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<title>x86/irq: Make run_on_irqstack_cond() typesafe</title>
<updated>2020-09-22T20:13:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-22T07:58:52+00:00</published>
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Sami reported that run_on_irqstack_cond() requires the caller to cast
functions to mismatching types, which trips indirect call Control-Flow
Integrity (CFI) in Clang.

Instead of disabling CFI on that function, provide proper helpers for
the three call variants. The actual ASM code stays the same as that is
out of reach.

 [ bp: Fix __run_on_irqstack() prototype to match. ]

Fixes: 931b94145981 ("x86/entry: Provide helpers for executing on the irqstack")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1052
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87pn6eb5tv.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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Sami reported that run_on_irqstack_cond() requires the caller to cast
functions to mismatching types, which trips indirect call Control-Flow
Integrity (CFI) in Clang.

Instead of disabling CFI on that function, provide proper helpers for
the three call variants. The actual ASM code stays the same as that is
out of reach.

 [ bp: Fix __run_on_irqstack() prototype to match. ]

Fixes: 931b94145981 ("x86/entry: Provide helpers for executing on the irqstack")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1052
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87pn6eb5tv.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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<entry>
<title>x86/entry: Unbreak 32bit fast syscall</title>
<updated>2020-09-04T13:50:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-01T23:50:54+00:00</published>
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Andy reported that the syscall treacing for 32bit fast syscall fails:

# ./tools/testing/selftests/x86/ptrace_syscall_32
...
[RUN] SYSEMU
[FAIL] Initial args are wrong (nr=224, args=10 11 12 13 14 4289172732)
...
[RUN] SYSCALL
[FAIL] Initial args are wrong (nr=29, args=0 0 0 0 0 4289172732)
 
The eason is that the conversion to generic entry code moved the retrieval
of the sixth argument (EBP) after the point where the syscall entry work
runs, i.e. ptrace, seccomp, audit...

Unbreak it by providing a split up version of syscall_enter_from_user_mode().

- syscall_enter_from_user_mode_prepare() establishes state and enables
  interrupts

- syscall_enter_from_user_mode_work() runs the entry work

Replace the call to syscall_enter_from_user_mode() in the 32bit fast
syscall C-entry with the split functions and stick the EBP retrieval
between them.

Fixes: 27d6b4d14f5c ("x86/entry: Use generic syscall entry function")
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87k0xdjbtt.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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Andy reported that the syscall treacing for 32bit fast syscall fails:

# ./tools/testing/selftests/x86/ptrace_syscall_32
...
[RUN] SYSEMU
[FAIL] Initial args are wrong (nr=224, args=10 11 12 13 14 4289172732)
...
[RUN] SYSCALL
[FAIL] Initial args are wrong (nr=29, args=0 0 0 0 0 4289172732)
 
The eason is that the conversion to generic entry code moved the retrieval
of the sixth argument (EBP) after the point where the syscall entry work
runs, i.e. ptrace, seccomp, audit...

Unbreak it by providing a split up version of syscall_enter_from_user_mode().

- syscall_enter_from_user_mode_prepare() establishes state and enables
  interrupts

- syscall_enter_from_user_mode_work() runs the entry work

Replace the call to syscall_enter_from_user_mode() in the 32bit fast
syscall C-entry with the split functions and stick the EBP retrieval
between them.

Fixes: 27d6b4d14f5c ("x86/entry: Use generic syscall entry function")
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87k0xdjbtt.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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<entry>
<title>x86/entry: Remove unused THUNKs</title>
<updated>2020-08-26T10:41:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-12T17:28:07+00:00</published>
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Unused remnants

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200821085348.487040689@infradead.org
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Unused remnants

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200821085348.487040689@infradead.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/entry/64: Do not use RDPID in paranoid entry to accomodate KVM</title>
<updated>2020-08-21T14:15:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>sean.j.christopherson@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-21T10:52:29+00:00</published>
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KVM has an optmization to avoid expensive MRS read/writes on
VMENTER/EXIT. It caches the MSR values and restores them either when
leaving the run loop, on preemption or when going out to user space.

