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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>arm: print alloc free paths for address in registers</title>
<updated>2021-05-07T07:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maninder Singh</name>
<email>maninder1.s@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-07T01:06:09+00:00</published>
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In case of a use after free kernel oops, the freeing path of the object
is required to debug futher.  In most of cases the object address is
present in one of the registers.

Thus check the register's address and if it belongs to slab, print its
alloc and free path.

e.g. in the below issue register r6 belongs to slab, and a use after
free issue occurred on one of its dereferenced values:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6f
  ....
  pc : [&lt;c0538afc&gt;]    lr : [&lt;c0465674&gt;]    psr: 60000013
  sp : c8927d40  ip : ffffefff  fp : c8aa8020
  r10: c8927e10  r9 : 00000001  r8 : 00400cc0
  r7 : 00000000  r6 : c8ab0180  r5 : c1804a80  r4 : c8aa8008
  r3 : c1a5661c  r2 : 00000000  r1 : 6b6b6b6b  r0 : c139bf48
  .....
  Register r6 information: slab kmalloc-64 start c8ab0140 data offset 64 pointer offset 0 size 64 allocated at meminfo_proc_show+0x40/0x4fc
      meminfo_proc_show+0x40/0x4fc
      seq_read_iter+0x18c/0x4c4
      proc_reg_read_iter+0x84/0xac
      generic_file_splice_read+0xe8/0x17c
      splice_direct_to_actor+0xb8/0x290
      do_splice_direct+0xa0/0xe0
      do_sendfile+0x2d0/0x438
      sys_sendfile64+0x12c/0x140
      ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x58
      0xbeeacde4
   Free path:
      meminfo_proc_show+0x5c/0x4fc
      seq_read_iter+0x18c/0x4c4
      proc_reg_read_iter+0x84/0xac
      generic_file_splice_read+0xe8/0x17c
      splice_direct_to_actor+0xb8/0x290
      do_splice_direct+0xa0/0xe0
      do_sendfile+0x2d0/0x438
      sys_sendfile64+0x12c/0x140
      ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x58
      0xbeeacde4

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1615891032-29160-3-git-send-email-maninder1.s@samsung.com
Co-developed-by: Vaneet Narang &lt;v.narang@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang &lt;v.narang@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh &lt;maninder1.s@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;0x7f454c46@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In case of a use after free kernel oops, the freeing path of the object
is required to debug futher.  In most of cases the object address is
present in one of the registers.

Thus check the register's address and if it belongs to slab, print its
alloc and free path.

e.g. in the below issue register r6 belongs to slab, and a use after
free issue occurred on one of its dereferenced values:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6f
  ....
  pc : [&lt;c0538afc&gt;]    lr : [&lt;c0465674&gt;]    psr: 60000013
  sp : c8927d40  ip : ffffefff  fp : c8aa8020
  r10: c8927e10  r9 : 00000001  r8 : 00400cc0
  r7 : 00000000  r6 : c8ab0180  r5 : c1804a80  r4 : c8aa8008
  r3 : c1a5661c  r2 : 00000000  r1 : 6b6b6b6b  r0 : c139bf48
  .....
  Register r6 information: slab kmalloc-64 start c8ab0140 data offset 64 pointer offset 0 size 64 allocated at meminfo_proc_show+0x40/0x4fc
      meminfo_proc_show+0x40/0x4fc
      seq_read_iter+0x18c/0x4c4
      proc_reg_read_iter+0x84/0xac
      generic_file_splice_read+0xe8/0x17c
      splice_direct_to_actor+0xb8/0x290
      do_splice_direct+0xa0/0xe0
      do_sendfile+0x2d0/0x438
      sys_sendfile64+0x12c/0x140
      ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x58
      0xbeeacde4
   Free path:
      meminfo_proc_show+0x5c/0x4fc
      seq_read_iter+0x18c/0x4c4
      proc_reg_read_iter+0x84/0xac
      generic_file_splice_read+0xe8/0x17c
      splice_direct_to_actor+0xb8/0x290
      do_splice_direct+0xa0/0xe0
      do_sendfile+0x2d0/0x438
      sys_sendfile64+0x12c/0x140
      ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x58
      0xbeeacde4

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1615891032-29160-3-git-send-email-maninder1.s@samsung.com
Co-developed-by: Vaneet Narang &lt;v.narang@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang &lt;v.narang@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh &lt;maninder1.s@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;0x7f454c46@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>maccess: make get_kernel_nofault() check for minimal type compatibility</title>
<updated>2020-06-18T19:10:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-18T19:10:37+00:00</published>
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Now that we've renamed probe_kernel_address() to get_kernel_nofault()
and made it look and behave more in line with get_user(), some of the
subtle type behavior differences end up being more obvious and possibly
dangerous.

