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<title>linux.git/arch/sparc/include/uapi, branch v4.15</title>
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<entry>
<title>bpf: correct broken uapi for BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T14:02:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hendrik Brueckner</name>
<email>brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-04T09:56:44+00:00</published>
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Commit 0515e5999a466dfe ("bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT
program type") introduced the bpf_perf_event_data structure which
exports the pt_regs structure.  This is OK for multiple architectures
but fail for s390 and arm64 which do not export pt_regs.  Programs
using them, for example, the bpf selftest fail to compile on these
architectures.

For s390, exporting the pt_regs is not an option because s390 wants
to allow changes to it.  For arm64, there is a user_pt_regs structure
that covers parts of the pt_regs structure for use by user space.

To solve the broken uapi for s390 and arm64, introduce an abstract
type for pt_regs and add an asm/bpf_perf_event.h file that concretes
the type.  An asm-generic header file covers the architectures that
export pt_regs today.

The arch-specific enablement for s390 and arm64 follows in separate
commits.

Reported-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: 0515e5999a466dfe ("bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type")
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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Commit 0515e5999a466dfe ("bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT
program type") introduced the bpf_perf_event_data structure which
exports the pt_regs structure.  This is OK for multiple architectures
but fail for s390 and arm64 which do not export pt_regs.  Programs
using them, for example, the bpf selftest fail to compile on these
architectures.

For s390, exporting the pt_regs is not an option because s390 wants
to allow changes to it.  For arm64, there is a user_pt_regs structure
that covers parts of the pt_regs structure for use by user space.

To solve the broken uapi for s390 and arm64, introduce an abstract
type for pt_regs and add an asm/bpf_perf_event.h file that concretes
the type.  An asm-generic header file covers the architectures that
export pt_regs today.

The arch-specific enablement for s390 and arm64 follows in separate
commits.

Reported-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: 0515e5999a466dfe ("bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type")
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc</title>
<updated>2017-11-18T04:21:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-18T04:21:44+00:00</published>
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Pull sparc updates from David Miller:

 1) Add missing cmpxchg64() for 32-bit sparc.

 2) Timer conversions from Allen Pais and Kees Cook.

 3) vDSO support, from Nagarathnam Muthusamy.

 4) Fix sparc64 huge page table walks based upon bug report by Al Viro,
    from Nitin Gupta.

 5) Optimized fls() for T4 and above, from Vijay Kumar.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
  sparc64: Fix page table walk for PUD hugepages
  sparc64: Convert timers to user timer_setup()
  sparc64: convert mdesc_handle.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  sparc/led: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  sparc64: Use sparc optimized fls and __fls for T4 and above
  sparc64: SPARC optimized __fls function
  sparc64: SPARC optimized fls function
  sparc64: Define SPARC default __fls function
  sparc64: Define SPARC default fls function
  vDSO for sparc
  sparc32: Add cmpxchg64().
  sbus: char: Move D7S_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h
  sparc: time: Remove unneeded linux/miscdevice.h include
  sparc64: mmu_context: Add missing include files
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Pull sparc updates from David Miller:

 1) Add missing cmpxchg64() for 32-bit sparc.

 2) Timer conversions from Allen Pais and Kees Cook.

 3) vDSO support, from Nagarathnam Muthusamy.

 4) Fix sparc64 huge page table walks based upon bug report by Al Viro,
    from Nitin Gupta.

 5) Optimized fls() for T4 and above, from Vijay Kumar.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
  sparc64: Fix page table walk for PUD hugepages
  sparc64: Convert timers to user timer_setup()
  sparc64: convert mdesc_handle.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  sparc/led: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  sparc64: Use sparc optimized fls and __fls for T4 and above
  sparc64: SPARC optimized __fls function
  sparc64: SPARC optimized fls function
  sparc64: Define SPARC default __fls function
  sparc64: Define SPARC default fls function
  vDSO for sparc
  sparc32: Add cmpxchg64().
  sbus: char: Move D7S_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h
  sparc: time: Remove unneeded linux/miscdevice.h include
  sparc64: mmu_context: Add missing include files
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vDSO for sparc</title>
<updated>2017-11-15T05:21:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nagarathnam Muthusamy</name>
<email>nagarathnam.muthusamy@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-21T15:05:31+00:00</published>
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Following patch is based on work done by Nick Alcock on 64-bit vDSO for sparc
in Oracle linux. I have extended it to include support for 32-bit vDSO for sparc
on 64-bit kernel.

vDSO for sparc is based on the X86 implementation. This patch
provides vDSO support for both 64-bit and 32-bit programs on 64-bit kernel.
vDSO will be disabled on 32-bit linux kernel on sparc.

