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<title>ARC: show_regs: lockdep: re-enable preemption</title>
<updated>2019-01-17T22:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-18T18:39:58+00:00</published>
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signal handling core calls show_regs() with preemption disabled which
on ARC takes mmap_sem for mm/vma access, causing lockdep splat.

| [ARCLinux]# ./segv-null-ptr
| potentially unexpected fatal signal 11.
| BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/fork.c:1011
| in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 70, name: segv-null-ptr
| no locks held by segv-null-ptr/70.
| CPU: 0 PID: 70 Comm: segv-null-ptr Not tainted 4.18.0+ #69
|
| Stack Trace:
|  arc_unwind_core+0xcc/0x100
|  ___might_sleep+0x17a/0x190
|  mmput+0x16/0xb8
|  show_regs+0x52/0x310
|  get_signal+0x5ee/0x610
|  do_signal+0x2c/0x218
|  resume_user_mode_begin+0x90/0xd8

Workaround by re-enabling preemption temporarily.

Note that the preemption disabling in core code around show_regs()
was introduced by commit 3a9f84d354ce ("signals, debug: fix BUG: using
smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in print_fatal_signal()")

to silence a differnt lockdep seen on x86 bakc in 2009.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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signal handling core calls show_regs() with preemption disabled which
on ARC takes mmap_sem for mm/vma access, causing lockdep splat.

| [ARCLinux]# ./segv-null-ptr
| potentially unexpected fatal signal 11.
| BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/fork.c:1011
| in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 70, name: segv-null-ptr
| no locks held by segv-null-ptr/70.
| CPU: 0 PID: 70 Comm: segv-null-ptr Not tainted 4.18.0+ #69
|
| Stack Trace:
|  arc_unwind_core+0xcc/0x100
|  ___might_sleep+0x17a/0x190
|  mmput+0x16/0xb8
|  show_regs+0x52/0x310
|  get_signal+0x5ee/0x610
|  do_signal+0x2c/0x218
|  resume_user_mode_begin+0x90/0xd8

Workaround by re-enabling preemption temporarily.

Note that the preemption disabling in core code around show_regs()
was introduced by commit 3a9f84d354ce ("signals, debug: fix BUG: using
smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in print_fatal_signal()")

to silence a differnt lockdep seen on x86 bakc in 2009.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: show_regs: lockdep: avoid page allocator...</title>
<updated>2019-01-17T22:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-17T22:11:19+00:00</published>
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and use smaller/on-stack buffer instead

The motivation for this change was lockdep splat like below.

| potentially unexpected fatal signal 11.
| BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ../mm/page_alloc.c:4317
| in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 57, name: segv
| no locks held by segv/57.
| Preemption disabled at:
| [&lt;8182f17e&gt;] get_signal+0x4a6/0x7c4
| CPU: 0 PID: 57 Comm: segv Not tainted 4.17.0+ #23
|
| Stack Trace:
|  arc_unwind_core.constprop.1+0xd0/0xf4
|  __might_sleep+0x1f6/0x234
|  __get_free_pages+0x174/0xca0
|  show_regs+0x22/0x330
|  get_signal+0x4ac/0x7c4     # print_fatal_signals() -&gt; preempt_disable()
|  do_signal+0x30/0x224
|  resume_user_mode_begin+0x90/0xd8

So signal handling core calls show_regs() with preemption disabled but
an ensuing GFP_KERNEL page allocator call is flagged by lockdep.

We could have switched to GFP_NOWAIT, but turns out that is not enough
anways and eliding page allocator call leads to less code and
instruction traces to sift thru when debugging pesky crashes.

FWIW, this patch doesn't cure the lockdep splat (which next patch does).

