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<title>linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64, branch v5.6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc: Fix vDSO clock_getres()</title>
<updated>2019-12-04T13:13:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincenzo Frascino</name>
<email>vincenzo.frascino@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-02T07:57:29+00:00</published>
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clock_getres in the vDSO library has to preserve the same behaviour
of posix_get_hrtimer_res().

In particular, posix_get_hrtimer_res() does:
    sec = 0;
    ns = hrtimer_resolution;
and hrtimer_resolution depends on the enablement of the high
resolution timers that can happen either at compile or at run time.

Fix the powerpc vdso implementation of clock_getres keeping a copy of
hrtimer_resolution in vdso data and using that directly.

Fixes: a7f290dad32e ("[PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernel")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[chleroy: changed CLOCK_REALTIME_RES to CLOCK_HRTIMER_RES]
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a55eca3a5e85233838c2349783bcb5164dae1d09.1575273217.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
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clock_getres in the vDSO library has to preserve the same behaviour
of posix_get_hrtimer_res().

In particular, posix_get_hrtimer_res() does:
    sec = 0;
    ns = hrtimer_resolution;
and hrtimer_resolution depends on the enablement of the high
resolution timers that can happen either at compile or at run time.

Fix the powerpc vdso implementation of clock_getres keeping a copy of
hrtimer_resolution in vdso data and using that directly.

Fixes: a7f290dad32e ("[PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernel")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[chleroy: changed CLOCK_REALTIME_RES to CLOCK_HRTIMER_RES]
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a55eca3a5e85233838c2349783bcb5164dae1d09.1575273217.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'y2038-cleanups-5.5' of git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground</title>
<updated>2019-12-01T22:00:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-01T22:00:59+00:00</published>
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Pull y2038 cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
 "y2038 syscall implementation cleanups

  This is a series of cleanups for the y2038 work, mostly intended for
  namespace cleaning: the kernel defines the traditional time_t, timeval
  and timespec types that often lead to y2038-unsafe code. Even though
  the unsafe usage is mostly gone from the kernel, having the types and
  associated functions around means that we can still grow new users,
  and that we may be missing conversions to safe types that actually
  matter.

  There are still a number of driver specific patches needed to get the
  last users of these types removed, those have been submitted to the
  respective maintainers"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191108210236.1296047-1-arnd@arndb.de/

* tag 'y2038-cleanups-5.5' of git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground: (26 commits)
  y2038: alarm: fix half-second cut-off
  y2038: ipc: fix x32 ABI breakage
  y2038: fix typo in powerpc vdso "LOPART"
  y2038: allow disabling time32 system calls
  y2038: itimer: change implementation to timespec64
  y2038: move itimer reset into itimer.c
  y2038: use compat_{get,set}_itimer on alpha
  y2038: itimer: compat handling to itimer.c
  y2038: time: avoid timespec usage in settimeofday()
  y2038: timerfd: Use timespec64 internally
  y2038: elfcore: Use __kernel_old_timeval for process times
  y2038: make ns_to_compat_timeval use __kernel_old_timeval
  y2038: socket: use __kernel_old_timespec instead of timespec
  y2038: socket: remove timespec reference in timestamping
  y2038: syscalls: change remaining timeval to __kernel_old_timeval
  y2038: rusage: use __kernel_old_timeval
  y2038: uapi: change __kernel_time_t to __kernel_old_time_t
  y2038: stat: avoid 'time_t' in 'struct stat'
  y2038: ipc: remove __kernel_time_t reference from headers
  y2038: vdso: powerpc: avoid timespec references
  ...
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Pull y2038 cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
 "y2038 syscall implementation cleanups

  This is a series of cleanups for the y2038 work, mostly intended for
  namespace cleaning: the kernel defines the traditional time_t, timeval
  and timespec types that often lead to y2038-unsafe code. Even though
  the unsafe usage is mostly gone from the kernel, having the types and
  associated functions around means that we can still grow new users,
  and that we may be missing conversions to safe types that actually
  matter.

