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<title>arm/arm64: KVM: Add PSCI version selection API</title>
<updated>2018-04-20T15:32:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-21T16:42:56+00:00</published>
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Although we've implemented PSCI 0.1, 0.2 and 1.0, we expose either 0.1
or 1.0 to a guest, defaulting to the latest version of the PSCI
implementation that is compatible with the requested version. This is
no different from doing a firmware upgrade on KVM.

But in order to give a chance to hypothetical badly implemented guests
that would have a fit by discovering something other than PSCI 0.2,
let's provide a new API that allows userspace to pick one particular
version of the API.

This is implemented as a new class of "firmware" registers, where
we expose the PSCI version. This allows the PSCI version to be
save/restored as part of a guest migration, and also set to
any supported version if the guest requires it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.16
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;cdall@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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Although we've implemented PSCI 0.1, 0.2 and 1.0, we expose either 0.1
or 1.0 to a guest, defaulting to the latest version of the PSCI
implementation that is compatible with the requested version. This is
no different from doing a firmware upgrade on KVM.

But in order to give a chance to hypothetical badly implemented guests
that would have a fit by discovering something other than PSCI 0.2,
let's provide a new API that allows userspace to pick one particular
version of the API.

This is implemented as a new class of "firmware" registers, where
we expose the PSCI version. This allows the PSCI version to be
save/restored as part of a guest migration, and also set to
any supported version if the guest requires it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.16
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;cdall@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: fpsimd: Fix bad si_code for undiagnosed SIGFPE</title>
<updated>2018-03-20T10:03:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-01T17:44:07+00:00</published>
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Currently a SIGFPE delivered in response to a floating-point
exception trap may have si_code set to 0 on arm64.  As reported by
Eric, this is a bad idea since this is the value of SI_USER -- yet
this signal is definitely not the result of kill(2), tgkill(2) etc.
and si_uid and si_pid make limited sense whereas we do want to
yield a value for si_addr (which doesn't exist for SI_USER).

It's not entirely clear whether the architecure permits a
"spurious" fp exception trap where none of the exception flag bits
in ESR_ELx is set.  (IMHO the architectural intent is to forbid
this.)  However, it does permit those bits to contain garbage if
the TFV bit in ESR_ELx is 0.  That case isn't currently handled at
all and may result in si_code == 0 or si_code containing a FPE_FLT*
constant corresponding to an exception that did not in fact happen.

There is nothing sensible we can return for si_code in such cases,
but SI_USER is certainly not appropriate and will lead to violation
of legitimate userspace assumptions.

This patch allocates a new si_code value FPE_UNKNOWN that at least
does not conflict with any existing SI_* or FPE_* code, and yields
this in si_code for undiagnosable cases.  This is probably the best
simplicity/incorrectness tradeoff achieveable without relying on
implementation-dependent features or adding a lot of code.  In any
case, there appears to be no perfect solution possible that would
justify a lot of effort here.

Yielding FPE_UNKNOWN when some well-defined fp exception caused the
trap is a violation of POSIX, but this is forced by the
architecture.  We have no realistic prospect of yielding the
correct code in such cases.  At present I am not aware of any ARMv8
implementation that supports trapped floating-point exceptions in
any case.

The new code may be applicable to other architectures for similar
reasons.

No attempt is made to provide ESR_ELx to userspace in the signal
frame, since architectural limitations mean that it is unlikely to
provide much diagnostic value, doesn't benefit existing software
and would create ABI with no proven purpose.  The existing
mechanism for passing it also has problems of its own which may
result in the wrong value being passed to userspace due to
interaction with mm faults.  The implied rework does not appear
justified.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Reported-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Currently a SIGFPE delivered in response to a floating-point
exception trap may have si_code set to 0 on arm64.  As reported by
Eric, this is a bad idea since this is the value of SI_USER -- yet
this signal is definitely not the result of kill(2), tgkill(2) etc.
and si_uid and si_pid make limited sense whereas we do want to
yield a value for si_addr (which doesn't exist for SI_USER).

It's not entirely clear whether the architecure permits a
"spurious" fp exception trap where none of the exception flag bits
in ESR_ELx is set.  (IMHO the architectural intent is to forbid
this.)  However, it does permit those bits to contain garbage if
the TFV bit in ESR_ELx is 0.  That case isn't currently handled at
all and may result in si_code == 0 or si_code containing a FPE_FLT*
constant corresponding to an exception that did not in fact happen.