*) vclock_gettime.c contains all the vdso functions. Since data page is mapped
   before the vdso code page, the pointer to data page is got by subracting offset
   from an address in the vdso code page. The return address stored in
   %i7 is used for this purpose.
*) During compilation, both 32-bit and 64-bit vdso images are compiled and are
   converted into raw bytes by vdso2c program to be ready for mapping into the
   process. 32-bit images are compiled only if CONFIG_COMPAT is enabled. vdso2c
   generates two files vdso-image-64.c and vdso-image-32.c which contains the
   respective vDSO image in C structure.
*) During vdso initialization, required number of vdso pages are allocated and
   raw bytes are copied into the pages.
*) During every exec, these pages are mapped into the process through
   arch_setup_additional_pages and the location of mapping is passed on to the
   process through aux vector AT_SYSINFO_EHDR which is used by glibc.
*) A new update_vsyscall routine for sparc is added to keep the data page in
   vdso updated.
*) As vDSO cannot contain dynamically relocatable references, a new version of
   cpu_relax is added for the use of vDSO.

This change also requires a putback to glibc to use vDSO. For testing,
programs planning to try vDSO can be compiled against the generated
vdso(64/32).so in the source.

Testing:

========
[root@localhost ~]# cat vdso_test.c
int main() {
        struct timespec tv_start, tv_end;
        struct timeval tv_tmp;
	int i;
        int count = 1 * 1000 * 10000;
	long long diff;

        clock_gettime(0, &amp;tv_start);
        for (i = 0; i &lt; count; i++)
              gettimeofday(&amp;tv_tmp, NULL);
        clock_gettime(0, &amp;tv_end);
        diff = (long long)(tv_end.tv_sec -
		tv_start.tv_sec)*(1*1000*1000*1000);
        diff += (tv_end.tv_nsec - tv_start.tv_nsec);
	printf("Start sec: %d\n", tv_start.tv_sec);
	printf("End sec  : %d\n", tv_end.tv_sec);
        printf("%d cycles in %lld ns = %f ns/cycle\n", count, diff,
		(double)diff / (double)count);
        return 0;
}

[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t32_without_fix -m32 -lrt
[root@localhost ~]# ./t32_without_fix
Start sec: 1502396130
End sec  : 1502396140
10000000 cycles in 9565148528 ns = 956.514853 ns/cycle
[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t32_with_fix -m32 ./vdso32.so.dbg
[root@localhost ~]# ./t32_with_fix
Start sec: 1502396168
End sec  : 1502396169
10000000 cycles in 798141262 ns = 79.814126 ns/cycle
[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t64_without_fix -m64 -lrt
[root@localhost ~]# ./t64_without_fix
Start sec: 1502396208
End sec  : 1502396218
10000000 cycles in 9846091800 ns = 984.609180 ns/cycle
[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t64_with_fix -m64 ./vdso64.so.dbg
[root@localhost ~]# ./t64_with_fix
Start sec: 1502396257
End sec  : 1502396257
10000000 cycles in 380984048 ns = 38.098405 ns/cycle

V1 to V2 Changes:
=================
	Added hot patching code to switch the read stick instruction to read
tick instruction based on the hardware.

V2 to V3 Changes:
=================
	Merged latest changes from sparc-next and moved the initialization
of clocksource_tick.archdata.vclock_mode to time_init_early. Disabled
queued spinlock and rwlock configuration when simulating 32-bit config
to compile 32-bit VDSO.

V3 to V4 Changes:
=================
	Hardcoded the page size as 8192 in linker script for both 64-bit and
32-bit binaries. Removed unused variables in vdso2c.h. Added -mv8plus flag to
Makefile to prevent the generation of relocation entries for __lshrdi3 in 32-bit
vdso binary.

Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock &lt;nick.alcock@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nagarathnam Muthusamy &lt;nagarathnam.muthusamy@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson &lt;shannon.nelson@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Following patch is based on work done by Nick Alcock on 64-bit vDSO for sparc
in Oracle linux. I have extended it to include support for 32-bit vDSO for sparc
on 64-bit kernel.

vDSO for sparc is based on the X86 implementation. This patch
provides vDSO support for both 64-bit and 32-bit programs on 64-bit kernel.
vDSO will be disabled on 32-bit linux kernel on sparc.

