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<entry>
<title>syscalls: Remove start and number from syscall_set_arguments() args</title>
<updated>2019-04-05T13:27:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-28T00:07:31+00:00</published>
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After removing the start and count arguments of syscall_get_arguments() it
seems reasonable to remove them from syscall_set_arguments(). Note, as of
today, there are no users of syscall_set_arguments(). But we are told that
there will be soon. But for now, at least make it consistent with
syscall_get_arguments().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190327222014.GA32540@altlinux.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: 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;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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After removing the start and count arguments of syscall_get_arguments() it
seems reasonable to remove them from syscall_set_arguments(). Note, as of
today, there are no users of syscall_set_arguments(). But we are told that
there will be soon. But for now, at least make it consistent with
syscall_get_arguments().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190327222014.GA32540@altlinux.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: 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;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</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;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: export &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; and &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; iif KVM is supported</title>
<updated>2019-03-28T16:27:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-18T09:08:12+00:00</published>
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I do not see any consistency about headers_install of &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt;
and &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt;.

According to my analysis of Linux 5.1-rc1, there are 3 groups:

 [1] Both &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; and &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; are exported

    alpha, arm, hexagon, mips, powerpc, s390, sparc, x86

 [2] &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; is exported, but &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; is not

    arc, arm64, c6x, h8300, ia64, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc,
    parisc, sh, unicore32, xtensa

 [3] Neither &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; nor &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; is exported

    csky, nds32, riscv

This does not match to the actual KVM support. At least, [2] is
half-baked.

Nor do arch maintainers look like they care about this. For example,
commit 0add53713b1c ("microblaze: Add missing kvm_para.h to Kbuild")
exported &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; to user-space in order to fix an in-kernel
build error.

We have two ways to make this consistent:

 [A] export both &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; and &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; for all
     architectures, irrespective of the KVM support

 [B] Match the header export of &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; and &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt;
     to the KVM support

My first attempt was [A] because the code looks cleaner, but Paolo
suggested [B].

So, this commit goes with [B].

For most architectures, &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; was moved to the kernel-space.
I changed include/uapi/linux/Kbuild so that it checks generated
asm/kvm_para.h as well as check-in ones.

After this commit, there will be two groups:

 [1] Both &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; and &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; are exported

    arm, arm64, mips, powerpc, s390, x86

 [2] Neither &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; nor &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; is exported

    alpha, arc, c6x, csky, h8300, hexagon, ia64, m68k, microblaze,
    nds32, nios2, openrisc, parisc, riscv, sh, sparc, unicore32, xtensa

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cohuck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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I do not see any consistency about headers_install of &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt;
and &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt;.

According to my analysis of Linux 5.1-rc1, there are 3 groups:

 [1] Both &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; and &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; are exported

    alpha, arm, hexagon, mips, powerpc, s390, sparc, x86

 [2] &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; is exported, but &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; is not

    arc, arm64, c6x, h8300, ia64, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc,
    parisc, sh, unicore32, xtensa

 [3] Neither &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; nor &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; is exported

    csky, nds32, riscv

This does not match to the actual KVM support. At least, [2] is
half-baked.

Nor do arch maintainers look like they care about this. For example,
commit 0add53713b1c ("microblaze: Add missing kvm_para.h to Kbuild")
exported &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; to user-space in order to fix an in-kernel
build error.

We have two ways to make this consistent:

 [A] export both &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; and &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; for all
     architectures, irrespective of the KVM support

 [B] Match the header export of &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; and &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt;
     to the KVM support

My first attempt was [A] because the code looks cleaner, but Paolo
suggested [B].

So, this commit goes with [B].

For most architectures, &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; was moved to the kernel-space.
I changed include/uapi/linux/Kbuild so that it checks generated
asm/kvm_para.h as well as check-in ones.