There is nothing sensible we can return for si_code in such cases,
but SI_USER is certainly not appropriate and will lead to violation
of legitimate userspace assumptions.

This patch allocates a new si_code value FPE_UNKNOWN that at least
does not conflict with any existing SI_* or FPE_* code, and yields
this in si_code for undiagnosable cases.  This is probably the best
simplicity/incorrectness tradeoff achieveable without relying on
implementation-dependent features or adding a lot of code.  In any
case, there appears to be no perfect solution possible that would
justify a lot of effort here.

Yielding FPE_UNKNOWN when some well-defined fp exception caused the
trap is a violation of POSIX, but this is forced by the
architecture.  We have no realistic prospect of yielding the
correct code in such cases.  At present I am not aware of any ARMv8
implementation that supports trapped floating-point exceptions in
any case.

The new code may be applicable to other architectures for similar
reasons.

No attempt is made to provide ESR_ELx to userspace in the signal
frame, since architectural limitations mean that it is unlikely to
provide much diagnostic value, doesn't benefit existing software
and would create ABI with no proven purpose.  The existing
mechanism for passing it also has problems of its own which may
result in the wrong value being passed to userspace due to
interaction with mm faults.  The implied rework does not appear
justified.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Reported-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Expose Arm v8.4 features</title>
<updated>2018-03-19T18:14:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-12T10:04:14+00:00</published>
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Expose the new features introduced by Arm v8.4 extensions to
Arm v8-A profile.

These include :

 1) Data indpendent timing of instructions. (DIT, exposed as HWCAP_DIT)
 2) Unaligned atomic instructions and Single-copy atomicity of loads
    and stores. (AT, expose as HWCAP_USCAT)
 3) LDAPR and STLR instructions with immediate offsets (extension to
    LRCPC, exposed as HWCAP_ILRCPC)
 4) Flag manipulation instructions (TS, exposed as HWCAP_FLAGM).

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Expose the new features introduced by Arm v8.4 extensions to
Arm v8-A profile.

These include :

 1) Data indpendent timing of instructions. (DIT, exposed as HWCAP_DIT)
 2) Unaligned atomic instructions and Single-copy atomicity of loads
    and stores. (AT, expose as HWCAP_USCAT)
 3) LDAPR and STLR instructions with immediate offsets (extension to
    LRCPC, exposed as HWCAP_ILRCPC)
 4) Flag manipulation instructions (TS, exposed as HWCAP_FLAGM).

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: signal: Ensure si_code is valid for all fault signals</title>
<updated>2018-03-09T13:58:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-08T17:41:05+00:00</published>
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Currently, as reported by Eric, an invalid si_code value 0 is
passed in many signals delivered to userspace in response to faults
and other kernel errors.  Typically 0 is passed when the fault is
insufficiently diagnosable or when there does not appear to be any
sensible alternative value to choose.

This appears to violate POSIX, and is intuitively wrong for at
least two reasons arising from the fact that 0 == SI_USER:

 1) si_code is a union selector, and SI_USER (and si_code &lt;= 0 in
    general) implies the existence of a different set of fields
    (siginfo._kill) from that which exists for a fault signal
    (siginfo._sigfault).  However, the code raising the signal
    typically writes only the _sigfault fields, and the _kill
    fields make no sense in this case.

    Thus when userspace sees si_code == 0 (SI_USER) it may
    legitimately inspect fields in the inactive union member _kill
    and obtain garbage as a result.

    There appears to be software in the wild relying on this,
    albeit generally only for printing diagnostic messages.

 2) Software that wants to be robust against spurious signals may
    discard signals where si_code == SI_USER (or &lt;= 0), or may
    filter such signals based on the si_uid and si_pid fields of
    siginfo._sigkill.  In the case of fault signals, this means
    that important (and usually fatal) error conditions may be
    silently ignored.

In practice, many of the faults for which arm64 passes si_code == 0
are undiagnosable conditions such as exceptions with syndrome
values in ESR_ELx to which the architecture does not yet assign any
meaning, or conditions indicative of a bug or error in the kernel
or system and thus that are unrecoverable and should never occur in
normal operation.

