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<title>kbuild: Hoist '--orphan-handling' into Kconfig</title>
<updated>2020-12-01T13:45:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>natechancellor@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2020-11-19T20:46:56+00:00</published>
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Currently, '--orphan-handling=warn' is spread out across four different
architectures in their respective Makefiles, which makes it a little
unruly to deal with in case it needs to be disabled for a specific
linker version (in this case, ld.lld 10.0.1).

To make it easier to control this, hoist this warning into Kconfig and
the main Makefile so that disabling it is simpler, as the warning will
only be enabled in a couple places (main Makefile and a couple of
compressed boot folders that blow away LDFLAGS_vmlinx) and making it
conditional is easier due to Kconfig syntax. One small additional
benefit of this is saving a call to ld-option on incremental builds
because we will have already evaluated it for CONFIG_LD_ORPHAN_WARN.

To keep the list of supported architectures the same, introduce
CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN, which an architecture can select to
gain this automatically after all of the sections are specified and size
asserted. A special thanks to Kees Cook for the help text on this
config.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1187
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently, '--orphan-handling=warn' is spread out across four different
architectures in their respective Makefiles, which makes it a little
unruly to deal with in case it needs to be disabled for a specific
linker version (in this case, ld.lld 10.0.1).

To make it easier to control this, hoist this warning into Kconfig and
the main Makefile so that disabling it is simpler, as the warning will
only be enabled in a couple places (main Makefile and a couple of
compressed boot folders that blow away LDFLAGS_vmlinx) and making it
conditional is easier due to Kconfig syntax. One small additional
benefit of this is saving a call to ld-option on incremental builds
because we will have already evaluated it for CONFIG_LD_ORPHAN_WARN.

To keep the list of supported architectures the same, introduce
CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN, which an architecture can select to
gain this automatically after all of the sections are specified and size
asserted. A special thanks to Kees Cook for the help text on this
config.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1187
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.set_fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2020-10-22T16:59:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-22T16:59:21+00:00</published>
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Pull initial set_fs() removal from Al Viro:
 "Christoph's set_fs base series + fixups"

* 'work.set_fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: Allow a NULL pos pointer to __kernel_read
  fs: Allow a NULL pos pointer to __kernel_write
  powerpc: remove address space overrides using set_fs()
  powerpc: use non-set_fs based maccess routines
  x86: remove address space overrides using set_fs()
  x86: make TASK_SIZE_MAX usable from assembly code
  x86: move PAGE_OFFSET, TASK_SIZE &amp; friends to page_{32,64}_types.h
  lkdtm: remove set_fs-based tests
  test_bitmap: remove user bitmap tests
  uaccess: add infrastructure for kernel builds with set_fs()
  fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops
  fs: don't allow kernel reads and writes without iter ops
  sysctl: Convert to iter interfaces
  proc: add a read_iter method to proc proc_ops
  proc: cleanup the compat vs no compat file ops
  proc: remove a level of indentation in proc_get_inode
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Pull initial set_fs() removal from Al Viro:
 "Christoph's set_fs base series + fixups"

* 'work.set_fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: Allow a NULL pos pointer to __kernel_read
  fs: Allow a NULL pos pointer to __kernel_write
  powerpc: remove address space overrides using set_fs()
  powerpc: use non-set_fs based maccess routines
  x86: remove address space overrides using set_fs()
  x86: make TASK_SIZE_MAX usable from assembly code
  x86: move PAGE_OFFSET, TASK_SIZE &amp; friends to page_{32,64}_types.h
  lkdtm: remove set_fs-based tests
  test_bitmap: remove user bitmap tests
  uaccess: add infrastructure for kernel builds with set_fs()
  fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops
  fs: don't allow kernel reads and writes without iter ops
  sysctl: Convert to iter interfaces
  proc: add a read_iter method to proc proc_ops
  proc: cleanup the compat vs no compat file ops
  proc: remove a level of indentation in proc_get_inode
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T19:21:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T19:21:15+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - A series from Nick adding ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM &amp; selecting
   it for powerpc, as well as a related fix for sparc.

