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<title>linux.git/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c, branch for-next</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>MIPS: scall: Save thread_info.syscall unconditionally on entry</title>
<updated>2024-04-09T14:52:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiaxun Yang</name>
<email>jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-28T14:27:56+00:00</published>
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thread_info.syscall is used by syscall_get_nr to supply syscall nr
over a thread stack frame.

Previously, thread_info.syscall is only saved at syscall_trace_enter
when syscall tracing is enabled. However rest of the kernel code do
expect syscall_get_nr to be available without syscall tracing. The
previous design breaks collect_syscall.

Move saving process to syscall entry to fix it.

Reported-by: Xi Ruoyao &lt;xry111@xry111.site&gt;
Link: https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/2867
Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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thread_info.syscall is used by syscall_get_nr to supply syscall nr
over a thread stack frame.

Previously, thread_info.syscall is only saved at syscall_trace_enter
when syscall tracing is enabled. However rest of the kernel code do
expect syscall_get_nr to be available without syscall tracing. The
previous design breaks collect_syscall.

Move saving process to syscall entry to fix it.

Reported-by: Xi Ruoyao &lt;xry111@xry111.site&gt;
Link: https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/2867
Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ptrace: Introduce exception_ip arch hook</title>
<updated>2024-02-12T22:04:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiaxun Yang</name>
<email>jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-02T12:30:26+00:00</published>
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On architectures with delay slot, architecture level instruction
pointer (or program counter) in pt_regs may differ from where
exception was triggered.

Introduce exception_ip hook to invoke architecture code and determine
actual instruction pointer to the exception.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/00d1b813-c55f-4365-8d81-d70258e10b16@app.fastmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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On architectures with delay slot, architecture level instruction
pointer (or program counter) in pt_regs may differ from where
exception was triggered.

Introduce exception_ip hook to invoke architecture code and determine
actual instruction pointer to the exception.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/00d1b813-c55f-4365-8d81-d70258e10b16@app.fastmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mips: ptrace: user_regset_copyin_ignore() always returns 0</title>
<updated>2022-11-15T22:30:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Shtylyov</name>
<email>s.shtylyov@omp.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-14T21:22:28+00:00</published>
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user_regset_copyin_ignore() always returns 0, so checking its result seems
pointless -- don't do this anymore...

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221014212235.10770-7-s.shtylyov@omp.ru
Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov &lt;s.shtylyov@omp.ru&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.osdn.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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user_regset_copyin_ignore() always returns 0, so checking its result seems
pointless -- don't do this anymore...

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221014212235.10770-7-s.shtylyov@omp.ru
Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov &lt;s.shtylyov@omp.ru&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.osdn.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ptrace: Create ptrace_report_syscall_{entry,exit} in ptrace.h</title>
<updated>2022-03-10T19:35:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-27T17:46:37+00:00</published>
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Rename tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} to
ptrace_report_syscall_{entry,exit} and place them in ptrace.h

There is no longer any generic tracehook infractructure so make
these ptrace specific functions ptrace specific.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220309162454.123006-3-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Rename tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} to
ptrace_report_syscall_{entry,exit} and place them in ptrace.h

There is no longer any generic tracehook infractructure so make
these ptrace specific functions ptrace specific.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220309162454.123006-3-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mips: switch to -&gt;regset_get()</title>
<updated>2020-07-27T18:31:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-22T21:06:56+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:39:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T04:32:33+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm: consolidate definitions of page table accessors", v2.

The low level page table accessors (pXY_index(), pXY_offset()) are
duplicated across all architectures and sometimes more than once.  For
instance, we have 31 definition of pgd_offset() for 25 supported
architectures.

Most of these definitions are actually identical and typically it boils
down to, e.g.

static inline unsigned long pmd_index(unsigned long address)
{
        return (address &gt;&gt; PMD_SHIFT) &amp; (PTRS_PER_PMD - 1);
}

static inline pmd_t *pmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long address)
{
        return (pmd_t *)pud_page_vaddr(*pud) + pmd_index(address);
}

These definitions can be shared among 90% of the arches provided
XYZ_SHIFT, PTRS_PER_XYZ and xyz_page_vaddr() are defined.

For architectures that really need a custom version there is always
possibility to override the generic version with the usual ifdefs magic.

These patches introduce include/linux/pgtable.h that replaces
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h and add the definitions of the page table
accessors to the new header.

This patch (of 12):

The linux/mm.h header includes &lt;asm/pgtable.h&gt; to allow inlining of the
functions involving page table manipulations, e.g.  pte_alloc() and
pmd_alloc().  So, there is no point to explicitly include &lt;asm/pgtable.h&gt;
in the files that include &lt;linux/mm.h&gt;.