*) vclock_gettime.c contains all the vdso functions. Since data page is mapped
   before the vdso code page, the pointer to data page is got by subracting offset
   from an address in the vdso code page. The return address stored in
   %i7 is used for this purpose.
*) During compilation, both 32-bit and 64-bit vdso images are compiled and are
   converted into raw bytes by vdso2c program to be ready for mapping into the
   process. 32-bit images are compiled only if CONFIG_COMPAT is enabled. vdso2c
   generates two files vdso-image-64.c and vdso-image-32.c which contains the
   respective vDSO image in C structure.
*) During vdso initialization, required number of vdso pages are allocated and
   raw bytes are copied into the pages.
*) During every exec, these pages are mapped into the process through
   arch_setup_additional_pages and the location of mapping is passed on to the
   process through aux vector AT_SYSINFO_EHDR which is used by glibc.
*) A new update_vsyscall routine for sparc is added to keep the data page in
   vdso updated.
*) As vDSO cannot contain dynamically relocatable references, a new version of
   cpu_relax is added for the use of vDSO.

This change also requires a putback to glibc to use vDSO. For testing,
programs planning to try vDSO can be compiled against the generated
vdso(64/32).so in the source.

Testing:

========
[root@localhost ~]# cat vdso_test.c
int main() {
        struct timespec tv_start, tv_end;
        struct timeval tv_tmp;
	int i;
        int count = 1 * 1000 * 10000;
	long long diff;

        clock_gettime(0, &amp;tv_start);
        for (i = 0; i &lt; count; i++)
              gettimeofday(&amp;tv_tmp, NULL);
        clock_gettime(0, &amp;tv_end);
        diff = (long long)(tv_end.tv_sec -
		tv_start.tv_sec)*(1*1000*1000*1000);
        diff += (tv_end.tv_nsec - tv_start.tv_nsec);
	printf("Start sec: %d\n", tv_start.tv_sec);
	printf("End sec  : %d\n", tv_end.tv_sec);
        printf("%d cycles in %lld ns = %f ns/cycle\n", count, diff,
		(double)diff / (double)count);
        return 0;
}

[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t32_without_fix -m32 -lrt
[root@localhost ~]# ./t32_without_fix
Start sec: 1502396130
End sec  : 1502396140
10000000 cycles in 9565148528 ns = 956.514853 ns/cycle
[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t32_with_fix -m32 ./vdso32.so.dbg
[root@localhost ~]# ./t32_with_fix
Start sec: 1502396168
End sec  : 1502396169
10000000 cycles in 798141262 ns = 79.814126 ns/cycle
[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t64_without_fix -m64 -lrt
[root@localhost ~]# ./t64_without_fix
Start sec: 1502396208
End sec  : 1502396218
10000000 cycles in 9846091800 ns = 984.609180 ns/cycle
[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t64_with_fix -m64 ./vdso64.so.dbg
[root@localhost ~]# ./t64_with_fix
Start sec: 1502396257
End sec  : 1502396257
10000000 cycles in 380984048 ns = 38.098405 ns/cycle

V1 to V2 Changes:
=================
	Added hot patching code to switch the read stick instruction to read
tick instruction based on the hardware.

V2 to V3 Changes:
=================
	Merged latest changes from sparc-next and moved the initialization
of clocksource_tick.archdata.vclock_mode to time_init_early. Disabled
queued spinlock and rwlock configuration when simulating 32-bit config
to compile 32-bit VDSO.

V3 to V4 Changes:
=================
	Hardcoded the page size as 8192 in linker script for both 64-bit and
32-bit binaries. Removed unused variables in vdso2c.h. Added -mv8plus flag to
Makefile to prevent the generation of relocation entries for __lshrdi3 in 32-bit
vdso binary.

Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock &lt;nick.alcock@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nagarathnam Muthusamy &lt;nagarathnam.muthusamy@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson &lt;shannon.nelson@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:19:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:08:43+00:00</published>
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Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2.  Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.

Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier.  The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception.  SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2.  Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.

Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier.  The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception.  SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2017-09-12T01:34:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-12T01:34:47+00:00</published>
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "Life has been busy and I have not gotten half as much done this round
  as I would have liked. I delayed it so that a minor conflict
  resolution with the mips tree could spend a little time in linux-next
  before I sent this pull request.

