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<title>Revert "x86/entry: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks"</title>
<updated>2017-05-24T07:05:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-23T15:37:29+00:00</published>
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Petr Mladek reported the following warning when loading the livepatch
sample module:

  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3699 at arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:132 save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable+0x133/0x1a0
  ...
  Call Trace:
   __schedule+0x273/0x820
   schedule+0x36/0x80
   kthreadd+0x305/0x310
   ? kthread_create_on_cpu+0x80/0x80
   ? icmp_echo.part.32+0x50/0x50
   ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40

That warning means the end of the stack is no longer recognized as such
for newly forked tasks.  The problem was introduced with the following
commit:

  ff3f7e2475bb ("x86/entry: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks")

... which was completely misguided.  It only partially fixed the
reported issue, and it introduced another bug in the process.  None of
the other entry code saves the frame pointer before calling into C code,
so it doesn't make sense for ret_from_fork to do so either.

Contrary to what I originally thought, the original issue wasn't related
to newly forked tasks.  It was actually related to ftrace.  When entry
code calls into a function which then calls into an ftrace handler, the
stack frame looks different than normal.

The original issue will be fixed in the unwinder, in a subsequent patch.

Reported-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ff3f7e2475bb ("x86/entry: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f350760f7e82f0750c8d1dd093456eb212751caa.1495553739.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Petr Mladek reported the following warning when loading the livepatch
sample module:

  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3699 at arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:132 save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable+0x133/0x1a0
  ...
  Call Trace:
   __schedule+0x273/0x820
   schedule+0x36/0x80
   kthreadd+0x305/0x310
   ? kthread_create_on_cpu+0x80/0x80
   ? icmp_echo.part.32+0x50/0x50
   ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40

That warning means the end of the stack is no longer recognized as such
for newly forked tasks.  The problem was introduced with the following
commit:

  ff3f7e2475bb ("x86/entry: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks")

... which was completely misguided.  It only partially fixed the
reported issue, and it introduced another bug in the process.  None of
the other entry code saves the frame pointer before calling into C code,
so it doesn't make sense for ret_from_fork to do so either.

Contrary to what I originally thought, the original issue wasn't related
to newly forked tasks.  It was actually related to ftrace.  When entry
code calls into a function which then calls into an ftrace handler, the
stack frame looks different than normal.

The original issue will be fixed in the unwinder, in a subsequent patch.

Reported-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ff3f7e2475bb ("x86/entry: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f350760f7e82f0750c8d1dd093456eb212751caa.1495553739.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching</title>
<updated>2017-05-03T01:24:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T01:24:16+00:00</published>
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Pull livepatch updates from Jiri Kosina:

 - a per-task consistency model is being added for architectures that
   support reliable stack dumping (extending this, currently rather
   trivial set, is currently in the works).

   This extends the nature of the types of patches that can be applied
   by live patching infrastructure. The code stems from the design
   proposal made [1] back in November 2014. It's a hybrid of SUSE's
   kGraft and RH's kpatch, combining advantages of both: it uses
   kGraft's per-task consistency and syscall barrier switching combined
   with kpatch's stack trace switching. There are also a number of
   fallback options which make it quite flexible.

   Most of the heavy lifting done by Josh Poimboeuf with help from
   Miroslav Benes and Petr Mladek

   [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141107140458.GA21774@suse.cz

 - module load time patch optimization from Zhou Chengming

 - a few assorted small fixes

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
  livepatch: add missing printk newlines
  livepatch: Cancel transition a safe way for immediate patches
  livepatch: Reduce the time of finding module symbols
  livepatch: make klp_mutex proper part of API
  livepatch: allow removal of a disabled patch
  livepatch: add /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/patch_state
  livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model
  livepatch: store function sizes
  livepatch: use kstrtobool() in enabled_store()
  livepatch: move patching functions into patch.c
  livepatch: remove unnecessary object loaded check
  livepatch: separate enabled and patched states
  livepatch/s390: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch/s390: reorganize TIF thread flag bits
  livepatch/powerpc: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch/x86: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch: create temporary klp_update_patch_state() stub
  x86/entry: define _TIF_ALLWORK_MASK flags explicitly
  stacktrace/x86: add function for detecting reliable stack traces
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<pre>
Pull livepatch updates from Jiri Kosina:

 - a per-task consistency model is being added for architectures that
   support reliable stack dumping (extending this, currently rather
   trivial set, is currently in the works).

