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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>kmsan: compiler_types: declare __no_sanitize_or_inline</title>
<updated>2024-05-06T00:28:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-26T09:16:22+00:00</published>
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It turned out that KMSAN instruments READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(), resulting in
false positive reports, because __no_sanitize_or_inline enforced inlining.

Properly declare __no_sanitize_or_inline under __SANITIZE_MEMORY__, so
that it does not __always_inline the annotated function.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240426091622.3846771-1-glider@google.com
Fixes: 5de0ce85f5a4 ("kmsan: mark noinstr as __no_sanitize_memory")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+355c5bb8c1445c871ee8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/000000000000826ac1061675b0e3@google.com
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It turned out that KMSAN instruments READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(), resulting in
false positive reports, because __no_sanitize_or_inline enforced inlining.

Properly declare __no_sanitize_or_inline under __SANITIZE_MEMORY__, so
that it does not __always_inline the annotated function.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240426091622.3846771-1-glider@google.com
Fixes: 5de0ce85f5a4 ("kmsan: mark noinstr as __no_sanitize_memory")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+355c5bb8c1445c871ee8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/000000000000826ac1061675b0e3@google.com
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2024-03-21T21:41:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-21T21:41:00+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Generate a list of built DTB files (arch/*/boot/dts/dtbs-list)

 - Use more threads when building Debian packages in parallel

 - Fix warnings shown during the RPM kernel package uninstallation

 - Change OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_*.o etc. to take a relative path to
   Makefile

 - Support GCC's -fmin-function-alignment flag

 - Fix a null pointer dereference bug in modpost

 - Add the DTB support to the RPM package

 - Various fixes and cleanups in Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (67 commits)
  kconfig: tests: test dependency after shuffling choices
  kconfig: tests: add a test for randconfig with dependent choices
  kconfig: tests: support KCONFIG_SEED for the randconfig runner
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: add dtb files in kernel rpm
  kconfig: remove unneeded menu_is_visible() call in conf_write_defconfig()
  kconfig: check prompt for choice while parsing
  kconfig: lxdialog: remove unused dialog colors
  kconfig: lxdialog: fix button color for blackbg theme
  modpost: fix null pointer dereference
  kbuild: remove GCC's default -Wpacked-bitfield-compat flag
  kbuild: unexport abs_srctree and abs_objtree
  kbuild: Move -Wenum-{compare-conditional,enum-conversion} into W=1
  kconfig: remove named choice support
  kconfig: use linked list in get_symbol_str() to iterate over menus
  kconfig: link menus to a symbol
  kbuild: fix inconsistent indentation in top Makefile
  kbuild: Use -fmin-function-alignment when available
  alpha: merge two entries for CONFIG_ALPHA_GAMMA
  alpha: merge two entries for CONFIG_ALPHA_EV4
  kbuild: change DTC_FLAGS_&lt;basetarget&gt;.o to take the path relative to $(obj)
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Generate a list of built DTB files (arch/*/boot/dts/dtbs-list)

 - Use more threads when building Debian packages in parallel

 - Fix warnings shown during the RPM kernel package uninstallation

 - Change OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_*.o etc. to take a relative path to
   Makefile

 - Support GCC's -fmin-function-alignment flag

 - Fix a null pointer dereference bug in modpost

 - Add the DTB support to the RPM package

 - Various fixes and cleanups in Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (67 commits)
  kconfig: tests: test dependency after shuffling choices
  kconfig: tests: add a test for randconfig with dependent choices
  kconfig: tests: support KCONFIG_SEED for the randconfig runner
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: add dtb files in kernel rpm
  kconfig: remove unneeded menu_is_visible() call in conf_write_defconfig()
  kconfig: check prompt for choice while parsing
  kconfig: lxdialog: remove unused dialog colors
  kconfig: lxdialog: fix button color for blackbg theme
  modpost: fix null pointer dereference
  kbuild: remove GCC's default -Wpacked-bitfield-compat flag
  kbuild: unexport abs_srctree and abs_objtree
  kbuild: Move -Wenum-{compare-conditional,enum-conversion} into W=1
  kconfig: remove named choice support
  kconfig: use linked list in get_symbol_str() to iterate over menus
  kconfig: link menus to a symbol
  kbuild: fix inconsistent indentation in top Makefile
  kbuild: Use -fmin-function-alignment when available
  alpha: merge two entries for CONFIG_ALPHA_GAMMA
  alpha: merge two entries for CONFIG_ALPHA_EV4
  kbuild: change DTC_FLAGS_&lt;basetarget&gt;.o to take the path relative to $(obj)
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'hardening-v6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2024-03-12T21:49:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-12T21:49:30+00:00</published>
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Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "As is pretty normal for this tree, there are changes all over the
  place, especially for small fixes, selftest improvements, and improved
  macro usability.