The approach taken in this patch is to translate all such
undiagnosable or "impossible" synchronous fault conditions to
SIGKILL, since these are at least probably localisable to a single
process.  Some of these conditions should really result in a kernel
panic, but due to the lack of diagnostic information it is
difficult to be certain: this patch does not add any calls to
panic(), but this could change later if justified.

Although si_code will not reach userspace in the case of SIGKILL,
it is still desirable to pass a nonzero value so that the common
siginfo handling code can detect incorrect use of si_code == 0
without false positives.  In this case the si_code dependent
siginfo fields will not be correctly initialised, but since they
are not passed to userspace I deem this not to matter.

A few faults can reasonably occur in realistic userspace scenarios,
and _should_ raise a regular, handleable (but perhaps not
ignorable/blockable) signal: for these, this patch attempts to
choose a suitable standard si_code value for the raised signal in
each case instead of 0.

arm64 was the only arch to define a BUS_FIXME code, so after this
patch nobody defines it.  This patch therefore also removes the
relevant code from siginfo_layout().

Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Currently, as reported by Eric, an invalid si_code value 0 is
passed in many signals delivered to userspace in response to faults
and other kernel errors.  Typically 0 is passed when the fault is
insufficiently diagnosable or when there does not appear to be any
sensible alternative value to choose.

This appears to violate POSIX, and is intuitively wrong for at
least two reasons arising from the fact that 0 == SI_USER:

 1) si_code is a union selector, and SI_USER (and si_code &lt;= 0 in
    general) implies the existence of a different set of fields
    (siginfo._kill) from that which exists for a fault signal
    (siginfo._sigfault).  However, the code raising the signal
    typically writes only the _sigfault fields, and the _kill
    fields make no sense in this case.

    Thus when userspace sees si_code == 0 (SI_USER) it may
    legitimately inspect fields in the inactive union member _kill
    and obtain garbage as a result.

    There appears to be software in the wild relying on this,
    albeit generally only for printing diagnostic messages.

 2) Software that wants to be robust against spurious signals may
    discard signals where si_code == SI_USER (or &lt;= 0), or may
    filter such signals based on the si_uid and si_pid fields of
    siginfo._sigkill.  In the case of fault signals, this means
    that important (and usually fatal) error conditions may be
    silently ignored.

In practice, many of the faults for which arm64 passes si_code == 0
are undiagnosable conditions such as exceptions with syndrome
values in ESR_ELx to which the architecture does not yet assign any
meaning, or conditions indicative of a bug or error in the kernel
or system and thus that are unrecoverable and should never occur in
normal operation.

The approach taken in this patch is to translate all such
undiagnosable or "impossible" synchronous fault conditions to
SIGKILL, since these are at least probably localisable to a single
process.  Some of these conditions should really result in a kernel
panic, but due to the lack of diagnostic information it is
difficult to be certain: this patch does not add any calls to
panic(), but this could change later if justified.

Although si_code will not reach userspace in the case of SIGKILL,
it is still desirable to pass a nonzero value so that the common
siginfo handling code can detect incorrect use of si_code == 0
without false positives.  In this case the si_code dependent
siginfo fields will not be correctly initialised, but since they
are not passed to userspace I deem this not to matter.

A few faults can reasonably occur in realistic userspace scenarios,
and _should_ raise a regular, handleable (but perhaps not
ignorable/blockable) signal: for these, this patch attempts to
choose a suitable standard si_code value for the raised signal in
each case instead of 0.

arm64 was the only arch to define a BUS_FIXME code, so after this
patch nobody defines it.  This patch therefore also removes the
relevant code from siginfo_layout().

Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<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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<entry>
<title>signal/arm64: Document conflicts with SI_USER and SIGFPE,SIGTRAP,SIGBUS</title>
<updated>2018-01-12T20:21:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-04T00:07:12+00:00</published>
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Setting si_code to 0 results in a userspace seeing an si_code of 0.
This is the same si_code as SI_USER.  Posix and common sense requires
that SI_USER not be a signal specific si_code.  As such this use of 0
for the si_code is a pretty horribly broken ABI.

Further use of si_code == 0 guaranteed that copy_siginfo_to_user saw a
value of __SI_KILL and now sees a value of SIL_KILL with the result
that uid and pid fields are copied and which might copying the si_addr
field by accident but certainly not by design.  Making this a very
flakey implementation.

