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<title>Merge branch 'gup_flag-cleanups'</title>
<updated>2016-10-19T15:39:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-19T15:39:47+00:00</published>
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Merge the gup_flags cleanups from Lorenzo Stoakes:
 "This patch series adjusts functions in the get_user_pages* family such
  that desired FOLL_* flags are passed as an argument rather than
  implied by flags.

  The purpose of this change is to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit
  so it is easier to grep for and clearer to callers that this flag is
  being used.  The use of FOLL_FORCE is an issue as it overrides missing
  VM_READ/VM_WRITE flags for the VMA whose pages we are reading
  from/writing to, which can result in surprising behaviour.

  The patch series came out of the discussion around commit 38e088546522
  ("mm: check VMA flags to avoid invalid PROT_NONE NUMA balancing"),
  which addressed a BUG_ON() being triggered when a page was faulted in
  with PROT_NONE set but having been overridden by FOLL_FORCE.
  do_numa_page() was run on the assumption the page _must_ be one marked
  for NUMA node migration as an actual PROT_NONE page would have been
  dealt with prior to this code path, however FOLL_FORCE introduced a
  situation where this assumption did not hold.

  See

      https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&amp;m=147585445805166

  for the patch proposal"

Additionally, there's a fix for an ancient bug related to FOLL_FORCE and
FOLL_WRITE by me.

[ This branch was rebased recently to add a few more acked-by's and
  reviewed-by's ]

* gup_flag-cleanups:
  mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
  mm: replace access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
  mm: replace __access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages_remote() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_vaddr_frames() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages_locked() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages_unlocked() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_unlocked()
  mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_locked()
  mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages()
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Merge the gup_flags cleanups from Lorenzo Stoakes:
 "This patch series adjusts functions in the get_user_pages* family such
  that desired FOLL_* flags are passed as an argument rather than
  implied by flags.

  The purpose of this change is to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit
  so it is easier to grep for and clearer to callers that this flag is
  being used.  The use of FOLL_FORCE is an issue as it overrides missing
  VM_READ/VM_WRITE flags for the VMA whose pages we are reading
  from/writing to, which can result in surprising behaviour.

  The patch series came out of the discussion around commit 38e088546522
  ("mm: check VMA flags to avoid invalid PROT_NONE NUMA balancing"),
  which addressed a BUG_ON() being triggered when a page was faulted in
  with PROT_NONE set but having been overridden by FOLL_FORCE.
  do_numa_page() was run on the assumption the page _must_ be one marked
  for NUMA node migration as an actual PROT_NONE page would have been
  dealt with prior to this code path, however FOLL_FORCE introduced a
  situation where this assumption did not hold.

  See

      https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&amp;m=147585445805166

  for the patch proposal"

Additionally, there's a fix for an ancient bug related to FOLL_FORCE and
FOLL_WRITE by me.

[ This branch was rebased recently to add a few more acked-by's and
  reviewed-by's ]

* gup_flag-cleanups:
  mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
  mm: replace access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
  mm: replace __access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages_remote() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_vaddr_frames() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages_locked() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages_unlocked() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_unlocked()
  mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_locked()
  mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages()
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<entry>
<title>mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flags</title>
<updated>2016-10-19T15:31:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lstoakes@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-13T00:20:20+00:00</published>
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This removes the 'write' argument from access_process_vm() and replaces
it with 'gup_flags' as use of this function previously silently implied
FOLL_FORCE, whereas after this patch callers explicitly pass this flag.

We make this explicit as use of FOLL_FORCE can result in surprising
behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This removes the 'write' argument from access_process_vm() and replaces
it with 'gup_flags' as use of this function previously silently implied
FOLL_FORCE, whereas after this patch callers explicitly pass this flag.

We make this explicit as use of FOLL_FORCE can result in surprising
behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2016-10-15T17:03:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-15T17:03:15+00:00</published>
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Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
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Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild</title>
<updated>2016-10-14T21:26:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-14T21:26:58+00:00</published>
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.

   This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
   checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
   working on a patch to fix this.

   Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
   change prototypes.

 - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
   Piggin

 - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.

 - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
   -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections

 - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell

 - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
  initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
  ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
  powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
  kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
  kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
  kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
  kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
  kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
  kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
  fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
  ia64: move exports to definitions
  sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
  [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
  sparc: move exports to definitions
  ppc: move exports to definitions
  arm: move exports to definitions
  s390: move exports to definitions
  m68k: move exports to definitions
  alpha: move exports to actual definitions
  x86: move exports to actual definitions
  ...
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.

   This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
   checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
   working on a patch to fix this.

   Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
   change prototypes.

 - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
   Piggin

 - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.

 - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
   -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections

 - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell

 - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
  initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
  ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
  powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
  kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
  kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
  kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
  kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
  kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
  kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
  fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
  ia64: move exports to definitions
  sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
  [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
  sparc: move exports to definitions
  ppc: move exports to definitions
  arm: move exports to definitions
  s390: move exports to definitions
  m68k: move exports to definitions
  alpha: move exports to actual definitions
  x86: move exports to actual definitions
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.9-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2016-10-14T18:07:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-14T18:07:42+00:00</published>
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Pull more powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Some more powerpc updates for 4.9:

  Freescale updates from Scott Wood:
   - qbman support (a prerequisite for datapath drivers such as ethernet)
   - a PCI DMA fix+improvement
   - reset handler changes
   - more 8xx optimizations
   - some cleanups and fixes.'

  Fixes:
   - selftests/powerpc: Add missing binaries to .gitignores (Michael Ellerman)
   - selftests/powerpc: Fix build break caused by EXPORT_SYMBOL changes (Michael Ellerman)
   - powerpc/pseries: Fix stack corruption in htpe code (Laurent Dufour)
   - powerpc/64s: Fix power4_fixup_nap placement (Nicholas Piggin)
   - powerpc/64: Fix incorrect return value from __copy_tofrom_user (Paul Mackerras)
   - powerpc/mm/hash64: Fix might_have_hea() check (Michael Ellerman)

  Other:
   - MAINTAINERS: Remove myself from PA Semi entries (Olof Johansson)
   - MAINTAINERS: Drop separate pseries entry (Michael Ellerman)
   - MAINTAINERS: Update powerpc website &amp; add selftests (Michael Ellerman):

* tag 'powerpc-4.9-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (35 commits)
  powerpc/mm/hash64: Fix might_have_hea() check
  powerpc/64: Fix incorrect return value from __copy_tofrom_user
  powerpc/64s: Fix power4_fixup_nap placement
  powerpc/pseries: Fix stack corruption in htpe code
  selftests/powerpc: Fix build break caused by EXPORT_SYMBOL changes
  MAINTAINERS: Update powerpc website &amp; add selftests
  MAINTAINERS: Drop separate pseries entry
  MAINTAINERS: Remove myself from PA Semi entries
  selftests/powerpc: Add missing binaries to .gitignores
  arch/powerpc: Add CONFIG_FSL_DPAA to corenetXX_smp_defconfig
  soc/qman: Add self-test for QMan driver
  soc/bman: Add self-test for BMan driver
  soc/fsl: Introduce DPAA 1.x QMan device driver
  soc/fsl: Introduce DPAA 1.x BMan device driver
  powerpc/8xx: make user addr DTLB miss the short path
  powerpc/8xx: Move additional DTLBMiss handlers out of exception area
  powerpc/8xx: use r3 to scratch CR in ITLBmiss
  soc/fsl/qe: fix gpio save_regs functions
  powerpc/8xx: add dedicated machine check handler
  powerpc/8xx: add system_reset_exception
  ...
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Pull more powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Some more powerpc updates for 4.9:

  Freescale updates from Scott Wood:
   - qbman support (a prerequisite for datapath drivers such as ethernet)
   - a PCI DMA fix+improvement
   - reset handler changes
   - more 8xx optimizations
   - some cleanups and fixes.'

