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<title>all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T02:54:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
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<published>2015-02-12T23:01:14+00:00</published>
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If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target.  This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.

Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.

Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.

It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&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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If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target.  This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.

Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.

Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.

It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&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>
<title>mm: make FIRST_USER_ADDRESS unsigned long on all archs</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T01:06:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-11T23:26:41+00:00</published>
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LKP has triggered a compiler warning after my recent patch "mm: account
pmd page tables to the process":

    mm/mmap.c: In function 'exit_mmap':
 &gt;&gt; mm/mmap.c:2857:2: warning: right shift count &gt;= width of type [enabled by default]

The code:

 &gt; 2857                WARN_ON(mm_nr_pmds(mm) &gt;
   2858                                round_up(FIRST_USER_ADDRESS, PUD_SIZE) &gt;&gt; PUD_SHIFT);

In this, on tile, we have FIRST_USER_ADDRESS defined as 0.  round_up() has
the same type -- int.  PUD_SHIFT.

I think the best way to fix it is to define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS as unsigned
long.  On every arch for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&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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LKP has triggered a compiler warning after my recent patch "mm: account
pmd page tables to the process":

    mm/mmap.c: In function 'exit_mmap':
 &gt;&gt; mm/mmap.c:2857:2: warning: right shift count &gt;= width of type [enabled by default]

The code:

 &gt; 2857                WARN_ON(mm_nr_pmds(mm) &gt;
   2858                                round_up(FIRST_USER_ADDRESS, PUD_SIZE) &gt;&gt; PUD_SHIFT);

In this, on tile, we have FIRST_USER_ADDRESS defined as 0.  round_up() has
the same type -- int.  PUD_SHIFT.

I think the best way to fix it is to define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS as unsigned
long.  On every arch for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&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>
<title>microblaze: define __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T01:06:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-11T23:26:38+00:00</published>
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Microblaze uses custom implementation of PMD folding, but doesn't define
__PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED, which generic code expects to see.  Let's fix it.

Defining __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED will drop out unused __pmd_alloc().  It
also fixes problems with recently-introduced pmd accounting.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&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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Microblaze uses custom implementation of PMD folding, but doesn't define
__PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED, which generic code expects to see.  Let's fix it.

Defining __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED will drop out unused __pmd_alloc().  It
also fixes problems with recently-introduced pmd accounting.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&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>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2015-02-11T04:01:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-11T04:01:30+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) More iov_iter conversion work from Al Viro.

    [ The "crypto: switch af_alg_make_sg() to iov_iter" commit was
      wrong, and this pull actually adds an extra commit on top of the
      branch I'm pulling to fix that up, so that the pre-merge state is
      ok.   - Linus ]

 2) Various optimizations to the ipv4 forwarding information base trie
    lookup implementation.  From Alexander Duyck.

 3) Remove sock_iocb altogether, from CHristoph Hellwig.

 4) Allow congestion control algorithm selection via routing metrics.
    From Daniel Borkmann.

 5) Make ipv4 uncached route list per-cpu, from Eric Dumazet.

 6) Handle rfs hash collisions more gracefully, also from Eric Dumazet.

 7) Add xmit_more support to r8169, e1000, and e1000e drivers.  From
    Florian Westphal.

 8) Transparent Ethernet Bridging support for GRO, from Jesse Gross.

 9) Add BPF packet actions to packet scheduler, from Jiri Pirko.

10) Add support for uniqu flow IDs to openvswitch, from Joe Stringer.

11) New NetCP ethernet driver, from Muralidharan Karicheri and Wingman
    Kwok.

12) More sanely handle out-of-window dupacks, which can result in
    serious ACK storms.  From Neal Cardwell.

13) Various rhashtable bug fixes and enhancements, from Herbert Xu,
    Patrick McHardy, and Thomas Graf.

14) Support xmit_more in be2net, from Sathya Perla.

15) Group Policy extensions for vxlan, from Thomas Graf.

16) Remove Checksum Offload support for vxlan, from Tom Herbert.