 - Remove support for PowerPC 601.

 - Some fixes for watchpoints &amp; addition of a new ptrace flag for
   detecting ISA v3.1 (Power10) watchpoint features.

 - A fix for kernels using 4K pages and the hash MMU on bare metal
   Power9 systems with &gt; 16TB of RAM, or RAM on the 2nd node.

 - A basic idle driver for shallow stop states on Power10.

 - Tweaks to our sched domains code to better inform the scheduler about
   the hardware topology on Power9/10, where two SMT4 cores can be
   presented by firmware as an SMT8 core.

 - A series doing further reworks &amp; cleanups of our EEH code.

 - Addition of a filter for RTAS (firmware) calls done via sys_rtas(),
   to prevent root from overwriting kernel memory.

 - Other smaller features, fixes &amp; cleanups.

Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
Athira Rajeev, Biwen Li, Cameron Berkenpas, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe
Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Colin Ian King, Daniel Axtens, David Dai, Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg Kurz, Gustavo Romero,
Ira Weiny, Jason Yan, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Konrad
Rzeszutek Wilk, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Liu Shixin, Luca
Ceresoli, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas
Mc Guire, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Pedro
Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang
Miao, Ravi Bangoria, Russell Currey, Satheesh Rajendran, Scott Cheloha,
Segher Boessenkool, Srikar Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Kitt,
Stephen Rothwell, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, Vasant Hegde, Wang Wensheng, Wolfram Sang, Yang
Yingliang, zhengbin.

* tag 'powerpc-5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (228 commits)
  Revert "powerpc/pci: unmap legacy INTx interrupts when a PHB is removed"
  selftests/powerpc: Fix eeh-basic.sh exit codes
  cpufreq: powernv: Fix frame-size-overflow in powernv_cpufreq_reboot_notifier
  powerpc/time: Make get_tb() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Make get_tbl() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Remove get_tbu()
  powerpc/time: Avoid using get_tbl() and get_tbu() internally
  powerpc/time: Make mftb() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Rename mftbl() to mftb()
  powerpc/32s: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32 in head_book3s_32.S
  powerpc/32s: Rename head_32.S to head_book3s_32.S
  powerpc/32s: Setup the early hash table at all time.
  powerpc/time: Remove ifdef in get_dec() and set_dec()
  powerpc: Remove get_tb_or_rtc()
  powerpc: Remove __USE_RTC()
  powerpc: Tidy up a bit after removal of PowerPC 601.
  powerpc: Remove support for PowerPC 601
  powerpc: Remove PowerPC 601
  powerpc: Drop SYNC_601() ISYNC_601() and SYNC()
  powerpc: Remove CONFIG_PPC601_SYNC_FIX
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - A series from Nick adding ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM &amp; selecting
   it for powerpc, as well as a related fix for sparc.

 - Remove support for PowerPC 601.

 - Some fixes for watchpoints &amp; addition of a new ptrace flag for
   detecting ISA v3.1 (Power10) watchpoint features.

 - A fix for kernels using 4K pages and the hash MMU on bare metal
   Power9 systems with &gt; 16TB of RAM, or RAM on the 2nd node.

 - A basic idle driver for shallow stop states on Power10.

 - Tweaks to our sched domains code to better inform the scheduler about
   the hardware topology on Power9/10, where two SMT4 cores can be
   presented by firmware as an SMT8 core.

 - A series doing further reworks &amp; cleanups of our EEH code.

 - Addition of a filter for RTAS (firmware) calls done via sys_rtas(),
   to prevent root from overwriting kernel memory.

 - Other smaller features, fixes &amp; cleanups.

Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
Athira Rajeev, Biwen Li, Cameron Berkenpas, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe
Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Colin Ian King, Daniel Axtens, David Dai, Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg Kurz, Gustavo Romero,
Ira Weiny, Jason Yan, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Konrad
Rzeszutek Wilk, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Liu Shixin, Luca
Ceresoli, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas
Mc Guire, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Pedro
Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang
Miao, Ravi Bangoria, Russell Currey, Satheesh Rajendran, Scott Cheloha,
Segher Boessenkool, Srikar Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Kitt,
Stephen Rothwell, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, Vasant Hegde, Wang Wensheng, Wolfram Sang, Yang
Yingliang, zhengbin.