The affected MSRs are not required for kernel context operations. This
changed with the recently introduced mechanism to handle FSGSBASE in the
paranoid entry code which has to retrieve the kernel GSBASE value by
accessing per CPU memory. The mechanism needs to retrieve the CPU number
and uses either LSL or RDPID if the processor supports it.

Unfortunately RDPID uses MSR_TSC_AUX which is in the list of cached and
lazily restored MSRs, which means between the point where the guest value
is written and the point of restore, MSR_TSC_AUX contains a random number.

If an NMI or any other exception which uses the paranoid entry path happens
in such a context, then RDPID returns the random guest MSR_TSC_AUX value.

As a consequence this reads from the wrong memory location to retrieve the
kernel GSBASE value. Kernel GS is used to for all regular this_cpu_*()
operations. If the GSBASE in the exception handler points to the per CPU
memory of a different CPU then this has the obvious consequences of data
corruption and crashes.

As the paranoid entry path is the only place which accesses MSR_TSX_AUX
(via RDPID) and the fallback via LSL is not significantly slower, remove
the RDPID alternative from the entry path and always use LSL.

The alternative would be to write MSR_TSC_AUX on every VMENTER and VMEXIT
which would be inflicting massive overhead on that code path.

[ tglx: Rewrote changelog ]

Fixes: eaad981291ee3 ("x86/entry/64: Introduce the FIND_PERCPU_BASE macro")
Reported-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Debugged-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821105229.18938-1-pbonzini@redhat.com
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KVM has an optmization to avoid expensive MRS read/writes on
VMENTER/EXIT. It caches the MSR values and restores them either when
leaving the run loop, on preemption or when going out to user space.

The affected MSRs are not required for kernel context operations. This
changed with the recently introduced mechanism to handle FSGSBASE in the
paranoid entry code which has to retrieve the kernel GSBASE value by
accessing per CPU memory. The mechanism needs to retrieve the CPU number
and uses either LSL or RDPID if the processor supports it.

Unfortunately RDPID uses MSR_TSC_AUX which is in the list of cached and
lazily restored MSRs, which means between the point where the guest value
is written and the point of restore, MSR_TSC_AUX contains a random number.

If an NMI or any other exception which uses the paranoid entry path happens
in such a context, then RDPID returns the random guest MSR_TSC_AUX value.

As a consequence this reads from the wrong memory location to retrieve the
kernel GSBASE value. Kernel GS is used to for all regular this_cpu_*()
operations. If the GSBASE in the exception handler points to the per CPU
memory of a different CPU then this has the obvious consequences of data
corruption and crashes.

As the paranoid entry path is the only place which accesses MSR_TSX_AUX
(via RDPID) and the fallback via LSL is not significantly slower, remove
the RDPID alternative from the entry path and always use LSL.

The alternative would be to write MSR_TSC_AUX on every VMENTER and VMEXIT
which would be inflicting massive overhead on that code path.

[ tglx: Rewrote changelog ]

Fixes: eaad981291ee3 ("x86/entry/64: Introduce the FIND_PERCPU_BASE macro")
Reported-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Debugged-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821105229.18938-1-pbonzini@redhat.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>all arch: remove system call sys_sysctl</title>
<updated>2020-08-15T02:56:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiaoming Ni</name>
<email>nixiaoming@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-15T00:31:07+00:00</published>
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Since commit 61a47c1ad3a4dc ("sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call"),
sys_sysctl is actually unavailable: any input can only return an error.

We have been warning about people using the sysctl system call for years
and believe there are no more users.  Even if there are users of this
interface if they have not complained or fixed their code by now they
probably are not going to, so there is no point in warning them any
longer.

So completely remove sys_sysctl on all architectures.