Utilizing FPE_FIXME, BUS_FIXME, TRAP_FIXME siginfo_layout will now return
SIL_FAULT and the appropriate fields will be reliably copied.

But folks this is a new and unique kind of bad.  This is massively
untested code bad.  This is inventing new and unique was to get
siginfo wrong bad.  This is don't even think about Posix or what
siginfo means bad.  This is lots of eyeballs all missing the fact
that the code does the wrong thing bad.  This is getting stuck
and keep making the same mistake bad.

I really hope we can find a non userspace breaking fix for this on a
port as new as arm64.

Possible ABI fixes include:
- Send the signal without siginfo
- Don't generate a signal
- Possibly assign and use an appropriate si_code
- Don't handle cases which can't happen

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tyler Baicar &lt;tbaicar@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar &lt;santosh.shilimkar@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Ref: 53631b54c870 ("arm64: Floating point and SIMD")
Ref: 32015c235603 ("arm64: exception: handle Synchronous External Abort")
Ref: 1d18c47c735e ("arm64: MMU fault handling and page table management")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Setting si_code to 0 results in a userspace seeing an si_code of 0.
This is the same si_code as SI_USER.  Posix and common sense requires
that SI_USER not be a signal specific si_code.  As such this use of 0
for the si_code is a pretty horribly broken ABI.

Further use of si_code == 0 guaranteed that copy_siginfo_to_user saw a
value of __SI_KILL and now sees a value of SIL_KILL with the result
that uid and pid fields are copied and which might copying the si_addr
field by accident but certainly not by design.  Making this a very
flakey implementation.

Utilizing FPE_FIXME, BUS_FIXME, TRAP_FIXME siginfo_layout will now return
SIL_FAULT and the appropriate fields will be reliably copied.

But folks this is a new and unique kind of bad.  This is massively
untested code bad.  This is inventing new and unique was to get
siginfo wrong bad.  This is don't even think about Posix or what
siginfo means bad.  This is lots of eyeballs all missing the fact
that the code does the wrong thing bad.  This is getting stuck
and keep making the same mistake bad.

I really hope we can find a non userspace breaking fix for this on a
port as new as arm64.

Possible ABI fixes include:
- Send the signal without siginfo
- Don't generate a signal
- Possibly assign and use an appropriate si_code
- Don't handle cases which can't happen

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tyler Baicar &lt;tbaicar@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar &lt;santosh.shilimkar@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Ref: 53631b54c870 ("arm64: Floating point and SIMD")
Ref: 32015c235603 ("arm64: exception: handle Synchronous External Abort")
Ref: 1d18c47c735e ("arm64: MMU fault handling and page table management")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: v8.4: Support for new floating point multiplication instructions</title>
<updated>2018-01-05T11:29:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dongjiu Geng</name>
<email>gengdongjiu@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-13T10:13:56+00:00</published>
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ARM v8.4 extensions add new neon instructions for performing a
multiplication of each FP16 element of one vector with the corresponding
FP16 element of a second vector, and to add or subtract this without an
intermediate rounding to the corresponding FP32 element in a third vector.

This patch detects this feature and let the userspace know about it via a
HWCAP bit and MRS emulation.

Cc: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dongjiu Geng &lt;gengdongjiu@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;</content>
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ARM v8.4 extensions add new neon instructions for performing a
multiplication of each FP16 element of one vector with the corresponding
FP16 element of a second vector, and to add or subtract this without an
intermediate rounding to the corresponding FP32 element in a third vector.

This patch detects this feature and let the userspace know about it via a
HWCAP bit and MRS emulation.

Cc: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dongjiu Geng &lt;gengdongjiu@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/bpf: correct broken uapi for BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T14:02:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hendrik Brueckner</name>
<email>brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-04T09:56:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a39cada70268aadff7153e4f782bcd90a5c69d07'/>
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Correct the broken uapi for the BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type
by exporting the user_pt_regs structure instead of the pt_regs structure
that is in-kernel only.

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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Correct the broken uapi for the BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type
by exporting the user_pt_regs structure instead of the pt_regs structure
that is in-kernel only.

