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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T21:02:18+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2018-01-31T21:02:18+00:00</published>
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Pull livepatching updates from Jiri Kosina:

 - handle 'infinitely'-long sleeping tasks, from Miroslav Benes

 - remove 'immediate' feature, as it turns out it doesn't provide the
   originally expected semantics, and brings more issues than value

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
  livepatch: add locking to force and signal functions
  livepatch: Remove immediate feature
  livepatch: force transition to finish
  livepatch: send a fake signal to all blocking tasks
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Pull livepatching updates from Jiri Kosina:

 - handle 'infinitely'-long sleeping tasks, from Miroslav Benes

 - remove 'immediate' feature, as it turns out it doesn't provide the
   originally expected semantics, and brings more issues than value

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
  livepatch: add locking to force and signal functions
  livepatch: Remove immediate feature
  livepatch: force transition to finish
  livepatch: send a fake signal to all blocking tasks
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<title>signal/ptrace: Add force_sig_ptrace_errno_trap and use it where needed</title>
<updated>2018-01-23T01:07:11+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2018-01-22T20:37:25+00:00</published>
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There are so many places that build struct siginfo by hand that at
least one of them is bound to get it wrong.  A handful of cases in the
kernel arguably did just that when using the errno field of siginfo to
pass no errno values to userspace.  The usage is limited to a single
si_code so at least does not mess up anything else.

Encapsulate this questionable pattern in a helper function so
that the userspace ABI is preserved.

Update all of the places that use this pattern to use the new helper
function.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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There are so many places that build struct siginfo by hand that at
least one of them is bound to get it wrong.  A handful of cases in the
kernel arguably did just that when using the errno field of siginfo to
pass no errno values to userspace.  The usage is limited to a single
si_code so at least does not mess up anything else.

Encapsulate this questionable pattern in a helper function so
that the userspace ABI is preserved.

Update all of the places that use this pattern to use the new helper
function.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>signal: Helpers for faults with specialized siginfo layouts</title>
<updated>2018-01-23T01:07:10+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2018-01-19T00:54:31+00:00</published>
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The helpers added are:
send_sig_mceerr
force_sig_mceerr
force_sig_bnderr
force_sig_pkuerr

Filling out siginfo properly can ge tricky.  Especially for these
specialized cases where the temptation is to share code with other
cases which use a different subset of siginfo fields.  Unfortunately
that code sharing frequently results in bugs with the wrong siginfo
fields filled in, and makes it harder to verify that the siginfo
structure was properly initialized.

Provide these helpers instead that get all of the details right, and
guarantee that siginfo is properly initialized.

send_sig_mceerr and force_sig_mceer are a little special as two si
codes BUS_MCEERR_AO and BUS_MCEER_AR both use the same extended
signinfo layout.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The helpers added are:
send_sig_mceerr
force_sig_mceerr
force_sig_bnderr
force_sig_pkuerr

Filling out siginfo properly can ge tricky.  Especially for these
specialized cases where the temptation is to share code with other
cases which use a different subset of siginfo fields.  Unfortunately
that code sharing frequently results in bugs with the wrong siginfo
fields filled in, and makes it harder to verify that the siginfo
structure was properly initialized.

Provide these helpers instead that get all of the details right, and
guarantee that siginfo is properly initialized.

send_sig_mceerr and force_sig_mceer are a little special as two si
codes BUS_MCEERR_AO and BUS_MCEER_AR both use the same extended
signinfo layout.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>signal: Add send_sig_fault and force_sig_fault</title>
<updated>2018-01-23T01:07:09+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2018-01-18T20:54:54+00:00</published>
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The vast majority of signals sent from architecture specific code are
simple faults.  Encapsulate this reality with two helper functions so
that the nit-picky implementation of preparing a siginfo does not need
to be repeated many times on each architecture.

As only some architectures support the trapno field, make the trapno
arguement only present on those architectures.

Similary as ia64 has three fields: imm, flags, and isr that
are specific to it.  Have those arguments always present on ia64
and no where else.

This ensures the architecture specific code always remembers which
fields it needs to pass into the siginfo structure.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The vast majority of signals sent from architecture specific code are
simple faults.  Encapsulate this reality with two helper functions so
that the nit-picky implementation of preparing a siginfo does not need
to be repeated many times on each architecture.

As only some architectures support the trapno field, make the trapno
arguement only present on those architectures.

Similary as ia64 has three fields: imm, flags, and isr that
are specific to it.  Have those arguments always present on ia64
and no where else.

