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<title>ARM: ep93xx: multiplatform support</title>
<updated>2022-04-04T08:22:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-01T13:58:09+00:00</published>
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With the clock support and the interrupts out of the way, ep93xx can be
compiled into the same kernel image as the other ARMv4/v5 platforms. The
last obstacle are the two workarounds for broken boot loaders that
require us to re-initialize the ethernet controller and/or the watchdog
on certain machines.

Move this code into the decompressor sources directly, checking for
each possibly affected machine individually.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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With the clock support and the interrupts out of the way, ep93xx can be
compiled into the same kernel image as the other ARMv4/v5 platforms. The
last obstacle are the two workarounds for broken boot loaders that
require us to re-initialize the ethernet controller and/or the watchdog
on certain machines.

Move this code into the decompressor sources directly, checking for
each possibly affected machine individually.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2022-04-03T17:17:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-03T17:17:48+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:

 - avoid unnecessary rebuilds for library objects

 - fix return value of __setup handlers

 - fix invalid input check for "crashkernel=" kernel option

 - silence KASAN warnings in unwind_frame

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 9191/1: arm/stacktrace, kasan: Silence KASAN warnings in unwind_frame()
  ARM: 9190/1: kdump: add invalid input check for 'crashkernel=0'
  ARM: 9187/1: JIVE: fix return value of __setup handler
  ARM: 9189/1: decompressor: fix unneeded rebuilds of library objects
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Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:

 - avoid unnecessary rebuilds for library objects

 - fix return value of __setup handlers

 - fix invalid input check for "crashkernel=" kernel option

 - silence KASAN warnings in unwind_frame

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 9191/1: arm/stacktrace, kasan: Silence KASAN warnings in unwind_frame()
  ARM: 9190/1: kdump: add invalid input check for 'crashkernel=0'
  ARM: 9187/1: JIVE: fix return value of __setup handler
  ARM: 9189/1: decompressor: fix unneeded rebuilds of library objects
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9189/1: decompressor: fix unneeded rebuilds of library objects</title>
<updated>2022-03-31T13:33:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-31T08:47:09+00:00</published>
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Since commit 251cc826be7d ("ARM: 9154/1: decompressor: do not copy source
files while building"), the following three are rebuilt every time.

  AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/lib1funcs.o
  AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/ashldi3.o
  AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/bswapsdi2.o

Move the "OBJS += ..." line up so these objects are added to 'targets'.

Fixes: 251cc826be7d ("ARM: 9154/1: decompressor: do not copy source files while building")
Reported-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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Since commit 251cc826be7d ("ARM: 9154/1: decompressor: do not copy source
files while building"), the following three are rebuilt every time.

  AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/lib1funcs.o
  AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/ashldi3.o
  AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/bswapsdi2.o

Move the "OBJS += ..." line up so these objects are added to 'targets'.

Fixes: 251cc826be7d ("ARM: 9154/1: decompressor: do not copy source files while building")
Reported-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2022-03-24T00:35:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-24T00:35:57+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "Updates for IRQ stacks and virtually mapped stack support, and ftrace:

   - Support for IRQ and vmap'ed stacks

     This covers all the work related to implementing IRQ stacks and
     vmap'ed stacks for all 32-bit ARM systems that are currently
     supported by the Linux kernel, including RiscPC and Footbridge. It
     has been submitted for review in four different waves:

      - IRQ stacks support for v7 SMP systems [0]

      - vmap'ed stacks support for v7 SMP systems[1]

      - extending support for both IRQ stacks and vmap'ed stacks for all
        remaining configurations, including v6/v7 SMP multiplatform
        kernels and uniprocessor configurations including v7-M [2]

      - fixes and updates in [3]

   - ftrace fixes and cleanups

     Make all flavors of ftrace available on all builds, regardless of
     ISA choice, unwinder choice or compiler [4]:

      - use ADD not POP where possible

      - fix a couple of Thumb2 related issues

      - enable HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST for robustness

      - enable the graph tracer with the EABI unwinder

      - avoid clobbering frame pointer registers to make Clang happy

   - Fixes for the above"

