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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- improve boolinit.cocci and use_after_iter.cocci semantic patches
- fix alignment for kallsyms
- move 'asm goto' compiler test to Kconfig and clean up jump_label
CONFIG option
- generate asm-generic wrappers automatically if arch does not
implement mandatory UAPI headers
- remove redundant generic-y defines
- misc cleanups
* tag 'kbuild-v4.21-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kconfig: rename generated .*conf-cfg to *conf-cfg
kbuild: remove unnecessary stubs for archheader and archscripts
kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules
arch: remove redundant UAPI generic-y defines
kbuild: generate asm-generic wrappers if mandatory headers are missing
arch: remove stale comments "UAPI Header export list"
riscv: remove redundant kernel-space generic-y
kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { }
kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure
kbuild: clean up rule_dtc_dt_yaml
kbuild: remove UIMAGE_IN and UIMAGE_OUT
jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig
kallsyms: lower alignment on ARM
scripts: coccinelle: boolinit: drop warnings on named constants
scripts: coccinelle: check for redeclaration
kconfig: remove unused "file" field of yylval union
nds32: remove redundant kernel-space generic-y
nios2: remove unneeded HAS_DMA define
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Commit 594cc251fdd0 ("make 'user_access_begin()' do 'access_ok()'")
broke both alpha and SH booting in qemu, as noticed by Guenter Roeck.
It turns out that the bug wasn't actually in that commit itself (which
would have been surprising: it was mostly a no-op), but in how the
addition of access_ok() to the strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user()
functions now triggered the case where those functions would test the
access of the very last byte of the user address space.
The string functions actually did that user range test before too, but
they did it manually by just comparing against user_addr_max(). But
with user_access_begin() doing the check (using "access_ok()"), it now
exposed problems in the architecture implementations of that function.
For example, on alpha, the access_ok() helper macro looked like this:
#define __access_ok(addr, size) \
((get_fs().seg & (addr | size | (addr+size))) == 0)
and what it basically tests is of any of the high bits get set (the
USER_DS masking value is 0xfffffc0000000000).
And that's completely wrong for the "addr+size" check. Because it's
off-by-one for the case where we check to the very end of the user
address space, which is exactly what the strn*_user() functions do.
Why? Because "addr+size" will be exactly the size of the address space,
so trying to access the last byte of the user address space will fail
the __access_ok() check, even though it shouldn't. As a result, the
user string accessor functions failed consistently - because they
literally don't know how long the string is going to be, and the max
access is going to be that last byte of the user address space.
Side note: that alpha macro is buggy for another reason too - it re-uses
the arguments twice.
And SH has another version of almost the exact same bug:
#define __addr_ok(addr) \
((unsigned long __force)(addr) < current_thread_info()->addr_limit.seg)
so far so good: yes, a user address must be below the limit. But then:
#define __access_ok(addr, size) \
(__addr_ok((addr) + (size)))
is wrong with the exact same off-by-one case: the case when "addr+size"
is exactly _equal_ to the limit is actually perfectly fine (think "one
byte access at the last address of the user address space")
The SH version is actually seriously buggy in another way: it doesn't
actually check for overflow, even though it did copy the _comment_ that
talks about overflow.
So it turns out that both SH and alpha actually have completely buggy
implementations of access_ok(), but they happened to work in practice
(although the SH overflow one is a serious serious security bug, not
that anybody likely cares about SH security).
This fixes the problems by using a similar macro on both alpha and SH.
It isn't trying to be clever, the end address is based on this logic:
unsigned long __ao_end = __ao_a + __ao_b - !!__ao_b;
which basically says "add start and length, and then subtract one unless
the length was zero". We can't subtract one for a zero length, or we'd
just hit an underflow instead.
For a lot of access_ok() users the length is a constant, so this isn't
actually as expensive as it initially looks.
Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pull dma-mapping fixes from Christoph Hellwig:
"Fix various regressions introduced in this cycles:
- fix dma-debug tracking for the map_page / map_single
consolidatation
- properly stub out DMA mapping symbols for !HAS_DMA builds to avoid
link failures
- fix AMD Gart direct mappings
- setup the dma address for no kernel mappings using the remap
allocator"
* tag 'dma-mapping-4.21-1' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping:
dma-direct: fix DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING for remapped allocations
x86/amd_gart: fix unmapping of non-GART mappings
dma-mapping: remove a few unused exports
dma-mapping: properly stub out the DMA API for !CONFIG_HAS_DMA
dma-mapping: remove dmam_{declare,release}_coherent_memory
dma-mapping: implement dmam_alloc_coherent using dmam_alloc_attrs
dma-mapping: implement dma_map_single_attrs using dma_map_page_attrs
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci
Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
- Remove unused lists from ASPM pcie_link_state (Frederick Lawler)
- Fix Broadcom CNB20LE host bridge unintended sign extension (Colin Ian
King)
- Expand Kconfig "PF" acronyms (Randy Dunlap)
- Update MAINTAINERS for arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Add missing include to drivers/pci.h (Alexandru Gagniuc)
- Override Synopsys USB 3.x HAPS device class so dwc3-haps can claim it
instead of xhci (Thinh Nguyen)
- Clean up P2PDMA documentation (Randy Dunlap)
- Allow runtime PM even if driver doesn't supply callbacks (Jarkko
Nikula)
- Remove status check after submitting Switchtec MRPC Firmware Download
commands to avoid Completion Timeouts (Kelvin Cao)
- Set Switchtec coherent DMA mask to allow 64-bit DMA (Boris Glimcher)
- Fix Switchtec SWITCHTEC_IOCTL_EVENT_IDX_ALL flag overwrite issue
(Joey Zhang)
- Enable write combining for Switchtec MRPC Input buffers (Kelvin Cao)
- Add Switchtec MRPC DMA mode support (Wesley Sheng)
- Skip VF scanning on powerpc, which does this in firmware (Sebastian
Ott)
- Add Amlogic Meson PCIe controller driver and DT bindings (Yue Wang)
- Constify histb dw_pcie_host_ops structure (Julia Lawall)
- Support multiple power domains for imx6 (Leonard Crestez)
- Constify layerscape driver data (Stefan Agner)
- Update imx6 Kconfig to allow imx6 PCIe in imx7 kernel (Trent Piepho)
- Support armada8k GPIO reset (Baruch Siach)
- Support suspend/resume support on imx6 (Leonard Crestez)
- Don't hard-code DesignWare DBI/ATU offst (Stephen Warren)
- Skip i.MX6 PHY setup on i.MX7D (Andrey Smirnov)
- Remove Jianguo Sun from HiSilicon STB maintainers (Lorenzo Pieralisi)
- Mask DesignWare interrupts instead of disabling them to avoid lost
interrupts (Marc Zyngier)
- Add locking when acking DesignWare interrupts (Marc Zyngier)
- Ack DesignWare interrupts in the proper callbacks (Marc Zyngier)
- Use devm resource parser in mediatek (Honghui Zhang)
- Remove unused mediatek "num-lanes" DT property (Honghui Zhang)
- Add UniPhier PCIe controller driver and DT bindings (Kunihiko
Hayashi)
- Enable MSI for imx6 downstream components (Richard Zhu)
* tag 'pci-v4.21-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (40 commits)
PCI: imx: Enable MSI from downstream components
s390/pci: skip VF scanning
PCI/IOV: Add flag so platforms can skip VF scanning
PCI/IOV: Factor out sriov_add_vfs()
PCI: uniphier: Add UniPhier PCIe host controller support
dt-bindings: PCI: Add UniPhier PCIe host controller description
PCI: amlogic: Add the Amlogic Meson PCIe controller driver
dt-bindings: PCI: meson: add DT bindings for Amlogic Meson PCIe controller
arm64: dts: mt7622: Remove un-used property for PCIe
arm: dts: mt7623: Remove un-used property for PCIe
dt-bindings: PCI: MediaTek: Remove un-used property
PCI: mediatek: Remove un-used variant in struct mtk_pcie_port
MAINTAINERS: Remove Jianguo Sun from HiSilicon STB DWC entry
PCI: dwc: Don't hard-code DBI/ATU offset
PCI: imx: Add imx6sx suspend/resume support
PCI: armada8k: Add support for gpio controlled reset signal
PCI: dwc: Adjust Kconfig to allow IMX6 PCIe host on IMX7
PCI: dwc: layerscape: Constify driver data
PCI: imx: Add multi-pd support
PCI: Override Synopsys USB 3.x HAPS device class
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You do not have to use define ... endef for filechk_* rules.