[nixiaoming@huawei.com: s390: fix build error for sys_call_table_emu]
 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200618141426.16884-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni &lt;nixiaoming@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;		[arm/arm64]
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Bin Meng &lt;bin.meng@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: chenzefeng &lt;chenzefeng2@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Diego Elio Pettenò &lt;flameeyes@flameeyes.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Iurii Zaikin &lt;yzaikin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kars de Jong &lt;jongk@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@stackframe.org&gt;
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;bauerman@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Zhou Yanjie &lt;zhouyanjie@wanyeetech.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616030734.87257-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Since commit 61a47c1ad3a4dc ("sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call"),
sys_sysctl is actually unavailable: any input can only return an error.

We have been warning about people using the sysctl system call for years
and believe there are no more users.  Even if there are users of this
interface if they have not complained or fixed their code by now they
probably are not going to, so there is no point in warning them any
longer.

So completely remove sys_sysctl on all architectures.

[nixiaoming@huawei.com: s390: fix build error for sys_call_table_emu]
 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200618141426.16884-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni &lt;nixiaoming@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;		[arm/arm64]
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Bin Meng &lt;bin.meng@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: chenzefeng &lt;chenzefeng2@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Diego Elio Pettenò &lt;flameeyes@flameeyes.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Iurii Zaikin &lt;yzaikin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kars de Jong &lt;jongk@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@stackframe.org&gt;
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;bauerman@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Zhou Yanjie &lt;zhouyanjie@wanyeetech.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616030734.87257-1-nixiaoming@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-5.9-rc1b-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2020-08-14T20:34:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-14T20:34:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0520058d0578c2924b1571c16281f873cb4a3d2b'/>
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Pull more xen updates from Juergen Gross:

 - Remove support for running as 32-bit Xen PV-guest.

   32-bit PV guests are rarely used, are lacking security fixes for
   Meltdown, and can be easily replaced by PVH mode. Another series for
   doing more cleanup will follow soon (removal of 32-bit-only pvops
   functionality).

 - Fixes and additional features for the Xen display frontend driver.

* tag 'for-linus-5.9-rc1b-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  drm/xen-front: Pass dumb buffer data offset to the backend
  xen: Sync up with the canonical protocol definition in Xen
  drm/xen-front: Add YUYV to supported formats
  drm/xen-front: Fix misused IS_ERR_OR_NULL checks
  xen/gntdev: Fix dmabuf import with non-zero sgt offset
  x86/xen: drop tests for highmem in pv code
  x86/xen: eliminate xen-asm_64.S
  x86/xen: remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support
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Pull more xen updates from Juergen Gross:

 - Remove support for running as 32-bit Xen PV-guest.

   32-bit PV guests are rarely used, are lacking security fixes for
   Meltdown, and can be easily replaced by PVH mode. Another series for
   doing more cleanup will follow soon (removal of 32-bit-only pvops
   functionality).

 - Fixes and additional features for the Xen display frontend driver.

* tag 'for-linus-5.9-rc1b-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  drm/xen-front: Pass dumb buffer data offset to the backend
  xen: Sync up with the canonical protocol definition in Xen
  drm/xen-front: Add YUYV to supported formats
  drm/xen-front: Fix misused IS_ERR_OR_NULL checks
  xen/gntdev: Fix dmabuf import with non-zero sgt offset
  x86/xen: drop tests for highmem in pv code
  x86/xen: eliminate xen-asm_64.S
  x86/xen: remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/xen: remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support</title>
<updated>2020-08-11T06:26:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-29T08:35:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a13f2ef168cb2a033a284eb841bcc481ffbc90cf'/>
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Xen is requiring 64-bit machines today and since Xen 4.14 it can be
built without 32-bit PV guest support. There is no need to carry the
burden of 32-bit PV guest support in the kernel any longer, as new
guests can be either HVM or PVH, or they can use a 64 bit kernel.

Remove the 32-bit Xen PV support from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
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Xen is requiring 64-bit machines today and since Xen 4.14 it can be
built without 32-bit PV guest support. There is no need to carry the
burden of 32-bit PV guest support in the kernel any longer, as new
guests can be either HVM or PVH, or they can use a 64 bit kernel.

