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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>sched/core: Introduce set_special_state()</title>
<updated>2018-05-04T05:54:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-30T12:51:01+00:00</published>
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Gaurav reported a perceived problem with TASK_PARKED, which turned out
to be a broken wait-loop pattern in __kthread_parkme(), but the
reported issue can (and does) in fact happen for states that do not do
condition based sleeps.

When the 'current-&gt;state = TASK_RUNNING' store of a previous
(concurrent) try_to_wake_up() collides with the setting of a 'special'
sleep state, we can loose the sleep state.

Normal condition based wait-loops are immune to this problem, but for
sleep states that are not condition based are subject to this problem.

There already is a fix for TASK_DEAD. Abstract that and also apply it
to TASK_STOPPED and TASK_TRACED, both of which are also without
condition based wait-loop.

Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli &lt;gkohli@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@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;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Gaurav reported a perceived problem with TASK_PARKED, which turned out
to be a broken wait-loop pattern in __kthread_parkme(), but the
reported issue can (and does) in fact happen for states that do not do
condition based sleeps.

When the 'current-&gt;state = TASK_RUNNING' store of a previous
(concurrent) try_to_wake_up() collides with the setting of a 'special'
sleep state, we can loose the sleep state.

Normal condition based wait-loops are immune to this problem, but for
sleep states that are not condition based are subject to this problem.

There already is a fix for TASK_DEAD. Abstract that and also apply it
to TASK_STOPPED and TASK_TRACED, both of which are also without
condition based wait-loop.

Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli &lt;gkohli@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@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;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2018-04-07T18:11:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-07T18:11:41+00:00</published>
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Pull general security layer updates from James Morris:

 - Convert security hooks from list to hlist, a nice cleanup, saving
   about 50% of space, from Sargun Dhillon.

 - Only pass the cred, not the secid, to kill_pid_info_as_cred and
   security_task_kill (as the secid can be determined from the cred),
   from Stephen Smalley.

 - Close a potential race in kernel_read_file(), by making the file
   unwritable before calling the LSM check (vs after), from Kees Cook.

* 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
  security: convert security hooks to use hlist
  exec: Set file unwritable before LSM check
  usb, signal, security: only pass the cred, not the secid, to kill_pid_info_as_cred and security_task_kill
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Pull general security layer updates from James Morris:

 - Convert security hooks from list to hlist, a nice cleanup, saving
   about 50% of space, from Sargun Dhillon.

 - Only pass the cred, not the secid, to kill_pid_info_as_cred and
   security_task_kill (as the secid can be determined from the cred),
   from Stephen Smalley.

 - Close a potential race in kernel_read_file(), by making the file
   unwritable before calling the LSM check (vs after), from Kees Cook.

* 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
  security: convert security hooks to use hlist
  exec: Set file unwritable before LSM check
  usb, signal, security: only pass the cred, not the secid, to kill_pid_info_as_cred and security_task_kill
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2018-04-04T23:01:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-04T23:01:43+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "Nothing particularly stands out here, probably because people were
  tied up with spectre/meltdown stuff last time around. Still, the main
  pieces are:

   - Rework of our CPU features framework so that we can whitelist CPUs
     that don't require kpti even in a heterogeneous system

   - Support for the IDC/DIC architecture extensions, which allow us to
     elide instruction and data cache maintenance when writing out
     instructions

   - Removal of the large memory model which resulted in suboptimal
     codegen by the compiler and increased the use of literal pools,
     which could potentially be used as ROP gadgets since they are
     mapped as executable

   - Rework of forced signal delivery so that the siginfo_t is
     well-formed and handling of show_unhandled_signals is consolidated
     and made consistent between different fault types