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20211115084732.3704393-1-ardb@kernel.org/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20211122092816.2865873-1-ardb@kernel.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20211206164659.1495084-1-ardb@kernel.org/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220124174744.1054712-1-ardb@kernel.org/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220203082204.1176734-1-ardb@kernel.org/

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (62 commits)
  ARM: fix building NOMMU ARMv4/v5 kernels
  ARM: unwind: only permit stack switch when unwinding call_with_stack()
  ARM: Revert "unwind: dump exception stack from calling frame"
  ARM: entry: fix unwinder problems caused by IRQ stacks
  ARM: unwind: set frame.pc correctly for current-thread unwinding
  ARM: 9184/1: return_address: disable again for CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND=y
  ARM: 9183/1: unwind: avoid spurious warnings on bogus code addresses
  Revert "ARM: 9144/1: forbid ftrace with clang and thumb2_kernel"
  ARM: mach-bcm: disable ftrace in SMC invocation routines
  ARM: cacheflush: avoid clobbering the frame pointer
  ARM: kprobes: treat R7 as the frame pointer register in Thumb2 builds
  ARM: ftrace: enable the graph tracer with the EABI unwinder
  ARM: unwind: track location of LR value in stack frame
  ARM: ftrace: enable HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
  ARM: ftrace: avoid unnecessary literal loads
  ARM: ftrace: avoid redundant loads or clobbering IP
  ARM: ftrace: use trampolines to keep .init.text in branching range
  ARM: ftrace: use ADD not POP to counter PUSH at entry
  ARM: ftrace: ensure that ADR takes the Thumb bit into account
  ARM: make get_current() and __my_cpu_offset() __always_inline
  ...
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "Updates for IRQ stacks and virtually mapped stack support, and ftrace:

   - Support for IRQ and vmap'ed stacks

     This covers all the work related to implementing IRQ stacks and
     vmap'ed stacks for all 32-bit ARM systems that are currently
     supported by the Linux kernel, including RiscPC and Footbridge. It
     has been submitted for review in four different waves:

      - IRQ stacks support for v7 SMP systems [0]

      - vmap'ed stacks support for v7 SMP systems[1]

      - extending support for both IRQ stacks and vmap'ed stacks for all
        remaining configurations, including v6/v7 SMP multiplatform
        kernels and uniprocessor configurations including v7-M [2]

      - fixes and updates in [3]

   - ftrace fixes and cleanups

     Make all flavors of ftrace available on all builds, regardless of
     ISA choice, unwinder choice or compiler [4]:

      - use ADD not POP where possible

      - fix a couple of Thumb2 related issues

      - enable HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST for robustness

      - enable the graph tracer with the EABI unwinder

      - avoid clobbering frame pointer registers to make Clang happy

   - Fixes for the above"

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20211115084732.3704393-1-ardb@kernel.org/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20211122092816.2865873-1-ardb@kernel.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20211206164659.1495084-1-ardb@kernel.org/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220124174744.1054712-1-ardb@kernel.org/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220203082204.1176734-1-ardb@kernel.org/

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (62 commits)
  ARM: fix building NOMMU ARMv4/v5 kernels
  ARM: unwind: only permit stack switch when unwinding call_with_stack()
  ARM: Revert "unwind: dump exception stack from calling frame"
  ARM: entry: fix unwinder problems caused by IRQ stacks
  ARM: unwind: set frame.pc correctly for current-thread unwinding
  ARM: 9184/1: return_address: disable again for CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND=y
  ARM: 9183/1: unwind: avoid spurious warnings on bogus code addresses
  Revert "ARM: 9144/1: forbid ftrace with clang and thumb2_kernel"
  ARM: mach-bcm: disable ftrace in SMC invocation routines
  ARM: cacheflush: avoid clobbering the frame pointer
  ARM: kprobes: treat R7 as the frame pointer register in Thumb2 builds
  ARM: ftrace: enable the graph tracer with the EABI unwinder
  ARM: unwind: track location of LR value in stack frame
  ARM: ftrace: enable HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST
  ARM: ftrace: avoid unnecessary literal loads
  ARM: ftrace: avoid redundant loads or clobbering IP
  ARM: ftrace: use trampolines to keep .init.text in branching range
  ARM: ftrace: use ADD not POP to counter PUSH at entry
  ARM: ftrace: ensure that ADR takes the Thumb bit into account
  ARM: make get_current() and __my_cpu_offset() __always_inline
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2022-01-19T09:15:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-19T09:15:19+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Add new kconfig target 'make mod2noconfig', which will be useful to
   speed up the build and test iteration.

