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<title>powerpc: Enable execve syscall exit tracepoint</title>
<updated>2022-06-18T00:19:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N. Rao</name>
<email>naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-09T10:33:28+00:00</published>
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On execve[at], we are zero'ing out most of the thread register state
including gpr[0], which contains the syscall number. Due to this, we
fail to trigger the syscall exit tracepoint properly. Fix this by
retaining gpr[0] in the thread register state.

Before this patch:
  # tail /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
	       cat-123     [000] .....    61.449351: sys_execve(filename:
  7fffa6b23448, argv: 7fffa6b233e0, envp: 7fffa6b233f8)
	       cat-124     [000] .....    62.428481: sys_execve(filename:
  7fffa6b23448, argv: 7fffa6b233e0, envp: 7fffa6b233f8)
	      echo-125     [000] .....    65.813702: sys_execve(filename:
  7fffa6b23378, argv: 7fffa6b233a0, envp: 7fffa6b233b0)
	      echo-125     [000] .....    65.822214: sys_execveat(fd: 0,
  filename: 1009ac48, argv: 7ffff65d0c98, envp: 7ffff65d0ca8, flags: 0)

After this patch:
  # tail /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
	       cat-127     [000] .....   100.416262: sys_execve(filename:
  7fffa41b3448, argv: 7fffa41b33e0, envp: 7fffa41b33f8)
	       cat-127     [000] .....   100.418203: sys_execve -&gt; 0x0
	      echo-128     [000] .....   103.873968: sys_execve(filename:
  7fffa41b3378, argv: 7fffa41b33a0, envp: 7fffa41b33b0)
	      echo-128     [000] .....   103.875102: sys_execve -&gt; 0x0
	      echo-128     [000] .....   103.882097: sys_execveat(fd: 0,
  filename: 1009ac48, argv: 7fffd10d2148, envp: 7fffd10d2158, flags: 0)
	      echo-128     [000] .....   103.883225: sys_execveat -&gt; 0x0

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sumit Dubey2 &lt;Sumit.Dubey2@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220609103328.41306-1-naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com

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On execve[at], we are zero'ing out most of the thread register state
including gpr[0], which contains the syscall number. Due to this, we
fail to trigger the syscall exit tracepoint properly. Fix this by
retaining gpr[0] in the thread register state.

Before this patch:
  # tail /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
	       cat-123     [000] .....    61.449351: sys_execve(filename:
  7fffa6b23448, argv: 7fffa6b233e0, envp: 7fffa6b233f8)
	       cat-124     [000] .....    62.428481: sys_execve(filename:
  7fffa6b23448, argv: 7fffa6b233e0, envp: 7fffa6b233f8)
	      echo-125     [000] .....    65.813702: sys_execve(filename:
  7fffa6b23378, argv: 7fffa6b233a0, envp: 7fffa6b233b0)
	      echo-125     [000] .....    65.822214: sys_execveat(fd: 0,
  filename: 1009ac48, argv: 7ffff65d0c98, envp: 7ffff65d0ca8, flags: 0)

After this patch:
  # tail /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
	       cat-127     [000] .....   100.416262: sys_execve(filename:
  7fffa41b3448, argv: 7fffa41b33e0, envp: 7fffa41b33f8)
	       cat-127     [000] .....   100.418203: sys_execve -&gt; 0x0
	      echo-128     [000] .....   103.873968: sys_execve(filename:
  7fffa41b3378, argv: 7fffa41b33a0, envp: 7fffa41b33b0)
	      echo-128     [000] .....   103.875102: sys_execve -&gt; 0x0
	      echo-128     [000] .....   103.882097: sys_execveat(fd: 0,
  filename: 1009ac48, argv: 7fffd10d2148, envp: 7fffd10d2158, flags: 0)
	      echo-128     [000] .....   103.883225: sys_execveat -&gt; 0x0

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sumit Dubey2 &lt;Sumit.Dubey2@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220609103328.41306-1-naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2022-06-09T19:17:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-09T19:17:43+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:

 - On 32-bit fix overread/overwrite of thread_struct via ptrace
   PEEK/POKE.

 - Fix softirqs not switching to the softirq stack since we moved
   irq_exit().

 - Force thread size increase when KASAN is enabled to avoid stack
   overflows.

 - On Book3s 64 mark more code as not to be instrumented by KASAN to
   avoid crashes.

 - Exempt __get_wchan() from KASAN checking, as it's inherently racy.