For simple cases, the use of assignment looks cleaner, IMHO.
I updated the usage for scripts/Kbuild.include in case somebody
misunderstands the 'define ... endif' is the requirement.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Now that Kbuild automatically creates asm-generic wrappers for missing
mandatory headers, it is redundant to list the same headers in
generic-y and mandatory-y.
Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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These comments are leftovers of commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi: export all
headers under uapi directories").
Prior to that commit, exported headers must be explicitly added to
header-y. Now, all headers under the uapi/ directories are exported.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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This commit removes redundant generic-y defines in
arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild.
[1] It is redundant to define the same generic-y in both
arch/$(ARCH)/include/asm/Kbuild and
arch/$(ARCH)/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild.
Remove the following generic-y:
errno.h
fcntl.h
ioctl.h
ioctls.h
ipcbuf.h
mman.h
msgbuf.h
param.h
poll.h
posix_types.h
resource.h
sembuf.h
setup.h
shmbuf.h
signal.h
socket.h
sockios.h
stat.h
statfs.h
swab.h
termbits.h
termios.h
types.h
[2] It is redundant to define generic-y when arch-specific
implementation exists in arch/$(ARCH)/include/asm/*.h
Remove the following generic-y:
cacheflush.h
module.h
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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filechk_* rules often consist of multiple 'echo' lines. They must be
surrounded with { } or ( ) to work correctly. Otherwise, only the
string from the last 'echo' would be written into the target.
Let's take care of that in the 'filechk' in scripts/Kbuild.include
to clean up filechk_* rules.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Since commit 9c2af1c7377a ("kbuild: add .DELETE_ON_ERROR special
target"), the target file is automatically deleted on failure.
The boilerplate code
... || { rm -f $@; false; }
is unneeded.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Currently, CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL just means "I _want_ to use jump label".
The jump label is controlled by HAVE_JUMP_LABEL, which is defined
like this:
#if defined(CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO) && defined(CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL)
# define HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
#endif
We can improve this by testing 'asm goto' support in Kconfig, then
make JUMP_LABEL depend on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO.
Ugly #ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL will go away, and CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL will
match to the real kernel capability.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
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This commit removes redundant generic-y defines in
arch/nds32/include/asm/Kbuild.
[1] It is redundant to define the same generic-y in both
arch/$(ARCH)/include/asm/Kbuild and
arch/$(ARCH)/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild.
Remove the following generic-y:
bitsperlong.h
bpf_perf_event.h
errno.h
fcntl.h
ioctl.h
ioctls.h
mman.h
shmbuf.h
stat.h
[2] It is redundant to define generic-y when arch-specific
implementation exists in arch/$(ARCH)/include/asm/*.h
Remove the following generic-y:
ftrace.h
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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kernel/dma/Kconfig globally defines HAS_DMA as follows:
config HAS_DMA
bool
depends on !NO_DMA
default y
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull ftrace sh build fix from Steven Rostedt:
"It appears that the zero-day bot did find a bug in my sh build.
And that I didn't have the bad code in my config file when I cross
compiled it, although there are a few other errors in sh that makes it
not build for me, I missed that I added one more"
* tag 'trace-v4.21-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
sh: ftrace: Fix missing parenthesis in WARN_ON()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs mount API prep from Al Viro:
"Mount API prereqs.
