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<entry>
<title>exec: Move would_dump into flush_old_exec</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:22:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-16T21:29:20+00:00</published>
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commit f87d1c9559164294040e58f5e3b74a162bf7c6e8 upstream.

I goofed when I added mm-&gt;user_ns support to would_dump.  I missed the
fact that in the case of binfmt_loader, binfmt_em86, binfmt_misc, and
binfmt_script bprm-&gt;file is reassigned.  Which made the move of
would_dump from setup_new_exec to __do_execve_file before exec_binprm
incorrect as it can result in would_dump running on the script instead
of the interpreter of the script.

The net result is that the code stopped making unreadable interpreters
undumpable.  Which allows them to be ptraced and written to disk
without special permissions.  Oops.

The move was necessary because the call in set_new_exec was after
bprm-&gt;mm was no longer valid.

To correct this mistake move the misplaced would_dump from
__do_execve_file into flos_old_exec, before exec_mmap is called.

I tested and confirmed that without this fix I can attach with gdb to
a script with an unreadable interpreter, and with this fix I can not.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f84df2a6f268 ("exec: Ensure mm-&gt;user_ns contains the execed files")
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 f87d1c9559164294040e58f5e3b74a162bf7c6e8 upstream.

I goofed when I added mm-&gt;user_ns support to would_dump.  I missed the
fact that in the case of binfmt_loader, binfmt_em86, binfmt_misc, and
binfmt_script bprm-&gt;file is reassigned.  Which made the move of
would_dump from setup_new_exec to __do_execve_file before exec_binprm
incorrect as it can result in would_dump running on the script instead
of the interpreter of the script.

The net result is that the code stopped making unreadable interpreters
undumpable.  Which allows them to be ptraced and written to disk
without special permissions.  Oops.

The move was necessary because the call in set_new_exec was after
bprm-&gt;mm was no longer valid.

To correct this mistake move the misplaced would_dump from
__do_execve_file into flos_old_exec, before exec_mmap is called.

I tested and confirmed that without this fix I can attach with gdb to
a script with an unreadable interpreter, and with this fix I can not.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f84df2a6f268 ("exec: Ensure mm-&gt;user_ns contains the execed files")
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>signal: Extend exec_id to 64bits</title>
<updated>2020-04-17T14:13:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-31T00:01:04+00:00</published>
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commit d1e7fd6462ca9fc76650fbe6ca800e35b24267da upstream.

Replace the 32bit exec_id with a 64bit exec_id to make it impossible
to wrap the exec_id counter.  With care an attacker can cause exec_id
wrap and send arbitrary signals to a newly exec'd parent.  This
bypasses the signal sending checks if the parent changes their
credentials during exec.

The severity of this problem can been seen that in my limited testing
of a 32bit exec_id it can take as little as 19s to exec 65536 times.
Which means that it can take as little as 14 days to wrap a 32bit
exec_id.  Adam Zabrocki has succeeded wrapping the self_exe_id in 7
days.  Even my slower timing is in the uptime of a typical server.
Which means self_exec_id is simply a speed bump today, and if exec
gets noticably faster self_exec_id won't even be a speed bump.

Extending self_exec_id to 64bits introduces a problem on 32bit
architectures where reading self_exec_id is no longer atomic and can
take two read instructions.  Which means that is is possible to hit
a window where the read value of exec_id does not match the written
value.  So with very lucky timing after this change this still
remains expoiltable.

I have updated the update of exec_id on exec to use WRITE_ONCE
and the read of exec_id in do_notify_parent to use READ_ONCE
to make it clear that there is no locking between these two
locations.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20200324215049.GA3710@pi3.com.pl
Fixes: 2.3.23pre2
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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 d1e7fd6462ca9fc76650fbe6ca800e35b24267da upstream.

Replace the 32bit exec_id with a 64bit exec_id to make it impossible
to wrap the exec_id counter.  With care an attacker can cause exec_id
wrap and send arbitrary signals to a newly exec'd parent.  This
bypasses the signal sending checks if the parent changes their
credentials during exec.

The severity of this problem can been seen that in my limited testing
of a 32bit exec_id it can take as little as 19s to exec 65536 times.
Which means that it can take as little as 14 days to wrap a 32bit
exec_id.  Adam Zabrocki has succeeded wrapping the self_exe_id in 7
days.  Even my slower timing is in the uptime of a typical server.
Which means self_exec_id is simply a speed bump today, and if exec
gets noticably faster self_exec_id won't even be a speed bump.