  Some header changes ended up landing via this tree as they depended on
  the string header cleanups. Also, a notable set of changes is the work
  for the reintroduction of the UBSAN signed integer overflow sanitizer
  so that we can continue to make improvements on the compiler side to
  make this sanitizer a more viable future security hardening option.

  Summary:

   - string.h and related header cleanups (Tanzir Hasan, Andy
     Shevchenko)

   - VMCI memcpy() usage and struct_size() cleanups (Vasiliy Kovalev,
     Harshit Mogalapalli)

   - selftests/powerpc: Fix load_unaligned_zeropad build failure
     (Michael Ellerman)

   - hardened Kconfig fragment updates (Marco Elver, Lukas Bulwahn)

   - Handle tail call optimization better in LKDTM (Douglas Anderson)

   - Use long form types in overflow.h (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Add flags param to string_get_size() (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Add Coccinelle script for potential struct_size() use (Jacob
     Keller)

   - Fix objtool corner case under KCFI (Josh Poimboeuf)

   - Drop 13 year old backward compat CAP_SYS_ADMIN check (Jingzi Meng)

   - Add str_plural() helper (Michal Wajdeczko, Kees Cook)

   - Ignore relocations in .notes section

   - Add comments to explain how __is_constexpr() works

   - Fix m68k stack alignment expectations in stackinit Kunit test

   - Convert string selftests to KUnit

   - Add KUnit tests for fortified string functions

   - Improve reporting during fortified string warnings

   - Allow non-type arg to type_max() and type_min()

   - Allow strscpy() to be called with only 2 arguments

   - Add binary mode to leaking_addresses scanner

   - Various small cleanups to leaking_addresses scanner

   - Adding wrapping_*() arithmetic helper

   - Annotate initial signed integer wrap-around in refcount_t

   - Add explicit UBSAN section to MAINTAINERS

   - Fix UBSAN self-test warnings

   - Simplify UBSAN build via removal of CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL

   - Reintroduce UBSAN's signed overflow sanitizer"

* tag 'hardening-v6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (51 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix load_unaligned_zeropad build failure
  string: Convert helpers selftest to KUnit
  string: Convert selftest to KUnit
  sh: Fix build with CONFIG_UBSAN=y
  compiler.h: Explain how __is_constexpr() works
  overflow: Allow non-type arg to type_max() and type_min()
  VMCI: Fix possible memcpy() run-time warning in vmci_datagram_invoke_guest_handler()
  lib/string_helpers: Add flags param to string_get_size()
  x86, relocs: Ignore relocations in .notes section
  objtool: Fix UNWIND_HINT_{SAVE,RESTORE} across basic blocks
  overflow: Use POD in check_shl_overflow()
  lib: stackinit: Adjust target string to 8 bytes for m68k
  sparc: vdso: Disable UBSAN instrumentation
  kernel.h: Move lib/cmdline.c prototypes to string.h
  leaking_addresses: Provide mechanism to scan binary files
  leaking_addresses: Ignore input device status lines
  leaking_addresses: Use File::Temp for /tmp files
  MAINTAINERS: Update LEAKING_ADDRESSES details
  fortify: Improve buffer overflow reporting
  fortify: Add KUnit tests for runtime overflows
  ...
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Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "As is pretty normal for this tree, there are changes all over the
  place, especially for small fixes, selftest improvements, and improved
  macro usability.

  Some header changes ended up landing via this tree as they depended on
  the string header cleanups. Also, a notable set of changes is the work
  for the reintroduction of the UBSAN signed integer overflow sanitizer
  so that we can continue to make improvements on the compiler side to
  make this sanitizer a more viable future security hardening option.