After this commit, there will be two groups:

 [1] Both &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; and &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; are exported

    arm, arm64, mips, powerpc, s390, x86

 [2] Neither &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; nor &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; is exported

    alpha, arc, c6x, csky, h8300, hexagon, ia64, m68k, microblaze,
    nds32, nios2, openrisc, parisc, riscv, sh, sparc, unicore32, xtensa

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cohuck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: force all architectures except um to include mandatory-y</title>
<updated>2019-03-17T03:56:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-17T02:01:09+00:00</published>
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Currently, every arch/*/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild explicitly includes
the common Kbuild.asm file. Factor out the duplicated include directives
to scripts/Makefile.asm-generic so that no architecture would opt out
of the mandatory-y mechanism.

um is not forced to include mandatory-y since it is a very exceptional
case which does not support UAPI.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Currently, every arch/*/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild explicitly includes
the common Kbuild.asm file. Factor out the duplicated include directives
to scripts/Makefile.asm-generic so that no architecture would opt out
of the mandatory-y mechanism.

um is not forced to include mandatory-y since it is a very exceptional
case which does not support UAPI.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-03-05T22:08:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-05T22:08:26+00:00</published>
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Pull year 2038 updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Another round of changes to make the kernel ready for 2038. After lots
  of preparatory work this is the first set of syscalls which are 2038
  safe:

    403 clock_gettime64
    404 clock_settime64
    405 clock_adjtime64
    406 clock_getres_time64
    407 clock_nanosleep_time64
    408 timer_gettime64
    409 timer_settime64
    410 timerfd_gettime64
    411 timerfd_settime64
    412 utimensat_time64
    413 pselect6_time64
    414 ppoll_time64
    416 io_pgetevents_time64
    417 recvmmsg_time64
    418 mq_timedsend_time64
    419 mq_timedreceiv_time64
    420 semtimedop_time64
    421 rt_sigtimedwait_time64
    422 futex_time64
    423 sched_rr_get_interval_time64

  The syscall numbers are identical all over the architectures"

* 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  riscv: Use latest system call ABI
  checksyscalls: fix up mq_timedreceive and stat exceptions
  unicore32: Fix __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 definition
  asm-generic: Make time32 syscall numbers optional
  asm-generic: Drop getrlimit and setrlimit syscalls from default list
  32-bit userspace ABI: introduce ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T config option
  compat ABI: use non-compat openat and open_by_handle_at variants
  y2038: add 64-bit time_t syscalls to all 32-bit architectures
  y2038: rename old time and utime syscalls
  y2038: remove struct definition redirects
  y2038: use time32 syscall names on 32-bit
  syscalls: remove obsolete __IGNORE_ macros
  y2038: syscalls: rename y2038 compat syscalls
  x86/x32: use time64 versions of sigtimedwait and recvmmsg
  timex: change syscalls to use struct __kernel_timex
  timex: use __kernel_timex internally
  sparc64: add custom adjtimex/clock_adjtime functions
  time: fix sys_timer_settime prototype
  time: Add struct __kernel_timex
  time: make adjtime compat handling available for 32 bit
  ...
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Pull year 2038 updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Another round of changes to make the kernel ready for 2038. After lots
  of preparatory work this is the first set of syscalls which are 2038
  safe:

    403 clock_gettime64
    404 clock_settime64
    405 clock_adjtime64
    406 clock_getres_time64
    407 clock_nanosleep_time64
    408 timer_gettime64
    409 timer_settime64
    410 timerfd_gettime64
    411 timerfd_settime64
    412 utimensat_time64
    413 pselect6_time64
    414 ppoll_time64
    416 io_pgetevents_time64
    417 recvmmsg_time64
    418 mq_timedsend_time64
    419 mq_timedreceiv_time64
    420 semtimedop_time64
    421 rt_sigtimedwait_time64
    422 futex_time64
    423 sched_rr_get_interval_time64

  The syscall numbers are identical all over the architectures"

* 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  riscv: Use latest system call ABI
  checksyscalls: fix up mq_timedreceive and stat exceptions
  unicore32: Fix __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 definition
  asm-generic: Make time32 syscall numbers optional
  asm-generic: Drop getrlimit and setrlimit syscalls from default list
  32-bit userspace ABI: introduce ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T config option
  compat ABI: use non-compat openat and open_by_handle_at variants
  y2038: add 64-bit time_t syscalls to all 32-bit architectures
  y2038: rename old time and utime syscalls
  y2038: remove struct definition redirects
  y2038: use time32 syscall names on 32-bit
  syscalls: remove obsolete __IGNORE_ macros
  y2038: syscalls: rename y2038 compat syscalls
  x86/x32: use time64 versions of sigtimedwait and recvmmsg
  timex: change syscalls to use struct __kernel_timex
  timex: use __kernel_timex internally
  sparc64: add custom adjtimex/clock_adjtime functions
  time: fix sys_timer_settime prototype
  time: Add struct __kernel_timex
  time: make adjtime compat handling available for 32 bit
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function</title>
<updated>2019-03-04T18:50:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-04T18:39:05+00:00</published>
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Every in-kernel use of this function defined it to KERNEL_DS (either as
an actual define, or as an inline function).  It's an entirely
historical artifact, and long long long ago used to actually read the
segment selector valueof '%ds' on x86.