  Fixes:
   - selftests/powerpc: Add missing binaries to .gitignores (Michael Ellerman)
   - selftests/powerpc: Fix build break caused by EXPORT_SYMBOL changes (Michael Ellerman)
   - powerpc/pseries: Fix stack corruption in htpe code (Laurent Dufour)
   - powerpc/64s: Fix power4_fixup_nap placement (Nicholas Piggin)
   - powerpc/64: Fix incorrect return value from __copy_tofrom_user (Paul Mackerras)
   - powerpc/mm/hash64: Fix might_have_hea() check (Michael Ellerman)

  Other:
   - MAINTAINERS: Remove myself from PA Semi entries (Olof Johansson)
   - MAINTAINERS: Drop separate pseries entry (Michael Ellerman)
   - MAINTAINERS: Update powerpc website &amp; add selftests (Michael Ellerman):

* tag 'powerpc-4.9-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (35 commits)
  powerpc/mm/hash64: Fix might_have_hea() check
  powerpc/64: Fix incorrect return value from __copy_tofrom_user
  powerpc/64s: Fix power4_fixup_nap placement
  powerpc/pseries: Fix stack corruption in htpe code
  selftests/powerpc: Fix build break caused by EXPORT_SYMBOL changes
  MAINTAINERS: Update powerpc website &amp; add selftests
  MAINTAINERS: Drop separate pseries entry
  MAINTAINERS: Remove myself from PA Semi entries
  selftests/powerpc: Add missing binaries to .gitignores
  arch/powerpc: Add CONFIG_FSL_DPAA to corenetXX_smp_defconfig
  soc/qman: Add self-test for QMan driver
  soc/bman: Add self-test for BMan driver
  soc/fsl: Introduce DPAA 1.x QMan device driver
  soc/fsl: Introduce DPAA 1.x BMan device driver
  powerpc/8xx: make user addr DTLB miss the short path
  powerpc/8xx: Move additional DTLBMiss handlers out of exception area
  powerpc/8xx: use r3 to scratch CR in ITLBmiss
  soc/fsl/qe: fix gpio save_regs functions
  powerpc/8xx: add dedicated machine check handler
  powerpc/8xx: add system_reset_exception
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: implement the DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN attribute</title>
<updated>2016-10-11T22:06:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauricio Faria de Oliveira</name>
<email>mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-11T20:54:17+00:00</published>
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Add support for the DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN attribute on powerpc iommu code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470092390-25451-3-git-send-email-mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;k.kozlowski@samsung.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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Add support for the DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN attribute on powerpc iommu code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470092390-25451-3-git-send-email-mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;k.kozlowski@samsung.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>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Fix power4_fixup_nap placement</title>
<updated>2016-10-11T10:28:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-11T07:47:56+00:00</published>
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power4_fixup_nap is called from the "common" handlers, not the virt/real
handlers, therefore it should itself be a common handler. Placing it
down in the trampoline space caused it to go out of reach of its
callers, requiring a trampoline inserted at the start of the text
section, which breaks the fixed section address calculations.

Fixes: da2bc4644c75 ("powerpc/64s: Add new exception vector macros")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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power4_fixup_nap is called from the "common" handlers, not the virt/real
handlers, therefore it should itself be a common handler. Placing it
down in the trampoline space caused it to go out of reach of its
callers, requiring a trampoline inserted at the start of the text
section, which breaks the fixed section address calculations.

Fixes: da2bc4644c75 ("powerpc/64s: Add new exception vector macros")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/scottwood/linux into next</title>
<updated>2016-10-11T09:07:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-11T09:07:56+00:00</published>
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Freescale updates from Scott:

"Highlights include qbman support (a prerequisite for datapath drivers
such as ethernet), a PCI DMA fix+improvement, reset handler changes, more
8xx optimizations, and some cleanups and fixes."
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Freescale updates from Scott:

"Highlights include qbman support (a prerequisite for datapath drivers
such as ethernet), a PCI DMA fix+improvement, reset handler changes, more
8xx optimizations, and some cleanups and fixes."
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin</title>
<updated>2016-10-10T21:51:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emese Revfy</name>
<email>re.emese@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-20T18:41:19+00:00</published>
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This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as
possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation
(due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering,
thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for
how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals.

The need for very-early boot entropy tends to be very architecture or
system design specific, so this plugin is more suited for those sorts
of special cases. The existing kernel RNG already attempts to extract
entropy from reliable runtime variation, but this plugin takes the idea to
a logical extreme by permuting a global variable based on any variation
in code execution (e.g. a different value (and permutation function)
is used to permute the global based on loop count, case statement,
if/then/else branching, etc).

