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<title>Merge branch 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2022-01-17T03:49:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-17T03:49:30+00:00</published>
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Pull signal/exit/ptrace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes deletes some dead code, makes a lot of cleanups
  which hopefully make the code easier to follow, and fixes bugs found
  along the way.

  The end-game which I have not yet reached yet is for fatal signals
  that generate coredumps to be short-circuit deliverable from
  complete_signal, for force_siginfo_to_task not to require changing
  userspace configured signal delivery state, and for the ptrace stops
  to always happen in locations where we can guarantee on all
  architectures that the all of the registers are saved and available on
  the stack.

  Removal of profile_task_ext, profile_munmap, and profile_handoff_task
  are the big successes for dead code removal this round.

  A bunch of small bug fixes are included, as most of the issues
  reported were small enough that they would not affect bisection so I
  simply added the fixes and did not fold the fixes into the changes
  they were fixing.

  There was a bug that broke coredumps piped to systemd-coredump. I
  dropped the change that caused that bug and replaced it entirely with
  something much more restrained. Unfortunately that required some
  rebasing.

  Some successes after this set of changes: There are few enough calls
  to do_exit to audit in a reasonable amount of time. The lifetime of
  struct kthread now matches the lifetime of struct task, and the
  pointer to struct kthread is no longer stored in set_child_tid. The
  flag SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP is removed. The field group_exit_task is
  removed. Issues where task-&gt;exit_code was examined with
  signal-&gt;group_exit_code should been examined were fixed.

  There are several loosely related changes included because I am
  cleaning up and if I don't include them they will probably get lost.

  The original postings of these changes can be found at:
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6ha4zsd.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bl1kunjj.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r19opkx1.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org

  I trimmed back the last set of changes to only the obviously correct
  once. Simply because there was less time for review than I had hoped"

* 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (44 commits)
  ptrace/m68k: Stop open coding ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove unused regs argument from ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove second setting of PT_SEIZED in ptrace_attach
  taskstats: Cleanup the use of task-&gt;exit_code
  exit: Use the correct exit_code in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat
  exit: Fix the exit_code for wait_task_zombie
  exit: Coredumps reach do_group_exit
  exit: Remove profile_handoff_task
  exit: Remove profile_task_exit &amp; profile_munmap
  signal: clean up kernel-doc comments
  signal: Remove the helper signal_group_exit
  signal: Rename group_exit_task group_exec_task
  coredump: Stop setting signal-&gt;group_exit_task
  signal: Remove SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: During coredumps set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT in zap_process
  signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal
  signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  signal: Have the oom killer detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  exit: Move force_uaccess back into do_exit
  exit: Guarantee make_task_dead leaks the tsk when calling do_task_exit
  ...
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Pull signal/exit/ptrace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes deletes some dead code, makes a lot of cleanups
  which hopefully make the code easier to follow, and fixes bugs found
  along the way.

  The end-game which I have not yet reached yet is for fatal signals
  that generate coredumps to be short-circuit deliverable from
  complete_signal, for force_siginfo_to_task not to require changing
  userspace configured signal delivery state, and for the ptrace stops
  to always happen in locations where we can guarantee on all
  architectures that the all of the registers are saved and available on
  the stack.

  Removal of profile_task_ext, profile_munmap, and profile_handoff_task
  are the big successes for dead code removal this round.

  A bunch of small bug fixes are included, as most of the issues
  reported were small enough that they would not affect bisection so I
  simply added the fixes and did not fold the fixes into the changes
  they were fixing.

  There was a bug that broke coredumps piped to systemd-coredump. I
  dropped the change that caused that bug and replaced it entirely with
  something much more restrained. Unfortunately that required some
  rebasing.

  Some successes after this set of changes: There are few enough calls
  to do_exit to audit in a reasonable amount of time. The lifetime of
  struct kthread now matches the lifetime of struct task, and the
  pointer to struct kthread is no longer stored in set_child_tid. The
  flag SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP is removed. The field group_exit_task is
  removed. Issues where task-&gt;exit_code was examined with
  signal-&gt;group_exit_code should been examined were fixed.

  There are several loosely related changes included because I am
  cleaning up and if I don't include them they will probably get lost.

  The original postings of these changes can be found at:
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6ha4zsd.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bl1kunjj.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r19opkx1.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org

  I trimmed back the last set of changes to only the obviously correct
  once. Simply because there was less time for review than I had hoped"