  There are still a number of driver specific patches needed to get the
  last users of these types removed, those have been submitted to the
  respective maintainers"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191108210236.1296047-1-arnd@arndb.de/

* tag 'y2038-cleanups-5.5' of git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground: (26 commits)
  y2038: alarm: fix half-second cut-off
  y2038: ipc: fix x32 ABI breakage
  y2038: fix typo in powerpc vdso "LOPART"
  y2038: allow disabling time32 system calls
  y2038: itimer: change implementation to timespec64
  y2038: move itimer reset into itimer.c
  y2038: use compat_{get,set}_itimer on alpha
  y2038: itimer: compat handling to itimer.c
  y2038: time: avoid timespec usage in settimeofday()
  y2038: timerfd: Use timespec64 internally
  y2038: elfcore: Use __kernel_old_timeval for process times
  y2038: make ns_to_compat_timeval use __kernel_old_timeval
  y2038: socket: use __kernel_old_timespec instead of timespec
  y2038: socket: remove timespec reference in timestamping
  y2038: syscalls: change remaining timeval to __kernel_old_timeval
  y2038: rusage: use __kernel_old_timeval
  y2038: uapi: change __kernel_time_t to __kernel_old_time_t
  y2038: stat: avoid 'time_t' in 'struct stat'
  y2038: ipc: remove __kernel_time_t reference from headers
  y2038: vdso: powerpc: avoid timespec references
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>y2038: vdso: powerpc: avoid timespec references</title>
<updated>2019-11-15T13:38:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-27T16:26:55+00:00</published>
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As a preparation to stop using 'struct timespec' in the kernel,
change the powerpc vdso implementation:

- split up the vdso data definition to have equivalent members
   for seconds and nanoseconds instead of an xtime structure

- use timespec64 as an intermediate for the xtime update

- change the asm-offsets definition to be based the appropriate
  fixed-length types

This is only a temporary fix for changing the types, in order
to actually support a 64-bit safe vdso32 version of clock_gettime(),
the entire powerpc vdso should be replaced with the generic
lib/vdso/ implementation. If that happens first, this patch
becomes obsolete.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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As a preparation to stop using 'struct timespec' in the kernel,
change the powerpc vdso implementation:

- split up the vdso data definition to have equivalent members
   for seconds and nanoseconds instead of an xtime structure

- use timespec64 as an intermediate for the xtime update

- change the asm-offsets definition to be based the appropriate
  fixed-length types

This is only a temporary fix for changing the types, in order
to actually support a 64-bit safe vdso32 version of clock_gettime(),
the entire powerpc vdso should be replaced with the generic
lib/vdso/ implementation. If that happens first, this patch
becomes obsolete.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Allow 64bit VDSO __kernel_sync_dicache to work across ranges &gt;4GB</title>
<updated>2019-11-07T11:48:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alastair D'Silva</name>
<email>alastair@d-silva.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-04T02:32:54+00:00</published>
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When calling __kernel_sync_dicache with a size &gt;4GB, we were masking
off the upper 32 bits, so we would incorrectly flush a range smaller
than intended.

This patch replaces the 32 bit shifts with 64 bit ones, so that
the full size is accounted for.

Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva &lt;alastair@d-silva.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191104023305.9581-3-alastair@au1.ibm.com
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When calling __kernel_sync_dicache with a size &gt;4GB, we were masking
off the upper 32 bits, so we would incorrectly flush a range smaller
than intended.

This patch replaces the 32 bit shifts with 64 bit ones, so that
the full size is accounted for.

Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva &lt;alastair@d-silva.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191104023305.9581-3-alastair@au1.ibm.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1a59d1b8e05ea6ab45f7e18897de1ef0e6bc3da6'/>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
  59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
  59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2874c5fd284268364ece81a7bd936f3c8168e567'/>
<id>2874c5fd284268364ece81a7bd936f3c8168e567</id>
<content type='text'>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/vdso: Drop unnecessary cc-ldoption</title>
<updated>2019-05-01T00:49:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-23T21:11:14+00:00</published>
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Towards the goal of removing cc-ldoption, it seems that --hash-style=
was added to binutils 2.17.50.0.2 in 2006. The minimal required
version of binutils for the kernel according to
Documentation/process/changes.rst is 2.20.

Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
Towards the goal of removing cc-ldoption, it seems that --hash-style=
was added to binutils 2.17.50.0.2 in 2006. The minimal required
version of binutils for the kernel according to
Documentation/process/changes.rst is 2.20.

Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/vdso64: Fix CLOCK_MONOTONIC inconsistencies across Y2038</title>
<updated>2019-03-18T08:26:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-13T13:14:38+00:00</published>
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Jakub Drnec reported:
  Setting the realtime clock can sometimes make the monotonic clock go
  back by over a hundred years. Decreasing the realtime clock across
  the y2k38 threshold is one reliable way to reproduce. Allegedly this
  can also happen just by running ntpd, I have not managed to
  reproduce that other than booting with rtc at &gt;2038 and then running
  ntp. When this happens, anything with timers (e.g. openjdk) breaks
  rather badly.