   - More siginfo cleanup based on the initial patches from Eric
     Biederman

   - Workaround for Cortex-A55 erratum #1024718

   - Some small ACPI IORT updates and cleanups from Lorenzo Pieralisi

   - Misc cleanups and non-critical fixes"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (70 commits)
  arm64: uaccess: Fix omissions from usercopy whitelist
  arm64: fpsimd: Split cpu field out from struct fpsimd_state
  arm64: tlbflush: avoid writing RES0 bits
  arm64: cmpxchg: Include linux/compiler.h in asm/cmpxchg.h
  arm64: move percpu cmpxchg implementation from cmpxchg.h to percpu.h
  arm64: cmpxchg: Include build_bug.h instead of bug.h for BUILD_BUG
  arm64: lse: Include compiler_types.h and export.h for out-of-line LL/SC
  arm64: fpsimd: include &lt;linux/init.h&gt; in fpsimd.h
  drivers/perf: arm_pmu_platform: do not warn about affinity on uniprocessor
  perf: arm_spe: include linux/vmalloc.h for vmap()
  Revert "arm64: Revert L1_CACHE_SHIFT back to 6 (64-byte cache line size)"
  arm64: cpufeature: Avoid warnings due to unused symbols
  arm64: Add work around for Arm Cortex-A55 Erratum 1024718
  arm64: Delay enabling hardware DBM feature
  arm64: Add MIDR encoding for Arm Cortex-A55 and Cortex-A35
  arm64: capabilities: Handle shared entries
  arm64: capabilities: Add support for checks based on a list of MIDRs
  arm64: Add helpers for checking CPU MIDR against a range
  arm64: capabilities: Clean up midr range helpers
  arm64: capabilities: Change scope of VHE to Boot CPU feature
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "Nothing particularly stands out here, probably because people were
  tied up with spectre/meltdown stuff last time around. Still, the main
  pieces are:

   - Rework of our CPU features framework so that we can whitelist CPUs
     that don't require kpti even in a heterogeneous system

   - Support for the IDC/DIC architecture extensions, which allow us to
     elide instruction and data cache maintenance when writing out
     instructions

   - Removal of the large memory model which resulted in suboptimal
     codegen by the compiler and increased the use of literal pools,
     which could potentially be used as ROP gadgets since they are
     mapped as executable

   - Rework of forced signal delivery so that the siginfo_t is
     well-formed and handling of show_unhandled_signals is consolidated
     and made consistent between different fault types

   - More siginfo cleanup based on the initial patches from Eric
     Biederman

   - Workaround for Cortex-A55 erratum #1024718

   - Some small ACPI IORT updates and cleanups from Lorenzo Pieralisi

   - Misc cleanups and non-critical fixes"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (70 commits)
  arm64: uaccess: Fix omissions from usercopy whitelist
  arm64: fpsimd: Split cpu field out from struct fpsimd_state
  arm64: tlbflush: avoid writing RES0 bits
  arm64: cmpxchg: Include linux/compiler.h in asm/cmpxchg.h
  arm64: move percpu cmpxchg implementation from cmpxchg.h to percpu.h
  arm64: cmpxchg: Include build_bug.h instead of bug.h for BUILD_BUG
  arm64: lse: Include compiler_types.h and export.h for out-of-line LL/SC
  arm64: fpsimd: include &lt;linux/init.h&gt; in fpsimd.h
  drivers/perf: arm_pmu_platform: do not warn about affinity on uniprocessor
  perf: arm_spe: include linux/vmalloc.h for vmap()
  Revert "arm64: Revert L1_CACHE_SHIFT back to 6 (64-byte cache line size)"
  arm64: cpufeature: Avoid warnings due to unused symbols
  arm64: Add work around for Arm Cortex-A55 Erratum 1024718
  arm64: Delay enabling hardware DBM feature
  arm64: Add MIDR encoding for Arm Cortex-A55 and Cortex-A35
  arm64: capabilities: Handle shared entries
  arm64: capabilities: Add support for checks based on a list of MIDRs
  arm64: Add helpers for checking CPU MIDR against a range
  arm64: capabilities: Clean up midr range helpers
  arm64: capabilities: Change scope of VHE to Boot CPU feature
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: add do_compat_sigaltstack() helper; remove in-kernel call to compat syscall</title>
<updated>2018-04-02T18:15:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dominik Brodowski</name>
<email>linux@dominikbrodowski.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-17T16:11:51+00:00</published>
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Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel call to the
compat_sys_sigaltstack() syscall.