Mostly that's LSM mount options cleanups. There are several minor
fixes in there, but nothing earth-shattering (leaks on failure exits,
mostly)"
* 'mount.part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (27 commits)
mount_fs: suppress MAC on MS_SUBMOUNT as well as MS_KERNMOUNT
smack: rewrite smack_sb_eat_lsm_opts()
smack: get rid of match_token()
smack: take the guts of smack_parse_opts_str() into a new helper
LSM: new method: ->sb_add_mnt_opt()
selinux: rewrite selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts()
selinux: regularize Opt_... names a bit
selinux: switch away from match_token()
selinux: new helper - selinux_add_opt()
LSM: bury struct security_mnt_opts
smack: switch to private smack_mnt_opts
selinux: switch to private struct selinux_mnt_opts
LSM: hide struct security_mnt_opts from any generic code
selinux: kill selinux_sb_get_mnt_opts()
LSM: turn sb_eat_lsm_opts() into a method
nfs_remount(): don't leak, don't ignore LSM options quietly
btrfs: sanitize security_mnt_opts use
selinux; don't open-code a loop in sb_finish_set_opts()
LSM: split ->sb_set_mnt_opts() out of ->sb_kern_mount()
new helper: security_sb_eat_lsm_opts()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux
Pull MIPS fixes from Paul Burton:
"A few early MIPS fixes for 4.21:
- The Broadcom BCM63xx platform sees a fix for resetting the BCM6368
ethernet switch, and the removal of a platform device we've never
had a driver for.
- The Alchemy platform sees a few fixes for bitrot that occurred
within the past few cycles.
- We now enable vectored interrupt support for the MediaTek MT7620
SoC, which makes sense since they're supported by the SoC but in
this case also works around a bug relating to the location of
exception vectors when using a recent version of U-Boot.
- The atomic64_fetch_*_relaxed() family of functions see a fix for a
regression in MIPS64 kernels since v4.19.
- Cavium Octeon III CN7xxx systems will now disable their RGMII
interfaces rather than attempt to enable them & warn about the lack
of support for doing so, as they did since initial CN7xxx ethernet
support was added in v4.7.
- The Microsemi/Microchip MSCC SoCs gain a MAINTAINERS entry.
- .mailmap now provides consistency for Dengcheng Zhu's name &
current email address"
* tag 'mips_fixes_4.21_1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux:
MIPS: OCTEON: mark RGMII interface disabled on OCTEON III
MIPS: Fix a R10000_LLSC_WAR logic in atomic.h
MIPS: BCM63XX: drop unused and broken DSP platform device
mailmap: Update name spelling and email for Dengcheng Zhu
MIPS: ralink: Select CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR2_IRQ_VI on MT7620/8
MAINTAINERS: Add a maintainer for MSCC MIPS SoCs
MIPS: Alchemy: update dma masks for devboard devices
MIPS: Alchemy: update cpu-feature-overrides
MIPS: Alchemy: drop DB1000 IrDA support bits
MIPS: alchemy: cpu_all_mask is forbidden for clock event devices
MIPS: BCM63XX: fix switch core reset on BCM6368
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
"A fix for the recent access_ok() change, which broke the build. We
recently added a use of type in order to squash a warning elsewhere
about type being unused.
A handful of other minor build fixes, and one defconfig update.
Thanks to: Christian Lamparter, Christophe Leroy, Diana Craciun,
Mathieu Malaterre"
* tag 'powerpc-4.21-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
powerpc: Drop use of 'type' from access_ok()
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: radix: Fix uninitialized var build error
powerpc/configs: Add PPC4xx_OCM to ppc40x_defconfig
powerpc/4xx/ocm: Fix phys_addr_t printf warnings
powerpc/4xx/ocm: Fix compilation error due to PAGE_KERNEL usage
powerpc/fsl: Fixed warning: orphan section `__btb_flush_fixup'
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux
Pull parisc fix from Helge Deller:
"Fix boot issues with a series of parisc servers since kernel 4.20.
Remapping kernel text with set_kernel_text_rw() missed to remap from
lowest up until the highest huge-page aligned kernel text addresss"
* 'parisc-4.21-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: Remap hugepage-aligned pages in set_kernel_text_rw()
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Pull h8300 fix from Yoshinori Sato:
"Build problem fix"
* tag 'for-4.21' of git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/uclinux-h8/linux:
h8300: pci: Remove local declaration of pcibios_penalize_isa_irq
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull more ARM SoC updates from Olof Johansson:
"A few updates that we merged late but are low risk for regressions for
other platforms (and a few other straggling patches):
- I mis-tagged the 'drivers' branch, and missed 3 patches. Merged in
here. They're for a driver for the PL353 SRAM controller and a
build fix for the qualcomm scm driver.