Remove the 32-bit Xen PV support from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2020-08-09T21:10:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-09T21:10:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fc80c51fd4b23ec007e88d4c688f2cac1b8648e7'/>
<id>fc80c51fd4b23ec007e88d4c688f2cac1b8648e7</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - run the checker (e.g. sparse) after the compiler

 - remove unneeded cc-option tests for old compiler flags

 - fix tar-pkg to install dtbs

 - introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y syntax

 - allow to trace functions in sub-directories of lib/

 - introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y syntax

 - various Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: stop filtering out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS) from cc-option base
  kbuild: include scripts/Makefile.* only when relevant CONFIG is enabled
  kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y
  kbuild: sort hostprogs before passing it to ifneq
  kbuild: move host .so build rules to scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
  kbuild: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  kbuild: trace functions in subdirectories of lib/
  kbuild: introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y
  kbuild: do not export LDFLAGS_vmlinux
  kbuild: always create directories of targets
  powerpc/boot: add DTB to 'targets'
  kbuild: buildtar: add dtbs support
  kbuild: remove cc-option test of -ffreestanding
  kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-protector
  Revert "kbuild: Create directory for target DTB"
  kbuild: run the checker after the compiler
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - run the checker (e.g. sparse) after the compiler

 - remove unneeded cc-option tests for old compiler flags

 - fix tar-pkg to install dtbs

 - introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y syntax

 - allow to trace functions in sub-directories of lib/

 - introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y syntax

 - various Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: stop filtering out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS) from cc-option base
  kbuild: include scripts/Makefile.* only when relevant CONFIG is enabled
  kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y
  kbuild: sort hostprogs before passing it to ifneq
  kbuild: move host .so build rules to scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
  kbuild: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  kbuild: trace functions in subdirectories of lib/
  kbuild: introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y
  kbuild: do not export LDFLAGS_vmlinux
  kbuild: always create directories of targets
  powerpc/boot: add DTB to 'targets'
  kbuild: buildtar: add dtbs support
  kbuild: remove cc-option test of -ffreestanding
  kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-protector
  Revert "kbuild: Create directory for target DTB"
  kbuild: run the checker after the compiler
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2020-08-06T03:13:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-06T03:13:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=47ec5303d73ea344e84f46660fff693c57641386'/>
<id>47ec5303d73ea344e84f46660fff693c57641386</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Support 6Ghz band in ath11k driver, from Rajkumar Manoharan.

 2) Support UDP segmentation in code TSO code, from Eric Dumazet.

 3) Allow flashing different flash images in cxgb4 driver, from Vishal
    Kulkarni.

 4) Add drop frames counter and flow status to tc flower offloading,
    from Po Liu.

 5) Support n-tuple filters in cxgb4, from Vishal Kulkarni.

 6) Various new indirect call avoidance, from Eric Dumazet and Brian
    Vazquez.

 7) Fix BPF verifier failures on 32-bit pointer arithmetic, from
    Yonghong Song.

 8) Support querying and setting hardware address of a port function via
    devlink, use this in mlx5, from Parav Pandit.

 9) Support hw ipsec offload on bonding slaves, from Jarod Wilson.

10) Switch qca8k driver over to phylink, from Jonathan McDowell.

11) In bpftool, show list of processes holding BPF FD references to
    maps, programs, links, and btf objects. From Andrii Nakryiko.

12) Several conversions over to generic power management, from Vaibhav
    Gupta.

13) Add support for SO_KEEPALIVE et al. to bpf_setsockopt(), from Dmitry
    Yakunin.

14) Various https url conversions, from Alexander A. Klimov.

15) Timestamping and PHC support for mscc PHY driver, from Antoine
    Tenart.

16) Support bpf iterating over tcp and udp sockets, from Yonghong Song.

17) Support 5GBASE-T i40e NICs, from Aleksandr Loktionov.

18) Add kTLS RX HW offload support to mlx5e, from Tariq Toukan.

19) Fix the -&gt;ndo_start_xmit() return type to be netdev_tx_t in several
    drivers. From Luc Van Oostenryck.

20) XDP support for xen-netfront, from Denis Kirjanov.

21) Support receive buffer autotuning in MPTCP, from Florian Westphal.