Which in the kernel is always KERNEL_DS.

Inspired by a patch from Jann Horn that just did this for a very small
subset of users (the ones in fs/), along with Al who suggested a script.
I then just took it to the logical extreme and removed all the remaining
gunk.

Roughly scripted with

   git grep -l '(get_ds())' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i 's/(get_ds())/(KERNEL_DS)/'
   git grep -lw 'get_ds' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i '/^#define get_ds()/d'

plus manual fixups to remove a few unusual usage patterns, the couple of
inline function cases and to fix up a comment that had become stale.

The 'get_ds()' function remains in an x86 kvm selftest, since in user
space it actually does something relevant.

Inspired-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Inspired-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Every in-kernel use of this function defined it to KERNEL_DS (either as
an actual define, or as an inline function).  It's an entirely
historical artifact, and long long long ago used to actually read the
segment selector valueof '%ds' on x86.

Which in the kernel is always KERNEL_DS.

Inspired by a patch from Jann Horn that just did this for a very small
subset of users (the ones in fs/), along with Al who suggested a script.
I then just took it to the logical extreme and removed all the remaining
gunk.

Roughly scripted with

   git grep -l '(get_ds())' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i 's/(get_ds())/(KERNEL_DS)/'
   git grep -lw 'get_ds' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i '/^#define get_ds()/d'

plus manual fixups to remove a few unusual usage patterns, the couple of
inline function cases and to fix up a comment that had become stale.

The 'get_ds()' function remains in an x86 kvm selftest, since in user
space it actually does something relevant.

Inspired-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Inspired-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>y2038: rename old time and utime syscalls</title>
<updated>2019-02-06T23:13:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-06T22:45:29+00:00</published>
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The time, stime, utime, utimes, and futimesat system calls are only
used on older architectures, and we do not provide y2038 safe variants
of them, as they are replaced by clock_gettime64, clock_settime64,
and utimensat_time64.

However, for consistency it seems better to have the 32-bit architectures
that still use them call the "time32" entry points (leaving the
traditional handlers for the 64-bit architectures), like we do for system
calls that now require two versions.

Note: We used to always define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_TIME and
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_UTIME and only set __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_TIME and
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_UTIME32 for compat mode on 64-bit kernels. Now this is
reversed: only 64-bit architectures set __ARCH_WANT_SYS_TIME/UTIME, while
we need __ARCH_WANT_SYS_TIME32/UTIME32 for 32-bit architectures and compat
mode. The resulting asm/unistd.h changes look a bit counterintuitive.

This is only a cleanup patch and it should not change any behavior.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
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The time, stime, utime, utimes, and futimesat system calls are only
used on older architectures, and we do not provide y2038 safe variants
of them, as they are replaced by clock_gettime64, clock_settime64,
and utimensat_time64.

However, for consistency it seems better to have the 32-bit architectures
that still use them call the "time32" entry points (leaving the
traditional handlers for the 64-bit architectures), like we do for system
calls that now require two versions.

Note: We used to always define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_TIME and
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_UTIME and only set __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_TIME and
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_UTIME32 for compat mode on 64-bit kernels. Now this is
reversed: only 64-bit architectures set __ARCH_WANT_SYS_TIME/UTIME, while
we need __ARCH_WANT_SYS_TIME32/UTIME32 for 32-bit architectures and compat
mode. The resulting asm/unistd.h changes look a bit counterintuitive.

This is only a cleanup patch and it should not change any behavior.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sh: remove duplicate unistd_32.h file</title>
<updated>2019-01-25T16:22:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T10:10:20+00:00</published>
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When I merged this patch, the file was accidentally left intact
instead of being removed, which means any changes to syscall.tbl
have no effect.