 - Raise the minimum supported version of LLVM to 11.0.0

 - Refactor certs/Makefile

 - Change the format of include/config/auto.conf to stop double-quoting
   string type CONFIG options.

 - Fix ARCH=sh builds in dash

 - Separate compression macros for general purposes (cmd_bzip2 etc.) and
   the ones for decompressors (cmd_bzip2_with_size etc.)

 - Misc Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
  kbuild: add cmd_file_size
  arch: decompressor: remove useless vmlinux.bin.all-y
  kbuild: rename cmd_{bzip2,lzma,lzo,lz4,xzkern,zstd22}
  kbuild: drop $(size_append) from cmd_zstd
  sh: rename suffix-y to suffix_y
  doc: kbuild: fix default in `imply` table
  microblaze: use built-in function to get CPU_{MAJOR,MINOR,REV}
  certs: move scripts/extract-cert to certs/
  kbuild: do not quote string values in include/config/auto.conf
  kbuild: do not include include/config/auto.conf from shell scripts
  certs: simplify $(srctree)/ handling and remove config_filename macro
  kbuild: stop using config_filename in scripts/Makefile.modsign
  certs: remove misleading comments about GCC PR
  certs: refactor file cleaning
  certs: remove unneeded -I$(srctree) option for system_certificates.o
  certs: unify duplicated cmd_extract_certs and improve the log
  certs: use $&lt; and $@ to simplify the key generation rule
  kbuild: remove headers_check stub
  kbuild: move headers_check.pl to usr/include/
  certs: use if_changed to re-generate the key when the key type is changed
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Add new kconfig target 'make mod2noconfig', which will be useful to
   speed up the build and test iteration.

 - Raise the minimum supported version of LLVM to 11.0.0

 - Refactor certs/Makefile

 - Change the format of include/config/auto.conf to stop double-quoting
   string type CONFIG options.

 - Fix ARCH=sh builds in dash

 - Separate compression macros for general purposes (cmd_bzip2 etc.) and
   the ones for decompressors (cmd_bzip2_with_size etc.)

 - Misc Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
  kbuild: add cmd_file_size
  arch: decompressor: remove useless vmlinux.bin.all-y
  kbuild: rename cmd_{bzip2,lzma,lzo,lz4,xzkern,zstd22}
  kbuild: drop $(size_append) from cmd_zstd
  sh: rename suffix-y to suffix_y
  doc: kbuild: fix default in `imply` table
  microblaze: use built-in function to get CPU_{MAJOR,MINOR,REV}
  certs: move scripts/extract-cert to certs/
  kbuild: do not quote string values in include/config/auto.conf
  kbuild: do not include include/config/auto.conf from shell scripts
  certs: simplify $(srctree)/ handling and remove config_filename macro
  kbuild: stop using config_filename in scripts/Makefile.modsign
  certs: remove misleading comments about GCC PR
  certs: refactor file cleaning
  certs: remove unneeded -I$(srctree) option for system_certificates.o
  certs: unify duplicated cmd_extract_certs and improve the log
  certs: use $&lt; and $@ to simplify the key generation rule
  kbuild: remove headers_check stub
  kbuild: move headers_check.pl to usr/include/
  certs: use if_changed to re-generate the key when the key type is changed
  ...
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: rename cmd_{bzip2,lzma,lzo,lz4,xzkern,zstd22}</title>
<updated>2022-01-13T17:54:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-09T18:15:27+00:00</published>
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GZIP-compressed files end with 4 byte data that represents the size
of the original input. The decompressors (the self-extracting kernel)
exploit it to know the vmlinux size beforehand. To mimic the GZIP's
trailer, Kbuild provides cmd_{bzip2,lzma,lzo,lz4,xzkern,zstd22}.
Unfortunately these macros are used everywhere despite the appended
size data is only useful for the decompressors.