   This extends the nature of the types of patches that can be applied
   by live patching infrastructure. The code stems from the design
   proposal made [1] back in November 2014. It's a hybrid of SUSE's
   kGraft and RH's kpatch, combining advantages of both: it uses
   kGraft's per-task consistency and syscall barrier switching combined
   with kpatch's stack trace switching. There are also a number of
   fallback options which make it quite flexible.

   Most of the heavy lifting done by Josh Poimboeuf with help from
   Miroslav Benes and Petr Mladek

   [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141107140458.GA21774@suse.cz

 - module load time patch optimization from Zhou Chengming

 - a few assorted small fixes

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
  livepatch: add missing printk newlines
  livepatch: Cancel transition a safe way for immediate patches
  livepatch: Reduce the time of finding module symbols
  livepatch: make klp_mutex proper part of API
  livepatch: allow removal of a disabled patch
  livepatch: add /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/patch_state
  livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model
  livepatch: store function sizes
  livepatch: use kstrtobool() in enabled_store()
  livepatch: move patching functions into patch.c
  livepatch: remove unnecessary object loaded check
  livepatch: separate enabled and patched states
  livepatch/s390: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch/s390: reorganize TIF thread flag bits
  livepatch/powerpc: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch/x86: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch: create temporary klp_update_patch_state() stub
  x86/entry: define _TIF_ALLWORK_MASK flags explicitly
  stacktrace/x86: add function for detecting reliable stack traces
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T18:54:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-02T18:54:26+00:00</published>
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Pull fs/compat.c cleanups from Al Viro:
 "More moving of compat syscalls from fs/compat.c to fs/*.c where the
  native counterparts live.

  And death to compat_sys_getdents64() - the only architecture that used
  to need it was ia64, and _that_ has lost biarch support quite a few
  years ago"

* 'work.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs/compat.c: trim unused includes
  move compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() over to fs/read_write.c
  fhandle: move compat syscalls from compat.c
  open: move compat syscalls from compat.c
  stat: move compat syscalls from compat.c
  fcntl: move compat syscalls from compat.c
  readdir: move compat syscalls from compat.c
  statfs: move compat syscalls from compat.c
  utimes: move compat syscalls from compat.c
  move compat select-related syscalls to fs/select.c
  Remove compat_sys_getdents64()
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<pre>
Pull fs/compat.c cleanups from Al Viro:
 "More moving of compat syscalls from fs/compat.c to fs/*.c where the
  native counterparts live.

  And death to compat_sys_getdents64() - the only architecture that used
  to need it was ia64, and _that_ has lost biarch support quite a few
  years ago"

* 'work.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs/compat.c: trim unused includes
  move compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() over to fs/read_write.c
  fhandle: move compat syscalls from compat.c
  open: move compat syscalls from compat.c
  stat: move compat syscalls from compat.c
  fcntl: move compat syscalls from compat.c
  readdir: move compat syscalls from compat.c
  statfs: move compat syscalls from compat.c
  utimes: move compat syscalls from compat.c
  move compat select-related syscalls to fs/select.c
  Remove compat_sys_getdents64()
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T06:54:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-02T06:54:56+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main x86 MM changes in this cycle were:

   - continued native kernel PCID support preparation patches to the TLB
     flushing code (Andy Lutomirski)

   - various fixes related to 32-bit compat syscall returning address
     over 4Gb in applications, launched from 64-bit binaries - motivated
     by C/R frameworks such as Virtuozzo. (Dmitry Safonov)

   - continued Intel 5-level paging enablement: in particular the
     conversion of x86 GUP to the generic GUP code. (Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - x86/mpx ABI corner case fixes/enhancements (Joerg Roedel)