22) Support EF100 chip in sfc driver, from Edward Cree.

23) Add XDP support to mvpp2 driver, from Matteo Croce.

24) Support MPTCP in sock_diag, from Paolo Abeni.

25) Commonize UDP tunnel offloading code by creating udp_tunnel_nic
    infrastructure, from Jakub Kicinski.

26) Several pci_ --&gt; dma_ API conversions, from Christophe JAILLET.

27) Add FLOW_ACTION_POLICE support to mlxsw, from Ido Schimmel.

28) Add SK_LOOKUP bpf program type, from Jakub Sitnicki.

29) Refactor a lot of networking socket option handling code in order to
    avoid set_fs() calls, from Christoph Hellwig.

30) Add rfc4884 support to icmp code, from Willem de Bruijn.

31) Support TBF offload in dpaa2-eth driver, from Ioana Ciornei.

32) Support XDP_REDIRECT in qede driver, from Alexander Lobakin.

33) Support PCI relaxed ordering in mlx5 driver, from Aya Levin.

34) Support TCP syncookies in MPTCP, from Flowian Westphal.

35) Fix several tricky cases of PMTU handling wrt. briding, from Stefano
    Brivio.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2056 commits)
  net: thunderx: initialize VF's mailbox mutex before first usage
  usb: hso: remove bogus check for EINPROGRESS
  usb: hso: no complaint about kmalloc failure
  hso: fix bailout in error case of probe
  ip_tunnel_core: Fix build for archs without _HAVE_ARCH_IPV6_CSUM
  selftests/net: relax cpu affinity requirement in msg_zerocopy test
  mptcp: be careful on subflow creation
  selftests: rtnetlink: make kci_test_encap() return sub-test result
  selftests: rtnetlink: correct the final return value for the test
  net: dsa: sja1105: use detected device id instead of DT one on mismatch
  tipc: set ub-&gt;ifindex for local ipv6 address
  ipv6: add ipv6_dev_find()
  net: openvswitch: silence suspicious RCU usage warning
  Revert "vxlan: fix tos value before xmit"
  ptp: only allow phase values lower than 1 period
  farsync: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
  wan: wanxl: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
  hv_netvsc: do not use VF device if link is down
  dpaa2-eth: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
  net: macb: Properly handle phylink on at91sam9x
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Support 6Ghz band in ath11k driver, from Rajkumar Manoharan.

 2) Support UDP segmentation in code TSO code, from Eric Dumazet.

 3) Allow flashing different flash images in cxgb4 driver, from Vishal
    Kulkarni.

 4) Add drop frames counter and flow status to tc flower offloading,
    from Po Liu.

 5) Support n-tuple filters in cxgb4, from Vishal Kulkarni.

 6) Various new indirect call avoidance, from Eric Dumazet and Brian
    Vazquez.

 7) Fix BPF verifier failures on 32-bit pointer arithmetic, from
    Yonghong Song.

 8) Support querying and setting hardware address of a port function via
    devlink, use this in mlx5, from Parav Pandit.

 9) Support hw ipsec offload on bonding slaves, from Jarod Wilson.

10) Switch qca8k driver over to phylink, from Jonathan McDowell.

11) In bpftool, show list of processes holding BPF FD references to
    maps, programs, links, and btf objects. From Andrii Nakryiko.

12) Several conversions over to generic power management, from Vaibhav
    Gupta.

13) Add support for SO_KEEPALIVE et al. to bpf_setsockopt(), from Dmitry
    Yakunin.

14) Various https url conversions, from Alexander A. Klimov.

15) Timestamping and PHC support for mscc PHY driver, from Antoine
    Tenart.

16) Support bpf iterating over tcp and udp sockets, from Yonghong Song.

17) Support 5GBASE-T i40e NICs, from Aleksandr Loktionov.

18) Add kTLS RX HW offload support to mlx5e, from Tariq Toukan.

19) Fix the -&gt;ndo_start_xmit() return type to be netdev_tx_t in several
    drivers. From Luc Van Oostenryck.