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2017-11-16T21:00:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-16T21:00:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=974aa5630b318938273d7efe7a2cf031c7b927db'/>
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Pull KVM updates from Radim Krčmář:
 "First batch of KVM changes for 4.15

  Common:
   - Python 3 support in kvm_stat
   - Accounting of slabs to kmemcg

  ARM:
   - Optimized arch timer handling for KVM/ARM
   - Improvements to the VGIC ITS code and introduction of an ITS reset
     ioctl
   - Unification of the 32-bit fault injection logic
   - More exact external abort matching logic

  PPC:
   - Support for running hashed page table (HPT) MMU mode on a host that
     is using the radix MMU mode; single threaded mode on POWER 9 is
     added as a pre-requisite
   - Resolution of merge conflicts with the last second 4.14 HPT fixes
   - Fixes and cleanups

  s390:
   - Some initial preparation patches for exitless interrupts and crypto
   - New capability for AIS migration
   - Fixes

  x86:
   - Improved emulation of LAPIC timer mode changes, MCi_STATUS MSRs,
     and after-reset state
   - Refined dependencies for VMX features
   - Fixes for nested SMI injection
   - A lot of cleanups"

* tag 'kvm-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (89 commits)
  KVM: s390: provide a capability for AIS state migration
  KVM: s390: clear_io_irq() requests are not expected for adapter interrupts
  KVM: s390: abstract conversion between isc and enum irq_types
  KVM: s390: vsie: use common code functions for pinning
  KVM: s390: SIE considerations for AP Queue virtualization
  KVM: s390: document memory ordering for kvm_s390_vcpu_wakeup
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Cosmetic post-merge cleanups
  KVM: arm/arm64: fix the incompatible matching for external abort
  KVM: arm/arm64: Unify 32bit fault injection
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Implement KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_CTRL_RESET
  KVM: arm/arm64: Document KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_CTRL_RESET
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Free caches when GITS_BASER Valid bit is cleared
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: New helper functions to free the caches
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Remove kvm_its_unmap_device
  arm/arm64: KVM: Load the timer state when enabling the timer
  KVM: arm/arm64: Rework kvm_timer_should_fire
  KVM: arm/arm64: Get rid of kvm_timer_flush_hwstate
  KVM: arm/arm64: Avoid phys timer emulation in vcpu entry/exit
  KVM: arm/arm64: Move phys_timer_emulate function
  KVM: arm/arm64: Use kvm_arm_timer_set/get_reg for guest register traps
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Radim Krčmář:
 "First batch of KVM changes for 4.15

  Common:
   - Python 3 support in kvm_stat
   - Accounting of slabs to kmemcg

  ARM:
   - Optimized arch timer handling for KVM/ARM
   - Improvements to the VGIC ITS code and introduction of an ITS reset
     ioctl
   - Unification of the 32-bit fault injection logic
   - More exact external abort matching logic

  PPC:
   - Support for running hashed page table (HPT) MMU mode on a host that
     is using the radix MMU mode; single threaded mode on POWER 9 is
     added as a pre-requisite
   - Resolution of merge conflicts with the last second 4.14 HPT fixes
   - Fixes and cleanups

  s390:
   - Some initial preparation patches for exitless interrupts and crypto
   - New capability for AIS migration
   - Fixes

  x86:
   - Improved emulation of LAPIC timer mode changes, MCi_STATUS MSRs,
     and after-reset state
   - Refined dependencies for VMX features
   - Fixes for nested SMI injection
   - A lot of cleanups"

* tag 'kvm-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (89 commits)
  KVM: s390: provide a capability for AIS state migration
  KVM: s390: clear_io_irq() requests are not expected for adapter interrupts
  KVM: s390: abstract conversion between isc and enum irq_types
  KVM: s390: vsie: use common code functions for pinning
  KVM: s390: SIE considerations for AP Queue virtualization
  KVM: s390: document memory ordering for kvm_s390_vcpu_wakeup
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Cosmetic post-merge cleanups
  KVM: arm/arm64: fix the incompatible matching for external abort
  KVM: arm/arm64: Unify 32bit fault injection
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Implement KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_CTRL_RESET
  KVM: arm/arm64: Document KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_CTRL_RESET
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Free caches when GITS_BASER Valid bit is cleared
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: New helper functions to free the caches
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Remove kvm_its_unmap_device
  arm/arm64: KVM: Load the timer state when enabling the timer
  KVM: arm/arm64: Rework kvm_timer_should_fire
  KVM: arm/arm64: Get rid of kvm_timer_flush_hwstate
  KVM: arm/arm64: Avoid phys timer emulation in vcpu entry/exit
  KVM: arm/arm64: Move phys_timer_emulate function
  KVM: arm/arm64: Use kvm_arm_timer_set/get_reg for guest register traps
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2017-11-15T18:56:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-15T18:56:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c9b012e5f4a1d01dfa8abc6318211a67ba7d5db2'/>
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "The big highlight is support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)
  which required extensive ABI work to ensure we don't break existing
  applications by blowing away their signal stack with the rather large
  new vector context (&lt;= 2 kbit per vector register). There's further
  work to be done optimising things like exception return, but the ABI
  is solid now.