To do this, the plugin starts by inserting a local variable in every
marked function. The plugin then adds logic so that the value of this
variable is modified by randomly chosen operations (add, xor and rol) and
random values (gcc generates separate static values for each location at
compile time and also injects the stack pointer at runtime). The resulting
value depends on the control flow path (e.g., loops and branches taken).

Before the function returns, the plugin mixes this local variable into
the latent_entropy global variable. The value of this global variable
is added to the kernel entropy pool in do_one_initcall() and _do_fork(),
though it does not credit any bytes of entropy to the pool; the contents
of the global are just used to mix the pool.

Additionally, the plugin can pre-initialize arrays with build-time
random contents, so that two different kernel builds running on identical
hardware will not have the same starting values.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
[kees: expanded commit message and code comments]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as
possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation
(due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering,
thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for
how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals.

The need for very-early boot entropy tends to be very architecture or
system design specific, so this plugin is more suited for those sorts
of special cases. The existing kernel RNG already attempts to extract
entropy from reliable runtime variation, but this plugin takes the idea to
a logical extreme by permuting a global variable based on any variation
in code execution (e.g. a different value (and permutation function)
is used to permute the global based on loop count, case statement,
if/then/else branching, etc).

To do this, the plugin starts by inserting a local variable in every
marked function. The plugin then adds logic so that the value of this
variable is modified by randomly chosen operations (add, xor and rol) and
random values (gcc generates separate static values for each location at
compile time and also injects the stack pointer at runtime). The resulting
value depends on the control flow path (e.g., loops and branches taken).

Before the function returns, the plugin mixes this local variable into
the latent_entropy global variable. The value of this global variable
is added to the kernel entropy pool in do_one_initcall() and _do_fork(),
though it does not credit any bytes of entropy to the pool; the contents
of the global are just used to mix the pool.

Additionally, the plugin can pre-initialize arrays with build-time
random contents, so that two different kernel builds running on identical
hardware will not have the same starting values.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
[kees: expanded commit message and code comments]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2016-10-08T04:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2016-10-08T04:38:00+00:00</published>
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Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - fsnotify updates

 - ocfs2 updates

 - all of MM

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (127 commits)
  console: don't prefer first registered if DT specifies stdout-path
  cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups
  CREDITS: update Pavel's information, add GPG key, remove snail mail address
  mailmap: add Johan Hovold
  .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files
  uprobes: remove function declarations from arch/{mips,s390}
  spelling.txt: "modeled" is spelt correctly
  nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus
  arch/tile: adopt the new nmi_backtrace framework
  nmi_backtrace: do a local dump_stack() instead of a self-NMI
  nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods
  min/max: remove sparse warnings when they're nested
  Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add more description for maps/smaps
  mm, proc: fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps
  proc: fix timerslack_ns CAP_SYS_NICE check when adjusting self
  proc: add LSM hook checks to /proc/&lt;tid&gt;/timerslack_ns
  proc: relax /proc/&lt;tid&gt;/timerslack_ns capability requirements
  meminfo: break apart a very long seq_printf with #ifdefs
  seq/proc: modify seq_put_decimal_[u]ll to take a const char *, not char
  proc: faster /proc/*/status
  ...
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Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - fsnotify updates

 - ocfs2 updates

 - all of MM

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (127 commits)
  console: don't prefer first registered if DT specifies stdout-path
  cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups
  CREDITS: update Pavel's information, add GPG key, remove snail mail address
  mailmap: add Johan Hovold
  .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files
  uprobes: remove function declarations from arch/{mips,s390}
  spelling.txt: "modeled" is spelt correctly
  nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus
  arch/tile: adopt the new nmi_backtrace framework
  nmi_backtrace: do a local dump_stack() instead of a self-NMI
  nmi_backtrace: add more trigger_*_cpu_backtrace() methods
  min/max: remove sparse warnings when they're nested
  Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add more description for maps/smaps
  mm, proc: fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps
  proc: fix timerslack_ns CAP_SYS_NICE check when adjusting self
  proc: add LSM hook checks to /proc/&lt;tid&gt;/timerslack_ns
  proc: relax /proc/&lt;tid&gt;/timerslack_ns capability requirements
  meminfo: break apart a very long seq_printf with #ifdefs
  seq/proc: modify seq_put_decimal_[u]ll to take a const char *, not char
  proc: faster /proc/*/status
  ...
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