Reviewed-by: William Kucharski &lt;william.kucharski@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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and use smaller/on-stack buffer instead

The motivation for this change was lockdep splat like below.

| potentially unexpected fatal signal 11.
| BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ../mm/page_alloc.c:4317
| in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 57, name: segv
| no locks held by segv/57.
| Preemption disabled at:
| [&lt;8182f17e&gt;] get_signal+0x4a6/0x7c4
| CPU: 0 PID: 57 Comm: segv Not tainted 4.17.0+ #23
|
| Stack Trace:
|  arc_unwind_core.constprop.1+0xd0/0xf4
|  __might_sleep+0x1f6/0x234
|  __get_free_pages+0x174/0xca0
|  show_regs+0x22/0x330
|  get_signal+0x4ac/0x7c4     # print_fatal_signals() -&gt; preempt_disable()
|  do_signal+0x30/0x224
|  resume_user_mode_begin+0x90/0xd8

So signal handling core calls show_regs() with preemption disabled but
an ensuing GFP_KERNEL page allocator call is flagged by lockdep.

We could have switched to GFP_NOWAIT, but turns out that is not enough
anways and eliding page allocator call leads to less code and
instruction traces to sift thru when debugging pesky crashes.

FWIW, this patch doesn't cure the lockdep splat (which next patch does).

Reviewed-by: William Kucharski &lt;william.kucharski@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: perf: avoid kernel killing where it is possible</title>
<updated>2019-01-17T22:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugeniy Paltsev</name>
<email>Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-13T16:56:21+00:00</published>
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No, not gonna die tonight.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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No, not gonna die tonight.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: perf: move HW events mapping to separate function</title>
<updated>2019-01-17T22:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugeniy Paltsev</name>
<email>Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-13T16:56:20+00:00</published>
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Move HW events mapping to separate function to make code more readable.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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Move HW events mapping to separate function to make code more readable.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: perf: introduce Kernel PMU events support</title>
<updated>2019-01-17T22:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugeniy Paltsev</name>
<email>Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-13T16:56:19+00:00</published>
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Export all available ARC architected hardware events as
kernel PMU events to make non-generic events accessible.

ARC PMU HW allow us to read the list of all available
events names. So we generate kernel PMU event list
dynamically in arc_pmu_device_probe() using
human-readable events names we got from HW instead of
using pre-defined events list.

--------------------------&gt;8--------------------------
$ perf list
  [snip]
  arc_pmu/bdata64/                  [Kernel PMU event]
  arc_pmu/bdcstall/                 [Kernel PMU event]
  arc_pmu/bdslot/                   [Kernel PMU event]
  arc_pmu/bfbmp/                    [Kernel PMU event]
  arc_pmu/bfirqex/                  [Kernel PMU event]
  arc_pmu/bflgstal/                 [Kernel PMU event]
  arc_pmu/bflush/                   [Kernel PMU event]
--------------------------&gt;8--------------------------

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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Export all available ARC architected hardware events as
kernel PMU events to make non-generic events accessible.

ARC PMU HW allow us to read the list of all available
events names. So we generate kernel PMU event list
dynamically in arc_pmu_device_probe() using
human-readable events names we got from HW instead of
using pre-defined events list.

--------------------------&gt;8--------------------------
$ perf list
  [snip]
  arc_pmu/bdata64/                  [Kernel PMU event]
  arc_pmu/bdcstall/                 [Kernel PMU event]
  arc_pmu/bdslot/                   [Kernel PMU event]
  arc_pmu/bfbmp/                    [Kernel PMU event]
  arc_pmu/bfirqex/                  [Kernel PMU event]
  arc_pmu/bflgstal/                 [Kernel PMU event]
  arc_pmu/bflush/                   [Kernel PMU event]
--------------------------&gt;8--------------------------

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: perf: trivial code cleanup</title>
<updated>2019-01-17T22:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugeniy Paltsev</name>
<email>Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-13T16:56:18+00:00</published>
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* Use BIT(), lower_32_bits(), upper_32_bits() macroses,
  fix code style violations.
* Use u32, u64, s64 instead of uint32_t, uint64_t, int64_t
* Fix description comment as this code doesn't belong only to
  ARC700 anymore.
* Use SPDX License Identifier.
* Remove useless ifdefs. ifdef around 'arc_pmu_match' structure
  declaration is useless as we refer to 'arc_pmu_match' in
  several places which aren't guarded with ifdef. Nevertheless
  'ARC' option selects 'OF' unconditionally so we can simply
  get rid of this ifdef.

Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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* Use BIT(), lower_32_bits(), upper_32_bits() macroses,
  fix code style violations.
* Use u32, u64, s64 instead of uint32_t, uint64_t, int64_t
* Fix description comment as this code doesn't belong only to
  ARC700 anymore.
* Use SPDX License Identifier.
* Remove useless ifdefs. ifdef around 'arc_pmu_match' structure
  declaration is useless as we refer to 'arc_pmu_match' in
  several places which aren't guarded with ifdef. Nevertheless
  'ARC' option selects 'OF' unconditionally so we can simply
  get rid of this ifdef.

Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: boot log: print Action point details</title>
<updated>2019-01-17T22:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-09T17:36:00+00:00</published>
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This now prints the number of action points {2,4,8} and {min,full}
targets supported.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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This now prints the number of action points {2,4,8} and {min,full}
targets supported.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARCv2: boot log: BPU return stack depth</title>
<updated>2019-01-17T22:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-06T08:17:50+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'mount.part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2019-01-05T21:25:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-05T21:25:58+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs mount API prep from Al Viro:
 "Mount API prereqs.

  Mostly that's LSM mount options cleanups. There are several minor
  fixes in there, but nothing earth-shattering (leaks on failure exits,
  mostly)"

* 'mount.part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (27 commits)
  mount_fs: suppress MAC on MS_SUBMOUNT as well as MS_KERNMOUNT
  smack: rewrite smack_sb_eat_lsm_opts()
  smack: get rid of match_token()
  smack: take the guts of smack_parse_opts_str() into a new helper
  LSM: new method: -&gt;sb_add_mnt_opt()
  selinux: rewrite selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts()
  selinux: regularize Opt_... names a bit
  selinux: switch away from match_token()
  selinux: new helper - selinux_add_opt()
  LSM: bury struct security_mnt_opts
  smack: switch to private smack_mnt_opts
  selinux: switch to private struct selinux_mnt_opts
  LSM: hide struct security_mnt_opts from any generic code
  selinux: kill selinux_sb_get_mnt_opts()
  LSM: turn sb_eat_lsm_opts() into a method
  nfs_remount(): don't leak, don't ignore LSM options quietly
  btrfs: sanitize security_mnt_opts use
  selinux; don't open-code a loop in sb_finish_set_opts()
  LSM: split -&gt;sb_set_mnt_opts() out of -&gt;sb_kern_mount()
  new helper: security_sb_eat_lsm_opts()
  ...
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Pull vfs mount API prep from Al Viro:
 "Mount API prereqs.

  Mostly that's LSM mount options cleanups. There are several minor
  fixes in there, but nothing earth-shattering (leaks on failure exits,
  mostly)"

* 'mount.part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (27 commits)
  mount_fs: suppress MAC on MS_SUBMOUNT as well as MS_KERNMOUNT
  smack: rewrite smack_sb_eat_lsm_opts()
  smack: get rid of match_token()
  smack: take the guts of smack_parse_opts_str() into a new helper
  LSM: new method: -&gt;sb_add_mnt_opt()
  selinux: rewrite selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts()
  selinux: regularize Opt_... names a bit
  selinux: switch away from match_token()
  selinux: new helper - selinux_add_opt()
  LSM: bury struct security_mnt_opts
  smack: switch to private smack_mnt_opts
  selinux: switch to private struct selinux_mnt_opts
  LSM: hide struct security_mnt_opts from any generic code
  selinux: kill selinux_sb_get_mnt_opts()
  LSM: turn sb_eat_lsm_opts() into a method
  nfs_remount(): don't leak, don't ignore LSM options quietly
  btrfs: sanitize security_mnt_opts use
  selinux; don't open-code a loop in sb_finish_set_opts()
  LSM: split -&gt;sb_set_mnt_opts() out of -&gt;sb_kern_mount()
  new helper: security_sb_eat_lsm_opts()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</published>
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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