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<title>Merge branch 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2018-01-30T22:18:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-30T22:18:52+00:00</published>
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Pull siginfo cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "Long ago when 2.4 was just a testing release copy_siginfo_to_user was
  made to copy individual fields to userspace, possibly for efficiency
  and to ensure initialized values were not copied to userspace.

  Unfortunately the design was complex, it's assumptions unstated, and
  humans are fallible and so while it worked much of the time that
  design failed to ensure unitialized memory is not copied to userspace.

  This set of changes is part of a new design to clean up siginfo and
  simplify things, and hopefully make the siginfo handling robust enough
  that a simple inspection of the code can be made to ensure we don't
  copy any unitializied fields to userspace.

  The design is to unify struct siginfo and struct compat_siginfo into a
  single definition that is shared between all architectures so that
  anyone adding to the set of information shared with struct siginfo can
  see the whole picture. Hopefully ensuring all future si_code
  assignments are arch independent.

  The design is to unify copy_siginfo_to_user32 and
  copy_siginfo_from_user32 so that those function are complete and cope
  with all of the different cases documented in signinfo_layout. I don't
  think there was a single implementation of either of those functions
  that was complete and correct before my changes unified them.

  The design is to introduce a series of helpers including
  force_siginfo_fault that take the values that are needed in struct
  siginfo and build the siginfo structure for their callers. Ensuring
  struct siginfo is built correctly.

  The remaining work for 4.17 (unless someone thinks it is post -rc1
  material) is to push usage of those helpers down into the
  architectures so that architecture specific code will not need to deal
  with the fiddly work of intializing struct siginfo, and then when
  struct siginfo is guaranteed to be fully initialized change copy
  siginfo_to_user into a simple wrapper around copy_to_user.

  Further there is work in progress on the issues that have been
  documented requires arch specific knowledge to sort out.

  The changes below fix or at least document all of the issues that have
  been found with siginfo generation. Then proceed to unify struct
  siginfo the 32 bit helpers that copy siginfo to and from userspace,
  and generally clean up anything that is not arch specific with regards
  to siginfo generation.

  It is a lot but with the unification you can of siginfo you can
  already see the code reduction in the kernel"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (45 commits)
  signal/memory-failure: Use force_sig_mceerr and send_sig_mceerr
  mm/memory_failure: Remove unused trapno from memory_failure
  signal/ptrace: Add force_sig_ptrace_errno_trap and use it where needed
  signal/powerpc: Remove unnecessary signal_code parameter of do_send_trap
  signal: Helpers for faults with specialized siginfo layouts
  signal: Add send_sig_fault and force_sig_fault
  signal: Replace memset(info,...) with clear_siginfo for clarity
  signal: Don't use structure initializers for struct siginfo
  signal/arm64: Better isolate the COMPAT_TASK portion of ptrace_hbptriggered
  ptrace: Use copy_siginfo in setsiginfo and getsiginfo
  signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_to_user32
  signal: Remove the code to clear siginfo before calling copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal/blackfin: Remove pointless UID16_SIGINFO_COMPAT_NEEDED
  signal/blackfin: Move the blackfin specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/tile: Move the tile specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/frv: Move the frv specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/ia64: Move the ia64 specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/powerpc: Remove redefinition of NSIGTRAP on powerpc
  signal: Move addr_lsb into the _sigfault union for clarity
  ...
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Pull siginfo cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "Long ago when 2.4 was just a testing release copy_siginfo_to_user was
  made to copy individual fields to userspace, possibly for efficiency
  and to ensure initialized values were not copied to userspace.

  Unfortunately the design was complex, it's assumptions unstated, and
  humans are fallible and so while it worked much of the time that
  design failed to ensure unitialized memory is not copied to userspace.

  This set of changes is part of a new design to clean up siginfo and
  simplify things, and hopefully make the siginfo handling robust enough
  that a simple inspection of the code can be made to ensure we don't
  copy any unitializied fields to userspace.

  The design is to unify struct siginfo and struct compat_siginfo into a
  single definition that is shared between all architectures so that
  anyone adding to the set of information shared with struct siginfo can
  see the whole picture. Hopefully ensuring all future si_code
  assignments are arch independent.

  The design is to unify copy_siginfo_to_user32 and
  copy_siginfo_from_user32 so that those function are complete and cope
  with all of the different cases documented in signinfo_layout. I don't
  think there was a single implementation of either of those functions
  that was complete and correct before my changes unified them.

  The design is to introduce a series of helpers including
  force_siginfo_fault that take the values that are needed in struct
  siginfo and build the siginfo structure for their callers. Ensuring
  struct siginfo is built correctly.