 - Fix a recently introduced crash in the papr_scm driver in some
   configurations.

 - Remove include of &lt;generated/compile.h&gt; which is forbidden.

Thanks to Ariel Miculas, Chen Jingwen, Christophe Leroy, Erhard Furtner,
He Ying, Kees Cook, Masahiro Yamada, Nageswara R Sastry, Paul Mackerras,
Sachin Sant, Vaibhav Jain, and Wanming Hu.

* tag 'powerpc-5.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/32: Fix overread/overwrite of thread_struct via ptrace
  powerpc/book3e: get rid of #include &lt;generated/compile.h&gt;
  powerpc/kasan: Force thread size increase with KASAN
  powerpc/papr_scm: don't requests stats with '0' sized stats buffer
  powerpc: Don't select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
  powerpc/kasan: Silence KASAN warnings in __get_wchan()
  powerpc/kasan: Mark more real-mode code as not to be instrumented
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:

 - On 32-bit fix overread/overwrite of thread_struct via ptrace
   PEEK/POKE.

 - Fix softirqs not switching to the softirq stack since we moved
   irq_exit().

 - Force thread size increase when KASAN is enabled to avoid stack
   overflows.

 - On Book3s 64 mark more code as not to be instrumented by KASAN to
   avoid crashes.

 - Exempt __get_wchan() from KASAN checking, as it's inherently racy.

 - Fix a recently introduced crash in the papr_scm driver in some
   configurations.

 - Remove include of &lt;generated/compile.h&gt; which is forbidden.

Thanks to Ariel Miculas, Chen Jingwen, Christophe Leroy, Erhard Furtner,
He Ying, Kees Cook, Masahiro Yamada, Nageswara R Sastry, Paul Mackerras,
Sachin Sant, Vaibhav Jain, and Wanming Hu.

* tag 'powerpc-5.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/32: Fix overread/overwrite of thread_struct via ptrace
  powerpc/book3e: get rid of #include &lt;generated/compile.h&gt;
  powerpc/kasan: Force thread size increase with KASAN
  powerpc/papr_scm: don't requests stats with '0' sized stats buffer
  powerpc: Don't select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
  powerpc/kasan: Silence KASAN warnings in __get_wchan()
  powerpc/kasan: Mark more real-mode code as not to be instrumented
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2022-06-03T23:03:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-03T23:03:05+00:00</published>
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Pull kthread updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This updates init and user mode helper tasks to be ordinary user mode
  tasks.

  Commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for
  all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call
  kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct
  kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of
  struct kthread possible.

  Here, commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for
  init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple
  enough to be backportable.

  The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things
  up and cause the code to make sense.

  In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks
  I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was
  detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of
  PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using
  flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors
  was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace
  thread.

  I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review
  I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code
  sitting in linux-next"

* tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
  fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
  fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
  init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
  fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling
  fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread
  fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread
  kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh
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Pull kthread updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This updates init and user mode helper tasks to be ordinary user mode
  tasks.

  Commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for
  all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call
  kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct
  kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of
  struct kthread possible.

  Here, commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for
  init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple
  enough to be backportable.

  The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things
  up and cause the code to make sense.

  In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks
  I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was
  detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of
  PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using
  flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors
  was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace
  thread.

  I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review
  I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code
  sitting in linux-next"

* tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
  fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
  fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
  init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
  fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling
  fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread
  fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread
  kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/kasan: Silence KASAN warnings in __get_wchan()</title>
<updated>2022-05-29T00:30:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>He Ying</name>
<email>heying24@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-21T01:44:18+00:00</published>
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The following KASAN warning was reported in our kernel.

  BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in get_wchan+0x188/0x250
  Read of size 4 at addr d216f958 by task ps/14437

  CPU: 3 PID: 14437 Comm: ps Tainted: G           O      5.10.0 #1
  Call Trace:
  [daa63858] [c0654348] dump_stack+0x9c/0xe4 (unreliable)
  [daa63888] [c035cf0c] print_address_description.constprop.3+0x8c/0x570
  [daa63908] [c035d6bc] kasan_report+0x1ac/0x218
  [daa63948] [c00496e8] get_wchan+0x188/0x250
  [daa63978] [c0461ec8] do_task_stat+0xce8/0xe60
  [daa63b98] [c0455ac8] proc_single_show+0x98/0x170
  [daa63bc8] [c03cab8c] seq_read_iter+0x1ec/0x900
  [daa63c38] [c03cb47c] seq_read+0x1dc/0x290
  [daa63d68] [c037fc94] vfs_read+0x164/0x510
  [daa63ea8] [c03808e4] ksys_read+0x144/0x1d0
  [daa63f38] [c005b1dc] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38
  --- interrupt: c00 at 0x8fa8f4
      LR = 0x8fa8cc