When you do

        get_user(val, user_ptr);

the type of the access comes from the "user_ptr" part, and the above
basically acts as

        val = *user_ptr;

by design (except, of course, for the fact that the actual dereference
is done with a user access).

Note how in the above case, the type of the end result comes from the
pointer argument, and then the value is cast to the type of 'val' as
part of the assignment.

So the type of the pointer is ultimately the more important type both
for the access itself.

But 'get_kernel_nofault()' may now _look_ similar, but it behaves very
differently.  When you do

        get_kernel_nofault(val, kernel_ptr);

it behaves like

        val = *(typeof(val) *)kernel_ptr;

except, of course, for the fact that the actual dereference is done with
exception handling so that a faulting access is suppressed and returned
as the error code.

But note how different the casting behavior of the two superficially
similar accesses are: one does the actual access in the size of the type
the pointer points to, while the other does the access in the size of
the target, and ignores the pointer type entirely.

Actually changing get_kernel_nofault() to act like get_user() is almost
certainly the right thing to do eventually, but in the meantime this
patch adds logit to at least verify that the pointer type is compatible
with the type of the result.

In many cases, this involves just casting the pointer to 'void *' to
make it obvious that the type of the pointer is not the important part.
It's not how 'get_user()' acts, but at least the behavioral difference
is now obvious and explicit.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Now that we've renamed probe_kernel_address() to get_kernel_nofault()
and made it look and behave more in line with get_user(), some of the
subtle type behavior differences end up being more obvious and possibly
dangerous.

When you do

        get_user(val, user_ptr);

the type of the access comes from the "user_ptr" part, and the above
basically acts as

        val = *user_ptr;

by design (except, of course, for the fact that the actual dereference
is done with a user access).

Note how in the above case, the type of the end result comes from the
pointer argument, and then the value is cast to the type of 'val' as
part of the assignment.

So the type of the pointer is ultimately the more important type both
for the access itself.

But 'get_kernel_nofault()' may now _look_ similar, but it behaves very
differently.  When you do

        get_kernel_nofault(val, kernel_ptr);

it behaves like

        val = *(typeof(val) *)kernel_ptr;

except, of course, for the fact that the actual dereference is done with
exception handling so that a faulting access is suppressed and returned
as the error code.

But note how different the casting behavior of the two superficially
similar accesses are: one does the actual access in the size of the type
the pointer points to, while the other does the access in the size of
the target, and ignores the pointer type entirely.

Actually changing get_kernel_nofault() to act like get_user() is almost
certainly the right thing to do eventually, but in the meantime this
patch adds logit to at least verify that the pointer type is compatible
with the type of the result.

In many cases, this involves just casting the pointer to 'void *' to
make it obvious that the type of the pointer is not the important part.
It's not how 'get_user()' acts, but at least the behavioral difference
is now obvious and explicit.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>maccess: rename probe_kernel_address to get_kernel_nofault</title>
<updated>2020-06-18T18:14:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-17T07:37:55+00:00</published>
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Better describe what this helper does, and match the naming of
copy_from_kernel_nofault.

Also switch the argument order around, so that it acts and looks
like get_user().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Better describe what this helper does, and match the naming of
copy_from_kernel_nofault.

Also switch the argument order around, so that it acts and looks
like get_user().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: rename show_stack_loglvl() =&gt; show_stack()</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:39:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dima@arista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T04:32:29+00:00</published>
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Now the last users of show_stack() got converted to use an explicit log
level, show_stack_loglvl() can drop it's redundant suffix and become once
again well known show_stack().

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-51-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Now the last users of show_stack() got converted to use an explicit log
level, show_stack_loglvl() can drop it's redundant suffix and become once
again well known show_stack().

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-51-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm: add show_stack_loglvl()</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:39:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dima@arista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T04:30:19+00:00</published>
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Currently, the log-level of show_stack() depends on a platform
realization.  It creates situations where the headers are printed with
lower log level or higher than the stacktrace (depending on a platform or
user).

Furthermore, it forces the logic decision from user to an architecture
side.  In result, some users as sysrq/kdb/etc are doing tricks with
temporary rising console_loglevel while printing their messages.  And in
result it not only may print unwanted messages from other CPUs, but also
omit printing at all in the unlucky case where the printk() was deferred.