* tag 'powerpc-5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (228 commits)
  Revert "powerpc/pci: unmap legacy INTx interrupts when a PHB is removed"
  selftests/powerpc: Fix eeh-basic.sh exit codes
  cpufreq: powernv: Fix frame-size-overflow in powernv_cpufreq_reboot_notifier
  powerpc/time: Make get_tb() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Make get_tbl() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Remove get_tbu()
  powerpc/time: Avoid using get_tbl() and get_tbu() internally
  powerpc/time: Make mftb() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Rename mftbl() to mftb()
  powerpc/32s: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32 in head_book3s_32.S
  powerpc/32s: Rename head_32.S to head_book3s_32.S
  powerpc/32s: Setup the early hash table at all time.
  powerpc/time: Remove ifdef in get_dec() and set_dec()
  powerpc: Remove get_tb_or_rtc()
  powerpc: Remove __USE_RTC()
  powerpc: Tidy up a bit after removal of PowerPC 601.
  powerpc: Remove support for PowerPC 601
  powerpc: Remove PowerPC 601
  powerpc: Drop SYNC_601() ISYNC_601() and SYNC()
  powerpc: Remove CONFIG_PPC601_SYNC_FIX
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'seccomp-v5.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2020-10-13T23:33:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:33:43+00:00</published>
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Pull seccomp updates from Kees Cook:
 "The bulk of the changes are with the seccomp selftests to accommodate
  some powerpc-specific behavioral characteristics. Additional cleanups,
  fixes, and improvements are also included:

   - heavily refactor seccomp selftests (and clone3 selftests
     dependency) to fix powerpc (Kees Cook, Thadeu Lima de Souza
     Cascardo)

   - fix style issue in selftests (Zou Wei)

   - upgrade "unknown action" from KILL_THREAD to KILL_PROCESS (Rich
     Felker)

   - replace task_pt_regs(current) with current_pt_regs() (Denis
     Efremov)

   - fix corner-case race in USER_NOTIF (Jann Horn)

   - make CONFIG_SECCOMP no longer per-arch (YiFei Zhu)"

* tag 'seccomp-v5.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (23 commits)
  seccomp: Make duplicate listener detection non-racy
  seccomp: Move config option SECCOMP to arch/Kconfig
  selftests/clone3: Avoid OS-defined clone_args
  selftests/seccomp: powerpc: Set syscall return during ptrace syscall exit
  selftests/seccomp: Allow syscall nr and ret value to be set separately
  selftests/seccomp: Record syscall during ptrace entry
  selftests/seccomp: powerpc: Fix seccomp return value testing
  selftests/seccomp: Remove SYSCALL_NUM_RET_SHARE_REG in favor of SYSCALL_RET_SET
  selftests/seccomp: Avoid redundant register flushes
  selftests/seccomp: Convert REGSET calls into ARCH_GETREG/ARCH_SETREG
  selftests/seccomp: Convert HAVE_GETREG into ARCH_GETREG/ARCH_SETREG
  selftests/seccomp: Remove syscall setting #ifdefs
  selftests/seccomp: mips: Remove O32-specific macro
  selftests/seccomp: arm64: Define SYSCALL_NUM_SET macro
  selftests/seccomp: arm: Define SYSCALL_NUM_SET macro
  selftests/seccomp: mips: Define SYSCALL_NUM_SET macro
  selftests/seccomp: Provide generic syscall setting macro
  selftests/seccomp: Refactor arch register macros to avoid xtensa special case
  selftests/seccomp: Use __NR_mknodat instead of __NR_mknod
  selftests/seccomp: Use bitwise instead of arithmetic operator for flags
  ...
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Pull seccomp updates from Kees Cook:
 "The bulk of the changes are with the seccomp selftests to accommodate
  some powerpc-specific behavioral characteristics. Additional cleanups,
  fixes, and improvements are also included:

   - heavily refactor seccomp selftests (and clone3 selftests
     dependency) to fix powerpc (Kees Cook, Thadeu Lima de Souza
     Cascardo)

   - fix style issue in selftests (Zou Wei)

   - upgrade "unknown action" from KILL_THREAD to KILL_PROCESS (Rich
     Felker)

   - replace task_pt_regs(current) with current_pt_regs() (Denis
     Efremov)

   - fix corner-case race in USER_NOTIF (Jann Horn)

   - make CONFIG_SECCOMP no longer per-arch (YiFei Zhu)"

* tag 'seccomp-v5.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (23 commits)
  seccomp: Make duplicate listener detection non-racy
  seccomp: Move config option SECCOMP to arch/Kconfig
  selftests/clone3: Avoid OS-defined clone_args
  selftests/seccomp: powerpc: Set syscall return during ptrace syscall exit
  selftests/seccomp: Allow syscall nr and ret value to be set separately
  selftests/seccomp: Record syscall during ptrace entry
  selftests/seccomp: powerpc: Fix seccomp return value testing
  selftests/seccomp: Remove SYSCALL_NUM_RET_SHARE_REG in favor of SYSCALL_RET_SET
  selftests/seccomp: Avoid redundant register flushes
  selftests/seccomp: Convert REGSET calls into ARCH_GETREG/ARCH_SETREG
  selftests/seccomp: Convert HAVE_GETREG into ARCH_GETREG/ARCH_SETREG
  selftests/seccomp: Remove syscall setting #ifdefs
  selftests/seccomp: mips: Remove O32-specific macro
  selftests/seccomp: arm64: Define SYSCALL_NUM_SET macro
  selftests/seccomp: arm: Define SYSCALL_NUM_SET macro
  selftests/seccomp: mips: Define SYSCALL_NUM_SET macro
  selftests/seccomp: Provide generic syscall setting macro
  selftests/seccomp: Refactor arch register macros to avoid xtensa special case
  selftests/seccomp: Use __NR_mknodat instead of __NR_mknod
  selftests/seccomp: Use bitwise instead of arithmetic operator for flags
  ...
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<entry>
<title>seccomp: Move config option SECCOMP to arch/Kconfig</title>
<updated>2020-10-08T20:17:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>YiFei Zhu</name>
<email>yifeifz2@illinois.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-24T12:44:16+00:00</published>
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In order to make adding configurable features into seccomp easier,
it's better to have the options at one single location, considering
especially that the bulk of seccomp code is arch-independent. An quick
look also show that many SECCOMP descriptions are outdated; they talk
about /proc rather than prctl.

As a result of moving the config option and keeping it default on,
architectures arm, arm64, csky, riscv, sh, and xtensa did not have SECCOMP
on by default prior to this and SECCOMP will be default in this change.

Architectures microblaze, mips, powerpc, s390, sh, and sparc have an
outdated depend on PROC_FS and this dependency is removed in this change.

Suggested-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAG48ez1YWz9cnp08UZgeieYRhHdqh-ch7aNwc4JRBnGyrmgfMg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: YiFei Zhu &lt;yifeifz2@illinois.edu&gt;
[kees: added HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP help text, tweaked wording]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9ede6ef35c847e58d61e476c6a39540520066613.1600951211.git.yifeifz2@illinois.edu
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In order to make adding configurable features into seccomp easier,
it's better to have the options at one single location, considering
especially that the bulk of seccomp code is arch-independent. An quick
look also show that many SECCOMP descriptions are outdated; they talk
about /proc rather than prctl.

As a result of moving the config option and keeping it default on,
architectures arm, arm64, csky, riscv, sh, and xtensa did not have SECCOMP
on by default prior to this and SECCOMP will be default in this change.

Architectures microblaze, mips, powerpc, s390, sh, and sparc have an
outdated depend on PROC_FS and this dependency is removed in this change.