20) XDP support for xen-netfront, from Denis Kirjanov.

21) Support receive buffer autotuning in MPTCP, from Florian Westphal.

22) Support EF100 chip in sfc driver, from Edward Cree.

23) Add XDP support to mvpp2 driver, from Matteo Croce.

24) Support MPTCP in sock_diag, from Paolo Abeni.

25) Commonize UDP tunnel offloading code by creating udp_tunnel_nic
    infrastructure, from Jakub Kicinski.

26) Several pci_ --&gt; dma_ API conversions, from Christophe JAILLET.

27) Add FLOW_ACTION_POLICE support to mlxsw, from Ido Schimmel.

28) Add SK_LOOKUP bpf program type, from Jakub Sitnicki.

29) Refactor a lot of networking socket option handling code in order to
    avoid set_fs() calls, from Christoph Hellwig.

30) Add rfc4884 support to icmp code, from Willem de Bruijn.

31) Support TBF offload in dpaa2-eth driver, from Ioana Ciornei.

32) Support XDP_REDIRECT in qede driver, from Alexander Lobakin.

33) Support PCI relaxed ordering in mlx5 driver, from Aya Levin.

34) Support TCP syncookies in MPTCP, from Flowian Westphal.

35) Fix several tricky cases of PMTU handling wrt. briding, from Stefano
    Brivio.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2056 commits)
  net: thunderx: initialize VF's mailbox mutex before first usage
  usb: hso: remove bogus check for EINPROGRESS
  usb: hso: no complaint about kmalloc failure
  hso: fix bailout in error case of probe
  ip_tunnel_core: Fix build for archs without _HAVE_ARCH_IPV6_CSUM
  selftests/net: relax cpu affinity requirement in msg_zerocopy test
  mptcp: be careful on subflow creation
  selftests: rtnetlink: make kci_test_encap() return sub-test result
  selftests: rtnetlink: correct the final return value for the test
  net: dsa: sja1105: use detected device id instead of DT one on mismatch
  tipc: set ub-&gt;ifindex for local ipv6 address
  ipv6: add ipv6_dev_find()
  net: openvswitch: silence suspicious RCU usage warning
  Revert "vxlan: fix tos value before xmit"
  ptp: only allow phase values lower than 1 period
  farsync: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
  wan: wanxl: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
  hv_netvsc: do not use VF device if link is down
  dpaa2-eth: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
  net: macb: Properly handle phylink on at91sam9x
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-fsgsbase-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-08-05T04:16:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-05T04:16:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4da9f3302615f4191814f826054846bf843e24fa'/>
<id>4da9f3302615f4191814f826054846bf843e24fa</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 fsgsbase from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Support for FSGSBASE. Almost 5 years after the first RFC to support
  it, this has been brought into a shape which is maintainable and
  actually works.

  This final version was done by Sasha Levin who took it up after Intel
  dropped the ball. Sasha discovered that the SGX (sic!) offerings out
  there ship rogue kernel modules enabling FSGSBASE behind the kernels
  back which opens an instantanious unpriviledged root hole.

  The FSGSBASE instructions provide a considerable speedup of the
  context switch path and enable user space to write GSBASE without
  kernel interaction. This enablement requires careful handling of the
  exception entries which go through the paranoid entry path as they
  can no longer rely on the assumption that user GSBASE is positive (as
  enforced via prctl() on non FSGSBASE enabled systemn).

  All other entries (syscalls, interrupts and exceptions) can still just
  utilize SWAPGS unconditionally when the entry comes from user space.
  Converting these entries to use FSGSBASE has no benefit as SWAPGS is
  only marginally slower than WRGSBASE and locating and retrieving the
  kernel GSBASE value is not a free operation either. The real benefit
  of RD/WRGSBASE is the avoidance of the MSR reads and writes.