* 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (44 commits)
  ptrace/m68k: Stop open coding ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove unused regs argument from ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove second setting of PT_SEIZED in ptrace_attach
  taskstats: Cleanup the use of task-&gt;exit_code
  exit: Use the correct exit_code in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat
  exit: Fix the exit_code for wait_task_zombie
  exit: Coredumps reach do_group_exit
  exit: Remove profile_handoff_task
  exit: Remove profile_task_exit &amp; profile_munmap
  signal: clean up kernel-doc comments
  signal: Remove the helper signal_group_exit
  signal: Rename group_exit_task group_exec_task
  coredump: Stop setting signal-&gt;group_exit_task
  signal: Remove SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: During coredumps set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT in zap_process
  signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal
  signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  signal: Have the oom killer detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  exit: Move force_uaccess back into do_exit
  exit: Guarantee make_task_dead leaks the tsk when calling do_task_exit
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2022-01-15T18:37:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-15T18:37:06+00:00</published>
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "146 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
  ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, kmemleak,
  dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, shmem, frontswap, memremap,
  memcg, selftests, pagemap, dma, vmalloc, memory-failure, hugetlb,
  userfaultfd, vmscan, mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp,
  ksm, page-poison, percpu, rmap, zswap, zram, cleanups, hmm, and
  damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (146 commits)
  mm/damon: hide kernel pointer from tracepoint event
  mm/damon/vaddr: hide kernel pointer from damon_va_three_regions() failure log
  mm/damon/vaddr: use pr_debug() for damon_va_three_regions() failure logging
  mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary variable
  mm/damon: move the implementation of damon_insert_region to damon.h
  mm/damon: add access checking for hugetlb pages
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for schemes statistics
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support all DAMOS stats
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document statistics parameters
  mm/damon/reclaim: provide reclamation statistics
  mm/damon/schemes: account how many times quota limit has exceeded
  mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully applied
  mm/damon: remove a mistakenly added comment for a future feature
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for kdamond_pid and (mk|rm)_contexts
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: mention tracepoint at the beginning
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: remove redundant information
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for scheme quotas and watermarks
  mm/damon: convert macro functions to static inline functions
  mm/damon: modify damon_rand() macro to static inline function
  mm/damon: move damon_rand() definition into damon.h
  ...
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "146 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
  ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, kmemleak,
  dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, shmem, frontswap, memremap,
  memcg, selftests, pagemap, dma, vmalloc, memory-failure, hugetlb,
  userfaultfd, vmscan, mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp,
  ksm, page-poison, percpu, rmap, zswap, zram, cleanups, hmm, and
  damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (146 commits)
  mm/damon: hide kernel pointer from tracepoint event
  mm/damon/vaddr: hide kernel pointer from damon_va_three_regions() failure log
  mm/damon/vaddr: use pr_debug() for damon_va_three_regions() failure logging
  mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary variable
  mm/damon: move the implementation of damon_insert_region to damon.h
  mm/damon: add access checking for hugetlb pages
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for schemes statistics
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support all DAMOS stats
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document statistics parameters
  mm/damon/reclaim: provide reclamation statistics
  mm/damon/schemes: account how many times quota limit has exceeded
  mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully applied
  mm/damon: remove a mistakenly added comment for a future feature
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for kdamond_pid and (mk|rm)_contexts
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: mention tracepoint at the beginning
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: remove redundant information
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for scheme quotas and watermarks
  mm/damon: convert macro functions to static inline functions
  mm/damon: modify damon_rand() macro to static inline function
  mm/damon: move damon_rand() definition into damon.h
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm/mempolicy: wire up syscall set_mempolicy_home_node</title>
<updated>2022-01-15T14:30:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-14T22:08:21+00:00</published>
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Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211202123810.267175-4-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Widawsky &lt;ben.widawsky@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-api@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211202123810.267175-4-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Widawsky &lt;ben.widawsky@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-api@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_core_for_v5.17_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-01-13T00:31:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-13T00:31:19+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Get rid of all the .fixup sections because this generates
   misleading/wrong stacktraces and confuse RELIABLE_STACKTRACE and
   LIVEPATCH as the backtrace misses the function which is being fixed
   up.

 - Add Straight Line Speculation mitigation support which uses a new
   compiler switch -mharden-sls= which sticks an INT3 after a RET or an
   indirect branch in order to block speculation after them. Reportedly,
   CPUs do speculate behind such insns.

 - The usual set of cleanups and improvements

* tag 'x86_core_for_v5.17_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  x86/entry_32: Fix segment exceptions
  objtool: Remove .fixup handling
  x86: Remove .fixup section
  x86/word-at-a-time: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/usercopy: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/usercopy_32: Simplify __copy_user_intel_nocache()
  x86/sgx: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/checksum_32: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/vmx: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/kvm: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/segment: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/fpu: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/xen: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/uaccess: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/futex: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/msr: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/extable: Extend extable functionality
  x86/entry_32: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/entry_64: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/copy_mc_64: Remove .fixup usage
  ...
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Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Get rid of all the .fixup sections because this generates
   misleading/wrong stacktraces and confuse RELIABLE_STACKTRACE and
   LIVEPATCH as the backtrace misses the function which is being fixed
   up.

 - Add Straight Line Speculation mitigation support which uses a new
   compiler switch -mharden-sls= which sticks an INT3 after a RET or an
   indirect branch in order to block speculation after them. Reportedly,
   CPUs do speculate behind such insns.