And included a test case (slightly edited for brevity):
  #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309L
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;time.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
  #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

  long get_time(void) {
    struct timespec tp;
    clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &amp;tp);
    return tp.tv_sec + tp.tv_nsec / 1000000000;
  }

  int main(void) {
    long last = get_time();
    while(1) {
      long now = get_time();
      if (now &lt; last) {
        printf("clock went backwards by %ld seconds!\n", last - now);
      }
      last = now;
      sleep(1);
    }
    return 0;
  }

Which when run concurrently with:
 # date -s 2040-1-1
 # date -s 2037-1-1

Will detect the clock going backward.

The root cause is that wtom_clock_sec in struct vdso_data is only a
32-bit signed value, even though we set its value to be equal to
tk-&gt;wall_to_monotonic.tv_sec which is 64-bits.

Because the monotonic clock starts at zero when the system boots the
wall_to_montonic.tv_sec offset is negative for current and future
dates. Currently on a freshly booted system the offset will be in the
vicinity of negative 1.5 billion seconds.

However if the wall clock is set past the Y2038 boundary, the offset
from wall to monotonic becomes less than negative 2^31, and no longer
fits in 32-bits. When that value is assigned to wtom_clock_sec it is
truncated and becomes positive, causing the VDSO assembly code to
calculate CLOCK_MONOTONIC incorrectly.

That causes CLOCK_MONOTONIC to jump ahead by ~4 billion seconds which
it is not meant to do. Worse, if the time is then set back before the
Y2038 boundary CLOCK_MONOTONIC will jump backward.

We can fix it simply by storing the full 64-bit offset in the
vdso_data, and using that in the VDSO assembly code. We also shuffle
some of the fields in vdso_data to avoid creating a hole.

The original commit that added the CLOCK_MONOTONIC support to the VDSO
did actually use a 64-bit value for wtom_clock_sec, see commit
a7f290dad32e ("[PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to
32 bits kernel") (Nov 2005). However just 3 days later it was
converted to 32-bits in commit 0c37ec2aa88b ("[PATCH] powerpc: vdso
fixes (take #2)"), and the bug has existed since then AFAICS.

Fixes: 0c37ec2aa88b ("[PATCH] powerpc: vdso fixes (take #2)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.15+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/HaC.ZfES.62bwlnvAvMP.1STMMj@seznam.cz
Reported-by: Jakub Drnec &lt;jaydee@email.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
Jakub Drnec reported:
  Setting the realtime clock can sometimes make the monotonic clock go
  back by over a hundred years. Decreasing the realtime clock across
  the y2k38 threshold is one reliable way to reproduce. Allegedly this
  can also happen just by running ntpd, I have not managed to
  reproduce that other than booting with rtc at &gt;2038 and then running
  ntp. When this happens, anything with timers (e.g. openjdk) breaks
  rather badly.

And included a test case (slightly edited for brevity):
  #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309L
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;time.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
  #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

  long get_time(void) {
    struct timespec tp;
    clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &amp;tp);
    return tp.tv_sec + tp.tv_nsec / 1000000000;
  }

  int main(void) {
    long last = get_time();
    while(1) {
      long now = get_time();
      if (now &lt; last) {
        printf("clock went backwards by %ld seconds!\n", last - now);
      }
      last = now;
      sleep(1);
    }
    return 0;
  }

Which when run concurrently with:
 # date -s 2040-1-1
 # date -s 2037-1-1

Will detect the clock going backward.

The root cause is that wtom_clock_sec in struct vdso_data is only a
32-bit signed value, even though we set its value to be equal to
tk-&gt;wall_to_monotonic.tv_sec which is 64-bits.

Because the monotonic clock starts at zero when the system boots the
wall_to_montonic.tv_sec offset is negative for current and future
dates. Currently on a freshly booted system the offset will be in the
vicinity of negative 1.5 billion seconds.

However if the wall clock is set past the Y2038 boundary, the offset
from wall to monotonic becomes less than negative 2^31, and no longer
fits in 32-bits. When that value is assigned to wtom_clock_sec it is
truncated and becomes positive, causing the VDSO assembly code to
calculate CLOCK_MONOTONIC incorrectly.

That causes CLOCK_MONOTONIC to jump ahead by ~4 billion seconds which
it is not meant to do. Worse, if the time is then set back before the
Y2038 boundary CLOCK_MONOTONIC will jump backward.

We can fix it simply by storing the full 64-bit offset in the
vdso_data, and using that in the VDSO assembly code. We also shuffle
some of the fields in vdso_data to avoid creating a hole.