Introducing log-level parameter and KERN_UNSUPPRESSED [1] seems an easier
approach than introducing more printk buffers.  Also, it will consolidate
printings with headers.

Introduce show_stack_loglvl(), that eventually will substitute
show_stack().

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190528002412.1625-1-dima@arista.com/T/#u

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-9-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Currently, the log-level of show_stack() depends on a platform
realization.  It creates situations where the headers are printed with
lower log level or higher than the stacktrace (depending on a platform or
user).

Furthermore, it forces the logic decision from user to an architecture
side.  In result, some users as sysrq/kdb/etc are doing tricks with
temporary rising console_loglevel while printing their messages.  And in
result it not only may print unwanted messages from other CPUs, but also
omit printing at all in the unlucky case where the printk() was deferred.

Introducing log-level parameter and KERN_UNSUPPRESSED [1] seems an easier
approach than introducing more printk buffers.  Also, it will consolidate
printings with headers.

Introduce show_stack_loglvl(), that eventually will substitute
show_stack().

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190528002412.1625-1-dima@arista.com/T/#u

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-9-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm: wire up dump_backtrace_{entry,stm}</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:39:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dima@arista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T04:30:16+00:00</published>
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Currently, the log-level of show_stack() depends on a platform
realization.  It creates situations where the headers are printed with
lower log level or higher than the stacktrace (depending on a platform or
user).

Furthermore, it forces the logic decision from user to an architecture
side.  In result, some users as sysrq/kdb/etc are doing tricks with
temporary rising console_loglevel while printing their messages.  And in
result it not only may print unwanted messages from other CPUs, but also
omit printing at all in the unlucky case where the printk() was deferred.

Introducing log-level parameter and KERN_UNSUPPRESSED [1] seems an easier
approach than introducing more printk buffers.  Also, it will consolidate
printings with headers.

Now that c_backtrace() always emits correct loglvl, use it for printing.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190528002412.1625-1-dima@arista.com/T/#u

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-8-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Currently, the log-level of show_stack() depends on a platform
realization.  It creates situations where the headers are printed with
lower log level or higher than the stacktrace (depending on a platform or
user).

Furthermore, it forces the logic decision from user to an architecture
side.  In result, some users as sysrq/kdb/etc are doing tricks with
temporary rising console_loglevel while printing their messages.  And in
result it not only may print unwanted messages from other CPUs, but also
omit printing at all in the unlucky case where the printk() was deferred.

Introducing log-level parameter and KERN_UNSUPPRESSED [1] seems an easier
approach than introducing more printk buffers.  Also, it will consolidate
printings with headers.

Now that c_backtrace() always emits correct loglvl, use it for printing.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190528002412.1625-1-dima@arista.com/T/#u

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-8-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm: add loglvl to dump_backtrace()</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:39:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dima@arista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T04:30:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ee65ca01c62cd89cea6192017806b55c34f1cfda'/>
<id>ee65ca01c62cd89cea6192017806b55c34f1cfda</id>
<content type='text'>
Currently, the log-level of show_stack() depends on a platform
realization.  It creates situations where the headers are printed with
lower log level or higher than the stacktrace (depending on a platform or
user).

Furthermore, it forces the logic decision from user to an architecture
side.  In result, some users as sysrq/kdb/etc are doing tricks with
temporary rising console_loglevel while printing their messages.  And in
result it not only may print unwanted messages from other CPUs, but also
omit printing at all in the unlucky case where the printk() was deferred.

Introducing log-level parameter and KERN_UNSUPPRESSED [1] seems an easier
approach than introducing more printk buffers.  Also, it will consolidate
printings with headers.

Add log level argument to dump_backtrace() as a preparation for
introducing show_stack_loglvl().

As a good side-effect __die() now prints not only "Stack:" header with
KERN_EMERG, but the backtrace itself.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190528002412.1625-1-dima@arista.com/T/#u

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-7-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Currently, the log-level of show_stack() depends on a platform
realization.  It creates situations where the headers are printed with
lower log level or higher than the stacktrace (depending on a platform or
user).

Furthermore, it forces the logic decision from user to an architecture
side.  In result, some users as sysrq/kdb/etc are doing tricks with
temporary rising console_loglevel while printing their messages.  And in
result it not only may print unwanted messages from other CPUs, but also
omit printing at all in the unlucky case where the printk() was deferred.