There is no guarantee that such hand-crafted trailers are safely ignored.
In fact, the kernel refuses compressed initramdfs with the garbage data.
That is why usr/Makefile overrides size_append to make it no-op.

To limit the use of such broken compressed files, this commit renames
the existing macros as follows:

  cmd_bzip2   --&gt; cmd_bzip2_with_size
  cmd_lzma    --&gt; cmd_lzma_with_size
  cmd_lzo     --&gt; cmd_lzo_with_size
  cmd_lz4     --&gt; cmd_lz4_with_size
  cmd_xzkern  --&gt; cmd_xzkern_with_size
  cmd_zstd22  --&gt; cmd_zstd22_with_size

To keep the decompressors working, I updated the following Makefiles
accordingly:

  arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/h8300/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/parisc/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/s390/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/sh/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile

I reused the current macro names for the normal usecases; they produce
the compressed data in the proper format.

I did not touch the following:

  arch/arc/boot/Makefile
  arch/arm64/boot/Makefile
  arch/csky/boot/Makefile
  arch/mips/boot/Makefile
  arch/riscv/boot/Makefile
  arch/sh/boot/Makefile
  kernel/Makefile

This means those Makefiles will stop appending the size data.

I dropped the 'override size_append' hack from usr/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
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GZIP-compressed files end with 4 byte data that represents the size
of the original input. The decompressors (the self-extracting kernel)
exploit it to know the vmlinux size beforehand. To mimic the GZIP's
trailer, Kbuild provides cmd_{bzip2,lzma,lzo,lz4,xzkern,zstd22}.
Unfortunately these macros are used everywhere despite the appended
size data is only useful for the decompressors.

There is no guarantee that such hand-crafted trailers are safely ignored.
In fact, the kernel refuses compressed initramdfs with the garbage data.
That is why usr/Makefile overrides size_append to make it no-op.

To limit the use of such broken compressed files, this commit renames
the existing macros as follows:

  cmd_bzip2   --&gt; cmd_bzip2_with_size
  cmd_lzma    --&gt; cmd_lzma_with_size
  cmd_lzo     --&gt; cmd_lzo_with_size
  cmd_lz4     --&gt; cmd_lz4_with_size
  cmd_xzkern  --&gt; cmd_xzkern_with_size
  cmd_zstd22  --&gt; cmd_zstd22_with_size

To keep the decompressors working, I updated the following Makefiles
accordingly:

  arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/h8300/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/parisc/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/s390/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/sh/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile

I reused the current macro names for the normal usecases; they produce
the compressed data in the proper format.

I did not touch the following:

  arch/arc/boot/Makefile
  arch/arm64/boot/Makefile
  arch/csky/boot/Makefile
  arch/mips/boot/Makefile
  arch/riscv/boot/Makefile
  arch/sh/boot/Makefile
  kernel/Makefile

This means those Makefiles will stop appending the size data.

I dropped the 'override size_append' hack from usr/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9159/1: decompressor: Avoid UNPREDICTABLE NOP encoding</title>
<updated>2021-12-17T11:34:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andre Przywara</name>
<email>andre.przywara@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-22T15:28:43+00:00</published>
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In the decompressor's head.S we need to start with an instruction that
is some kind of NOP, but also mimics as the PE/COFF header, when the
kernel is linked as an UEFI application. The clever solution here is
"tstne r0, #0x4d000", which in the worst case just clobbers the
condition flags, and bears the magic "MZ" signature in the lowest 16 bits.