  Summary:

   - string.h and related header cleanups (Tanzir Hasan, Andy
     Shevchenko)

   - VMCI memcpy() usage and struct_size() cleanups (Vasiliy Kovalev,
     Harshit Mogalapalli)

   - selftests/powerpc: Fix load_unaligned_zeropad build failure
     (Michael Ellerman)

   - hardened Kconfig fragment updates (Marco Elver, Lukas Bulwahn)

   - Handle tail call optimization better in LKDTM (Douglas Anderson)

   - Use long form types in overflow.h (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Add flags param to string_get_size() (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Add Coccinelle script for potential struct_size() use (Jacob
     Keller)

   - Fix objtool corner case under KCFI (Josh Poimboeuf)

   - Drop 13 year old backward compat CAP_SYS_ADMIN check (Jingzi Meng)

   - Add str_plural() helper (Michal Wajdeczko, Kees Cook)

   - Ignore relocations in .notes section

   - Add comments to explain how __is_constexpr() works

   - Fix m68k stack alignment expectations in stackinit Kunit test

   - Convert string selftests to KUnit

   - Add KUnit tests for fortified string functions

   - Improve reporting during fortified string warnings

   - Allow non-type arg to type_max() and type_min()

   - Allow strscpy() to be called with only 2 arguments

   - Add binary mode to leaking_addresses scanner

   - Various small cleanups to leaking_addresses scanner

   - Adding wrapping_*() arithmetic helper

   - Annotate initial signed integer wrap-around in refcount_t

   - Add explicit UBSAN section to MAINTAINERS

   - Fix UBSAN self-test warnings

   - Simplify UBSAN build via removal of CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL

   - Reintroduce UBSAN's signed overflow sanitizer"

* tag 'hardening-v6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (51 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix load_unaligned_zeropad build failure
  string: Convert helpers selftest to KUnit
  string: Convert selftest to KUnit
  sh: Fix build with CONFIG_UBSAN=y
  compiler.h: Explain how __is_constexpr() works
  overflow: Allow non-type arg to type_max() and type_min()
  VMCI: Fix possible memcpy() run-time warning in vmci_datagram_invoke_guest_handler()
  lib/string_helpers: Add flags param to string_get_size()
  x86, relocs: Ignore relocations in .notes section
  objtool: Fix UNWIND_HINT_{SAVE,RESTORE} across basic blocks
  overflow: Use POD in check_shl_overflow()
  lib: stackinit: Adjust target string to 8 bytes for m68k
  sparc: vdso: Disable UBSAN instrumentation
  kernel.h: Move lib/cmdline.c prototypes to string.h
  leaking_addresses: Provide mechanism to scan binary files
  leaking_addresses: Ignore input device status lines
  leaking_addresses: Use File::Temp for /tmp files
  MAINTAINERS: Update LEAKING_ADDRESSES details
  fortify: Improve buffer overflow reporting
  fortify: Add KUnit tests for runtime overflows
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Use -fmin-function-alignment when available</title>
<updated>2024-02-25T09:04:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Pavlu</name>
<email>petr.pavlu@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-22T13:35:00+00:00</published>
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GCC recently added option -fmin-function-alignment, which should appear
in GCC 14. Unlike -falign-functions, this option causes all functions to
be aligned at the specified value, including the cold ones.

In particular, when an arm64 kernel is built with
DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS=y, the 8-byte function alignment is
required for correct functionality. This was done by -falign-functions=8
and having workarounds in the kernel to force the compiler to follow
this alignment. The new -fmin-function-alignment option directly
guarantees it.

Detect availability of -fmin-function-alignment and use it instead of
-falign-functions when present. Introduce CC_HAS_SANE_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT
and enable __cold to work as expected when it is set.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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GCC recently added option -fmin-function-alignment, which should appear
in GCC 14. Unlike -falign-functions, this option causes all functions to
be aligned at the specified value, including the cold ones.

In particular, when an arm64 kernel is built with
DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS=y, the 8-byte function alignment is
required for correct functionality. This was done by -falign-functions=8
and having workarounds in the kernel to force the compiler to follow
this alignment. The new -fmin-function-alignment option directly
guarantees it.