  The remaining work for 4.17 (unless someone thinks it is post -rc1
  material) is to push usage of those helpers down into the
  architectures so that architecture specific code will not need to deal
  with the fiddly work of intializing struct siginfo, and then when
  struct siginfo is guaranteed to be fully initialized change copy
  siginfo_to_user into a simple wrapper around copy_to_user.

  Further there is work in progress on the issues that have been
  documented requires arch specific knowledge to sort out.

  The changes below fix or at least document all of the issues that have
  been found with siginfo generation. Then proceed to unify struct
  siginfo the 32 bit helpers that copy siginfo to and from userspace,
  and generally clean up anything that is not arch specific with regards
  to siginfo generation.

  It is a lot but with the unification you can of siginfo you can
  already see the code reduction in the kernel"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (45 commits)
  signal/memory-failure: Use force_sig_mceerr and send_sig_mceerr
  mm/memory_failure: Remove unused trapno from memory_failure
  signal/ptrace: Add force_sig_ptrace_errno_trap and use it where needed
  signal/powerpc: Remove unnecessary signal_code parameter of do_send_trap
  signal: Helpers for faults with specialized siginfo layouts
  signal: Add send_sig_fault and force_sig_fault
  signal: Replace memset(info,...) with clear_siginfo for clarity
  signal: Don't use structure initializers for struct siginfo
  signal/arm64: Better isolate the COMPAT_TASK portion of ptrace_hbptriggered
  ptrace: Use copy_siginfo in setsiginfo and getsiginfo
  signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_to_user32
  signal: Remove the code to clear siginfo before calling copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal/blackfin: Remove pointless UID16_SIGINFO_COMPAT_NEEDED
  signal/blackfin: Move the blackfin specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/tile: Move the tile specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/frv: Move the frv specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/ia64: Move the ia64 specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/powerpc: Remove redefinition of NSIGTRAP on powerpc
  signal: Move addr_lsb into the _sigfault union for clarity
  ...
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<title>signal: Don't use structure initializers for struct siginfo</title>
<updated>2018-01-23T01:07:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-22T20:58:57+00:00</published>
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The siginfo structure has all manners of holes with the result that a
structure initializer is not guaranteed to initialize all of the bits.
As we have to copy the structure to userspace don't even try to use
a structure initializer.  Instead use clear_siginfo followed by initializing
selected fields.  This gives a guarantee that uninitialized kernel memory
is not copied to userspace.

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

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: handle gcc generated __builtin_trap for older compiler</title>
<updated>2018-01-03T08:31:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-08T16:45:57+00:00</published>
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ARC gcc prior to GNU 2018.03 release didn't have a target specific
__builtin_trap() implementation, generating default abort() call.

Implement the abort() call - emulating what newer gcc does for the same,
as suggested by Arnd.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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ARC gcc prior to GNU 2018.03 release didn't have a target specific
__builtin_trap() implementation, generating default abort() call.

Implement the abort() call - emulating what newer gcc does for the same,
as suggested by Arnd.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: handle gcc generated __builtin_trap()</title>
<updated>2017-12-20T23:16:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-20T20:37:54+00:00</published>
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gcc toggle -fisolate-erroneous-paths-dereference (default at -O2
onwards) isolates faulty code paths such as null pointer access, divide
by zero etc by emitting __builtin_trap()

Newer ARC gcc generates TRAP_S 5 instruction which needs to be handled
and treated like any other unexpected exception
  - user mode  : task terminated with a SEGV
  - kernel mode: die() called after register and stack dump

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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gcc toggle -fisolate-erroneous-paths-dereference (default at -O2
onwards) isolates faulty code paths such as null pointer access, divide
by zero etc by emitting __builtin_trap()

Newer ARC gcc generates TRAP_S 5 instruction which needs to be handled
and treated like any other unexpected exception
  - user mode  : task terminated with a SEGV
  - kernel mode: die() called after register and stack dump

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arc: do not use __print_symbol()</title>
<updated>2017-12-20T20:41:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-11T12:50:25+00:00</published>
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__print_symbol() uses extra stack space to sprintf() symbol
information and then to feed that buffer to printk()

  char buffer[KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN];

  sprint_symbol(buffer, address);
  printk(fmt, buffer);

Replace __print_symbol() with a direct printk("%pS") call.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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__print_symbol() uses extra stack space to sprintf() symbol
information and then to feed that buffer to printk()

  char buffer[KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN];

  sprint_symbol(buffer, address);
  printk(fmt, buffer);