Fixes: 2b3c5a99d5f3 ("sh: generate uapi header and syscall table header files")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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When I merged this patch, the file was accidentally left intact
instead of being removed, which means any changes to syscall.tbl
have no effect.

Fixes: 2b3c5a99d5f3 ("sh: generate uapi header and syscall table header files")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.21-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2019-01-07T00:33:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-07T00:33:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=85e1ffbd42f664965dc05f6e9851c06379f27fb2'/>
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - improve boolinit.cocci and use_after_iter.cocci semantic patches

 - fix alignment for kallsyms

 - move 'asm goto' compiler test to Kconfig and clean up jump_label
   CONFIG option

 - generate asm-generic wrappers automatically if arch does not
   implement mandatory UAPI headers

 - remove redundant generic-y defines

 - misc cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v4.21-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kconfig: rename generated .*conf-cfg to *conf-cfg
  kbuild: remove unnecessary stubs for archheader and archscripts
  kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules
  arch: remove redundant UAPI generic-y defines
  kbuild: generate asm-generic wrappers if mandatory headers are missing
  arch: remove stale comments "UAPI Header export list"
  riscv: remove redundant kernel-space generic-y
  kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { }
  kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure
  kbuild: clean up rule_dtc_dt_yaml
  kbuild: remove UIMAGE_IN and UIMAGE_OUT
  jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig
  kallsyms: lower alignment on ARM
  scripts: coccinelle: boolinit: drop warnings on named constants
  scripts: coccinelle: check for redeclaration
  kconfig: remove unused "file" field of yylval union
  nds32: remove redundant kernel-space generic-y
  nios2: remove unneeded HAS_DMA define
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - improve boolinit.cocci and use_after_iter.cocci semantic patches

 - fix alignment for kallsyms

 - move 'asm goto' compiler test to Kconfig and clean up jump_label
   CONFIG option

 - generate asm-generic wrappers automatically if arch does not
   implement mandatory UAPI headers

 - remove redundant generic-y defines

 - misc cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v4.21-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kconfig: rename generated .*conf-cfg to *conf-cfg
  kbuild: remove unnecessary stubs for archheader and archscripts
  kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules
  arch: remove redundant UAPI generic-y defines
  kbuild: generate asm-generic wrappers if mandatory headers are missing
  arch: remove stale comments "UAPI Header export list"
  riscv: remove redundant kernel-space generic-y
  kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { }
  kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure
  kbuild: clean up rule_dtc_dt_yaml
  kbuild: remove UIMAGE_IN and UIMAGE_OUT
  jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig
  kallsyms: lower alignment on ARM
  scripts: coccinelle: boolinit: drop warnings on named constants
  scripts: coccinelle: check for redeclaration
  kconfig: remove unused "file" field of yylval union
  nds32: remove redundant kernel-space generic-y
  nios2: remove unneeded HAS_DMA define
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix 'acccess_ok()' on alpha and SH</title>
<updated>2019-01-06T21:25:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-06T19:15:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=94bd8a05cd4de344a9a57e52ef7d99550251984f'/>
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Commit 594cc251fdd0 ("make 'user_access_begin()' do 'access_ok()'")
broke both alpha and SH booting in qemu, as noticed by Guenter Roeck.

It turns out that the bug wasn't actually in that commit itself (which
would have been surprising: it was mostly a no-op), but in how the
addition of access_ok() to the strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user()
functions now triggered the case where those functions would test the
access of the very last byte of the user address space.

The string functions actually did that user range test before too, but
they did it manually by just comparing against user_addr_max().  But
with user_access_begin() doing the check (using "access_ok()"), it now
exposed problems in the architecture implementations of that function.

For example, on alpha, the access_ok() helper macro looked like this:

  #define __access_ok(addr, size) \
        ((get_fs().seg &amp; (addr | size | (addr+size))) == 0)

and what it basically tests is of any of the high bits get set (the
USER_DS masking value is 0xfffffc0000000000).

And that's completely wrong for the "addr+size" check.  Because it's
off-by-one for the case where we check to the very end of the user
address space, which is exactly what the strn*_user() functions do.