However the encoding used (0x13105a4d) is actually not valid, since bits
[15:12] are supposed to be 0 (written as "(0)" in the ARM ARM).
Violating this is UNPREDICTABLE, and *can* trigger an UNDEFINED
exception. Common Cortex cores seem to ignore those bits, but QEMU
chooses to trap, so the code goes fishing because of a missing exception
handler at this point. We are just saved by the fact that commonly (with
-kernel or when running from U-Boot) the "Z" bit is set, so the
instruction is never executed. See [0] for more details.

To make things more robust and avoid UNPREDICTABLE behaviour in the
kernel code, lets replace this with a "two-instruction NOP":
The first instruction is an exclusive OR, the effect of which the second
instruction reverts. This does not leave any trace, neither in a
register nor in the condition flags. Also it's a perfectly valid
encoding. Kudos to Peter Maydell for coming up with this gem.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/YTPIdbUCmwagL5%2FD@os.inf.tu-dresden.de/T/

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20210908162617.104962-1-andre.przywara@arm.com/T/

Fixes: 81a0bc39ea19 ("ARM: add UEFI stub support")
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Adam Lackorzynski &lt;adam@l4re.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Peter Maydell &lt;peter.maydell@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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In the decompressor's head.S we need to start with an instruction that
is some kind of NOP, but also mimics as the PE/COFF header, when the
kernel is linked as an UEFI application. The clever solution here is
"tstne r0, #0x4d000", which in the worst case just clobbers the
condition flags, and bears the magic "MZ" signature in the lowest 16 bits.

However the encoding used (0x13105a4d) is actually not valid, since bits
[15:12] are supposed to be 0 (written as "(0)" in the ARM ARM).
Violating this is UNPREDICTABLE, and *can* trigger an UNDEFINED
exception. Common Cortex cores seem to ignore those bits, but QEMU
chooses to trap, so the code goes fishing because of a missing exception
handler at this point. We are just saved by the fact that commonly (with
-kernel or when running from U-Boot) the "Z" bit is set, so the
instruction is never executed. See [0] for more details.

To make things more robust and avoid UNPREDICTABLE behaviour in the
kernel code, lets replace this with a "two-instruction NOP":
The first instruction is an exclusive OR, the effect of which the second
instruction reverts. This does not leave any trace, neither in a
register nor in the condition flags. Also it's a perfectly valid
encoding. Kudos to Peter Maydell for coming up with this gem.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/YTPIdbUCmwagL5%2FD@os.inf.tu-dresden.de/T/

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20210908162617.104962-1-andre.przywara@arm.com/T/

Fixes: 81a0bc39ea19 ("ARM: add UEFI stub support")
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Adam Lackorzynski &lt;adam@l4re.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Peter Maydell &lt;peter.maydell@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: 9154/1: decompressor: do not copy source files while building</title>
<updated>2021-12-17T11:34:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-30T17:52:58+00:00</published>
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As commit 7ae4a78daacf ("ARM: 8969/1: decompressor: simplify libfdt
builds") stated, copying source files during the build time may not
end up with as clean code as expected.

Do similar for the other library files for further cleanups of the
Makefile and .gitignore.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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As commit 7ae4a78daacf ("ARM: 8969/1: decompressor: simplify libfdt
builds") stated, copying source files during the build time may not
end up with as clean code as expected.

Do similar for the other library files for further cleanups of the
Makefile and .gitignore.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: decompressor: disable stack protector</title>
<updated>2021-12-03T14:11:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T08:23:31+00:00</published>
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Enabling the stack protector in the decompressor is of dubious value,
given that it uses a fixed value for the canary, cannot print any output
unless CONFIG_DEBUG_LL is enabled (which relies on board specific build
time settings), and is already disabled for a good chunk of the code
(libfdt).

So let's just disable it in the decompressor. This will make it easier
in the future to manage the command line options that would need to be
removed again in this context for the TLS register based stack
protector.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Enabling the stack protector in the decompressor is of dubious value,
given that it uses a fixed value for the canary, cannot print any output
unless CONFIG_DEBUG_LL is enabled (which relies on board specific build
time settings), and is already disabled for a good chunk of the code
(libfdt).