The original commit that added the CLOCK_MONOTONIC support to the VDSO
did actually use a 64-bit value for wtom_clock_sec, see commit
a7f290dad32e ("[PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to
32 bits kernel") (Nov 2005). However just 3 days later it was
converted to 32-bits in commit 0c37ec2aa88b ("[PATCH] powerpc: vdso
fixes (take #2)"), and the bug has existed since then AFAICS.

Fixes: 0c37ec2aa88b ("[PATCH] powerpc: vdso fixes (take #2)")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.15+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/HaC.ZfES.62bwlnvAvMP.1STMMj@seznam.cz
Reported-by: Jakub Drnec &lt;jaydee@email.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Enable kcov</title>
<updated>2019-02-23T10:04:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Donnellan</name>
<email>andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-22T00:40:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fb0b0a73b223fc113e961b1d921322844e9c30d9'/>
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kcov provides kernel coverage data that's useful for fuzzing tools like
syzkaller.

Wire up kcov support on powerpc. Disable kcov instrumentation on the same
files where we currently disable gcov and UBSan instrumentation, plus some
additional exclusions which appear necessary to boot on book3e machines.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt; # e6500
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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kcov provides kernel coverage data that's useful for fuzzing tools like
syzkaller.

Wire up kcov support on powerpc. Disable kcov instrumentation on the same
files where we currently disable gcov and UBSan instrumentation, plus some
additional exclusions which appear necessary to boot on book3e machines.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt; # e6500
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/vdso: Correct call frame information</title>
<updated>2018-09-14T03:47:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Modra</name>
<email>amodra@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-14T03:40:04+00:00</published>
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Call Frame Information is used by gdb for back-traces and inserting
breakpoints on function return for the "finish" command.  This failed
when inside __kernel_clock_gettime.  More concerning than difficulty
debugging is that CFI is also used by stack frame unwinding code to
implement exceptions.  If you have an app that needs to handle
asynchronous exceptions for some reason, and you are unlucky enough to
get one inside the VDSO time functions, your app will crash.

What's wrong:  There is control flow in __kernel_clock_gettime that
reaches label 99 without saving lr in r12.  CFI info however is
interpreted by the unwinder without reference to control flow: It's a
simple matter of "Execute all the CFI opcodes up to the current
address".  That means the unwinder thinks r12 contains the return
address at label 99.  Disabuse it of that notion by resetting CFI for
the return address at label 99.

Note that the ".cfi_restore lr" could have gone anywhere from the
"mtlr r12" a few instructions earlier to the instruction at label 99.
I put the CFI as late as possible, because in general that's best
practice (and if possible grouped with other CFI in order to reduce
the number of CFI opcodes executed when unwinding).  Using r12 as the
return address is perfectly fine after the "mtlr r12" since r12 on
that code path still contains the return address.

__get_datapage also has a CFI error.  That function temporarily saves
lr in r0, and reflects that fact with ".cfi_register lr,r0".  A later
use of r0 means the CFI at that point isn't correct, as r0 no longer
contains the return address.  Fix that too.

Signed-off-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Reza Arbab &lt;arbab@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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Call Frame Information is used by gdb for back-traces and inserting
breakpoints on function return for the "finish" command.  This failed
when inside __kernel_clock_gettime.  More concerning than difficulty
debugging is that CFI is also used by stack frame unwinding code to
implement exceptions.  If you have an app that needs to handle
asynchronous exceptions for some reason, and you are unlucky enough to
get one inside the VDSO time functions, your app will crash.

What's wrong:  There is control flow in __kernel_clock_gettime that
reaches label 99 without saving lr in r12.  CFI info however is
interpreted by the unwinder without reference to control flow: It's a
simple matter of "Execute all the CFI opcodes up to the current
address".  That means the unwinder thinks r12 contains the return
address at label 99.  Disabuse it of that notion by resetting CFI for
the return address at label 99.

Note that the ".cfi_restore lr" could have gone anywhere from the
"mtlr r12" a few instructions earlier to the instruction at label 99.
I put the CFI as late as possible, because in general that's best
practice (and if possible grouped with other CFI in order to reduce
the number of CFI opcodes executed when unwinding).  Using r12 as the
return address is perfectly fine after the "mtlr r12" since r12 on
that code path still contains the return address.

__get_datapage also has a CFI error.  That function temporarily saves
lr in r0, and reflects that fact with ".cfi_register lr,r0".  A later
use of r0 means the CFI at that point isn't correct, as r0 no longer
contains the return address.  Fix that too.

Signed-off-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Reza Arbab &lt;arbab@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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</content>
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