17) Like ipv4, support lockless transmit over ipv6 UDP sockets.  From
    Vlad Yasevich.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1494+1 commits)
  crypto: fix af_alg_make_sg() conversion to iov_iter
  ipv4: Namespecify TCP PMTU mechanism
  i40e: Fix for stats init function call in Rx setup
  tcp: don't include Fast Open option in SYN-ACK on pure SYN-data
  openvswitch: Only set TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT if VXLAN-GBP metadata is set
  ipv6: Make __ipv6_select_ident static
  ipv6: Fix fragment id assignment on LE arches.
  bridge: Fix inability to add non-vlan fdb entry
  net: Mellanox: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "vunmap"
  cxgb4: Add support in cxgb4 to get expansion rom version via ethtool
  ethtool: rename reserved1 memeber in ethtool_drvinfo for expansion ROM version
  net: dsa: Remove redundant phy_attach()
  IB/mlx4: Reset flow support for IB kernel ULPs
  IB/mlx4: Always use the correct port for mirrored multicast attachments
  net/bonding: Fix potential bad memory access during bonding events
  tipc: remove tipc_snprintf
  tipc: nl compat add noop and remove legacy nl framework
  tipc: convert legacy nl stats show to nl compat
  tipc: convert legacy nl net id get to nl compat
  tipc: convert legacy nl net id set to nl compat
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) More iov_iter conversion work from Al Viro.

    [ The "crypto: switch af_alg_make_sg() to iov_iter" commit was
      wrong, and this pull actually adds an extra commit on top of the
      branch I'm pulling to fix that up, so that the pre-merge state is
      ok.   - Linus ]

 2) Various optimizations to the ipv4 forwarding information base trie
    lookup implementation.  From Alexander Duyck.

 3) Remove sock_iocb altogether, from CHristoph Hellwig.

 4) Allow congestion control algorithm selection via routing metrics.
    From Daniel Borkmann.

 5) Make ipv4 uncached route list per-cpu, from Eric Dumazet.

 6) Handle rfs hash collisions more gracefully, also from Eric Dumazet.

 7) Add xmit_more support to r8169, e1000, and e1000e drivers.  From
    Florian Westphal.

 8) Transparent Ethernet Bridging support for GRO, from Jesse Gross.

 9) Add BPF packet actions to packet scheduler, from Jiri Pirko.

10) Add support for uniqu flow IDs to openvswitch, from Joe Stringer.

11) New NetCP ethernet driver, from Muralidharan Karicheri and Wingman
    Kwok.

12) More sanely handle out-of-window dupacks, which can result in
    serious ACK storms.  From Neal Cardwell.

13) Various rhashtable bug fixes and enhancements, from Herbert Xu,
    Patrick McHardy, and Thomas Graf.

14) Support xmit_more in be2net, from Sathya Perla.

15) Group Policy extensions for vxlan, from Thomas Graf.

16) Remove Checksum Offload support for vxlan, from Tom Herbert.

17) Like ipv4, support lockless transmit over ipv6 UDP sockets.  From
    Vlad Yasevich.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1494+1 commits)
  crypto: fix af_alg_make_sg() conversion to iov_iter
  ipv4: Namespecify TCP PMTU mechanism
  i40e: Fix for stats init function call in Rx setup
  tcp: don't include Fast Open option in SYN-ACK on pure SYN-data
  openvswitch: Only set TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT if VXLAN-GBP metadata is set
  ipv6: Make __ipv6_select_ident static
  ipv6: Fix fragment id assignment on LE arches.
  bridge: Fix inability to add non-vlan fdb entry
  net: Mellanox: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "vunmap"
  cxgb4: Add support in cxgb4 to get expansion rom version via ethtool
  ethtool: rename reserved1 memeber in ethtool_drvinfo for expansion ROM version
  net: dsa: Remove redundant phy_attach()
  IB/mlx4: Reset flow support for IB kernel ULPs
  IB/mlx4: Always use the correct port for mirrored multicast attachments
  net/bonding: Fix potential bad memory access during bonding events
  tipc: remove tipc_snprintf
  tipc: nl compat add noop and remove legacy nl framework
  tipc: convert legacy nl stats show to nl compat
  tipc: convert legacy nl net id get to nl compat
  tipc: convert legacy nl net id set to nl compat
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2015-02-11T00:45:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-11T00:45:56+00:00</published>
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Bite-sized chunks this time, to avoid the MTA ratelimiting woes.