   - ... plus misc updates, fixes and cleanups"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (62 commits)
  mm, zone_device: Replace {get, put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference to fix pmem crash
  x86/mm: Fix flush_tlb_page() on Xen
  x86/mm: Make flush_tlb_mm_range() more predictable
  x86/mm: Remove flush_tlb() and flush_tlb_current_task()
  x86/vm86/32: Switch to flush_tlb_mm_range() in mark_screen_rdonly()
  x86/mm/64: Fix crash in remove_pagetable()
  Revert "x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic get_user_page_fast() implementation"
  x86/boot/e820: Remove a redundant self assignment
  x86/mm: Fix dump pagetables for 4 levels of page tables
  x86/mpx, selftests: Only check bounds-vs-shadow when we keep shadow
  x86/mpx: Correctly report do_mpx_bt_fault() failures to user-space
  Revert "x86/mm/numa: Remove numa_nodemask_from_meminfo()"
  x86/espfix: Add support for 5-level paging
  x86/kasan: Extend KASAN to support 5-level paging
  x86/mm: Add basic defines/helpers for CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y
  x86/paravirt: Add 5-level support to the paravirt code
  x86/mm: Define virtual memory map for 5-level paging
  x86/asm: Remove __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT==47 assert
  x86/boot: Detect 5-level paging support
  x86/mm/numa: Remove numa_nodemask_from_meminfo()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main x86 MM changes in this cycle were:

   - continued native kernel PCID support preparation patches to the TLB
     flushing code (Andy Lutomirski)

   - various fixes related to 32-bit compat syscall returning address
     over 4Gb in applications, launched from 64-bit binaries - motivated
     by C/R frameworks such as Virtuozzo. (Dmitry Safonov)

   - continued Intel 5-level paging enablement: in particular the
     conversion of x86 GUP to the generic GUP code. (Kirill A. Shutemov)

   - x86/mpx ABI corner case fixes/enhancements (Joerg Roedel)

   - ... plus misc updates, fixes and cleanups"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (62 commits)
  mm, zone_device: Replace {get, put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference to fix pmem crash
  x86/mm: Fix flush_tlb_page() on Xen
  x86/mm: Make flush_tlb_mm_range() more predictable
  x86/mm: Remove flush_tlb() and flush_tlb_current_task()
  x86/vm86/32: Switch to flush_tlb_mm_range() in mark_screen_rdonly()
  x86/mm/64: Fix crash in remove_pagetable()
  Revert "x86/mm/gup: Switch GUP to the generic get_user_page_fast() implementation"
  x86/boot/e820: Remove a redundant self assignment
  x86/mm: Fix dump pagetables for 4 levels of page tables
  x86/mpx, selftests: Only check bounds-vs-shadow when we keep shadow
  x86/mpx: Correctly report do_mpx_bt_fault() failures to user-space
  Revert "x86/mm/numa: Remove numa_nodemask_from_meminfo()"
  x86/espfix: Add support for 5-level paging
  x86/kasan: Extend KASAN to support 5-level paging
  x86/mm: Add basic defines/helpers for CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y
  x86/paravirt: Add 5-level support to the paravirt code
  x86/mm: Define virtual memory map for 5-level paging
  x86/asm: Remove __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT==47 assert
  x86/boot: Detect 5-level paging support
  x86/mm/numa: Remove numa_nodemask_from_meminfo()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T06:08:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-02T06:08:46+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 vdso updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Add support for vDSO acceleration of the "Hyper-V TSC page", to speed
  up clock reading on Hyper-V guests"

* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/vdso: Add VCLOCK_HVCLOCK vDSO clock read method
  x86/hyperv: Move TSC reading method to asm/mshyperv.h
  x86/hyperv: Implement hv_get_tsc_page()
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<pre>
Pull x86 vdso updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Add support for vDSO acceleration of the "Hyper-V TSC page", to speed
  up clock reading on Hyper-V guests"

* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/vdso: Add VCLOCK_HVCLOCK vDSO clock read method
  x86/hyperv: Move TSC reading method to asm/mshyperv.h
  x86/hyperv: Implement hv_get_tsc_page()
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T05:07:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-02T05:07:51+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - unwinder fixes and enhancements