Detect availability of -fmin-function-alignment and use it instead of
-falign-functions when present. Introduce CC_HAS_SANE_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT
and enable __cold to work as expected when it is set.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ubsan: Reintroduce signed overflow sanitizer</title>
<updated>2024-02-21T04:44:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-18T23:06:05+00:00</published>
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In order to mitigate unexpected signed wrap-around[1], bring back the
signed integer overflow sanitizer. It was removed in commit 6aaa31aeb9cf
("ubsan: remove overflow checks") because it was effectively a no-op
when combined with -fno-strict-overflow (which correctly changes signed
overflow from being "undefined" to being explicitly "wrap around").

Compilers are adjusting their sanitizers to trap wrap-around and to
detecting common code patterns that should not be instrumented
(e.g. "var + offset &lt; var"). Prepare for this and explicitly rename
the option from "OVERFLOW" to "WRAP" to more accurately describe the
behavior.

To annotate intentional wrap-around arithmetic, the helpers
wrapping_add/sub/mul_wrap() can be used for individual statements. At
the function level, the __signed_wrap attribute can be used to mark an
entire function as expecting its signed arithmetic to wrap around. For a
single object file the Makefile can use "UBSAN_SIGNED_WRAP_target.o := n"
to mark it as wrapping, and for an entire directory, "UBSAN_SIGNED_WRAP :=
n" can be used.

Additionally keep these disabled under CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST for now.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/26 [1]
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Hao Luo &lt;haoluo@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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In order to mitigate unexpected signed wrap-around[1], bring back the
signed integer overflow sanitizer. It was removed in commit 6aaa31aeb9cf
("ubsan: remove overflow checks") because it was effectively a no-op
when combined with -fno-strict-overflow (which correctly changes signed
overflow from being "undefined" to being explicitly "wrap around").

Compilers are adjusting their sanitizers to trap wrap-around and to
detecting common code patterns that should not be instrumented
(e.g. "var + offset &lt; var"). Prepare for this and explicitly rename
the option from "OVERFLOW" to "WRAP" to more accurately describe the
behavior.

To annotate intentional wrap-around arithmetic, the helpers
wrapping_add/sub/mul_wrap() can be used for individual statements. At
the function level, the __signed_wrap attribute can be used to mark an
entire function as expecting its signed arithmetic to wrap around. For a
single object file the Makefile can use "UBSAN_SIGNED_WRAP_target.o := n"
to mark it as wrapping, and for an entire directory, "UBSAN_SIGNED_WRAP :=
n" can be used.

Additionally keep these disabled under CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST for now.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/26 [1]
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Hao Luo &lt;haoluo@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>update workarounds for gcc "asm goto" issue</title>
<updated>2024-02-15T19:14:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-15T19:14:33+00:00</published>
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In commit 4356e9f841f7 ("work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with
outputs") I did the gcc workaround unconditionally, because the cause of
the bad code generation wasn't entirely clear.

In the meantime, Jakub Jelinek debugged the issue, and has come up with
a fix in gcc [2], which also got backported to the still maintained
branches of gcc-11, gcc-12 and gcc-13.

Note that while the fix technically wasn't in the original gcc-14
branch, Jakub says:

 "while it is true that no GCC 14 snapshots until today (or whenever the
  fix will be committed) have the fix, for GCC trunk it is up to the
  distros to use the latest snapshot if they use it at all and would
  allow better testing of the kernel code without the workaround, so
  that if there are other issues they won't be discovered years later.
  Most userland code doesn't actually use asm goto with outputs..."

so we will consider gcc-14 to be fixed - if somebody is using gcc
snapshots of the gcc-14 before the fix, they should upgrade.

Note that while the bug goes back to gcc-11, in practice other gcc
changes seem to have effectively hidden it since gcc-12.1 as per a
bisect by Jakub.  So even a gcc-14 snapshot without the fix likely
doesn't show actual problems.

Also, make the default 'asm_goto_output()' macro mark the asm as
volatile by hand, because of an unrelated gcc issue [1] where it doesn't
match the documented behavior ("asm goto is always volatile").

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103979 [1]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Requested-by: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In commit 4356e9f841f7 ("work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with
outputs") I did the gcc workaround unconditionally, because the cause of
the bad code generation wasn't entirely clear.