Why? Because "addr+size" will be exactly the size of the address space,
so trying to access the last byte of the user address space will fail
the __access_ok() check, even though it shouldn't.  As a result, the
user string accessor functions failed consistently - because they
literally don't know how long the string is going to be, and the max
access is going to be that last byte of the user address space.

Side note: that alpha macro is buggy for another reason too - it re-uses
the arguments twice.

And SH has another version of almost the exact same bug:

  #define __addr_ok(addr) \
        ((unsigned long __force)(addr) &lt; current_thread_info()-&gt;addr_limit.seg)

so far so good: yes, a user address must be below the limit.  But then:

  #define __access_ok(addr, size)         \
        (__addr_ok((addr) + (size)))

is wrong with the exact same off-by-one case: the case when "addr+size"
is exactly _equal_ to the limit is actually perfectly fine (think "one
byte access at the last address of the user address space")

The SH version is actually seriously buggy in another way: it doesn't
actually check for overflow, even though it did copy the _comment_ that
talks about overflow.

So it turns out that both SH and alpha actually have completely buggy
implementations of access_ok(), but they happened to work in practice
(although the SH overflow one is a serious serious security bug, not
that anybody likely cares about SH security).

This fixes the problems by using a similar macro on both alpha and SH.
It isn't trying to be clever, the end address is based on this logic:

        unsigned long __ao_end = __ao_a + __ao_b - !!__ao_b;

which basically says "add start and length, and then subtract one unless
the length was zero".  We can't subtract one for a zero length, or we'd
just hit an underflow instead.

For a lot of access_ok() users the length is a constant, so this isn't
actually as expensive as it initially looks.

Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 594cc251fdd0 ("make 'user_access_begin()' do 'access_ok()'")
broke both alpha and SH booting in qemu, as noticed by Guenter Roeck.

It turns out that the bug wasn't actually in that commit itself (which
would have been surprising: it was mostly a no-op), but in how the
addition of access_ok() to the strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user()
functions now triggered the case where those functions would test the
access of the very last byte of the user address space.

The string functions actually did that user range test before too, but
they did it manually by just comparing against user_addr_max().  But
with user_access_begin() doing the check (using "access_ok()"), it now
exposed problems in the architecture implementations of that function.

For example, on alpha, the access_ok() helper macro looked like this:

  #define __access_ok(addr, size) \
        ((get_fs().seg &amp; (addr | size | (addr+size))) == 0)

and what it basically tests is of any of the high bits get set (the
USER_DS masking value is 0xfffffc0000000000).

And that's completely wrong for the "addr+size" check.  Because it's
off-by-one for the case where we check to the very end of the user
address space, which is exactly what the strn*_user() functions do.

Why? Because "addr+size" will be exactly the size of the address space,
so trying to access the last byte of the user address space will fail
the __access_ok() check, even though it shouldn't.  As a result, the
user string accessor functions failed consistently - because they
literally don't know how long the string is going to be, and the max
access is going to be that last byte of the user address space.

Side note: that alpha macro is buggy for another reason too - it re-uses
the arguments twice.

And SH has another version of almost the exact same bug:

  #define __addr_ok(addr) \
        ((unsigned long __force)(addr) &lt; current_thread_info()-&gt;addr_limit.seg)

so far so good: yes, a user address must be below the limit.  But then:

  #define __access_ok(addr, size)         \
        (__addr_ok((addr) + (size)))

is wrong with the exact same off-by-one case: the case when "addr+size"
is exactly _equal_ to the limit is actually perfectly fine (think "one
byte access at the last address of the user address space")

The SH version is actually seriously buggy in another way: it doesn't
actually check for overflow, even though it did copy the _comment_ that
talks about overflow.

So it turns out that both SH and alpha actually have completely buggy
implementations of access_ok(), but they happened to work in practice
(although the SH overflow one is a serious serious security bug, not
that anybody likely cares about SH security).

This fixes the problems by using a similar macro on both alpha and SH.
It isn't trying to be clever, the end address is based on this logic:

        unsigned long __ao_end = __ao_a + __ao_b - !!__ao_b;

which basically says "add start and length, and then subtract one unless
the length was zero".  We can't subtract one for a zero length, or we'd
just hit an underflow instead.

For a lot of access_ok() users the length is a constant, so this isn't
actually as expensive as it initially looks.

Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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