  This includes two long delayed user namespace changes from Kirill
  Tkhai. It also includes a very useful change from Serge Hallyn that
  allows the security capability attribute to be used inside of user
  namespaces. The practical effect of this is people can now untar
  tarballs and install rpms in user namespaces. It had been suggested to
  generalize this and encode some of the namespace information
  information in the xattr name. Upon close inspection that makes the
  things that should be hard easy and the things that should be easy
  more expensive.

  Then there is my bugfix/cleanup for signal injection that removes the
  magic encoding of the siginfo union member from the kernel internal
  si_code. The mips folks reported the case where I had used FPE_FIXME
  me is impossible so I have remove FPE_FIXME from mips, while at the
  same time including a return statement in that case to keep gcc from
  complaining about unitialized variables.

  I almost finished the work to get make copy_siginfo_to_user a trivial
  copy to user. The code is available at:

     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git neuter-copy_siginfo_to_user-v3

  But I did not have time/energy to get the code posted and reviewed
  before the merge window opened.

  I was able to see that the security excuse for just copying fields
  that we know are initialized doesn't work in practice there are buggy
  initializations that don't initialize the proper fields in siginfo. So
  we still sometimes copy unitialized data to userspace"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities
  mips/signal: In force_fcr31_sig return in the impossible case
  signal: Remove kernel interal si_code magic
  fcntl: Don't use ambiguous SIG_POLL si_codes
  prctl: Allow local CAP_SYS_ADMIN changing exe_file
  security: Use user_namespace::level to avoid redundant iterations in cap_capable()
  userns,pidns: Verify the userns for new pid namespaces
  signal/testing: Don't look for __SI_FAULT in userspace
  signal/mips: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/sparc: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/ia64: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/alpha: Document a conflict with SI_USER for SIGTRAP
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "Life has been busy and I have not gotten half as much done this round
  as I would have liked. I delayed it so that a minor conflict
  resolution with the mips tree could spend a little time in linux-next
  before I sent this pull request.

  This includes two long delayed user namespace changes from Kirill
  Tkhai. It also includes a very useful change from Serge Hallyn that
  allows the security capability attribute to be used inside of user
  namespaces. The practical effect of this is people can now untar
  tarballs and install rpms in user namespaces. It had been suggested to
  generalize this and encode some of the namespace information
  information in the xattr name. Upon close inspection that makes the
  things that should be hard easy and the things that should be easy
  more expensive.

  Then there is my bugfix/cleanup for signal injection that removes the
  magic encoding of the siginfo union member from the kernel internal
  si_code. The mips folks reported the case where I had used FPE_FIXME
  me is impossible so I have remove FPE_FIXME from mips, while at the
  same time including a return statement in that case to keep gcc from
  complaining about unitialized variables.

  I almost finished the work to get make copy_siginfo_to_user a trivial
  copy to user. The code is available at:

     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git neuter-copy_siginfo_to_user-v3

  But I did not have time/energy to get the code posted and reviewed
  before the merge window opened.

  I was able to see that the security excuse for just copying fields
  that we know are initialized doesn't work in practice there are buggy
  initializations that don't initialize the proper fields in siginfo. So
  we still sometimes copy unitialized data to userspace"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities
  mips/signal: In force_fcr31_sig return in the impossible case
  signal: Remove kernel interal si_code magic
  fcntl: Don't use ambiguous SIG_POLL si_codes
  prctl: Allow local CAP_SYS_ADMIN changing exe_file
  security: Use user_namespace::level to avoid redundant iterations in cap_capable()
  userns,pidns: Verify the userns for new pid namespaces
  signal/testing: Don't look for __SI_FAULT in userspace
  signal/mips: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/sparc: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/ia64: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/alpha: Document a conflict with SI_USER for SIGTRAP
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sock: add SOCK_ZEROCOPY sockopt</title>
<updated>2017-08-04T04:37:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-03T20:29:40+00:00</published>
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The send call ignores unknown flags. Legacy applications may already
unwittingly pass MSG_ZEROCOPY. Continue to ignore this flag unless a
socket opts in to zerocopy.

Introduce socket option SO_ZEROCOPY to enable MSG_ZEROCOPY processing.
Processes can also query this socket option to detect kernel support
for the feature. Older kernels will return ENOPROTOOPT.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The send call ignores unknown flags. Legacy applications may already
unwittingly pass MSG_ZEROCOPY. Continue to ignore this flag unless a
socket opts in to zerocopy.