   - improve ftrace interaction with the unwinder

   - optimize the code footprint of WARN() and related debugging
     constructs

   - ... plus misc updates, cleanups and fixes"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86/unwind: Dump all stacks in unwind_dump()
  x86/unwind: Silence more entry-code related warnings
  x86/ftrace: Fix ebp in ftrace_regs_caller that screws up unwinder
  x86/unwind: Remove unused 'sp' parameter in unwind_dump()
  x86/unwind: Prepend hex mask value with '0x' in unwind_dump()
  x86/unwind: Properly zero-pad 32-bit values in unwind_dump()
  x86/unwind: Ensure stack pointer is aligned
  debug: Avoid setting BUGFLAG_WARNING twice
  x86/unwind: Silence entry-related warnings
  x86/unwind: Read stack return address in update_stack_state()
  x86/unwind: Move common code into update_stack_state()
  debug: Fix __bug_table[] in arch linker scripts
  debug: Add _ONCE() logic to report_bug()
  x86/debug: Define BUG() again for !CONFIG_BUG
  x86/debug: Implement __WARN() using UD0
  x86/ftrace: Use Makefile logic instead of #ifdef for compiling ftrace_*.o
  x86/ftrace: Add -mfentry support to x86_32 with DYNAMIC_FTRACE set
  x86/ftrace: Clean up ftrace_regs_caller
  x86/ftrace: Add stack frame pointer to ftrace_caller
  x86/ftrace: Move the ftrace specific code out of entry_32.S
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - unwinder fixes and enhancements

   - improve ftrace interaction with the unwinder

   - optimize the code footprint of WARN() and related debugging
     constructs

   - ... plus misc updates, cleanups and fixes"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86/unwind: Dump all stacks in unwind_dump()
  x86/unwind: Silence more entry-code related warnings
  x86/ftrace: Fix ebp in ftrace_regs_caller that screws up unwinder
  x86/unwind: Remove unused 'sp' parameter in unwind_dump()
  x86/unwind: Prepend hex mask value with '0x' in unwind_dump()
  x86/unwind: Properly zero-pad 32-bit values in unwind_dump()
  x86/unwind: Ensure stack pointer is aligned
  debug: Avoid setting BUGFLAG_WARNING twice
  x86/unwind: Silence entry-related warnings
  x86/unwind: Read stack return address in update_stack_state()
  x86/unwind: Move common code into update_stack_state()
  debug: Fix __bug_table[] in arch linker scripts
  debug: Add _ONCE() logic to report_bug()
  x86/debug: Define BUG() again for !CONFIG_BUG
  x86/debug: Implement __WARN() using UD0
  x86/ftrace: Use Makefile logic instead of #ifdef for compiling ftrace_*.o
  x86/ftrace: Add -mfentry support to x86_32 with DYNAMIC_FTRACE set
  x86/ftrace: Clean up ftrace_regs_caller
  x86/ftrace: Add stack frame pointer to ftrace_caller
  x86/ftrace: Move the ftrace specific code out of entry_32.S
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-process-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T02:57:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-02T02:57:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6dc2cce9321198172cd96f955a5fc798a4cc35a6'/>
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Pul x86/process updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main change in this cycle was to add the ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID
  prctl() ABI extension to control the availability of the CPUID
  instruction, analogously to the existing PR_GET|SET_TSC ABI that
  controls RDTSC.

  Motivation: the 'rr' user-space record-and-replay execution debugger
  would like to trap and emulate the CPUID instruction - which
  instruction is normally unprivileged.

  Trapping CPUID is possible on IvyBridge and later Intel CPUs - expose
  this hardware capability"

* 'x86-process-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/syscalls/32: Ignore arch_prctl for other architectures
  um/arch_prctl: Fix fallout from x86 arch_prctl() rework
  x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID
  x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support
  x86/syscalls/32: Wire up arch_prctl on x86-32
  x86/arch_prctl: Add do_arch_prctl_common()
  x86/arch_prctl/64: Rename do_arch_prctl() to do_arch_prctl_64()
  x86/arch_prctl/64: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE2 to define sys_arch_prctl()
  x86/arch_prctl: Rename 'code' argument to 'option'
  x86/msr: Rename MISC_FEATURE_ENABLES to MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES
  x86/process: Optimize TIF_NOTSC switch
  x86/process: Correct and optimize TIF_BLOCKSTEP switch
  x86/process: Optimize TIF checks in __switch_to_xtra()
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Pul x86/process updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main change in this cycle was to add the ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID
  prctl() ABI extension to control the availability of the CPUID
  instruction, analogously to the existing PR_GET|SET_TSC ABI that
  controls RDTSC.

  Motivation: the 'rr' user-space record-and-replay execution debugger
  would like to trap and emulate the CPUID instruction - which
  instruction is normally unprivileged.

