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<title>Makefile: introduce CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO</title>
<updated>2018-02-07T02:32:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2018-02-06T23:37:45+00:00</published>
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Nearly all modern compilers support a stack-protector option, and nearly
all modern distributions enable the kernel stack-protector, so enabling
this by default in kernel builds would make sense.  However, Kconfig does
not have knowledge of available compiler features, so it isn't safe to
force on, as this would unconditionally break builds for the compilers or
architectures that don't have support.  Instead, this introduces a new
option, CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO, which attempts to discover the best
possible stack-protector available, and will allow builds to proceed even
if the compiler doesn't support any stack-protector.

This option is made the default so that kernels built with modern
compilers will be protected-by-default against stack buffer overflows,
avoiding things like the recent BlueBorne attack.  Selection of a specific
stack-protector option remains available, including disabling it.

Additionally, tiny.config is adjusted to use CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE, since
that's the option with the least code size (and it used to be the default,
so we have to explicitly choose it there now).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510076320-69931-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&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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Nearly all modern compilers support a stack-protector option, and nearly
all modern distributions enable the kernel stack-protector, so enabling
this by default in kernel builds would make sense.  However, Kconfig does
not have knowledge of available compiler features, so it isn't safe to
force on, as this would unconditionally break builds for the compilers or
architectures that don't have support.  Instead, this introduces a new
option, CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO, which attempts to discover the best
possible stack-protector available, and will allow builds to proceed even
if the compiler doesn't support any stack-protector.

This option is made the default so that kernels built with modern
compilers will be protected-by-default against stack buffer overflows,
avoiding things like the recent BlueBorne attack.  Selection of a specific
stack-protector option remains available, including disabling it.

Additionally, tiny.config is adjusted to use CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE, since
that's the option with the least code size (and it used to be the default,
so we have to explicitly choose it there now).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510076320-69931-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&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>
<title>Makefile: move stack-protector availability out of Kconfig</title>
<updated>2018-02-07T02:32:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-06T23:37:41+00:00</published>
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Various portions of the kernel, especially per-architecture pieces,
need to know if the compiler is building with the stack protector.
This was done in the arch/Kconfig with 'select', but this doesn't
allow a way to do auto-detected compiler support. In preparation for
creating an on-if-available default, move the logic for the definition of
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR into the Makefile.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510076320-69931-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&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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Various portions of the kernel, especially per-architecture pieces,
need to know if the compiler is building with the stack protector.
This was done in the arch/Kconfig with 'select', but this doesn't
allow a way to do auto-detected compiler support. In preparation for
creating an on-if-available default, move the logic for the definition of
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR into the Makefile.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510076320-69931-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&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>
<title>Merge tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-04T00:25:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-04T00:25:42+00:00</published>
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Pull hardened usercopy whitelisting from Kees Cook:
 "Currently, hardened usercopy performs dynamic bounds checking on slab
  cache objects. This is good, but still leaves a lot of kernel memory
  available to be copied to/from userspace in the face of bugs.

  To further restrict what memory is available for copying, this creates
  a way to whitelist specific areas of a given slab cache object for
  copying to/from userspace, allowing much finer granularity of access
  control.

  Slab caches that are never exposed to userspace can declare no
  whitelist for their objects, thereby keeping them unavailable to
  userspace via dynamic copy operations. (Note, an implicit form of
  whitelisting is the use of constant sizes in usercopy operations and
  get_user()/put_user(); these bypass all hardened usercopy checks since
  these sizes cannot change at runtime.)

  This new check is WARN-by-default, so any mistakes can be found over
  the next several releases without breaking anyone's system.

  The series has roughly the following sections:
   - remove %p and improve reporting with offset
   - prepare infrastructure and whitelist kmalloc
   - update VFS subsystem with whitelists
   - update SCSI subsystem with whitelists
   - update network subsystem with whitelists
   - update process memory with whitelists
   - update per-architecture thread_struct with whitelists
   - update KVM with whitelists and fix ioctl bug
   - mark all other allocations as not whitelisted
   - update lkdtm for more sensible test overage"

* tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (38 commits)
  lkdtm: Update usercopy tests for whitelisting
  usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0
  kvm: x86: fix KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG ioctl
  kvm: whitelist struct kvm_vcpu_arch
  arm: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  arm64: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  x86: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  fork: Provide usercopy whitelisting for task_struct
  fork: Define usercopy region in thread_stack slab caches
  fork: Define usercopy region in mm_struct slab caches
  net: Restrict unwhitelisted proto caches to size 0
  sctp: Copy struct sctp_sock.autoclose to userspace using put_user()
  sctp: Define usercopy region in SCTP proto slab cache
  caif: Define usercopy region in caif proto slab cache
  ip: Define usercopy region in IP proto slab cache
  net: Define usercopy region in struct proto slab cache
  scsi: Define usercopy region in scsi_sense_cache slab cache
  cifs: Define usercopy region in cifs_request slab cache
  vxfs: Define usercopy region in vxfs_inode slab cache
  ufs: Define usercopy region in ufs_inode_cache slab cache
  ...
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Pull hardened usercopy whitelisting from Kees Cook:
 "Currently, hardened usercopy performs dynamic bounds checking on slab
  cache objects. This is good, but still leaves a lot of kernel memory
  available to be copied to/from userspace in the face of bugs.

  To further restrict what memory is available for copying, this creates
  a way to whitelist specific areas of a given slab cache object for
  copying to/from userspace, allowing much finer granularity of access
  control.

  Slab caches that are never exposed to userspace can declare no
  whitelist for their objects, thereby keeping them unavailable to
  userspace via dynamic copy operations. (Note, an implicit form of
  whitelisting is the use of constant sizes in usercopy operations and
  get_user()/put_user(); these bypass all hardened usercopy checks since
  these sizes cannot change at runtime.)

  This new check is WARN-by-default, so any mistakes can be found over
  the next several releases without breaking anyone's system.

  The series has roughly the following sections:
   - remove %p and improve reporting with offset
   - prepare infrastructure and whitelist kmalloc
   - update VFS subsystem with whitelists
   - update SCSI subsystem with whitelists
   - update network subsystem with whitelists
   - update process memory with whitelists
   - update per-architecture thread_struct with whitelists
   - update KVM with whitelists and fix ioctl bug
   - mark all other allocations as not whitelisted
   - update lkdtm for more sensible test overage"

* tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (38 commits)
  lkdtm: Update usercopy tests for whitelisting
  usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0
  kvm: x86: fix KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG ioctl
  kvm: whitelist struct kvm_vcpu_arch
  arm: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  arm64: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  x86: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  fork: Provide usercopy whitelisting for task_struct
  fork: Define usercopy region in thread_stack slab caches
  fork: Define usercopy region in mm_struct slab caches
  net: Restrict unwhitelisted proto caches to size 0
  sctp: Copy struct sctp_sock.autoclose to userspace using put_user()
  sctp: Define usercopy region in SCTP proto slab cache
  caif: Define usercopy region in caif proto slab cache
  ip: Define usercopy region in IP proto slab cache
  net: Define usercopy region in struct proto slab cache
  scsi: Define usercopy region in scsi_sense_cache slab cache
  cifs: Define usercopy region in cifs_request slab cache
  vxfs: Define usercopy region in vxfs_inode slab cache
  ufs: Define usercopy region in ufs_inode_cache slab cache
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T22:31:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T22:31:10+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Significantly shrink the core networking routing structures. Result
    of http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/seoul2017_netdev_keynote.pdf

 2) Add netdevsim driver for testing various offloads, from Jakub
    Kicinski.

 3) Support cross-chip FDB operations in DSA, from Vivien Didelot.

 4) Add a 2nd listener hash table for TCP, similar to what was done for
    UDP. From Martin KaFai Lau.

 5) Add eBPF based queue selection to tun, from Jason Wang.

 6) Lockless qdisc support, from John Fastabend.

 7) SCTP stream interleave support, from Xin Long.

 8) Smoother TCP receive autotuning, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Lots of erspan tunneling enhancements, from William Tu.

10) Add true function call support to BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

11) Add explicit support for GRO HW offloading, from Michael Chan.

12) Support extack generation in more netlink subsystems. From Alexander
    Aring, Quentin Monnet, and Jakub Kicinski.

13) Add 1000BaseX, flow control, and EEE support to mvneta driver. From
    Russell King.

14) Add flow table abstraction to netfilter, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

15) Many improvements and simplifications to the NFP driver bpf JIT,
    from Jakub Kicinski.

16) Support for ipv6 non-equal cost multipath routing, from Ido
    Schimmel.

17) Add resource abstration to devlink, from Arkadi Sharshevsky.

18) Packet scheduler classifier shared filter block support, from Jiri
    Pirko.

19) Avoid locking in act_csum, from Davide Caratti.

20) devinet_ioctl() simplifications from Al viro.

21) More TCP bpf improvements from Lawrence Brakmo.