Extending self_exec_id to 64bits introduces a problem on 32bit
architectures where reading self_exec_id is no longer atomic and can
take two read instructions.  Which means that is is possible to hit
a window where the read value of exec_id does not match the written
value.  So with very lucky timing after this change this still
remains expoiltable.

I have updated the update of exec_id on exec to use WRITE_ONCE
and the read of exec_id in do_notify_parent to use READ_ONCE
to make it clear that there is no locking between these two
locations.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20200324215049.GA3710@pi3.com.pl
Fixes: 2.3.23pre2
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2020-01-31T20:16:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-31T20:16:36+00:00</published>
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Pull updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Most of -mm and quite a number of other subsystems: hotfixes, scripts,
  ocfs2, misc, lib, binfmt, init, reiserfs, exec, dma-mapping, kcov.

  MM is fairly quiet this time.  Holidays, I assume"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (118 commits)
  kcov: ignore fault-inject and stacktrace
  include/linux/io-mapping.h-mapping: use PHYS_PFN() macro in io_mapping_map_atomic_wc()
  execve: warn if process starts with executable stack
  reiserfs: prevent NULL pointer dereference in reiserfs_insert_item()
  init/main.c: fix misleading "This architecture does not have kernel memory protection" message
  init/main.c: fix quoted value handling in unknown_bootoption
  init/main.c: remove unnecessary repair_env_string in do_initcall_level
  init/main.c: log arguments and environment passed to init
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: coredump: allow process with empty address space to coredump
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: coredump: delete duplicated overflow check
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: coredump: allocate core ELF header on stack
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: make BAD_ADDR() unlikely
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: better codegen around current-&gt;mm
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: don't copy ELF header around
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix -&gt;start_code calculation
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: smaller code generation around auxv vector fill
  lib/find_bit.c: uninline helper _find_next_bit()
  lib/find_bit.c: join _find_next_bit{_le}
  uapi: rename ext2_swab() to swab() and share globally in swab.h
  lib/scatterlist.c: adjust indentation in __sg_alloc_table
  ...
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Pull updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Most of -mm and quite a number of other subsystems: hotfixes, scripts,
  ocfs2, misc, lib, binfmt, init, reiserfs, exec, dma-mapping, kcov.

  MM is fairly quiet this time.  Holidays, I assume"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (118 commits)
  kcov: ignore fault-inject and stacktrace
  include/linux/io-mapping.h-mapping: use PHYS_PFN() macro in io_mapping_map_atomic_wc()
  execve: warn if process starts with executable stack
  reiserfs: prevent NULL pointer dereference in reiserfs_insert_item()
  init/main.c: fix misleading "This architecture does not have kernel memory protection" message
  init/main.c: fix quoted value handling in unknown_bootoption
  init/main.c: remove unnecessary repair_env_string in do_initcall_level
  init/main.c: log arguments and environment passed to init
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: coredump: allow process with empty address space to coredump
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: coredump: delete duplicated overflow check
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: coredump: allocate core ELF header on stack
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: make BAD_ADDR() unlikely
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: better codegen around current-&gt;mm
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: don't copy ELF header around
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix -&gt;start_code calculation
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: smaller code generation around auxv vector fill
  lib/find_bit.c: uninline helper _find_next_bit()
  lib/find_bit.c: join _find_next_bit{_le}
  uapi: rename ext2_swab() to swab() and share globally in swab.h
  lib/scatterlist.c: adjust indentation in __sg_alloc_table
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>execve: warn if process starts with executable stack</title>
<updated>2020-01-31T18:30:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-31T06:17:29+00:00</published>
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There were few episodes of silent downgrade to an executable stack over
years:

1) linking innocent looking assembly file will silently add executable
   stack if proper linker options is not given as well:

	$ cat f.S
	.intel_syntax noprefix
	.text
	.globl f
	f:
	        ret

	$ cat main.c
	void f(void);
	int main(void)
	{
	        f();
	        return 0;
	}

	$ gcc main.c f.S
	$ readelf -l ./a.out
	  GNU_STACK      0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                         0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000  RWE    0x10
			 					 ^^^

2) converting C99 nested function into a closure
   https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/11/15/

	void intsort2(int *base, size_t nmemb, _Bool invert)
	{
	    int cmp(const void *a, const void *b)
	    {
	        int r = *(int *)a - *(int *)b;
	        return invert ? -r : r;
	    }
	    qsort(base, nmemb, sizeof(*base), cmp);
	}

will silently require stack trampolines while non-closure version will
not.