   - fs/notify updates

   - ocfs2

   - some of MM"

That laconic "some MM" is mainly the removal of remap_file_pages(),
which is a big simplification of the VM, and which gets rid of a *lot*
of random cruft and special cases because we no longer support the
non-linear mappings that it used.

From a user interface perspective, nothing has changed, because the
remap_file_pages() syscall still exists, it's just done by emulating the
old behavior by creating a lot of individual small mappings instead of
one non-linear one.

The emulation is slower than the old "native" non-linear mappings, but
nobody really uses or cares about remap_file_pages(), and simplifying
the VM is a big advantage.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (78 commits)
  memcg: zap memcg_slab_caches and memcg_slab_mutex
  memcg: zap memcg_name argument of memcg_create_kmem_cache
  memcg: zap __memcg_{charge,uncharge}_slab
  mm/page_alloc.c: place zone_id check before VM_BUG_ON_PAGE check
  mm: hugetlb: fix type of hugetlb_treat_as_movable variable
  mm, hugetlb: remove unnecessary lower bound on sysctl handlers"?
  mm: memory: merge shared-writable dirtying branches in do_wp_page()
  mm: memory: remove -&gt;vm_file check on shared writable vmas
  xtensa: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  x86: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  unicore32: drop pte_file()-related helpers
  um: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  tile: drop pte_file()-related helpers
  sparc: drop pte_file()-related helpers
  sh: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  score: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  s390: drop pte_file()-related helpers
  parisc: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  openrisc: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  nios2: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  ...
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Bite-sized chunks this time, to avoid the MTA ratelimiting woes.

   - fs/notify updates

   - ocfs2

   - some of MM"

That laconic "some MM" is mainly the removal of remap_file_pages(),
which is a big simplification of the VM, and which gets rid of a *lot*
of random cruft and special cases because we no longer support the
non-linear mappings that it used.

From a user interface perspective, nothing has changed, because the
remap_file_pages() syscall still exists, it's just done by emulating the
old behavior by creating a lot of individual small mappings instead of
one non-linear one.

The emulation is slower than the old "native" non-linear mappings, but
nobody really uses or cares about remap_file_pages(), and simplifying
the VM is a big advantage.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (78 commits)
  memcg: zap memcg_slab_caches and memcg_slab_mutex
  memcg: zap memcg_name argument of memcg_create_kmem_cache
  memcg: zap __memcg_{charge,uncharge}_slab
  mm/page_alloc.c: place zone_id check before VM_BUG_ON_PAGE check
  mm: hugetlb: fix type of hugetlb_treat_as_movable variable
  mm, hugetlb: remove unnecessary lower bound on sysctl handlers"?
  mm: memory: merge shared-writable dirtying branches in do_wp_page()
  mm: memory: remove -&gt;vm_file check on shared writable vmas
  xtensa: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  x86: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  unicore32: drop pte_file()-related helpers
  um: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  tile: drop pte_file()-related helpers
  sparc: drop pte_file()-related helpers
  sh: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  score: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  s390: drop pte_file()-related helpers
  parisc: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  openrisc: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  nios2: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers
  ...
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<entry>
<title>microblaze: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers</title>
<updated>2015-02-10T22:30:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-10T22:10:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=937fa39fb22fea1c1d8ca9e5f31c452b91ac7239'/>
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We've replaced remap_file_pages(2) implementation with emulation.  Nobody
creates non-linear mapping anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&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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We've replaced remap_file_pages(2) implementation with emulation.  Nobody
creates non-linear mapping anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&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>Merge tag 'microblaze-3.20-rc1' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze</title>
<updated>2015-02-10T21:51:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-10T21:51:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=98368ab436538103a557fc1f15f54afd8aab6712'/>
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Pull Microblaze pupdates from Michal Simek:
 - Remove various compilation errors
 - Various code cleanup patches
 - Add missing MB versions/architectures for autodetection