- A new platform, RDA Micro RDA8810PL (Cortex-A5 w/ integrated
Vivante GPU, 256MB RAM, Wifi). This includes some acked
platform-specific drivers (serial, etc). This also include DTs for
two boards with this SoC, OrangePi 2G and OrangePi i86.
- i.MX8 is another new platform (NXP, 4x Cortex-A53 + Cortex-M4, 4K
video playback offload). This is the first i.MX 64-bit SoC.
- Some minor updates to Samsung boards (adding a few peripherals in
DTs).
- Small rework for SMP bootup on STi platforms.
- A couple of TEE driver fixes.
- A couple of new config options (bcm2835 thermal, Uniphier MDMAC)
enabled in defconfigs"
* tag 'armsoc-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (27 commits)
ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable CONFIG_UNIPHIER_MDMAC
arm64: defconfig: Re-enable bcm2835-thermal driver
MAINTAINERS: Add entry for RDA Micro SoC architecture
tty: serial: Add RDA8810PL UART driver
ARM: dts: rda8810pl: Add interrupt support for UART
dt-bindings: serial: Document RDA Micro UART
ARM: dts: rda8810pl: Add timer support
ARM: dts: Add devicetree for OrangePi i96 board
ARM: dts: Add devicetree for OrangePi 2G IoT board
ARM: dts: Add devicetree for RDA8810PL SoC
ARM: Prepare RDA8810PL SoC
dt-bindings: arm: Document RDA8810PL and reference boards
dt-bindings: Add RDA Micro vendor prefix
ARM: sti: remove pen_release and boot_lock
arm64: dts: exynos: Add Bluetooth chip to TM2(e) boards
arm64: dts: imx8mq-evk: enable watchdog
arm64: dts: imx8mq: add watchdog devices
MAINTAINERS: add i.MX8 DT path to i.MX architecture
arm64: add support for i.MX8M EVK board
arm64: add basic DTS for i.MX8MQ
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon:
"I'm safely chained back up to my desk, so please pull these arm64
fixes for -rc1 that address some issues that cropped up during the
merge window:
- Prevent KASLR from mapping the top page of the virtual address
space
- Fix device-tree probing of SDEI driver
- Fix incorrect register offset definition in Hisilicon DDRC PMU
driver
- Fix compilation issue with older binutils not liking unsigned
immediates
- Fix uapi headers so that libc can provide its own sigcontext
definition
- Fix handling of private compat syscalls
- Hook up compat io_pgetevents() syscall for 32-bit tasks
- Cleanup to arm64 Makefile (including now to avoid silly conflicts)"
* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
arm64: compat: Hook up io_pgetevents() for 32-bit tasks
arm64: compat: Don't pull syscall number from regs in arm_compat_syscall
arm64: compat: Avoid sending SIGILL for unallocated syscall numbers
arm64/sve: Disentangle <uapi/asm/ptrace.h> from <uapi/asm/sigcontext.h>
arm64/sve: ptrace: Fix SVE_PT_REGS_OFFSET definition
drivers/perf: hisi: Fixup one DDRC PMU register offset
arm64: replace arm64-obj-* in Makefile with obj-*
arm64: kaslr: Reserve size of ARM64_MEMSTART_ALIGN in linear region
firmware: arm_sdei: Fix DT platform device creation
firmware: arm_sdei: fix wrong of_node_put() in init function
arm64: entry: remove unused register aliases
arm64: smp: Fix compilation error
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
"Included in this update:
- Florian Fainelli noticed that userspace segfaults caused by the
lack of kernel-userspace helpers was hard to diagnose; we now issue
a warning when userspace tries to use the helpers but the kernel
has them disabled.
- Ben Dooks wants compatibility for the old ATAG serial number with
DT systems.
- Some cleanup of assembly by Nicolas Pitre.
- User accessors optimisation from Vincent Whitchurch.
- More robust kdump on SMP systems from Yufen Wang.