Without doubt this behaviour is documented somewhere, add a warning so
that developers and users can at least notice.  After so many years of
x86_64 having proper executable stack support it should not cause too
many problems.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191208171918.GC19716@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There were few episodes of silent downgrade to an executable stack over
years:

1) linking innocent looking assembly file will silently add executable
   stack if proper linker options is not given as well:

	$ cat f.S
	.intel_syntax noprefix
	.text
	.globl f
	f:
	        ret

	$ cat main.c
	void f(void);
	int main(void)
	{
	        f();
	        return 0;
	}

	$ gcc main.c f.S
	$ readelf -l ./a.out
	  GNU_STACK      0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                         0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000  RWE    0x10
			 					 ^^^

2) converting C99 nested function into a closure
   https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/11/15/

	void intsort2(int *base, size_t nmemb, _Bool invert)
	{
	    int cmp(const void *a, const void *b)
	    {
	        int r = *(int *)a - *(int *)b;
	        return invert ? -r : r;
	    }
	    qsort(base, nmemb, sizeof(*base), cmp);
	}

will silently require stack trampolines while non-closure version will
not.

Without doubt this behaviour is documented somewhere, add a warning so
that developers and users can at least notice.  After so many years of
x86_64 having proper executable stack support it should not cause too
many problems.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191208171918.GC19716@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx</title>
<updated>2020-01-31T00:11:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-31T00:11:50+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 MPX removal from Dave Hansen:
 "MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler
  support. Unfortunately, GCC 9.1 is expected to be be released without
  support for MPX. This means that there was only a relatively small
  window where folks could have ever used MPX. It failed to gain wide
  adoption in the industry, and Linux was the only mainstream OS to ever
  support it widely.

  Support for the feature may also disappear on future processors.

  This set completes the process that we started during the 5.4 merge
  window when the MPX prctl()s were removed. XSAVE support is left in
  place, which allows MPX-using KVM guests to continue to function"

* tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx:
  x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86
  mm: remove arch_bprm_mm_init() hook
  x86/mpx: remove bounds exception code
  x86/mpx: remove build infrastructure
  x86/alternatives: add missing insn.h include
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Pull x86 MPX removal from Dave Hansen:
 "MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler
  support. Unfortunately, GCC 9.1 is expected to be be released without
  support for MPX. This means that there was only a relatively small
  window where folks could have ever used MPX. It failed to gain wide
  adoption in the industry, and Linux was the only mainstream OS to ever
  support it widely.

  Support for the feature may also disappear on future processors.

  This set completes the process that we started during the 5.4 merge
  window when the MPX prctl()s were removed. XSAVE support is left in
  place, which allows MPX-using KVM guests to continue to function"

* tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx:
  x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86
  mm: remove arch_bprm_mm_init() hook
  x86/mpx: remove bounds exception code
  x86/mpx: remove build infrastructure
  x86/alternatives: add missing insn.h include
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove arch_bprm_mm_init() hook</title>
<updated>2020-01-23T18:41:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
<email>dave.hansen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-23T18:41:16+00:00</published>
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From: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;

MPX is being removed from the kernel due to a lack of support
in the toolchain going forward (gcc).

arch_bprm_mm_init() is used at execve() time.  The only non-stub
implementation is on x86 for MPX.  Remove the hook entirely from
all architectures and generic code.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
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From: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;

MPX is being removed from the kernel due to a lack of support
in the toolchain going forward (gcc).

arch_bprm_mm_init() is used at execve() time.  The only non-stub
implementation is on x86 for MPX.  Remove the hook entirely from
all architectures and generic code.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-12-03T20:20:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-03T20:20:25+00:00</published>
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Pull timer updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in the timer code in this cycle were:

   - Clockevent updates:

      - timer-of framework cleanups. (Geert Uytterhoeven)

      - Use timer-of for the renesas-ostm and the device name to prevent
        name collision in case of multiple timers. (Geert Uytterhoeven)

      - Check if there is an error after calling of_clk_get in asm9260
        (Chuhong Yuan)

   - ABI fix: Zero out high order bits of nanoseconds on compat
     syscalls. This got broken a year ago, with apparently no side
     effects so far.

     Since the kernel would use random data otherwise I don't think we'd
     have other options but to fix the bug, even if there was a side
     effect to applications (Dmitry Safonov)

   - Optimize ns_to_timespec64() on 32-bit systems: move away from
     div_s64_rem() which can be slow, to div_u64_rem() which is faster
     (Arnd Bergmann)

   - Annotate KCSAN-reported false positive data races in
     hrtimer_is_queued() users by moving timer-&gt;state handling over to
     the READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() APIs. This documents these accesses
     (Eric Dumazet)

   - Misc cleanups and small fixes"

[ I undid the "ABI fix" and updated the comments instead. The reason
  there were apparently no side effects is that the fix was a no-op.