Suggested-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAG48ez1YWz9cnp08UZgeieYRhHdqh-ch7aNwc4JRBnGyrmgfMg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: YiFei Zhu &lt;yifeifz2@illinois.edu&gt;
[kees: added HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP help text, tweaked wording]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9ede6ef35c847e58d61e476c6a39540520066613.1600951211.git.yifeifz2@illinois.edu
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<entry>
<title>mm: fix exec activate_mm vs TLB shootdown and lazy tlb switching race</title>
<updated>2020-09-16T02:24:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-14T04:52:16+00:00</published>
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Reading and modifying current-&gt;mm and current-&gt;active_mm and switching
mm should be done with irqs off, to prevent races seeing an intermediate
state.

This is similar to commit 38cf307c1f20 ("mm: fix kthread_use_mm() vs TLB
invalidate"). At exec-time when the new mm is activated, the old one
should usually be single-threaded and no longer used, unless something
else is holding an mm_users reference (which may be possible).

Absent other mm_users, there is also a race with preemption and lazy tlb
switching. Consider the kernel_execve case where the current thread is
using a lazy tlb active mm:

  call_usermodehelper()
    kernel_execve()
      old_mm = current-&gt;mm;
      active_mm = current-&gt;active_mm;
      *** preempt *** --------------------&gt;  schedule()
                                               prev-&gt;active_mm = NULL;
                                               mmdrop(prev active_mm);
                                             ...
                      &lt;--------------------  schedule()
      current-&gt;mm = mm;
      current-&gt;active_mm = mm;
      if (!old_mm)
          mmdrop(active_mm);

If we switch back to the kernel thread from a different mm, there is a
double free of the old active_mm, and a missing free of the new one.

Closing this race only requires interrupts to be disabled while -&gt;mm
and -&gt;active_mm are being switched, but the TLB problem requires also
holding interrupts off over activate_mm. Unfortunately not all archs
can do that yet, e.g., arm defers the switch if irqs are disabled and
expects finish_arch_post_lock_switch() to be called to complete the
flush; um takes a blocking lock in activate_mm().

So as a first step, disable interrupts across the mm/active_mm updates
to close the lazy tlb preempt race, and provide an arch option to
extend that to activate_mm which allows architectures doing IPI based
TLB shootdowns to close the second race.

This is a bit ugly, but in the interest of fixing the bug and backporting
before all architectures are converted this is a compromise.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914045219.3736466-2-npiggin@gmail.com
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Reading and modifying current-&gt;mm and current-&gt;active_mm and switching
mm should be done with irqs off, to prevent races seeing an intermediate
state.

This is similar to commit 38cf307c1f20 ("mm: fix kthread_use_mm() vs TLB
invalidate"). At exec-time when the new mm is activated, the old one
should usually be single-threaded and no longer used, unless something
else is holding an mm_users reference (which may be possible).

Absent other mm_users, there is also a race with preemption and lazy tlb
switching. Consider the kernel_execve case where the current thread is
using a lazy tlb active mm:

  call_usermodehelper()
    kernel_execve()
      old_mm = current-&gt;mm;
      active_mm = current-&gt;active_mm;
      *** preempt *** --------------------&gt;  schedule()
                                               prev-&gt;active_mm = NULL;
                                               mmdrop(prev active_mm);
                                             ...
                      &lt;--------------------  schedule()
      current-&gt;mm = mm;
      current-&gt;active_mm = mm;
      if (!old_mm)
          mmdrop(active_mm);

If we switch back to the kernel thread from a different mm, there is a
double free of the old active_mm, and a missing free of the new one.

Closing this race only requires interrupts to be disabled while -&gt;mm
and -&gt;active_mm are being switched, but the TLB problem requires also
holding interrupts off over activate_mm. Unfortunately not all archs
can do that yet, e.g., arm defers the switch if irqs are disabled and
expects finish_arch_post_lock_switch() to be called to complete the
flush; um takes a blocking lock in activate_mm().

So as a first step, disable interrupts across the mm/active_mm updates
to close the lazy tlb preempt race, and provide an arch option to
extend that to activate_mm which allows architectures doing IPI based
TLB shootdowns to close the second race.