  The changes come with appropriate selftests and have held up in field
  testing against the (sanitized) Graphene-SGX driver"

* tag 'x86-fsgsbase-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  x86/fsgsbase: Fix Xen PV support
  x86/ptrace: Fix 32-bit PTRACE_SETREGS vs fsbase and gsbase
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Add a missing memory constraint
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Fix a comment in the ptrace_write_gsbase test
  selftests/x86: Add a syscall_arg_fault_64 test for negative GSBASE
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test ptracer-induced GS base write with FSGSBASE
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test GS selector on ptracer-induced GS base write
  Documentation/x86/64: Add documentation for GS/FS addressing mode
  x86/elf: Enumerate kernel FSGSBASE capability in AT_HWCAP2
  x86/cpu: Enable FSGSBASE on 64bit by default and add a chicken bit
  x86/entry/64: Handle FSGSBASE enabled paranoid entry/exit
  x86/entry/64: Introduce the FIND_PERCPU_BASE macro
  x86/entry/64: Switch CR3 before SWAPGS in paranoid entry
  x86/speculation/swapgs: Check FSGSBASE in enabling SWAPGS mitigation
  x86/process/64: Use FSGSBASE instructions on thread copy and ptrace
  x86/process/64: Use FSBSBASE in switch_to() if available
  x86/process/64: Make save_fsgs_for_kvm() ready for FSGSBASE
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Enable FSGSBASE instructions in helper functions
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Add intrinsics for FSGSBASE instructions
  x86/cpu: Add 'unsafe_fsgsbase' to enable CR4.FSGSBASE
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 fsgsbase from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Support for FSGSBASE. Almost 5 years after the first RFC to support
  it, this has been brought into a shape which is maintainable and
  actually works.

  This final version was done by Sasha Levin who took it up after Intel
  dropped the ball. Sasha discovered that the SGX (sic!) offerings out
  there ship rogue kernel modules enabling FSGSBASE behind the kernels
  back which opens an instantanious unpriviledged root hole.

  The FSGSBASE instructions provide a considerable speedup of the
  context switch path and enable user space to write GSBASE without
  kernel interaction. This enablement requires careful handling of the
  exception entries which go through the paranoid entry path as they
  can no longer rely on the assumption that user GSBASE is positive (as
  enforced via prctl() on non FSGSBASE enabled systemn).

  All other entries (syscalls, interrupts and exceptions) can still just
  utilize SWAPGS unconditionally when the entry comes from user space.
  Converting these entries to use FSGSBASE has no benefit as SWAPGS is
  only marginally slower than WRGSBASE and locating and retrieving the
  kernel GSBASE value is not a free operation either. The real benefit
  of RD/WRGSBASE is the avoidance of the MSR reads and writes.

  The changes come with appropriate selftests and have held up in field
  testing against the (sanitized) Graphene-SGX driver"

* tag 'x86-fsgsbase-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  x86/fsgsbase: Fix Xen PV support
  x86/ptrace: Fix 32-bit PTRACE_SETREGS vs fsbase and gsbase
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Add a missing memory constraint
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Fix a comment in the ptrace_write_gsbase test
  selftests/x86: Add a syscall_arg_fault_64 test for negative GSBASE
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test ptracer-induced GS base write with FSGSBASE
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test GS selector on ptracer-induced GS base write
  Documentation/x86/64: Add documentation for GS/FS addressing mode
  x86/elf: Enumerate kernel FSGSBASE capability in AT_HWCAP2
  x86/cpu: Enable FSGSBASE on 64bit by default and add a chicken bit
  x86/entry/64: Handle FSGSBASE enabled paranoid entry/exit
  x86/entry/64: Introduce the FIND_PERCPU_BASE macro
  x86/entry/64: Switch CR3 before SWAPGS in paranoid entry
  x86/speculation/swapgs: Check FSGSBASE in enabling SWAPGS mitigation
  x86/process/64: Use FSGSBASE instructions on thread copy and ptrace
  x86/process/64: Use FSBSBASE in switch_to() if available
  x86/process/64: Make save_fsgs_for_kvm() ready for FSGSBASE
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Enable FSGSBASE instructions in helper functions
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Add intrinsics for FSGSBASE instructions
  x86/cpu: Add 'unsafe_fsgsbase' to enable CR4.FSGSBASE
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