  The updated comment is to say _why_ it was a no-op.    - Linus ]

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Zero the upper 32-bits in __kernel_timespec on 32-bit
  time: Rename tsk-&gt;real_start_time to -&gt;start_boottime
  hrtimer: Remove the comment about not used HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ
  time: Fix spelling mistake in comment
  time: Optimize ns_to_timespec64()
  hrtimer: Annotate lockless access to timer-&gt;state
  clocksource/drivers/asm9260: Add a check for of_clk_get
  clocksource/drivers/renesas-ostm: Use unique device name instead of ostm
  clocksource/drivers/renesas-ostm: Convert to timer_of
  clocksource/drivers/timer-of: Use unique device name instead of timer
  clocksource/drivers/timer-of: Convert last full_name to %pOF
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Pull timer updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in the timer code in this cycle were:

   - Clockevent updates:

      - timer-of framework cleanups. (Geert Uytterhoeven)

      - Use timer-of for the renesas-ostm and the device name to prevent
        name collision in case of multiple timers. (Geert Uytterhoeven)

      - Check if there is an error after calling of_clk_get in asm9260
        (Chuhong Yuan)

   - ABI fix: Zero out high order bits of nanoseconds on compat
     syscalls. This got broken a year ago, with apparently no side
     effects so far.

     Since the kernel would use random data otherwise I don't think we'd
     have other options but to fix the bug, even if there was a side
     effect to applications (Dmitry Safonov)

   - Optimize ns_to_timespec64() on 32-bit systems: move away from
     div_s64_rem() which can be slow, to div_u64_rem() which is faster
     (Arnd Bergmann)

   - Annotate KCSAN-reported false positive data races in
     hrtimer_is_queued() users by moving timer-&gt;state handling over to
     the READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() APIs. This documents these accesses
     (Eric Dumazet)

   - Misc cleanups and small fixes"

[ I undid the "ABI fix" and updated the comments instead. The reason
  there were apparently no side effects is that the fix was a no-op.

  The updated comment is to say _why_ it was a no-op.    - Linus ]

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Zero the upper 32-bits in __kernel_timespec on 32-bit
  time: Rename tsk-&gt;real_start_time to -&gt;start_boottime
  hrtimer: Remove the comment about not used HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ
  time: Fix spelling mistake in comment
  time: Optimize ns_to_timespec64()
  hrtimer: Annotate lockless access to timer-&gt;state
  clocksource/drivers/asm9260: Add a check for of_clk_get
  clocksource/drivers/renesas-ostm: Use unique device name instead of ostm
  clocksource/drivers/renesas-ostm: Convert to timer_of
  clocksource/drivers/timer-of: Use unique device name instead of timer
  clocksource/drivers/timer-of: Convert last full_name to %pOF
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'notifications-pipe-prep-20191115' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2019-11-30T22:12:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-30T22:12:13+00:00</published>
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Pull pipe rework from David Howells:
 "This is my set of preparatory patches for building a general
  notification queue on top of pipes. It makes a number of significant
  changes:

   - It removes the nr_exclusive argument from __wake_up_sync_key() as
     this is always 1. This prepares for the next step:

   - Adds wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll_locked() so that poll can be
     woken up from a function that's holding the poll waitqueue
     spinlock.

   - Change the pipe buffer ring to be managed in terms of unbounded
     head and tail indices rather than bounded index and length. This
     means that reading the pipe only needs to modify one index, not
     two.

   - A selection of helper functions are provided to query the state of
     the pipe buffer, plus a couple to apply updates to the pipe
     indices.

   - The pipe ring is allowed to have kernel-reserved slots. This allows
     many notification messages to be spliced in by the kernel without
     allowing userspace to pin too many pages if it writes to the same
     pipe.

   - Advance the head and tail indices inside the pipe waitqueue lock
     and use wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll_locked() to poke poll
     without having to take the lock twice.

   - Rearrange pipe_write() to preallocate the buffer it is going to
     write into and then drop the spinlock. This allows kernel
     notifications to then be added the ring whilst it is filling the
     buffer it allocated. The read side is stalled because the pipe
     mutex is still held.

   - Don't wake up readers on a pipe if there was already data in it
     when we added more.