In the meantime, Jakub Jelinek debugged the issue, and has come up with
a fix in gcc [2], which also got backported to the still maintained
branches of gcc-11, gcc-12 and gcc-13.

Note that while the fix technically wasn't in the original gcc-14
branch, Jakub says:

 "while it is true that no GCC 14 snapshots until today (or whenever the
  fix will be committed) have the fix, for GCC trunk it is up to the
  distros to use the latest snapshot if they use it at all and would
  allow better testing of the kernel code without the workaround, so
  that if there are other issues they won't be discovered years later.
  Most userland code doesn't actually use asm goto with outputs..."

so we will consider gcc-14 to be fixed - if somebody is using gcc
snapshots of the gcc-14 before the fix, they should upgrade.

Note that while the bug goes back to gcc-11, in practice other gcc
changes seem to have effectively hidden it since gcc-12.1 as per a
bisect by Jakub.  So even a gcc-14 snapshot without the fix likely
doesn't show actual problems.

Also, make the default 'asm_goto_output()' macro mark the asm as
volatile by hand, because of an unrelated gcc issue [1] where it doesn't
match the documented behavior ("asm goto is always volatile").

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103979 [1]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Requested-by: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs</title>
<updated>2024-02-09T23:57:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-09T20:39:31+00:00</published>
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We've had issues with gcc and 'asm goto' before, and we created a
'asm_volatile_goto()' macro for that in the past: see commits
3f0116c3238a ("compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation
bug") and a9f180345f53 ("compiler/gcc4: Make quirk for
asm_volatile_goto() unconditional").

Then, much later, we ended up removing the workaround in commit
43c249ea0b1e ("compiler-gcc.h: remove ancient workaround for gcc PR
58670") because we no longer supported building the kernel with the
affected gcc versions, but we left the macro uses around.

Now, Sean Christopherson reports a new version of a very similar
problem, which is fixed by re-applying that ancient workaround.  But the
problem in question is limited to only the 'asm goto with outputs'
cases, so instead of re-introducing the old workaround as-is, let's
rename and limit the workaround to just that much less common case.

It looks like there are at least two separate issues that all hit in
this area:

 (a) some versions of gcc don't mark the asm goto as 'volatile' when it
     has outputs:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98619
        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110420

     which is easy to work around by just adding the 'volatile' by hand.

 (b) Internal compiler errors:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110422

     which are worked around by adding the extra empty 'asm' as a
     barrier, as in the original workaround.

but the problem Sean sees may be a third thing since it involves bad
code generation (not an ICE) even with the manually added 'volatile'.

but the same old workaround works for this case, even if this feels a
bit like voodoo programming and may only be hiding the issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We've had issues with gcc and 'asm goto' before, and we created a
'asm_volatile_goto()' macro for that in the past: see commits
3f0116c3238a ("compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation
bug") and a9f180345f53 ("compiler/gcc4: Make quirk for
asm_volatile_goto() unconditional").

Then, much later, we ended up removing the workaround in commit
43c249ea0b1e ("compiler-gcc.h: remove ancient workaround for gcc PR
58670") because we no longer supported building the kernel with the
affected gcc versions, but we left the macro uses around.

Now, Sean Christopherson reports a new version of a very similar
problem, which is fixed by re-applying that ancient workaround.  But the
problem in question is limited to only the 'asm goto with outputs'
cases, so instead of re-introducing the old workaround as-is, let's
rename and limit the workaround to just that much less common case.

It looks like there are at least two separate issues that all hit in
this area:

 (a) some versions of gcc don't mark the asm goto as 'volatile' when it
     has outputs:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98619
        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110420

     which is easy to work around by just adding the 'volatile' by hand.

 (b) Internal compiler errors:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110422

     which are worked around by adding the extra empty 'asm' as a
     barrier, as in the original workaround.

but the problem Sean sees may be a third thing since it involves bad
code generation (not an ICE) even with the manually added 'volatile'.

but the same old workaround works for this case, even if this feels a
bit like voodoo programming and may only be hiding the issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>overflow: add DEFINE_FLEX() for on-stack allocs</title>
<updated>2023-10-03T19:17:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Przemek Kitszel</name>
<email>przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-12T11:59:31+00:00</published>
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Add DEFINE_FLEX() macro for on-stack allocations of structs with
flexible array member.