22) Add support for onlink ipv6 route flag, similar to ipv4, from David
    Ahern.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1925 commits)
  tls: Add support for encryption using async offload accelerator
  ip6mr: fix stale iterator
  net/sched: kconfig: Remove blank help texts
  openvswitch: meter: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit
  tcp_nv: fix potential integer overflow in tcpnv_acked
  r8169: fix RTL8168EP take too long to complete driver initialization.
  qmi_wwan: Add support for Quectel EP06
  rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_NEWLINK
  ipmr: Fix ptrdiff_t print formatting
  ibmvnic: Wait for device response when changing MAC
  qlcnic: fix deadlock bug
  tcp: release sk_frag.page in tcp_disconnect
  ipv4: Get the address of interface correctly.
  net_sched: gen_estimator: fix lockdep splat
  net: macb: Handle HRESP error
  net/mlx5e: IPoIB, Fix copy-paste bug in flow steering refactoring
  ipv6: addrconf: break critical section in addrconf_verify_rtnl()
  ipv6: change route cache aging logic
  i40e/i40evf: Update DESC_NEEDED value to reflect larger value
  bnxt_en: cleanup DIM work on device shutdown
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Significantly shrink the core networking routing structures. Result
    of http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/seoul2017_netdev_keynote.pdf

 2) Add netdevsim driver for testing various offloads, from Jakub
    Kicinski.

 3) Support cross-chip FDB operations in DSA, from Vivien Didelot.

 4) Add a 2nd listener hash table for TCP, similar to what was done for
    UDP. From Martin KaFai Lau.

 5) Add eBPF based queue selection to tun, from Jason Wang.

 6) Lockless qdisc support, from John Fastabend.

 7) SCTP stream interleave support, from Xin Long.

 8) Smoother TCP receive autotuning, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Lots of erspan tunneling enhancements, from William Tu.

10) Add true function call support to BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

11) Add explicit support for GRO HW offloading, from Michael Chan.

12) Support extack generation in more netlink subsystems. From Alexander
    Aring, Quentin Monnet, and Jakub Kicinski.

13) Add 1000BaseX, flow control, and EEE support to mvneta driver. From
    Russell King.

14) Add flow table abstraction to netfilter, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

15) Many improvements and simplifications to the NFP driver bpf JIT,
    from Jakub Kicinski.

16) Support for ipv6 non-equal cost multipath routing, from Ido
    Schimmel.

17) Add resource abstration to devlink, from Arkadi Sharshevsky.

18) Packet scheduler classifier shared filter block support, from Jiri
    Pirko.

19) Avoid locking in act_csum, from Davide Caratti.

20) devinet_ioctl() simplifications from Al viro.

21) More TCP bpf improvements from Lawrence Brakmo.

22) Add support for onlink ipv6 route flag, similar to ipv4, from David
    Ahern.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1925 commits)
  tls: Add support for encryption using async offload accelerator
  ip6mr: fix stale iterator
  net/sched: kconfig: Remove blank help texts
  openvswitch: meter: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit
  tcp_nv: fix potential integer overflow in tcpnv_acked
  r8169: fix RTL8168EP take too long to complete driver initialization.
  qmi_wwan: Add support for Quectel EP06
  rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_NEWLINK
  ipmr: Fix ptrdiff_t print formatting
  ibmvnic: Wait for device response when changing MAC
  qlcnic: fix deadlock bug
  tcp: release sk_frag.page in tcp_disconnect
  ipv4: Get the address of interface correctly.
  net_sched: gen_estimator: fix lockdep splat
  net: macb: Handle HRESP error
  net/mlx5e: IPoIB, Fix copy-paste bug in flow steering refactoring
  ipv6: addrconf: break critical section in addrconf_verify_rtnl()
  ipv6: change route cache aging logic
  i40e/i40evf: Update DESC_NEEDED value to reflect larger value
  bnxt_en: cleanup DIM work on device shutdown
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dma-mapping-4.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T19:32:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T19:32:27+00:00</published>
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Pull dma mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:
 "Except for a runtime warning fix from Christian this is all about
  consolidation of the generic no-IOMMU code, a well as the glue code
  for swiotlb.

  All the code is based on the x86 implementation with hooks to allow
  all architectures that aren't cache coherent to use it.