So let's just disable it in the decompressor. This will make it easier
in the future to manage the command line options that would need to be
removed again in this context for the TLS register based stack
protector.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T18:33:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-02T18:33:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ab2e7f4b46bf8fccf088ec496b3bb26b43e91340'/>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - Rejig task/thread info to place thread info in task struct

 - Amba bus cleanups (removing unused functions)

 - Handle Amba device probe without IRQ domains

 - Parse linux,usable-memory-range in decompressor

 - Mark OCRAM as read-only after initialisation

 - Refactor page fault handling

 - Fix PXN handling with LPAE kernels

 - Warning and build fixes from Arnd

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (32 commits)
  ARM: 9151/1: Thumb2: avoid __builtin_thread_pointer() on Clang
  ARM: 9150/1: Fix PID_IN_CONTEXTIDR regression when THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK=y
  ARM: 9147/1: add printf format attribute to early_print()
  ARM: 9146/1: RiscPC needs older gcc version
  ARM: 9145/1: patch: fix BE32 compilation
  ARM: 9144/1: forbid ftrace with clang and thumb2_kernel
  ARM: 9143/1: add CONFIG_PHYS_OFFSET default values
  ARM: 9142/1: kasan: work around LPAE build warning
  ARM: 9140/1: allow compile-testing without machine record
  ARM: 9137/1: disallow CONFIG_THUMB with ARMv4
  ARM: 9136/1: ARMv7-M uses BE-8, not BE-32
  ARM: 9135/1: kprobes: address gcc -Wempty-body warning
  ARM: 9101/1: sa1100/assabet: convert LEDs to gpiod APIs
  ARM: 9131/1: mm: Fix PXN process with LPAE feature
  ARM: 9130/1: mm: Provide die_kernel_fault() helper
  ARM: 9126/1: mm: Kill page table base print in show_pte()
  ARM: 9127/1: mm: Cleanup access_error()
  ARM: 9129/1: mm: Kill task_struct argument for __do_page_fault()
  ARM: 9128/1: mm: Refactor the __do_page_fault()
  ARM: imx6: mark OCRAM mapping read-only
  ...
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - Rejig task/thread info to place thread info in task struct

 - Amba bus cleanups (removing unused functions)

 - Handle Amba device probe without IRQ domains

 - Parse linux,usable-memory-range in decompressor

 - Mark OCRAM as read-only after initialisation

 - Refactor page fault handling

 - Fix PXN handling with LPAE kernels

 - Warning and build fixes from Arnd

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (32 commits)
  ARM: 9151/1: Thumb2: avoid __builtin_thread_pointer() on Clang
  ARM: 9150/1: Fix PID_IN_CONTEXTIDR regression when THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK=y
  ARM: 9147/1: add printf format attribute to early_print()
  ARM: 9146/1: RiscPC needs older gcc version
  ARM: 9145/1: patch: fix BE32 compilation
  ARM: 9144/1: forbid ftrace with clang and thumb2_kernel
  ARM: 9143/1: add CONFIG_PHYS_OFFSET default values
  ARM: 9142/1: kasan: work around LPAE build warning
  ARM: 9140/1: allow compile-testing without machine record
  ARM: 9137/1: disallow CONFIG_THUMB with ARMv4
  ARM: 9136/1: ARMv7-M uses BE-8, not BE-32
  ARM: 9135/1: kprobes: address gcc -Wempty-body warning
  ARM: 9101/1: sa1100/assabet: convert LEDs to gpiod APIs
  ARM: 9131/1: mm: Fix PXN process with LPAE feature
  ARM: 9130/1: mm: Provide die_kernel_fault() helper
  ARM: 9126/1: mm: Kill page table base print in show_pte()
  ARM: 9127/1: mm: Cleanup access_error()
  ARM: 9129/1: mm: Kill task_struct argument for __do_page_fault()
  ARM: 9128/1: mm: Refactor the __do_page_fault()
  ARM: imx6: mark OCRAM mapping read-only
  ...
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