Expose __struct_size() macro outside of fortify-string.h, as it could be
used to read size of structs allocated by DEFINE_FLEX().
Move __member_size() alongside it.
-Kees

Using underlying array for on-stack storage lets us to declare
known-at-compile-time structures without kzalloc().

Actual usage for ice driver is in following patches of the series.

Missing __has_builtin() workaround is moved up to serve also assembly
compilation with m68k-linux-gcc, see [1].
Error was (note the .S file extension):
In file included from ../include/linux/linkage.h:5,
                 from ../arch/m68k/fpsp040/skeleton.S:40:
../include/linux/compiler_types.h:331:5: warning: "__has_builtin" is not defined, evaluates to 0 [-Wundef]
  331 | #if __has_builtin(__builtin_dynamic_object_size)
      |     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
../include/linux/compiler_types.h:331:18: error: missing binary operator before token "("
  331 | #if __has_builtin(__builtin_dynamic_object_size)
      |                  ^

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/202308112122.OuF0YZqL-lkp@intel.com/
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel &lt;przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912115937.1645707-2-przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Add DEFINE_FLEX() macro for on-stack allocations of structs with
flexible array member.

Expose __struct_size() macro outside of fortify-string.h, as it could be
used to read size of structs allocated by DEFINE_FLEX().
Move __member_size() alongside it.
-Kees

Using underlying array for on-stack storage lets us to declare
known-at-compile-time structures without kzalloc().

Actual usage for ice driver is in following patches of the series.

Missing __has_builtin() workaround is moved up to serve also assembly
compilation with m68k-linux-gcc, see [1].
Error was (note the .S file extension):
In file included from ../include/linux/linkage.h:5,
                 from ../arch/m68k/fpsp040/skeleton.S:40:
../include/linux/compiler_types.h:331:5: warning: "__has_builtin" is not defined, evaluates to 0 [-Wundef]
  331 | #if __has_builtin(__builtin_dynamic_object_size)
      |     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
../include/linux/compiler_types.h:331:18: error: missing binary operator before token "("
  331 | #if __has_builtin(__builtin_dynamic_object_size)
      |                  ^

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/202308112122.OuF0YZqL-lkp@intel.com/
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel &lt;przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912115937.1645707-2-przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>compiler_types: Introduce the Clang __preserve_most function attribute</title>
<updated>2023-08-15T21:57:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-11T15:18:38+00:00</published>
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[1]: "On X86-64 and AArch64 targets, this attribute changes the calling
convention of a function. The preserve_most calling convention attempts
to make the code in the caller as unintrusive as possible. This
convention behaves identically to the C calling convention on how
arguments and return values are passed, but it uses a different set of
caller/callee-saved registers. This alleviates the burden of saving and
recovering a large register set before and after the call in the caller.
If the arguments are passed in callee-saved registers, then they will be
preserved by the callee across the call. This doesn't apply for values
returned in callee-saved registers.

 * On X86-64 the callee preserves all general purpose registers, except
   for R11. R11 can be used as a scratch register. Floating-point
   registers (XMMs/YMMs) are not preserved and need to be saved by the
   caller.

 * On AArch64 the callee preserve all general purpose registers, except
   x0-X8 and X16-X18."

[1] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AttributeReference.html#preserve-most

Introduce the attribute to compiler_types.h as __preserve_most.

Use of this attribute results in better code generation for calls to
very rarely called functions, such as error-reporting functions, or
rarely executed slow paths.

Beware that the attribute conflicts with instrumentation calls inserted
on function entry which do not use __preserve_most themselves. Notably,
function tracing which assumes the normal C calling convention for the
given architecture.  Where the attribute is supported, __preserve_most
will imply notrace. It is recommended to restrict use of the attribute
to functions that should or already disable tracing.

Note: The additional preprocessor check against architecture should not
be necessary if __has_attribute() only returns true where supported;
also see https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1908. But until
__has_attribute() does the right thing, we also guard by known-supported
architectures to avoid build warnings on other architectures.

The attribute may be supported by a future GCC version (see
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110899).