  The x86 conversion itself has been deferred because the x86
  maintainers were a little busy in the last months"

* tag 'dma-mapping-4.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (57 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add the iommu list for swiotlb and xen-swiotlb
  arm64: use swiotlb_alloc and swiotlb_free
  arm64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  mips: use swiotlb_{alloc,free}
  mips/netlogic: remove swiotlb support
  tile: use generic swiotlb_ops
  tile: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  unicore32: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: remove an ifdef around the content of pci-dma.c
  ia64: clean up swiotlb support
  ia64: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  swiotlb: remove various exports
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer allocation
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer freeing
  swiotlb: wire up -&gt;dma_supported in swiotlb_dma_ops
  swiotlb: add common swiotlb_map_ops
  swiotlb: rename swiotlb_free to swiotlb_exit
  x86: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  powerpc: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  ...
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<pre>
Pull dma mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:
 "Except for a runtime warning fix from Christian this is all about
  consolidation of the generic no-IOMMU code, a well as the glue code
  for swiotlb.

  All the code is based on the x86 implementation with hooks to allow
  all architectures that aren't cache coherent to use it.

  The x86 conversion itself has been deferred because the x86
  maintainers were a little busy in the last months"

* tag 'dma-mapping-4.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (57 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add the iommu list for swiotlb and xen-swiotlb
  arm64: use swiotlb_alloc and swiotlb_free
  arm64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  mips: use swiotlb_{alloc,free}
  mips/netlogic: remove swiotlb support
  tile: use generic swiotlb_ops
  tile: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  unicore32: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: remove an ifdef around the content of pci-dma.c
  ia64: clean up swiotlb support
  ia64: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  swiotlb: remove various exports
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer allocation
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer freeing
  swiotlb: wire up -&gt;dma_supported in swiotlb_dma_ops
  swiotlb: add common swiotlb_map_ops
  swiotlb: rename swiotlb_free to swiotlb_exit
  x86: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  powerpc: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fork: Provide usercopy whitelisting for task_struct</title>
<updated>2018-01-15T20:08:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-16T20:00:58+00:00</published>
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While the blocked and saved_sigmask fields of task_struct are copied to
userspace (via sigmask_to_save() and setup_rt_frame()), it is always
copied with a static length (i.e. sizeof(sigset_t)).

The only portion of task_struct that is potentially dynamically sized and
may be copied to userspace is in the architecture-specific thread_struct
at the end of task_struct.

cache object allocation:
    kernel/fork.c:
        alloc_task_struct_node(...):
            return kmem_cache_alloc_node(task_struct_cachep, ...);

        dup_task_struct(...):
            ...
            tsk = alloc_task_struct_node(node);

        copy_process(...):
            ...
            dup_task_struct(...)

        _do_fork(...):
            ...
            copy_process(...)

example usage trace:

    arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c:
        __fpu__restore_sig(...):
            ...
            struct task_struct *tsk = current;
            struct fpu *fpu = &amp;tsk-&gt;thread.fpu;
            ...
            __copy_from_user(&amp;fpu-&gt;state.xsave, ..., state_size);

        fpu__restore_sig(...):
            ...
            return __fpu__restore_sig(...);

    arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:
        restore_sigcontext(...):
            ...
            fpu__restore_sig(...)

This introduces arch_thread_struct_whitelist() to let an architecture
declare specifically where the whitelist should be within thread_struct.
If undefined, the entire thread_struct field is left whitelisted.

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Mickaël Salaün" &lt;mic@digikod.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
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While the blocked and saved_sigmask fields of task_struct are copied to
userspace (via sigmask_to_save() and setup_rt_frame()), it is always
copied with a static length (i.e. sizeof(sigset_t)).

The only portion of task_struct that is potentially dynamically sized and
may be copied to userspace is in the architecture-specific thread_struct
at the end of task_struct.

cache object allocation:
    kernel/fork.c:
        alloc_task_struct_node(...):
            return kmem_cache_alloc_node(task_struct_cachep, ...);

        dup_task_struct(...):
            ...
            tsk = alloc_task_struct_node(node);

        copy_process(...):
            ...
            dup_task_struct(...)

        _do_fork(...):
            ...
            copy_process(...)

example usage trace:

    arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c:
        __fpu__restore_sig(...):
            ...
            struct task_struct *tsk = current;
            struct fpu *fpu = &amp;tsk-&gt;thread.fpu;
            ...
            __copy_from_user(&amp;fpu-&gt;state.xsave, ..., state_size);

        fpu__restore_sig(...):
            ...
            return __fpu__restore_sig(...);

    arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:
        restore_sigcontext(...):
            ...
            fpu__restore_sig(...)

This introduces arch_thread_struct_whitelist() to let an architecture
declare specifically where the whitelist should be within thread_struct.
If undefined, the entire thread_struct field is left whitelisted.