  The buggy address belongs to the page:
  page:98ebcdd2 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000 index:0x2 pfn:0x1216f
  flags: 0x0()
  raw: 00000000 00000000 01010122 00000000 00000002 00000000 ffffffff 00000000
  raw: 00000000
  page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

  Memory state around the buggy address:
   d216f800: 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
   d216f880: f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  &gt;d216f900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00
                                            ^
   d216f980: f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
   d216fa00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

After looking into this issue, I find the buggy address belongs
to the task stack region. It seems KASAN has something wrong.
I look into the code of __get_wchan in x86 architecture and
find the same issue has been resolved by the commit
f7d27c35ddff ("x86/mm, kasan: Silence KASAN warnings in get_wchan()").
The solution could be applied to powerpc architecture too.

As Andrey Ryabinin said, get_wchan() is racy by design, it may
access volatile stack of running task, thus it may access
redzone in a stack frame and cause KASAN to warn about this.

Use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() to silence these warnings.

Reported-by: Wanming Hu &lt;huwanming@huaweil.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: He Ying &lt;heying24@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chen Jingwen &lt;chenjingwen6@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220121014418.155675-1-heying24@huawei.com

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The following KASAN warning was reported in our kernel.

  BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in get_wchan+0x188/0x250
  Read of size 4 at addr d216f958 by task ps/14437

  CPU: 3 PID: 14437 Comm: ps Tainted: G           O      5.10.0 #1
  Call Trace:
  [daa63858] [c0654348] dump_stack+0x9c/0xe4 (unreliable)
  [daa63888] [c035cf0c] print_address_description.constprop.3+0x8c/0x570
  [daa63908] [c035d6bc] kasan_report+0x1ac/0x218
  [daa63948] [c00496e8] get_wchan+0x188/0x250
  [daa63978] [c0461ec8] do_task_stat+0xce8/0xe60
  [daa63b98] [c0455ac8] proc_single_show+0x98/0x170
  [daa63bc8] [c03cab8c] seq_read_iter+0x1ec/0x900
  [daa63c38] [c03cb47c] seq_read+0x1dc/0x290
  [daa63d68] [c037fc94] vfs_read+0x164/0x510
  [daa63ea8] [c03808e4] ksys_read+0x144/0x1d0
  [daa63f38] [c005b1dc] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38
  --- interrupt: c00 at 0x8fa8f4
      LR = 0x8fa8cc

  The buggy address belongs to the page:
  page:98ebcdd2 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000 index:0x2 pfn:0x1216f
  flags: 0x0()
  raw: 00000000 00000000 01010122 00000000 00000002 00000000 ffffffff 00000000
  raw: 00000000
  page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

  Memory state around the buggy address:
   d216f800: 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
   d216f880: f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  &gt;d216f900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00
                                            ^
   d216f980: f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
   d216fa00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

After looking into this issue, I find the buggy address belongs
to the task stack region. It seems KASAN has something wrong.
I look into the code of __get_wchan in x86 architecture and
find the same issue has been resolved by the commit
f7d27c35ddff ("x86/mm, kasan: Silence KASAN warnings in get_wchan()").
The solution could be applied to powerpc architecture too.

As Andrey Ryabinin said, get_wchan() is racy by design, it may
access volatile stack of running task, thus it may access
redzone in a stack frame and cause KASAN to warn about this.

Use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() to silence these warnings.

Reported-by: Wanming Hu &lt;huwanming@huaweil.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: He Ying &lt;heying24@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chen Jingwen &lt;chenjingwen6@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220121014418.155675-1-heying24@huawei.com

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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove asm/prom.h from all files that don't need it</title>
<updated>2022-05-08T12:15:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-08T19:20:24+00:00</published>
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Several files include asm/prom.h for no reason.

Clean it up.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
[mpe: Drop change to prom_parse.c as reported by lkp@intel.com]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7c9b8fda63dcf63e1b28f43e7ebdb95182cbc286.1646767214.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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Several files include asm/prom.h for no reason.