Introduce socket option SO_ZEROCOPY to enable MSG_ZEROCOPY processing.
Processes can also query this socket option to detect kernel support
for the feature. Older kernels will return ENOPROTOOPT.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Remove kernel interal si_code magic</title>
<updated>2017-07-24T19:30:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-17T03:36:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=cc731525f26af85a1c3537da41e0abd1d35e0bdb'/>
<id>cc731525f26af85a1c3537da41e0abd1d35e0bdb</id>
<content type='text'>
struct siginfo is a union and the kernel since 2.4 has been hiding a union
tag in the high 16bits of si_code using the values:
__SI_KILL
__SI_TIMER
__SI_POLL
__SI_FAULT
__SI_CHLD
__SI_RT
__SI_MESGQ
__SI_SYS

While this looks plausible on the surface, in practice this situation has
not worked well.

- Injected positive signals are not copied to user space properly
  unless they have these magic high bits set.

- Injected positive signals are not reported properly by signalfd
  unless they have these magic high bits set.

- These kernel internal values leaked to userspace via ptrace_peek_siginfo

- It was possible to inject these kernel internal values and cause the
  the kernel to misbehave.

- Kernel developers got confused and expected these kernel internal values
  in userspace in kernel self tests.

- Kernel developers got confused and set si_code to __SI_FAULT which
  is SI_USER in userspace which causes userspace to think an ordinary user
  sent the signal and that it was not kernel generated.

- The values make it impossible to reorganize the code to transform
  siginfo_copy_to_user into a plain copy_to_user.  As si_code must
  be massaged before being passed to userspace.

So remove these kernel internal si codes and make the kernel code simpler
and more maintainable.

To replace these kernel internal magic si_codes introduce the helper
function siginfo_layout, that takes a signal number and an si_code and
computes which union member of siginfo is being used.  Have
siginfo_layout return an enumeration so that gcc will have enough
information to warn if a switch statement does not handle all of union
members.

A couple of architectures have a messed up ABI that defines signal
specific duplications of SI_USER which causes more special cases in
siginfo_layout than I would like.  The good news is only problem
architectures pay the cost.

Update all of the code that used the previous magic __SI_ values to
use the new SIL_ values and to call siginfo_layout to get those
values.  Escept where not all of the cases are handled remove the
defaults in the switch statements so that if a new case is missed in
the future the lack will show up at compile time.

Modify the code that copies siginfo si_code to userspace to just copy
the value and not cast si_code to a short first.  The high bits are no
longer used to hold a magic union member.

Fixup the siginfo header files to stop including the __SI_ values in
their constants and for the headers that were missing it to properly
update the number of si_codes for each signal type.

The fixes to copy_siginfo_from_user32 implementations has the
interesting property that several of them perviously should never have
worked as the __SI_ values they depended up where kernel internal.
With that dependency gone those implementations should work much
better.

The idea of not passing the __SI_ values out to userspace and then
not reinserting them has been tested with criu and criu worked without
changes.

Ref: 2.4.0-test1
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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struct siginfo is a union and the kernel since 2.4 has been hiding a union
tag in the high 16bits of si_code using the values:
__SI_KILL
__SI_TIMER
__SI_POLL
__SI_FAULT
__SI_CHLD
__SI_RT
__SI_MESGQ
__SI_SYS

While this looks plausible on the surface, in practice this situation has
not worked well.

- Injected positive signals are not copied to user space properly
  unless they have these magic high bits set.

- Injected positive signals are not reported properly by signalfd
  unless they have these magic high bits set.

- These kernel internal values leaked to userspace via ptrace_peek_siginfo

- It was possible to inject these kernel internal values and cause the
  the kernel to misbehave.

- Kernel developers got confused and expected these kernel internal values
  in userspace in kernel self tests.

- Kernel developers got confused and set si_code to __SI_FAULT which
  is SI_USER in userspace which causes userspace to think an ordinary user
  sent the signal and that it was not kernel generated.

- The values make it impossible to reorganize the code to transform
  siginfo_copy_to_user into a plain copy_to_user.  As si_code must
  be massaged before being passed to userspace.

So remove these kernel internal si codes and make the kernel code simpler
and more maintainable.