This ensures the architecture specific code always remembers which
fields it needs to pass into the siginfo structure.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>signal: Don't use structure initializers for struct siginfo</title>
<updated>2018-01-23T01:07:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-22T20:58:57+00:00</published>
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The siginfo structure has all manners of holes with the result that a
structure initializer is not guaranteed to initialize all of the bits.
As we have to copy the structure to userspace don't even try to use
a structure initializer.  Instead use clear_siginfo followed by initializing
selected fields.  This gives a guarantee that uninitialized kernel memory
is not copied to userspace.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The siginfo structure has all manners of holes with the result that a
structure initializer is not guaranteed to initialize all of the bits.
As we have to copy the structure to userspace don't even try to use
a structure initializer.  Instead use clear_siginfo followed by initializing
selected fields.  This gives a guarantee that uninitialized kernel memory
is not copied to userspace.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_to_user32</title>
<updated>2018-01-16T01:56:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2018-01-16T00:03:33+00:00</published>
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Among the existing architecture specific versions of
copy_siginfo_to_user32 there are several different implementation
problems.  Some architectures fail to handle all of the cases in in
the siginfo union.  Some architectures perform a blind copy of the
siginfo union when the si_code is negative.  A blind copy suggests the
data is expected to be in 32bit siginfo format, which means that
receiving such a signal via signalfd won't work, or that the data is
in 64bit siginfo and the code is copying nonsense to userspace.

Create a single instance of copy_siginfo_to_user32 that all of the
architectures can share, and teach it to handle all of the cases in
the siginfo union correctly, with the assumption that siginfo is
stored internally to the kernel is 64bit siginfo format.

A special case is made for x86 x32 format.  This is needed as presence
of both x32 and ia32 on x86_64 results in two different 32bit signal
formats.  By allowing this small special case there winds up being
exactly one code base that needs to be maintained between all of the
architectures.  Vastly increasing the testing base and the chances of
finding bugs.

As the x86 copy of copy_siginfo_to_user32 the call of the x86
signal_compat_build_tests were moved into sigaction_compat_abi, so
that they will keep running.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Among the existing architecture specific versions of
copy_siginfo_to_user32 there are several different implementation
problems.  Some architectures fail to handle all of the cases in in
the siginfo union.  Some architectures perform a blind copy of the
siginfo union when the si_code is negative.  A blind copy suggests the
data is expected to be in 32bit siginfo format, which means that
receiving such a signal via signalfd won't work, or that the data is
in 64bit siginfo and the code is copying nonsense to userspace.

Create a single instance of copy_siginfo_to_user32 that all of the
architectures can share, and teach it to handle all of the cases in
the siginfo union correctly, with the assumption that siginfo is
stored internally to the kernel is 64bit siginfo format.

A special case is made for x86 x32 format.  This is needed as presence
of both x32 and ia32 on x86_64 results in two different 32bit signal
formats.  By allowing this small special case there winds up being
exactly one code base that needs to be maintained between all of the
architectures.  Vastly increasing the testing base and the chances of
finding bugs.

As the x86 copy of copy_siginfo_to_user32 the call of the x86
signal_compat_build_tests were moved into sigaction_compat_abi, so
that they will keep running.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>signal: Remove the code to clear siginfo before calling copy_siginfo_from_user32</title>
<updated>2018-01-16T00:01:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-31T22:18:40+00:00</published>
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The new unified copy_siginfo_from_user32 takes care of this.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The new unified copy_siginfo_from_user32 takes care of this.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_from_user32</title>
<updated>2018-01-15T23:55:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2017-07-31T22:15:31+00:00</published>
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The function copy_siginfo_from_user32 is used for two things, in ptrace
since the dawn of siginfo for arbirarily modifying a signal that
user space sees, and in sigqueueinfo to send a signal with arbirary
siginfo data.

Create a single copy of copy_siginfo_from_user32 that all architectures
share, and teach it to handle all of the cases in the siginfo union.

In the generic version of copy_siginfo_from_user32 ensure that all
of the fields in siginfo are initialized so that the siginfo structure
can be safely copied to userspace if necessary.

When copying the embedded sigval union copy the si_int member.  That
ensures the 32bit values passes through the kernel unchanged.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The function copy_siginfo_from_user32 is used for two things, in ptrace
since the dawn of siginfo for arbirarily modifying a signal that
user space sees, and in sigqueueinfo to send a signal with arbirary
siginfo data.

Create a single copy of copy_siginfo_from_user32 that all architectures
share, and teach it to handle all of the cases in the siginfo union.

In the generic version of copy_siginfo_from_user32 ensure that all
of the fields in siginfo are initialized so that the siginfo structure
can be safely copied to userspace if necessary.

When copying the embedded sigval union copy the si_int member.  That
ensures the 32bit values passes through the kernel unchanged.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>signal/blackfin: Move the blackfin specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h</title>
<updated>2018-01-15T23:42:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2018-01-14T00:25:09+00:00</published>
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Having si_codes in many different files simply encourages duplicate definitions
that can cause problems later.  To avoid that merge the blackfin specific si_codes
into uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h

Update copy_siginfo_to_user to copy with the absence of BUS_MCEERR_AR that blackfin
defines to be something else.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Having si_codes in many different files simply encourages duplicate definitions
that can cause problems later.  To avoid that merge the blackfin specific si_codes
into uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h

Update copy_siginfo_to_user to copy with the absence of BUS_MCEERR_AR that blackfin
defines to be something else.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>signal: Remove unnecessary ifdefs now that there is only one struct siginfo</title>
<updated>2018-01-12T20:34:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-27T16:59:46+00:00</published>
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Remove HAVE_ARCH_SIGINFO_T
Remove __ARCH_SIGSYS

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Remove HAVE_ARCH_SIGINFO_T
Remove __ARCH_SIGSYS

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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