Clean it up.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
[mpe: Drop change to prom_parse.c as reported by lkp@intel.com]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7c9b8fda63dcf63e1b28f43e7ebdb95182cbc286.1646767214.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling</title>
<updated>2022-05-07T14:01:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-12T15:18:48+00:00</published>
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Add fn and fn_arg members into struct kernel_clone_args and test for
them in copy_thread (instead of testing for PF_KTHREAD | PF_IO_WORKER).
This allows any task that wants to be a user space task that only runs
in kernel mode to use this functionality.

The code on x86 is an exception and still retains a PF_KTHREAD test
because x86 unlikely everything else handles kthreads slightly
differently than user space tasks that start with a function.

The functions that created tasks that start with a function
have been updated to set ".fn" and ".fn_arg" instead of
".stack" and ".stack_size".  These functions are fork_idle(),
create_io_thread(), kernel_thread(), and user_mode_thread().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-4-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Add fn and fn_arg members into struct kernel_clone_args and test for
them in copy_thread (instead of testing for PF_KTHREAD | PF_IO_WORKER).
This allows any task that wants to be a user space task that only runs
in kernel mode to use this functionality.

The code on x86 is an exception and still retains a PF_KTHREAD test
because x86 unlikely everything else handles kthreads slightly
differently than user space tasks that start with a function.

The functions that created tasks that start with a function
have been updated to set ".fn" and ".fn_arg" instead of
".stack" and ".stack_size".  These functions are fork_idle(),
create_io_thread(), kernel_thread(), and user_mode_thread().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-4-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread</title>
<updated>2022-05-07T14:01:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-08T23:07:50+00:00</published>
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With io_uring we have started supporting tasks that are for most
purposes user space tasks that exclusively run code in kernel mode.

The kernel task that exec's init and tasks that exec user mode
helpers are also user mode tasks that just run kernel code
until they call kernel execve.

Pass kernel_clone_args into copy_thread so these oddball
tasks can be supported more cleanly and easily.

v2: Fix spelling of kenrel_clone_args on h8300
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-2-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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With io_uring we have started supporting tasks that are for most
purposes user space tasks that exclusively run code in kernel mode.

The kernel task that exec's init and tasks that exec user mode
helpers are also user mode tasks that just run kernel code
until they call kernel execve.

Pass kernel_clone_args into copy_thread so these oddball
tasks can be supported more cleanly and easily.

v2: Fix spelling of kenrel_clone_args on h8300
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-2-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: fix typos in comments</title>
<updated>2022-05-05T12:12:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julia Lawall</name>
<email>Julia.Lawall@inria.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-30T18:56:54+00:00</published>
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Various spelling mistakes in comments.
Detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@inria.fr&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220430185654.5855-1-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr

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Various spelling mistakes in comments.
Detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@inria.fr&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley &lt;joel@jms.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220430185654.5855-1-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Simplify and move arch_randomize_brk()</title>
<updated>2022-05-05T12:11:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-09T17:17:37+00:00</published>
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arch_randomize_brk() is only needed for hash on book3s/64, for other
platforms the one provided by the default mmap layout is good enough.

Move it to hash_utils.c and use randomize_page() like the generic one.

And properly opt out the radix case instead of making an assumption
on mmu_highuser_ssize.

Also change to a 32M range like most other architectures instead of 8M.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eafa4d18ec8ac7b98dd02b40181e61643707cc7c.1649523076.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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arch_randomize_brk() is only needed for hash on book3s/64, for other
platforms the one provided by the default mmap layout is good enough.

Move it to hash_utils.c and use randomize_page() like the generic one.

And properly opt out the radix case instead of making an assumption
on mmu_highuser_ssize.

Also change to a 32M range like most other architectures instead of 8M.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eafa4d18ec8ac7b98dd02b40181e61643707cc7c.1649523076.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/inst: Define ppc_inst_t</title>
<updated>2021-12-09T11:41:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-29T17:49:38+00:00</published>
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In order to stop using 'struct ppc_inst' on PPC32,
define a ppc_inst_t typedef.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fe5baa2c66fea9db05a8b300b3e8d2880a42596c.1638208156.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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In order to stop using 'struct ppc_inst' on PPC32,
define a ppc_inst_t typedef.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fe5baa2c66fea9db05a8b300b3e8d2880a42596c.1638208156.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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