/net/sb1000.c:784:11: error: 'st[1]' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

I tried to mark the exact input buffer as an output here, but couldn't
figure it out. As suggested by Linus, marking all memory as clobbered
however is good enough too. For the outs operations, I also add the
memory clobber, to force the input to be written to local variables.
This is probably already guaranteed by the "asm volatile", but it can't
hurt to do this for symmetry.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170719125310.2487451-5-arnd@arndb.de
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/12/605
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal</title>
<updated>2017-10-04T01:36:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-11T14:19:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 289d07a2dc6c6b6f3e4b8a62669320d99dbe6c3d ]

When there's a fatal signal pending, arm64's do_page_fault()
implementation returns 0. The intent is that we'll return to the
faulting userspace instruction, delivering the signal on the way.

However, if we take a fatal signal during fixing up a uaccess, this
results in a return to the faulting kernel instruction, which will be
instantly retried, resulting in the same fault being taken forever. As
the task never reaches userspace, the signal is not delivered, and the
task is left unkillable. While the task is stuck in this state, it can
inhibit the forward progress of the system.

To avoid this, we must ensure that when a fatal signal is pending, we
apply any necessary fixup for a faulting kernel instruction. Thus we
will return to an error path, and it is up to that code to make forward
progress towards delivering the fatal signal.

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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When there's a fatal signal pending, arm64's do_page_fault()
implementation returns 0. The intent is that we'll return to the
faulting userspace instruction, delivering the signal on the way.

However, if we take a fatal signal during fixing up a uaccess, this
results in a return to the faulting kernel instruction, which will be
instantly retried, resulting in the same fault being taken forever. As
the task never reaches userspace, the signal is not delivered, and the
task is left unkillable. While the task is stuck in this state, it can
inhibit the forward progress of the system.

To avoid this, we must ensure that when a fatal signal is pending, we
apply any necessary fixup for a faulting kernel instruction. Thus we
will return to an error path, and it is up to that code to make forward
progress towards delivering the fatal signal.

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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<title>KVM: arm/arm64: Handle hva aging while destroying the vm</title>
<updated>2017-09-10T20:36:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K Poulose</name>
<email>Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-05T08:57:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7e5a672289c9754d07e1c3b33649786d3d70f5e4 ]

The mmu_notifier_release() callback of KVM triggers cleaning up
the stage2 page table on kvm-arm. However there could be other
notifier callbacks in parallel with the mmu_notifier_release(),
which could cause the call backs ending up in an empty stage2
page table. Make sure we check it for all the notifier callbacks.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: commit 293f29363 ("kvm-arm: Unmap shadow pagetables properly")
Reported-by: Alex Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;cdall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7e5a672289c9754d07e1c3b33649786d3d70f5e4 ]

The mmu_notifier_release() callback of KVM triggers cleaning up
the stage2 page table on kvm-arm. However there could be other
notifier callbacks in parallel with the mmu_notifier_release(),
which could cause the call backs ending up in an empty stage2
page table. Make sure we check it for all the notifier callbacks.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: commit 293f29363 ("kvm-arm: Unmap shadow pagetables properly")
Reported-by: Alex Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;cdall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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<title>sparc64: Prevent perf from running during super critical sections</title>
<updated>2017-09-10T20:36:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Gardner</name>
<email>rob.gardner@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-17T15:22:27+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fc290a114fc6034b0f6a5a46e2fb7d54976cf87a ]

This fixes another cause of random segfaults and bus errors that may
occur while running perf with the callgraph option.

Critical sections beginning with spin_lock_irqsave() raise the interrupt
level to PIL_NORMAL_MAX (14) and intentionally do not block performance
counter interrupts, which arrive at PIL_NMI (15).

But some sections of code are "super critical" with respect to perf
because the perf_callchain_user() path accesses user space and may cause
TLB activity as well as faults as it unwinds the user stack.

One particular critical section occurs in switch_mm:

        spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;mm-&gt;context.lock, flags);
        ...
        load_secondary_context(mm);
        tsb_context_switch(mm);
        ...
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;mm-&gt;context.lock, flags);

If a perf interrupt arrives in between load_secondary_context() and
tsb_context_switch(), then perf_callchain_user() could execute with
the context ID of one process, but with an active TSB for a different
process. When the user stack is accessed, it is very likely to
incur a TLB miss, since the h/w context ID has been changed. The TLB
will then be reloaded with a translation from the TSB for one process,
but using a context ID for another process. This exposes memory from
one process to another, and since it is a mapping for stack memory,
this usually causes the new process to crash quickly.

This super critical section needs more protection than is provided
by spin_lock_irqsave() since perf interrupts must not be allowed in.

Since __tsb_context_switch already goes through the trouble of
disabling interrupts completely, we fix this by moving the secondary
context load down into this better protected region.

Orabug: 25577560

Signed-off-by: Dave Aldridge &lt;david.j.aldridge@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Gardner &lt;rob.gardner@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit fc290a114fc6034b0f6a5a46e2fb7d54976cf87a ]

This fixes another cause of random segfaults and bus errors that may
occur while running perf with the callgraph option.

Critical sections beginning with spin_lock_irqsave() raise the interrupt
level to PIL_NORMAL_MAX (14) and intentionally do not block performance
counter interrupts, which arrive at PIL_NMI (15).

But some sections of code are "super critical" with respect to perf
because the perf_callchain_user() path accesses user space and may cause
TLB activity as well as faults as it unwinds the user stack.

One particular critical section occurs in switch_mm:

        spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;mm-&gt;context.lock, flags);
        ...
        load_secondary_context(mm);
        tsb_context_switch(mm);
        ...
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;mm-&gt;context.lock, flags);

If a perf interrupt arrives in between load_secondary_context() and
tsb_context_switch(), then perf_callchain_user() could execute with
the context ID of one process, but with an active TSB for a different
process. When the user stack is accessed, it is very likely to
incur a TLB miss, since the h/w context ID has been changed. The TLB
will then be reloaded with a translation from the TSB for one process,
but using a context ID for another process. This exposes memory from
one process to another, and since it is a mapping for stack memory,
this usually causes the new process to crash quickly.

This super critical section needs more protection than is provided
by spin_lock_irqsave() since perf interrupts must not be allowed in.

Since __tsb_context_switch already goes through the trouble of
disabling interrupts completely, we fix this by moving the secondary
context load down into this better protected region.

Orabug: 25577560

Signed-off-by: Dave Aldridge &lt;david.j.aldridge@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Gardner &lt;rob.gardner@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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