- Sebastian Andrzej Siewior noticed problems with the SMP "boot_lock"
on RT kernels, and so we convert the Versatile series of platforms
to use a raw spinlock instead, consolidating the Versatile
implementation. We entirely remove the boot_lock on OMAP systems,
where it's unnecessary. Further patches for other systems will be
submitted for the following merge window.
- Start switching old StrongARM-11x0 systems to use gpiolib rather
than their private GPIO implementation - mostly PCMCIA bits.
- ARM Kconfig cleanups.
- Cleanup a mostly harmless mistake in the recent Spectre patch in
4.20 (which had the effect that data that can be placed into the
init sections was incorrectly always placed in the rodata section)"
* tag 'for-4.21' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (25 commits)
ARM: omap2: remove unnecessary boot_lock
ARM: versatile: rename and comment SMP implementation
ARM: versatile: convert boot_lock to raw
ARM: vexpress/realview: consolidate immitation CPU hotplug
ARM: fix the cockup in the previous patch
ARM: sa1100/cerf: switch to using gpio_led_register_device()
ARM: sa1100/assabet: switch to using gpio leds
ARM: sa1100/assabet: add gpio keys support for right-hand two buttons
ARM: sa1111: remove legacy GPIO interfaces
pcmcia: sa1100*: remove redundant bvd1/bvd2 setting
ARM: pxa/lubbock: switch PCMCIA to MAX1600 library
ARM: pxa/mainstone: switch PCMCIA to MAX1600 library and gpiod APIs
ARM: sa1100/neponset: switch PCMCIA to MAX1600 library and gpiod APIs
ARM: sa1100/jornada720: switch PCMCIA to gpiod APIs
pcmcia: add MAX1600 library
ARM: sa1100: explicitly register sa11x0-pcmcia devices
ARM: 8813/1: Make aligned 2-byte getuser()/putuser() atomic on ARMv6+
ARM: 8812/1: Optimise copy_{from/to}_user for !CPU_USE_DOMAINS
ARM: 8811/1: always list both ldrd/strd registers explicitly
ARM: 8808/1: kexec:offline panic_smp_self_stop CPU
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Pull arch/csky updates from Guo Ren:
"Here are three main features (cpu_hotplug, basic ftrace, basic perf)
and some bugfixes:
Features:
- Add CPU-hotplug support for SMP
- Add ftrace with function trace and function graph trace
- Add Perf support
- Add EM_CSKY_OLD 39
- optimize kernel panic print.
- remove syscall_exit_work
Bugfixes:
- fix abiv2 mmap(... O_SYNC) failure
- fix gdb coredump error
- remove vdsp implement for kernel
- fix qemu failure to bootup sometimes
- fix ftrace call-graph panic
- fix device tree node reference leak
- remove meaningless header-y
- fix save hi,lo,dspcr regs in switch_stack
- remove unused members in processor.h"
* tag 'csky-for-linus-4.21' of git://github.com/c-sky/csky-linux:
csky: Add perf support for C-SKY
csky: Add EM_CSKY_OLD 39
clocksource/drivers/c-sky: fixup ftrace call-graph panic
csky: ftrace call graph supported.
csky: basic ftrace supported
csky: remove unused members in processor.h
csky: optimize kernel panic print.
csky: stacktrace supported.
csky: CPU-hotplug supported for SMP
clocksource/drivers/c-sky: fixup qemu fail to bootup sometimes.
csky: fixup save hi,lo,dspcr regs in switch_stack.
csky: remove syscall_exit_work
csky: fixup remove vdsp implement for kernel.
csky: bugfix gdb coredump error.
csky: fixup abiv2 mmap(... O_SYNC) failed.
csky: define syscall_get_arch()
elf-em.h: add EM_CSKY
csky: remove meaningless header-y
csky: Don't leak device tree node reference
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
- procfs updates
- various misc bits
- lib/ updates
- epoll updates
- autofs
- fatfs
- a few more MM bits
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (58 commits)
mm/page_io.c: fix polled swap page in
checkpatch: add Co-developed-by to signature tags
docs: fix Co-Developed-by docs
drivers/base/platform.c: kmemleak ignore a known leak
fs: don't open code lru_to_page()
fs/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
mm/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
arch/arc/mm/fault.c: remove caller signal_pending_branch predictions
kernel/sched/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
kernel/locking/mutex.c: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
mm: select HAVE_MOVE_PMD on x86 for faster mremap
mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions
mm: treewide: remove unused address argument from pte_alloc functions
initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs
scripts/gdb: fix lx-version string output
kernel/kcov.c: mark write_comp_data() as notrace
kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl
panic: add options to print system info when panic happens
bfs: extra sanity checking and static inode bitmap
exec: separate MM_ANONPAGES and RLIMIT_STACK accounting
...