This is a bit ugly, but in the interest of fixing the bug and backporting
before all architectures are converted this is a compromise.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914045219.3736466-2-npiggin@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>uaccess: add infrastructure for kernel builds with set_fs()</title>
<updated>2020-09-09T02:21:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-03T14:22:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5e6e9852d6f76e01b2e6803c74258afa5b432bc5'/>
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Add a CONFIG_SET_FS option that is selected by architecturess that
implement set_fs, which is all of them initially.  If the option is not
set stubs for routines related to overriding the address space are
provided so that architectures can start to opt out of providing set_fs.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Add a CONFIG_SET_FS option that is selected by architecturess that
implement set_fs, which is all of them initially.  If the option is not
set stubs for routines related to overriding the address space are
provided so that architectures can start to opt out of providing set_fs.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>static_call: Add simple self-test for static calls</title>
<updated>2020-09-01T07:58:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-18T13:57:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f03c412915f5f69f2d17bcd20ecdd69320bcbf7b'/>
<id>f03c412915f5f69f2d17bcd20ecdd69320bcbf7b</id>
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Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818135804.922581202@infradead.org
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818135804.922581202@infradead.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>static_call: Add inline static call infrastructure</title>
<updated>2020-09-01T07:58:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-18T13:57:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9183c3f9ed710a8edf1a61e8a96d497258d26e08'/>
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Add infrastructure for an arch-specific CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE
option, which is a faster version of CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL.  At
runtime, the static call sites are patched directly, rather than using
the out-of-line trampolines.

Compared to out-of-line static calls, the performance benefits are more
modest, but still measurable.  Steven Rostedt did some tracepoint
measurements:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181126155405.72b4f718@gandalf.local.home

This code is heavily inspired by the jump label code (aka "static
jumps"), as some of the concepts are very similar.

For more details, see the comments in include/linux/static_call.h.

[peterz: simplified interface; merged trampolines]

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818135804.684334440@infradead.org
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Add infrastructure for an arch-specific CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE
option, which is a faster version of CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL.  At
runtime, the static call sites are patched directly, rather than using
the out-of-line trampolines.

Compared to out-of-line static calls, the performance benefits are more
modest, but still measurable.  Steven Rostedt did some tracepoint
measurements:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181126155405.72b4f718@gandalf.local.home

This code is heavily inspired by the jump label code (aka "static
jumps"), as some of the concepts are very similar.

For more details, see the comments in include/linux/static_call.h.

[peterz: simplified interface; merged trampolines]

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818135804.684334440@infradead.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>static_call: Add basic static call infrastructure</title>
<updated>2020-09-01T07:58:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-18T13:57:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=115284d89a436e9b66da0c6c4f6efded806874b2'/>
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Static calls are a replacement for global function pointers.  They use
code patching to allow direct calls to be used instead of indirect
calls.  They give the flexibility of function pointers, but with
improved performance.  This is especially important for cases where
retpolines would otherwise be used, as retpolines can significantly
impact performance.

The concept and code are an extension of previous work done by Ard
Biesheuvel and Steven Rostedt:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005081333.15018-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181006015110.653946300@goodmis.org

There are two implementations, depending on arch support:

 1) out-of-line: patched trampolines (CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL)
 2) basic function pointers

For more details, see the comments in include/linux/static_call.h.

[peterz: simplified interface]

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818135804.623259796@infradead.org
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Static calls are a replacement for global function pointers.  They use
code patching to allow direct calls to be used instead of indirect
calls.  They give the flexibility of function pointers, but with
improved performance.  This is especially important for cases where
retpolines would otherwise be used, as retpolines can significantly
impact performance.

The concept and code are an extension of previous work done by Ard
Biesheuvel and Steven Rostedt:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005081333.15018-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181006015110.653946300@goodmis.org

There are two implementations, depending on arch support:

 1) out-of-line: patched trampolines (CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL)
 2) basic function pointers

For more details, see the comments in include/linux/static_call.h.

[peterz: simplified interface]

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818135804.623259796@infradead.org
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