The include statements in such cases are remove with a simple loop:

	for f in $(git grep -l "include &lt;linux/mm.h&gt;") ; do
		sed -i -e '/include &lt;asm\/pgtable.h&gt;/ d' $f
	done

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Greentime Hu &lt;green.hu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;ley.foon.tan@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Hu &lt;nickhu@andestech.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Chen &lt;deanbo422@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-2-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "mm: consolidate definitions of page table accessors", v2.

The low level page table accessors (pXY_index(), pXY_offset()) are
duplicated across all architectures and sometimes more than once.  For
instance, we have 31 definition of pgd_offset() for 25 supported
architectures.

Most of these definitions are actually identical and typically it boils
down to, e.g.

static inline unsigned long pmd_index(unsigned long address)
{
        return (address &gt;&gt; PMD_SHIFT) &amp; (PTRS_PER_PMD - 1);
}

static inline pmd_t *pmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long address)
{
        return (pmd_t *)pud_page_vaddr(*pud) + pmd_index(address);
}

These definitions can be shared among 90% of the arches provided
XYZ_SHIFT, PTRS_PER_XYZ and xyz_page_vaddr() are defined.

For architectures that really need a custom version there is always
possibility to override the generic version with the usual ifdefs magic.

These patches introduce include/linux/pgtable.h that replaces
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h and add the definitions of the page table
accessors to the new header.

This patch (of 12):

The linux/mm.h header includes &lt;asm/pgtable.h&gt; to allow inlining of the
functions involving page table manipulations, e.g.  pte_alloc() and
pmd_alloc().  So, there is no point to explicitly include &lt;asm/pgtable.h&gt;
in the files that include &lt;linux/mm.h&gt;.

The include statements in such cases are remove with a simple loop:

	for f in $(git grep -l "include &lt;linux/mm.h&gt;") ; do
		sed -i -e '/include &lt;asm\/pgtable.h&gt;/ d' $f
	done

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Greentime Hu &lt;green.hu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;ley.foon.tan@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Hu &lt;nickhu@andestech.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Chen &lt;deanbo422@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-2-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'audit-pr-20190507' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T02:06:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T02:06:04+00:00</published>
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Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
 "We've got a reasonably broad set of audit patches for the v5.2 merge
  window, the highlights are below:

   - The biggest change, and the source of all the arch/* changes, is
     the patchset from Dmitry to help enable some of the work he is
     doing around PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO.

     To be honest, including this in the audit tree is a bit of a
     stretch, but it does help move audit a little further along towards
     proper syscall auditing for all arches, and everyone else seemed to
     agree that audit was a "good" spot for this to land (or maybe they
     just didn't want to merge it? dunno.).

   - We can now audit time/NTP adjustments.

   - We continue the work to connect associated audit records into a
     single event"

* tag 'audit-pr-20190507' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit: (21 commits)
  audit: fix a memory leak bug
  ntp: Audit NTP parameters adjustment
  timekeeping: Audit clock adjustments
  audit: purge unnecessary list_empty calls
  audit: link integrity evm_write_xattrs record to syscall event
  syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  unicore32: define syscall_get_arch()
  Move EM_UNICORE to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
  nios2: define syscall_get_arch()
  nds32: define syscall_get_arch()
  Move EM_NDS32 to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
  m68k: define syscall_get_arch()
  hexagon: define syscall_get_arch()
  Move EM_HEXAGON to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
  h8300: define syscall_get_arch()
  c6x: define syscall_get_arch()
  arc: define syscall_get_arch()
  Move EM_ARCOMPACT and EM_ARCV2 to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
  audit: Make audit_log_cap and audit_copy_inode static
  audit: connect LOGIN record to its syscall record
  ...
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Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
 "We've got a reasonably broad set of audit patches for the v5.2 merge
  window, the highlights are below:

   - The biggest change, and the source of all the arch/* changes, is
     the patchset from Dmitry to help enable some of the work he is
     doing around PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO.

     To be honest, including this in the audit tree is a bit of a
     stretch, but it does help move audit a little further along towards
     proper syscall auditing for all arches, and everyone else seemed to
     agree that audit was a "good" spot for this to land (or maybe they
     just didn't want to merge it? dunno.).

   - We can now audit time/NTP adjustments.