This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
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Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel call to the
compat_sys_sigaltstack() syscall.

This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: open-code sys_rt_sigpending() in sys_sigpending()</title>
<updated>2018-04-02T18:15:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dominik Brodowski</name>
<email>linux@dominikbrodowski.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-11T10:34:37+00:00</published>
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A similar but not fully equivalent code path is already open-coded
three times (in sys_rt_sigpending and in the two compat stubs), so
do it a fourth time here.

This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net

Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
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A similar but not fully equivalent code path is already open-coded
three times (in sys_rt_sigpending and in the two compat stubs), so
do it a fourth time here.

This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net

Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: signal: Ensure si_code is valid for all fault signals</title>
<updated>2018-03-09T13:58:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-08T17:41:05+00:00</published>
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Currently, as reported by Eric, an invalid si_code value 0 is
passed in many signals delivered to userspace in response to faults
and other kernel errors.  Typically 0 is passed when the fault is
insufficiently diagnosable or when there does not appear to be any
sensible alternative value to choose.

This appears to violate POSIX, and is intuitively wrong for at
least two reasons arising from the fact that 0 == SI_USER:

 1) si_code is a union selector, and SI_USER (and si_code &lt;= 0 in
    general) implies the existence of a different set of fields
    (siginfo._kill) from that which exists for a fault signal
    (siginfo._sigfault).  However, the code raising the signal
    typically writes only the _sigfault fields, and the _kill
    fields make no sense in this case.

    Thus when userspace sees si_code == 0 (SI_USER) it may
    legitimately inspect fields in the inactive union member _kill
    and obtain garbage as a result.

    There appears to be software in the wild relying on this,
    albeit generally only for printing diagnostic messages.

 2) Software that wants to be robust against spurious signals may
    discard signals where si_code == SI_USER (or &lt;= 0), or may
    filter such signals based on the si_uid and si_pid fields of
    siginfo._sigkill.  In the case of fault signals, this means
    that important (and usually fatal) error conditions may be
    silently ignored.

In practice, many of the faults for which arm64 passes si_code == 0
are undiagnosable conditions such as exceptions with syndrome
values in ESR_ELx to which the architecture does not yet assign any
meaning, or conditions indicative of a bug or error in the kernel
or system and thus that are unrecoverable and should never occur in
normal operation.

The approach taken in this patch is to translate all such
undiagnosable or "impossible" synchronous fault conditions to
SIGKILL, since these are at least probably localisable to a single
process.  Some of these conditions should really result in a kernel
panic, but due to the lack of diagnostic information it is
difficult to be certain: this patch does not add any calls to
panic(), but this could change later if justified.

Although si_code will not reach userspace in the case of SIGKILL,
it is still desirable to pass a nonzero value so that the common
siginfo handling code can detect incorrect use of si_code == 0
without false positives.  In this case the si_code dependent
siginfo fields will not be correctly initialised, but since they
are not passed to userspace I deem this not to matter.

A few faults can reasonably occur in realistic userspace scenarios,
and _should_ raise a regular, handleable (but perhaps not
ignorable/blockable) signal: for these, this patch attempts to
choose a suitable standard si_code value for the raised signal in
each case instead of 0.

arm64 was the only arch to define a BUS_FIXME code, so after this
patch nobody defines it.  This patch therefore also removes the
relevant code from siginfo_layout().

Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Currently, as reported by Eric, an invalid si_code value 0 is
passed in many signals delivered to userspace in response to faults
and other kernel errors.  Typically 0 is passed when the fault is
insufficiently diagnosable or when there does not appear to be any
sensible alternative value to choose.

This appears to violate POSIX, and is intuitively wrong for at
least two reasons arising from the fact that 0 == SI_USER:

 1) si_code is a union selector, and SI_USER (and si_code &lt;= 0 in
    general) implies the existence of a different set of fields
    (siginfo._kill) from that which exists for a fault signal
    (siginfo._sigfault).  However, the code raising the signal
    typically writes only the _sigfault fields, and the _kill
    fields make no sense in this case.