* tag 'microblaze-3.20-rc1' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze:
  microblaze: Remove *.dtb files in make clean
  microblaze: whitespace fix
  microblaze/uaccess: fix sparse errors
  microblaze: intc: Reformat output
  microblaze: intc: Refactor DT sanity check
  microblaze: intc: Don't override error codes
  microblaze: Add target architecture
  microblaze: Add missing PVR version codes
  microblaze: Fix variable types to remove W=1 warning
  microblaze: Use unsigned type for limit comparison in cache.c
  microblaze: Use unsigned type for proper comparison in cpuinfo*.c
  microblaze: Use unsigned type for "for" loop because of comparison-kgdb.c
  microblaze: Change extern inline to static inline
  microblaze: Mark get_frame_size as static
  microblaze: Use unsigned return type in do_syscall_trace_enter
  microblaze: Declare microblaze_kgdb_break in header
  microblaze: Remove unused prom header from reset.c
  microblaze: Remove unused prom_parse.c
  microblaze: Wire-up execveat syscall
  microblaze: Use empty asm-generic/linkage.h
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Pull Microblaze pupdates from Michal Simek:
 - Remove various compilation errors
 - Various code cleanup patches
 - Add missing MB versions/architectures for autodetection

* tag 'microblaze-3.20-rc1' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze:
  microblaze: Remove *.dtb files in make clean
  microblaze: whitespace fix
  microblaze/uaccess: fix sparse errors
  microblaze: intc: Reformat output
  microblaze: intc: Refactor DT sanity check
  microblaze: intc: Don't override error codes
  microblaze: Add target architecture
  microblaze: Add missing PVR version codes
  microblaze: Fix variable types to remove W=1 warning
  microblaze: Use unsigned type for limit comparison in cache.c
  microblaze: Use unsigned type for proper comparison in cpuinfo*.c
  microblaze: Use unsigned type for "for" loop because of comparison-kgdb.c
  microblaze: Change extern inline to static inline
  microblaze: Mark get_frame_size as static
  microblaze: Use unsigned return type in do_syscall_trace_enter
  microblaze: Declare microblaze_kgdb_break in header
  microblaze: Remove unused prom header from reset.c
  microblaze: Remove unused prom_parse.c
  microblaze: Wire-up execveat syscall
  microblaze: Use empty asm-generic/linkage.h
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>microblaze: Remove *.dtb files in make clean</title>
<updated>2015-02-10T15:24:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Simek</name>
<email>michal.simek@xilinx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-20T08:40:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a01d37d914f98c430854bbae2402e6f51d9a8d0b'/>
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dts/Makefile is called only for simpleImage target
which is causing that *.dtb are not removed.
This patch fix it.

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@xilinx.com&gt;
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dts/Makefile is called only for simpleImage target
which is causing that *.dtb are not removed.
This patch fix it.

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@xilinx.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2015-02-05T22:33:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-05T22:33:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6e03f896b52cd2ca88942170c5c9c407ec0ede69'/>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/vxlan.c
	drivers/vhost/net.c
	include/linux/if_vlan.h
	net/core/dev.c

The net/core/dev.c conflict was the overlap of one commit marking an
existing function static whilst another was adding a new function.

In the include/linux/if_vlan.h case, the type used for a local
variable was changed in 'net', whereas the function got rewritten
to fix a stacked vlan bug in 'net-next'.

In drivers/vhost/net.c, Al Viro's iov_iter conversions in 'net-next'
overlapped with an endainness fix for VHOST 1.0 in 'net'.

In drivers/net/vxlan.c, vxlan_find_vni() added a 'flags' parameter
in 'net-next' whereas in 'net' there was a bug fix to pass in the
correct network namespace pointer in calls to this function.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/vxlan.c
	drivers/vhost/net.c
	include/linux/if_vlan.h
	net/core/dev.c

The net/core/dev.c conflict was the overlap of one commit marking an
existing function static whilst another was adding a new function.

In the include/linux/if_vlan.h case, the type used for a local
variable was changed in 'net', whereas the function got rewritten
to fix a stacked vlan bug in 'net-next'.

In drivers/vhost/net.c, Al Viro's iov_iter conversions in 'net-next'
overlapped with an endainness fix for VHOST 1.0 in 'net'.

In drivers/net/vxlan.c, vxlan_find_vni() added a 'flags' parameter
in 'net-next' whereas in 'net' there was a bug fix to pass in the
correct network namespace pointer in calls to this function.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support</title>
<updated>2015-01-29T18:51:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-29T18:51:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7'/>
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The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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