Introducing log-level parameter and KERN_UNSUPPRESSED [1] seems an easier
approach than introducing more printk buffers.  Also, it will consolidate
printings with headers.

Add log level argument to dump_backtrace() as a preparation for
introducing show_stack_loglvl().

As a good side-effect __die() now prints not only "Stack:" header with
KERN_EMERG, but the backtrace itself.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190528002412.1625-1-dima@arista.com/T/#u

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-7-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm: add loglvl to unwind_backtrace()</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:39:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dima@arista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T04:30:10+00:00</published>
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Currently, the log-level of show_stack() depends on a platform
realization.  It creates situations where the headers are printed with
lower log level or higher than the stacktrace (depending on a platform or
user).

Furthermore, it forces the logic decision from user to an architecture
side.  In result, some users as sysrq/kdb/etc are doing tricks with
temporary rising console_loglevel while printing their messages.  And in
result it not only may print unwanted messages from other CPUs, but also
omit printing at all in the unlucky case where the printk() was deferred.

Introducing log-level parameter and KERN_UNSUPPRESSED [1] seems an easier
approach than introducing more printk buffers.  Also, it will consolidate
printings with headers.

Add log level argument to unwind_backtrace() as a preparation for
introducing show_stack_loglvl().

As a good side-effect arm_syscall() is now printing errors with the same
log level as the backtrace.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190528002412.1625-1-dima@arista.com/T/#u

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-6-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently, the log-level of show_stack() depends on a platform
realization.  It creates situations where the headers are printed with
lower log level or higher than the stacktrace (depending on a platform or
user).

Furthermore, it forces the logic decision from user to an architecture
side.  In result, some users as sysrq/kdb/etc are doing tricks with
temporary rising console_loglevel while printing their messages.  And in
result it not only may print unwanted messages from other CPUs, but also
omit printing at all in the unlucky case where the printk() was deferred.

Introducing log-level parameter and KERN_UNSUPPRESSED [1] seems an easier
approach than introducing more printk buffers.  Also, it will consolidate
printings with headers.

Add log level argument to unwind_backtrace() as a preparation for
introducing show_stack_loglvl().

As a good side-effect arm_syscall() is now printing errors with the same
log level as the backtrace.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190528002412.1625-1-dima@arista.com/T/#u

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-6-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm/asm: add loglvl to c_backtrace()</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:39:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dima@arista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T04:30:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5489ab50c22771ddcad014968141b0d104d650a3'/>
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Currently, the log-level of show_stack() depends on a platform
realization.  It creates situations where the headers are printed with
lower log level or higher than the stacktrace (depending on a platform or
user).

Furthermore, it forces the logic decision from user to an architecture
side.  In result, some users as sysrq/kdb/etc are doing tricks with
temporary rising console_loglevel while printing their messages.  And in
result it not only may print unwanted messages from other CPUs, but also
omit printing at all in the unlucky case where the printk() was deferred.

Introducing log-level parameter and KERN_UNSUPPRESSED [1] seems an easier
approach than introducing more printk buffers.  Also, it will consolidate
printings with headers.

Add log level argument to c_backtrace() as a preparation for introducing
show_stack_loglvl().

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190528002412.1625-1-dima@arista.com/T/#u

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-5-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Currently, the log-level of show_stack() depends on a platform
realization.  It creates situations where the headers are printed with
lower log level or higher than the stacktrace (depending on a platform or
user).

Furthermore, it forces the logic decision from user to an architecture
side.  In result, some users as sysrq/kdb/etc are doing tricks with
temporary rising console_loglevel while printing their messages.  And in
result it not only may print unwanted messages from other CPUs, but also
omit printing at all in the unlucky case where the printk() was deferred.

Introducing log-level parameter and KERN_UNSUPPRESSED [1] seems an easier
approach than introducing more printk buffers.  Also, it will consolidate
printings with headers.

Add log level argument to c_backtrace() as a preparation for introducing
show_stack_loglvl().

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190528002412.1625-1-dima@arista.com/T/#u

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-5-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm: rename flush_cache_user_range to flush_icache_user_range</title>
<updated>2020-06-08T18:05:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-08T04:42:34+00:00</published>
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flush_icache_user_range will be the name for a generic primitive.  Move
the arm name so that arm already has an implementation.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515143646.3857579-24-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
flush_icache_user_range will be the name for a generic primitive.  Move
the arm name so that arm already has an implementation.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515143646.3857579-24-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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