    Thus when userspace sees si_code == 0 (SI_USER) it may
    legitimately inspect fields in the inactive union member _kill
    and obtain garbage as a result.

    There appears to be software in the wild relying on this,
    albeit generally only for printing diagnostic messages.

 2) Software that wants to be robust against spurious signals may
    discard signals where si_code == SI_USER (or &lt;= 0), or may
    filter such signals based on the si_uid and si_pid fields of
    siginfo._sigkill.  In the case of fault signals, this means
    that important (and usually fatal) error conditions may be
    silently ignored.

In practice, many of the faults for which arm64 passes si_code == 0
are undiagnosable conditions such as exceptions with syndrome
values in ESR_ELx to which the architecture does not yet assign any
meaning, or conditions indicative of a bug or error in the kernel
or system and thus that are unrecoverable and should never occur in
normal operation.

The approach taken in this patch is to translate all such
undiagnosable or "impossible" synchronous fault conditions to
SIGKILL, since these are at least probably localisable to a single
process.  Some of these conditions should really result in a kernel
panic, but due to the lack of diagnostic information it is
difficult to be certain: this patch does not add any calls to
panic(), but this could change later if justified.

Although si_code will not reach userspace in the case of SIGKILL,
it is still desirable to pass a nonzero value so that the common
siginfo handling code can detect incorrect use of si_code == 0
without false positives.  In this case the si_code dependent
siginfo fields will not be correctly initialised, but since they
are not passed to userspace I deem this not to matter.

A few faults can reasonably occur in realistic userspace scenarios,
and _should_ raise a regular, handleable (but perhaps not
ignorable/blockable) signal: for these, this patch attempts to
choose a suitable standard si_code value for the raised signal in
each case instead of 0.

arm64 was the only arch to define a BUS_FIXME code, so after this
patch nobody defines it.  This patch therefore also removes the
relevant code from siginfo_layout().

Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>usb, signal, security: only pass the cred, not the secid, to kill_pid_info_as_cred and security_task_kill</title>
<updated>2018-03-06T22:05:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Smalley</name>
<email>sds@tycho.nsa.gov</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-08T16:40:01+00:00</published>
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commit d178bc3a708f39cbfefc3fab37032d3f2511b4ec ("user namespace: usb:
 make usb urbs user namespace aware (v2)") changed kill_pid_info_as_uid
to kill_pid_info_as_cred, saving and passing a cred structure instead of
uids.  Since the secid can be obtained from the cred, drop the secid fields
from the usb_dev_state and async structures, and drop the secid argument to
kill_pid_info_as_cred.  Replace the secid argument to security_task_kill
with the cred.  Update SELinux, Smack, and AppArmor to use the cred, which
avoids the need for Smack and AppArmor to use a secid at all in this hook.
Further changes to Smack might still be required to take full advantage of
this change, since it should now be possible to perform capability
checking based on the supplied cred.  The changes to Smack and AppArmor
have only been compile-tested.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.morris@microsoft.com&gt;
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commit d178bc3a708f39cbfefc3fab37032d3f2511b4ec ("user namespace: usb:
 make usb urbs user namespace aware (v2)") changed kill_pid_info_as_uid
to kill_pid_info_as_cred, saving and passing a cred structure instead of
uids.  Since the secid can be obtained from the cred, drop the secid fields
from the usb_dev_state and async structures, and drop the secid argument to
kill_pid_info_as_cred.  Replace the secid argument to security_task_kill
with the cred.  Update SELinux, Smack, and AppArmor to use the cred, which
avoids the need for Smack and AppArmor to use a secid at all in this hook.
Further changes to Smack might still be required to take full advantage of
this change, since it should now be possible to perform capability
checking based on the supplied cred.  The changes to Smack and AppArmor
have only been compile-tested.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.morris@microsoft.com&gt;
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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>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<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>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<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>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<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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