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Mickaël Salaün" &lt;mic@digikod.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>error-injection: Separate error-injection from kprobe</title>
<updated>2018-01-13T01:33:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-12T17:55:03+00:00</published>
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Since error-injection framework is not limited to be used
by kprobes, nor bpf. Other kernel subsystems can use it
freely for checking safeness of error-injection, e.g.
livepatch, ftrace etc.
So this separate error-injection framework from kprobes.

Some differences has been made:

- "kprobe" word is removed from any APIs/structures.
- BPF_ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() is renamed to
  ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() since it is not limited for BPF too.
- CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION is the config item of this
  feature. It is automatically enabled if the arch supports
  error injection feature for kprobe or ftrace etc.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Since error-injection framework is not limited to be used
by kprobes, nor bpf. Other kernel subsystems can use it
freely for checking safeness of error-injection, e.g.
livepatch, ftrace etc.
So this separate error-injection framework from kprobes.

Some differences has been made:

- "kprobe" word is removed from any APIs/structures.
- BPF_ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() is renamed to
  ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() since it is not limited for BPF too.
- CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION is the config item of this
  feature. It is automatically enabled if the arch supports
  error injection feature for kprobe or ftrace etc.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dma-mapping: move swiotlb arch helpers to a new header</title>
<updated>2018-01-10T15:40:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-10T15:21:13+00:00</published>
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phys_to_dma, dma_to_phys and dma_capable are helpers published by
architecture code for use of swiotlb and xen-swiotlb only.  Drivers are
not supposed to use these directly, but use the DMA API instead.

Move these to a new asm/dma-direct.h helper, included by a
linux/dma-direct.h wrapper that provides the default linear mapping
unless the architecture wants to override it.

In the MIPS case the existing dma-coherent.h is reused for now as
untangling it will take a bit of work.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
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phys_to_dma, dma_to_phys and dma_capable are helpers published by
architecture code for use of swiotlb and xen-swiotlb only.  Drivers are
not supposed to use these directly, but use the DMA API instead.

Move these to a new asm/dma-direct.h helper, included by a
linux/dma-direct.h wrapper that provides the default linear mapping
unless the architecture wants to override it.

In the MIPS case the existing dma-coherent.h is reused for now as
untangling it will take a bit of work.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Construct init thread stack in the linker script rather than by union</title>
<updated>2018-01-09T23:21:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-02T15:12:01+00:00</published>
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Construct the init thread stack in the linker script rather than doing it
by means of a union so that ia64's init_task.c can be got rid of.

The following symbols are then made available from INIT_TASK_DATA() linker
script macro:

	init_thread_union
	init_stack

INIT_TASK_DATA() also expands the region to THREAD_SIZE to accommodate the
size of the init stack.  init_thread_union is given its own section so that
it can be placed into the stack space in the right order.  I'm assuming
that the ia64 ordering is correct and that the task_struct is first and the
thread_info second.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt; (arm64)
Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Construct the init thread stack in the linker script rather than doing it
by means of a union so that ia64's init_task.c can be got rid of.

The following symbols are then made available from INIT_TASK_DATA() linker
script macro:

	init_thread_union
	init_stack

INIT_TASK_DATA() also expands the region to THREAD_SIZE to accommodate the
size of the init stack.  init_thread_union is given its own section so that
it can be placed into the stack space in the right order.  I'm assuming
that the ia64 ordering is correct and that the task_struct is first and the
thread_info second.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt; (arm64)
Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: add a bpf_override_function helper</title>
<updated>2017-12-12T17:02:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>jbacik@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-11T16:36:48+00:00</published>
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Error injection is sloppy and very ad-hoc.  BPF could fill this niche
perfectly with it's kprobe functionality.  We could make sure errors are
only triggered in specific call chains that we care about with very
specific situations.  Accomplish this with the bpf_override_funciton
helper.  This will modify the probe'd callers return value to the
specified value and set the PC to an override function that simply
returns, bypassing the originally probed function.  This gives us a nice
clean way to implement systematic error injection for all of our code
paths.

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Error injection is sloppy and very ad-hoc.  BPF could fill this niche
perfectly with it's kprobe functionality.  We could make sure errors are
only triggered in specific call chains that we care about with very
specific situations.  Accomplish this with the bpf_override_funciton
helper.  This will modify the probe'd callers return value to the
specified value and set the PC to an override function that simply
returns, bypassing the originally probed function.  This gives us a nice
clean way to implement systematic error injection for all of our code
paths.

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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