 - The usual set of cleanups and improvements

* tag 'x86_core_for_v5.17_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  x86/entry_32: Fix segment exceptions
  objtool: Remove .fixup handling
  x86: Remove .fixup section
  x86/word-at-a-time: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/usercopy: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/usercopy_32: Simplify __copy_user_intel_nocache()
  x86/sgx: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/checksum_32: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/vmx: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/kvm: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/segment: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/fpu: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/xen: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/uaccess: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/futex: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/msr: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/extable: Extend extable functionality
  x86/entry_32: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/entry_64: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/copy_mc_64: Remove .fixup usage
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/entry_32: Fix segment exceptions</title>
<updated>2022-01-12T15:38:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-11T11:11:14+00:00</published>
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The LKP robot reported that commit in Fixes: caused a failure. Turns out
the ldt_gdt_32 selftest turns into an infinite loop trying to clear the
segment.

As discovered by Sean, what happens is that PARANOID_EXIT_TO_KERNEL_MODE
in the handle_exception_return path overwrites the entry stack data with
the task stack data, restoring the "bad" segment value.

Instead of having the exception retry the instruction, have it emulate
the full instruction. Replace EX_TYPE_POP_ZERO with EX_TYPE_POP_REG
which will do the equivalent of: POP %reg; MOV $imm, %reg.

In order to encode the segment registers, add them as registers 8-11 for
32-bit.

By setting regs-&gt;[defg]s the (nested) RESTORE_REGS will pop this value
at the end of the exception handler and by increasing regs-&gt;sp, it will
have skipped the stack slot.

This was debugged by Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;.

 [ bp: Add EX_REG_GS too. ]

Fixes: aa93e2ad7464 ("x86/entry_32: Remove .fixup usage")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yd1l0gInc4zRcnt/@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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The LKP robot reported that commit in Fixes: caused a failure. Turns out
the ldt_gdt_32 selftest turns into an infinite loop trying to clear the
segment.

As discovered by Sean, what happens is that PARANOID_EXIT_TO_KERNEL_MODE
in the handle_exception_return path overwrites the entry stack data with
the task stack data, restoring the "bad" segment value.

Instead of having the exception retry the instruction, have it emulate
the full instruction. Replace EX_TYPE_POP_ZERO with EX_TYPE_POP_REG
which will do the equivalent of: POP %reg; MOV $imm, %reg.

In order to encode the segment registers, add them as registers 8-11 for
32-bit.

By setting regs-&gt;[defg]s the (nested) RESTORE_REGS will pop this value
at the end of the exception handler and by increasing regs-&gt;sp, it will
have skipped the stack slot.

This was debugged by Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;.

 [ bp: Add EX_REG_GS too. ]

Fixes: aa93e2ad7464 ("x86/entry_32: Remove .fixup usage")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Yd1l0gInc4zRcnt/@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/vdso: Remove -nostdlib compiler flag</title>
<updated>2021-12-30T13:08:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-07T16:26:40+00:00</published>
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The -nostdlib option requests the compiler to not use the standard
system startup files or libraries when linking. It is effective only
when $(CC) is used as a linker driver.

Since

  379d98ddf413 ("x86: vdso: Use $LD instead of $CC to link")

$(LD) is directly used, hence -nostdlib is unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211107162641.324688-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
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The -nostdlib option requests the compiler to not use the standard
system startup files or libraries when linking. It is effective only
when $(CC) is used as a linker driver.

Since

  379d98ddf413 ("x86: vdso: Use $LD instead of $CC to link")

$(LD) is directly used, hence -nostdlib is unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211107162641.324688-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>exit: Add and use make_task_dead.</title>
<updated>2021-12-13T18:04:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-28T19:52:01+00:00</published>
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There are two big uses of do_exit.  The first is it's design use to be
the guts of the exit(2) system call.  The second use is to terminate
a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer
in kernel code.

Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as
do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle
catastrophic failure.  In time this can probably be reduced to just a
light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so
that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new
concept.

Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic
task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code
is doing.

As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit
rewind_stack_and_make_dead.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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There are two big uses of do_exit.  The first is it's design use to be
the guts of the exit(2) system call.  The second use is to terminate
a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer
in kernel code.

Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as
do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle
catastrophic failure.  In time this can probably be reduced to just a
light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so
that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new
concept.

Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic
task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code
is doing.

As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit
rewind_stack_and_make_dead.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Remove .fixup section</title>
<updated>2021-12-11T08:09:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-10T10:01:24+00:00</published>
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No moar users, kill it dead.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110101326.201590122@infradead.org
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No moar users, kill it dead.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110101326.201590122@infradead.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/entry_32: Remove .fixup usage</title>
<updated>2021-12-11T08:09:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-10T10:01:08+00:00</published>
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Where possible, push the .fixup into code, at the tail of functions.

This is hard for macros since they're used in multiple functions,
therefore introduce a new extable handler to pop zeros.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110101325.245184699@infradead.org
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Where possible, push the .fixup into code, at the tail of functions.

This is hard for macros since they're used in multiple functions,
therefore introduce a new extable handler to pop zeros.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110101325.245184699@infradead.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/entry_64: Remove .fixup usage</title>
<updated>2021-12-11T08:09:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-10T10:01:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=16e617d05ef0c521d000c989796412ce713f28c9'/>
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Place the anonymous .fixup code at the tail of the regular functions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110101325.186049322@infradead.org
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Place the anonymous .fixup code at the tail of the regular functions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110101325.186049322@infradead.org
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