Replace __print_symbol() with a direct printk("%pS") call.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: Fix detection of dual-issue enabled</title>
<updated>2017-11-29T02:12:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Brodkin</name>
<email>Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-23T10:21:55+00:00</published>
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As per PRM bit #0 ("D") in EXEC_CTRL enables dual-issue if set to 0,
otherwise if set to 1 all instructions are executed one at a time,
i.e. dual-issue is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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As per PRM bit #0 ("D") in EXEC_CTRL enables dual-issue if set to 0,
otherwise if set to 1 all instructions are executed one at a time,
i.e. dual-issue is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arc-4.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc</title>
<updated>2017-11-25T18:21:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-25T18:21:54+00:00</published>
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Pull ARC updates from Vineet Gupta:

 - more changes for HS48 cores: supporting MMUv5, detecting new
   micro-arch gizmos

 - axs10x platform wiring up reset driver merged in this cycle

 - ARC perf driver optimizations

* tag 'arc-4.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
  ARC: perf: avoid vmalloc backed mmap
  ARCv2: perf: optimize given that num counters &lt;= 32
  ARCv2: perf: tweak overflow interrupt
  ARC: [plat-axs10x] DTS: Add reset controller node to manage ethernet reset
  ARCv2: boot log: updates for HS48: dual-issue, ECC, Loop Buffer
  ARCv2: Accomodate HS48 MMUv5 by relaxing MMU ver checking
  ARC: [plat-axs10x] auto-select AXS101 or AXS103 given the  ISA config
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Pull ARC updates from Vineet Gupta:

 - more changes for HS48 cores: supporting MMUv5, detecting new
   micro-arch gizmos

 - axs10x platform wiring up reset driver merged in this cycle

 - ARC perf driver optimizations

* tag 'arc-4.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
  ARC: perf: avoid vmalloc backed mmap
  ARCv2: perf: optimize given that num counters &lt;= 32
  ARCv2: perf: tweak overflow interrupt
  ARC: [plat-axs10x] DTS: Add reset controller node to manage ethernet reset
  ARCv2: boot log: updates for HS48: dual-issue, ECC, Loop Buffer
  ARCv2: Accomodate HS48 MMUv5 by relaxing MMU ver checking
  ARC: [plat-axs10x] auto-select AXS101 or AXS103 given the  ISA config
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<entry>
<title>ARCv2: perf: optimize given that num counters &lt;= 32</title>
<updated>2017-11-21T23:20:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-08T16:47:48+00:00</published>
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use ffz primitive which maps to ARCv2 instruction, vs. non atomic
__test_and_set_bit

It is unlikely if we will even have more than 32 counters, but still add
a BUILD_BUG to catch that

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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use ffz primitive which maps to ARCv2 instruction, vs. non atomic
__test_and_set_bit

It is unlikely if we will even have more than 32 counters, but still add
a BUILD_BUG to catch that

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARCv2: perf: tweak overflow interrupt</title>
<updated>2017-11-21T23:20:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-09T12:57:30+00:00</published>
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Current perf ISR loops thru all 32 counters, checking for each if it
caused the interrupt. Instead only loop thru counters which actually
interrupted (typically 1).

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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Current perf ISR loops thru all 32 counters, checking for each if it
caused the interrupt. Instead only loop thru counters which actually
interrupted (typically 1).

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>ARCv2: boot log: updates for HS48: dual-issue, ECC, Loop Buffer</title>
<updated>2017-11-13T22:37:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-10T20:40:00+00:00</published>
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Print the hardware support for ECC, Loop Buffer as well as the runtime
enabled status

Note that unlike the existing boot printing, this one is not read from
pre-decoded hardware capabilty info cached in cpuinfo[] struct.
Instead we read the AUX regs on the spot and print it, without botherign
to save anywhere.

There is no point in saving static hardware capabilites in memory when
its use is very sporadic and non-performance critical, mainly for
/proc/cpuinfo. This gets worse in SMP, given it is per-cpu, and pretty
much exactly same across all cpus. So only info needed at runtime
(e.g. TLB geometry) needs to be cached in cpuinfo[]. So going fwd
we will start converting code to this paradigm.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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Print the hardware support for ECC, Loop Buffer as well as the runtime
enabled status

Note that unlike the existing boot printing, this one is not read from
pre-decoded hardware capabilty info cached in cpuinfo[] struct.
Instead we read the AUX regs on the spot and print it, without botherign
to save anywhere.

There is no point in saving static hardware capabilites in memory when
its use is very sporadic and non-performance critical, mainly for
/proc/cpuinfo. This gets worse in SMP, given it is per-cpu, and pretty
much exactly same across all cpus. So only info needed at runtime
(e.g. TLB geometry) needs to be cached in cpuinfo[]. So going fwd
we will start converting code to this paradigm.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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