To replace these kernel internal magic si_codes introduce the helper
function siginfo_layout, that takes a signal number and an si_code and
computes which union member of siginfo is being used.  Have
siginfo_layout return an enumeration so that gcc will have enough
information to warn if a switch statement does not handle all of union
members.

A couple of architectures have a messed up ABI that defines signal
specific duplications of SI_USER which causes more special cases in
siginfo_layout than I would like.  The good news is only problem
architectures pay the cost.

Update all of the code that used the previous magic __SI_ values to
use the new SIL_ values and to call siginfo_layout to get those
values.  Escept where not all of the cases are handled remove the
defaults in the switch statements so that if a new case is missed in
the future the lack will show up at compile time.

Modify the code that copies siginfo si_code to userspace to just copy
the value and not cast si_code to a short first.  The high bits are no
longer used to hold a magic union member.

Fixup the siginfo header files to stop including the __SI_ values in
their constants and for the headers that were missing it to properly
update the number of si_codes for each signal type.

The fixes to copy_siginfo_from_user32 implementations has the
interesting property that several of them perviously should never have
worked as the __SI_ values they depended up where kernel internal.
With that dependency gone those implementations should work much
better.

The idea of not passing the __SI_ values out to userspace and then
not reinserting them has been tested with criu and criu worked without
changes.

Ref: 2.4.0-test1
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal/sparc: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE</title>
<updated>2017-07-20T00:13:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-17T01:04:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=cc9f72e474a4da365896d0e528da324f205e8b31'/>
<id>cc9f72e474a4da365896d0e528da324f205e8b31</id>
<content type='text'>
Setting si_code to __SI_FAULT results in a userspace seeing
an si_code of 0.  This is the same si_code as SI_USER.  Posix
and common sense requires that SI_USER not be a signal specific
si_code.  As such this use of 0 for the si_code is a pretty
horribly broken ABI.

This was introduced in 2.3.41 so this mess has had a long time for
people to be able to start depending on it.

As this bug has existed for 17 years already I don't know if it is
worth fixing.  It is definitely worth documenting what is going
on so that no one decides to copy this bad decision.

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Setting si_code to __SI_FAULT results in a userspace seeing
an si_code of 0.  This is the same si_code as SI_USER.  Posix
and common sense requires that SI_USER not be a signal specific
si_code.  As such this use of 0 for the si_code is a pretty
horribly broken ABI.

This was introduced in 2.3.41 so this mess has had a long time for
people to be able to start depending on it.

As this bug has existed for 17 years already I don't know if it is
worth fixing.  It is definitely worth documenting what is going
on so that no one decides to copy this bad decision.

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: Fix TIOCGPTPEER ioctl definition</title>
<updated>2017-07-17T15:04:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy</name>
<email>glebfm@altlinux.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-17T13:29:46+00:00</published>
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<id>c6325179238f1d4683edbec53d8322575d76d7e2</id>
<content type='text'>
This ioctl does nothing to justify an _IOC_READ or _IOC_WRITE flag
because it doesn't copy anything from/to userspace to access the
argument.

Fixes: 54ebbfb16034 ("tty: add TIOCGPTPEER ioctl")
Signed-off-by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy &lt;glebfm@altlinux.org&gt;
Acked-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;asarai@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This ioctl does nothing to justify an _IOC_READ or _IOC_WRITE flag
because it doesn't copy anything from/to userspace to access the
argument.

Fixes: 54ebbfb16034 ("tty: add TIOCGPTPEER ioctl")
Signed-off-by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy &lt;glebfm@altlinux.org&gt;
Acked-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;asarai@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc: move generic-y of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild</title>
<updated>2017-07-11T12:33:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-09T18:32:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b6744e04143dfe99f00b98367bc7e9e3449d7c07'/>
<id>b6744e04143dfe99f00b98367bc7e9e3449d7c07</id>
<content type='text'>
Since commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi: export all headers under uapi
directories"), all (and only) headers under uapi directories are
exported, but asm-generic wrappers are still exceptions.

To complete de-coupling the uapi from kernel headers, move generic-y
of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild.

With this change, "make headers_install" will just need to parse
uapi/asm/Kbuild to build up exported headers.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Since commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi: export all headers under uapi
directories"), all (and only) headers under uapi directories are
exported, but asm-generic wrappers are still exceptions.

To complete de-coupling the uapi from kernel headers, move generic-y
of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild.

With this change, "make headers_install" will just need to parse
uapi/asm/Kbuild to build up exported headers.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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