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230811151847.1594958-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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[1]: "On X86-64 and AArch64 targets, this attribute changes the calling
convention of a function. The preserve_most calling convention attempts
to make the code in the caller as unintrusive as possible. This
convention behaves identically to the C calling convention on how
arguments and return values are passed, but it uses a different set of
caller/callee-saved registers. This alleviates the burden of saving and
recovering a large register set before and after the call in the caller.
If the arguments are passed in callee-saved registers, then they will be
preserved by the callee across the call. This doesn't apply for values
returned in callee-saved registers.

 * On X86-64 the callee preserves all general purpose registers, except
   for R11. R11 can be used as a scratch register. Floating-point
   registers (XMMs/YMMs) are not preserved and need to be saved by the
   caller.

 * On AArch64 the callee preserve all general purpose registers, except
   x0-X8 and X16-X18."

[1] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AttributeReference.html#preserve-most

Introduce the attribute to compiler_types.h as __preserve_most.

Use of this attribute results in better code generation for calls to
very rarely called functions, such as error-reporting functions, or
rarely executed slow paths.

Beware that the attribute conflicts with instrumentation calls inserted
on function entry which do not use __preserve_most themselves. Notably,
function tracing which assumes the normal C calling convention for the
given architecture.  Where the attribute is supported, __preserve_most
will imply notrace. It is recommended to restrict use of the attribute
to functions that should or already disable tracing.

Note: The additional preprocessor check against architecture should not
be necessary if __has_attribute() only returns true where supported;
also see https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1908. But until
__has_attribute() does the right thing, we also guard by known-supported
architectures to avoid build warnings on other architectures.

The attribute may be supported by a future GCC version (see
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110899).

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230811151847.1594958-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove Intel compiler support</title>
<updated>2023-03-05T18:49:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-16T18:23:49+00:00</published>
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include/linux/compiler-intel.h had no update in the past 3 years.

We often forget about the third C compiler to build the kernel.

For example, commit a0a12c3ed057 ("asm goto: eradicate CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO")
only mentioned GCC and Clang.

init/Kconfig defines CC_IS_GCC and CC_IS_CLANG but not CC_IS_ICC,
and nobody has reported any issue.

I guess the Intel Compiler support is broken, and nobody is caring
about it.

Harald Arnesen pointed out ICC (classic Intel C/C++ compiler) is
deprecated:

    $ icc -v
    icc: remark #10441: The Intel(R) C++ Compiler Classic (ICC) is
    deprecated and will be removed from product release in the second half
    of 2023. The Intel(R) oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler (ICX) is the recommended
    compiler moving forward. Please transition to use this compiler. Use
    '-diag-disable=10441' to disable this message.
    icc version 2021.7.0 (gcc version 12.1.0 compatibility)

Arnd Bergmann provided a link to the article, "Intel C/C++ compilers
complete adoption of LLVM".

lib/zstd/common/compiler.h and lib/zstd/compress/zstd_fast.c were kept
untouched for better sync with https://github.com/facebook/zstd

Link: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/adoption-of-llvm-complete-icx.html
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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include/linux/compiler-intel.h had no update in the past 3 years.

We often forget about the third C compiler to build the kernel.

For example, commit a0a12c3ed057 ("asm goto: eradicate CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO")
only mentioned GCC and Clang.

init/Kconfig defines CC_IS_GCC and CC_IS_CLANG but not CC_IS_ICC,
and nobody has reported any issue.

I guess the Intel Compiler support is broken, and nobody is caring
about it.

Harald Arnesen pointed out ICC (classic Intel C/C++ compiler) is
deprecated:

    $ icc -v
    icc: remark #10441: The Intel(R) C++ Compiler Classic (ICC) is
    deprecated and will be removed from product release in the second half
    of 2023. The Intel(R) oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler (ICX) is the recommended
    compiler moving forward. Please transition to use this compiler. Use
    '-diag-disable=10441' to disable this message.
    icc version 2021.7.0 (gcc version 12.1.0 compatibility)

Arnd Bergmann provided a link to the article, "Intel C/C++ compilers
complete adoption of LLVM".

lib/zstd/common/compiler.h and lib/zstd/compress/zstd_fast.c were kept
untouched for better sync with https://github.com/facebook/zstd

Link: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/adoption-of-llvm-complete-icx.html
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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