  Trapping CPUID is possible on IvyBridge and later Intel CPUs - expose
  this hardware capability"

* 'x86-process-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/syscalls/32: Ignore arch_prctl for other architectures
  um/arch_prctl: Fix fallout from x86 arch_prctl() rework
  x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID
  x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support
  x86/syscalls/32: Wire up arch_prctl on x86-32
  x86/arch_prctl: Add do_arch_prctl_common()
  x86/arch_prctl/64: Rename do_arch_prctl() to do_arch_prctl_64()
  x86/arch_prctl/64: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE2 to define sys_arch_prctl()
  x86/arch_prctl: Rename 'code' argument to 'option'
  x86/msr: Rename MISC_FEATURE_ENABLES to MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES
  x86/process: Optimize TIF_NOTSC switch
  x86/process: Correct and optimize TIF_BLOCKSTEP switch
  x86/process: Optimize TIF checks in __switch_to_xtra()
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<entry>
<title>Remove compat_sys_getdents64()</title>
<updated>2017-04-17T16:52:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-08T18:34:51+00:00</published>
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Unlike normal compat syscall variants, it is needed only for
biarch architectures that have different alignement requirements for
u64 in 32bit and 64bit ABI *and* have __put_user() that won't handle
a store of 64bit value at 32bit-aligned address.  We used to have one
such (ia64), but its biarch support has been gone since 2010 (after
being broken in 2008, which went unnoticed since nobody had been using
it).

It had escaped removal at the same time only because back in 2004
a patch that switched several syscalls on amd64 from private wrappers to
generic compat ones had switched to use of compat_sys_getdents64(), which
hadn't needed (or used) a compat wrapper on amd64.

Let's bury it - it's at least 7 years overdue.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Unlike normal compat syscall variants, it is needed only for
biarch architectures that have different alignement requirements for
u64 in 32bit and 64bit ABI *and* have __put_user() that won't handle
a store of 64bit value at 32bit-aligned address.  We used to have one
such (ia64), but its biarch support has been gone since 2010 (after
being broken in 2008, which went unnoticed since nobody had been using
it).

It had escaped removal at the same time only because back in 2004
a patch that switched several syscalls on amd64 from private wrappers to
generic compat ones had switched to use of compat_sys_getdents64(), which
hadn't needed (or used) a compat wrapper on amd64.

Let's bury it - it's at least 7 years overdue.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/vdso: Ensure vdso32_enabled gets set to valid values only</title>
<updated>2017-04-10T16:31:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathias Krause</name>
<email>minipli@googlemail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-10T15:14:27+00:00</published>
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vdso_enabled can be set to arbitrary integer values via the kernel command
line 'vdso32=' parameter or via 'sysctl abi.vsyscall32'.

load_vdso32() only maps VDSO if vdso_enabled == 1, but ARCH_DLINFO_IA32
merily checks for vdso_enabled != 0. As a consequence the AT_SYSINFO_EHDR
auxiliary vector for the VDSO_ENTRY is emitted with a NULL pointer which
causes a segfault when the application tries to use the VDSO.

Restrict the valid arguments on the command line and the sysctl to 0 and 1.

Fixes: b0b49f2673f0 ("x86, vdso: Remove compat vdso support")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491424561-7187-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410151723.518412863@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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vdso_enabled can be set to arbitrary integer values via the kernel command
line 'vdso32=' parameter or via 'sysctl abi.vsyscall32'.

load_vdso32() only maps VDSO if vdso_enabled == 1, but ARCH_DLINFO_IA32
merily checks for vdso_enabled != 0. As a consequence the AT_SYSINFO_EHDR
auxiliary vector for the VDSO_ENTRY is emitted with a NULL pointer which
causes a segfault when the application tries to use the VDSO.

Restrict the valid arguments on the command line and the sysctl to 0 and 1.

Fixes: b0b49f2673f0 ("x86, vdso: Remove compat vdso support")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491424561-7187-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410151723.518412863@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm: Remove __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT==47 assert</title>
<updated>2017-04-04T06:22:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-30T08:07:26+00:00</published>
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We don't need the assert anymore, as:

  17be0aec74fb ("x86/asm/entry/64: Implement better check for canonical addresses")

made canonical address checks generic wrt. address width.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170330080731.65421-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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We don't need the assert anymore, as:

  17be0aec74fb ("x86/asm/entry/64: Implement better check for canonical addresses")

made canonical address checks generic wrt. address width.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170330080731.65421-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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