   - Don't wake up writers on a pipe if the ring wasn't full before we
     removed a buffer"

* tag 'notifications-pipe-prep-20191115' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  pipe: Remove sync on wake_ups
  pipe: Increase the writer-wakeup threshold to reduce context-switch count
  pipe: Check for ring full inside of the spinlock in pipe_write()
  pipe: Remove redundant wakeup from pipe_write()
  pipe: Rearrange sequence in pipe_write() to preallocate slot
  pipe: Conditionalise wakeup in pipe_read()
  pipe: Advance tail pointer inside of wait spinlock in pipe_read()
  pipe: Allow pipes to have kernel-reserved slots
  pipe: Use head and tail pointers for the ring, not cursor and length
  Add wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll_locked()
  Remove the nr_exclusive argument from __wake_up_sync_key()
  pipe: Reduce #inclusion of pipe_fs_i.h
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Pull pipe rework from David Howells:
 "This is my set of preparatory patches for building a general
  notification queue on top of pipes. It makes a number of significant
  changes:

   - It removes the nr_exclusive argument from __wake_up_sync_key() as
     this is always 1. This prepares for the next step:

   - Adds wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll_locked() so that poll can be
     woken up from a function that's holding the poll waitqueue
     spinlock.

   - Change the pipe buffer ring to be managed in terms of unbounded
     head and tail indices rather than bounded index and length. This
     means that reading the pipe only needs to modify one index, not
     two.

   - A selection of helper functions are provided to query the state of
     the pipe buffer, plus a couple to apply updates to the pipe
     indices.

   - The pipe ring is allowed to have kernel-reserved slots. This allows
     many notification messages to be spliced in by the kernel without
     allowing userspace to pin too many pages if it writes to the same
     pipe.

   - Advance the head and tail indices inside the pipe waitqueue lock
     and use wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll_locked() to poke poll
     without having to take the lock twice.

   - Rearrange pipe_write() to preallocate the buffer it is going to
     write into and then drop the spinlock. This allows kernel
     notifications to then be added the ring whilst it is filling the
     buffer it allocated. The read side is stalled because the pipe
     mutex is still held.

   - Don't wake up readers on a pipe if there was already data in it
     when we added more.

   - Don't wake up writers on a pipe if the ring wasn't full before we
     removed a buffer"

* tag 'notifications-pipe-prep-20191115' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  pipe: Remove sync on wake_ups
  pipe: Increase the writer-wakeup threshold to reduce context-switch count
  pipe: Check for ring full inside of the spinlock in pipe_write()
  pipe: Remove redundant wakeup from pipe_write()
  pipe: Rearrange sequence in pipe_write() to preallocate slot
  pipe: Conditionalise wakeup in pipe_read()
  pipe: Advance tail pointer inside of wait spinlock in pipe_read()
  pipe: Allow pipes to have kernel-reserved slots
  pipe: Use head and tail pointers for the ring, not cursor and length
  Add wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll_locked()
  Remove the nr_exclusive argument from __wake_up_sync_key()
  pipe: Reduce #inclusion of pipe_fs_i.h
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<entry>
<title>exit/exec: Seperate mm_release()</title>
<updated>2019-11-20T08:40:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-06T21:55:38+00:00</published>
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mm_release() contains the futex exit handling. mm_release() is called from
do_exit()-&gt;exit_mm() and from exec()-&gt;exec_mm().

In the exit_mm() case PF_EXITING and the futex state is updated. In the
exec_mm() case these states are not touched.

As the futex exit code needs further protections against exit races, this
needs to be split into two functions.

Preparatory only, no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.240518241@linutronix.de


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mm_release() contains the futex exit handling. mm_release() is called from
do_exit()-&gt;exit_mm() and from exec()-&gt;exec_mm().

In the exit_mm() case PF_EXITING and the futex state is updated. In the
exec_mm() case these states are not touched.

As the futex exit code needs further protections against exit races, this
needs to be split into two functions.

Preparatory only, no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.240518241@linutronix.de


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</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: Rename tsk-&gt;real_start_time to -&gt;start_boottime</title>
<updated>2019-11-13T10:09:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-07T10:07:58+00:00</published>
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Since it stores CLOCK_BOOTTIME, not, as the name suggests,
CLOCK_REALTIME, let's rename -&gt;real_start_time to -&gt;start_bootime.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Since it stores CLOCK_BOOTTIME, not, as the name suggests,
CLOCK_REALTIME, let's rename -&gt;real_start_time to -&gt;start_bootime.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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