  Much of the line count comes from some new PMU drivers we have, but
  they're pretty self-contained and I suspect we'll have more of them in
  future.

  Plenty of acronym soup here:

   - initial support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)

   - improved handling for SError interrupts (required to handle RAS
     events)

   - enable GCC support for 128-bit integer types

   - remove kernel text addresses from backtraces and register dumps

   - use of WFE to implement long delay()s

   - ACPI IORT updates from Lorenzo Pieralisi

   - perf PMU driver for the Statistical Profiling Extension (SPE)

   - perf PMU driver for Hisilicon's system PMUs

   - misc cleanups and non-critical fixes"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (97 commits)
  arm64: Make ARMV8_DEPRECATED depend on SYSCTL
  arm64: Implement __lshrti3 library function
  arm64: support __int128 on gcc 5+
  arm64/sve: Add documentation
  arm64/sve: Detect SVE and activate runtime support
  arm64/sve: KVM: Hide SVE from CPU features exposed to guests
  arm64/sve: KVM: Treat guest SVE use as undefined instruction execution
  arm64/sve: KVM: Prevent guests from using SVE
  arm64/sve: Add sysctl to set the default vector length for new processes
  arm64/sve: Add prctl controls for userspace vector length management
  arm64/sve: ptrace and ELF coredump support
  arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around EFI runtime service calls
  arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around kernel-mode NEON use
  arm64/sve: Probe SVE capabilities and usable vector lengths
  arm64: cpufeature: Move sys_caps_initialised declarations
  arm64/sve: Backend logic for setting the vector length
  arm64/sve: Signal handling support
  arm64/sve: Support vector length resetting for new processes
  arm64/sve: Core task context handling
  arm64/sve: Low-level CPU setup
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "The big highlight is support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)
  which required extensive ABI work to ensure we don't break existing
  applications by blowing away their signal stack with the rather large
  new vector context (&lt;= 2 kbit per vector register). There's further
  work to be done optimising things like exception return, but the ABI
  is solid now.

  Much of the line count comes from some new PMU drivers we have, but
  they're pretty self-contained and I suspect we'll have more of them in
  future.

  Plenty of acronym soup here:

   - initial support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)

   - improved handling for SError interrupts (required to handle RAS
     events)

   - enable GCC support for 128-bit integer types

   - remove kernel text addresses from backtraces and register dumps

   - use of WFE to implement long delay()s

   - ACPI IORT updates from Lorenzo Pieralisi

   - perf PMU driver for the Statistical Profiling Extension (SPE)

   - perf PMU driver for Hisilicon's system PMUs

   - misc cleanups and non-critical fixes"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (97 commits)
  arm64: Make ARMV8_DEPRECATED depend on SYSCTL
  arm64: Implement __lshrti3 library function
  arm64: support __int128 on gcc 5+
  arm64/sve: Add documentation
  arm64/sve: Detect SVE and activate runtime support
  arm64/sve: KVM: Hide SVE from CPU features exposed to guests
  arm64/sve: KVM: Treat guest SVE use as undefined instruction execution
  arm64/sve: KVM: Prevent guests from using SVE
  arm64/sve: Add sysctl to set the default vector length for new processes
  arm64/sve: Add prctl controls for userspace vector length management
  arm64/sve: ptrace and ELF coredump support
  arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around EFI runtime service calls
  arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around kernel-mode NEON use
  arm64/sve: Probe SVE capabilities and usable vector lengths
  arm64: cpufeature: Move sys_caps_initialised declarations
  arm64/sve: Backend logic for setting the vector length
  arm64/sve: Signal handling support
  arm64/sve: Support vector length resetting for new processes
  arm64/sve: Core task context handling
  arm64/sve: Low-level CPU setup
  ...
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