   - We continue the work to connect associated audit records into a
     single event"

* tag 'audit-pr-20190507' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit: (21 commits)
  audit: fix a memory leak bug
  ntp: Audit NTP parameters adjustment
  timekeeping: Audit clock adjustments
  audit: purge unnecessary list_empty calls
  audit: link integrity evm_write_xattrs record to syscall event
  syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument
  unicore32: define syscall_get_arch()
  Move EM_UNICORE to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
  nios2: define syscall_get_arch()
  nds32: define syscall_get_arch()
  Move EM_NDS32 to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
  m68k: define syscall_get_arch()
  hexagon: define syscall_get_arch()
  Move EM_HEXAGON to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
  h8300: define syscall_get_arch()
  c6x: define syscall_get_arch()
  arc: define syscall_get_arch()
  Move EM_ARCOMPACT and EM_ARCV2 to uapi/linux/elf-em.h
  audit: Make audit_log_cap and audit_copy_inode static
  audit: connect LOGIN record to its syscall record
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>syscalls: Remove start and number from syscall_get_arguments() args</title>
<updated>2019-04-05T13:26:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-07T21:26:37+00:00</published>
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At Linux Plumbers, Andy Lutomirski approached me and pointed out that the
function call syscall_get_arguments() implemented in x86 was horribly
written and not optimized for the standard case of passing in 0 and 6 for
the starting index and the number of system calls to get. When looking at
all the users of this function, I discovered that all instances pass in only
0 and 6 for these arguments. Instead of having this function handle
different cases that are never used, simply rewrite it to return the first 6
arguments of a system call.

This should help out the performance of tracing system calls by ptrace,
ftrace and perf.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161107213233.754809394@goodmis.org

Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "Dmitry V. Levin" &lt;ldv@altlinux.org&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt; # MIPS parts
Acked-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt; # For xtensa changes
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt; # For the arm64 bits
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt; # for x86
Reviewed-by: Dmitry V. Levin &lt;ldv@altlinux.org&gt;
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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At Linux Plumbers, Andy Lutomirski approached me and pointed out that the
function call syscall_get_arguments() implemented in x86 was horribly
written and not optimized for the standard case of passing in 0 and 6 for
the starting index and the number of system calls to get. When looking at
all the users of this function, I discovered that all instances pass in only
0 and 6 for these arguments. Instead of having this function handle
different cases that are never used, simply rewrite it to return the first 6
arguments of a system call.

This should help out the performance of tracing system calls by ptrace,
ftrace and perf.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161107213233.754809394@goodmis.org

Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "Dmitry V. Levin" &lt;ldv@altlinux.org&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt; # MIPS parts
Acked-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt; # For xtensa changes
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt; # For the arm64 bits
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt; # for x86
Reviewed-by: Dmitry V. Levin &lt;ldv@altlinux.org&gt;
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>syscall_get_arch: add "struct task_struct *" argument</title>
<updated>2019-03-21T01:12:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry V. Levin</name>
<email>ldv@altlinux.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-17T23:30:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=16add411645cff83360086e102daa67b25f1e39a'/>
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This argument is required to extend the generic ptrace API with
PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO request: syscall_get_arch() is going
to be called from ptrace_request() along with syscall_get_nr(),
syscall_get_arguments(), syscall_get_error(), and
syscall_get_return_value() functions with a tracee as their argument.

The primary intent is that the triple (audit_arch, syscall_nr, arg1..arg6)
should describe what system call is being called and what its arguments
are.

Reverts: 5e937a9ae913 ("syscall_get_arch: remove useless function arguments")
Reverts: 1002d94d3076 ("syscall.h: fix doc text for syscall_get_arch()")
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt; # for x86
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt; # MIPS parts
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt; # seccomp parts
Acked-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt; # for the c6x bit
Cc: Elvira Khabirova &lt;lineprinter@altlinux.org&gt;
Cc: Eugene Syromyatnikov &lt;esyr@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin &lt;ldv@altlinux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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This argument is required to extend the generic ptrace API with
PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO request: syscall_get_arch() is going
to be called from ptrace_request() along with syscall_get_nr(),
syscall_get_arguments(), syscall_get_error(), and
syscall_get_return_value() functions with a tracee as their argument.

The primary intent is that the triple (audit_arch, syscall_nr, arg1..arg6)
should describe what system call is being called and what its arguments
are.

Reverts: 5e937a9ae913 ("syscall_get_arch: remove useless function arguments")
Reverts: 1002d94d3076 ("syscall.h: fix doc text for syscall_get_arch()")
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt; # for x86
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt; # MIPS parts
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt; # seccomp parts
Acked-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt; # for the c6x bit
Cc: Elvira Khabirova &lt;lineprinter@altlinux.org&gt;
Cc: Eugene Syromyatnikov &lt;esyr@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin &lt;ldv@altlinux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=96d4f267e40f9509e8a66e2b39e8b95655617693'/>
<id>96d4f267e40f9509e8a66e2b39e8b95655617693</id>
<content type='text'>
Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

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

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

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

There were a couple of notable cases:

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

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

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

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

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

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

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

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

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

There were a couple of notable cases:

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

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

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

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

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

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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