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In many cases we don't have to create a GART mapping at all, which
also means there is nothing to unmap. Fix the range check that was
incorrectly modified when removing the mapping_error method.
Fixes: 9e8aa6b546 ("x86/amd_gart: remove the mapping_error dma_map_ops method")
Reported-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
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Some non-generic ia64 configs don't build swiotlb, and thus should not
pull in the generic non-coherent DMA infrastructure.
Fixes: 68c608345c ("swiotlb: remove dma_mark_clean")
Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This has been broken forever, and nobody ever really noticed because
it's purely a performance issue.
Long long ago, in commit 6175ddf06b61 ("x86: Clean up mem*io functions")
Brian Gerst simplified the memory copies to and from iomem, since on
x86, the instructions to access iomem are exactly the same as the
regular instructions.
That is technically true, and things worked, and nobody said anything.
Besides, back then the regular memcpy was pretty simple and worked fine.
Nobody noticed except for David Laight, that is. David has a testing a
TLP monitor he was writing for an FPGA, and has been occasionally
complaining about how memcpy_toio() writes things one byte at a time.
Which is completely unacceptable from a performance standpoint, even if
it happens to technically work.
The reason it's writing one byte at a time is because while it's
technically true that accesses to iomem are the same as accesses to
regular memory on x86, the _granularity_ (and ordering) of accesses
matter to iomem in ways that they don't matter to regular cached memory.
In particular, when ERMS is set, we default to using "rep movsb" for
larger memory copies. That is indeed perfectly fine for real memory,
since the whole point is that the CPU is going to do cacheline
optimizations and executes the memory copy efficiently for cached
memory.
With iomem? Not so much. With iomem, "rep movsb" will indeed work, but
it will copy things one byte at a time. Slowly and ponderously.
Now, originally, back in 2010 when commit 6175ddf06b61 was done, we
didn't use ERMS, and this was much less noticeable.
Our normal memcpy() was simpler in other ways too.
Because in fact, it's not just about using the string instructions. Our
memcpy() these days does things like "read and write overlapping values"
to handle the last bytes of the copy. Again, for normal memory,
overlapping accesses isn't an issue. For iomem? It can be.
So this re-introduces the specialized memcpy_toio(), memcpy_fromio() and
memset_io() functions. It doesn't particularly optimize them, but it
tries to at least not be horrid, or do overlapping accesses. In fact,
this uses the existing __inline_memcpy() function that we still had
lying around that uses our very traditional "rep movsl" loop followed by
movsw/movsb for the final bytes.
Somebody may decide to try to improve on it, but if we've gone almost a
decade with only one person really ever noticing and complaining, maybe
it's not worth worrying about further, once it's not _completely_ broken?
Reported-by: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This actually enables the __put_user_goto() functionality in
unsafe_put_user().
For an example of the effect of this, this is the code generated for the
unsafe_put_user(signo, &infop->si_signo, Efault);
in the waitid() system call:
movl %ecx,(%rbx) # signo, MEM[(struct __large_struct *)_2]
It's just one single store instruction, along with generating an
exception table entry pointing to the Efault label case in case that
instruction faults.
Before, we would generate this:
xorl %edx, %edx
movl %ecx,(%rbx) # signo, MEM[(struct __large_struct *)_3]
testl %edx, %edx
jne .L309
with the exception table generated for that 'mov' instruction causing us
to jump to a stub that set %edx to -EFAULT and then jumped back to the
'testl' instruction.
So not only do we now get rid of the extra code in the normal sequence,
we also avoid unnecessarily keeping that extra error register live
across it all.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This is finally the actual reason for the odd error handling in the
"unsafe_get/put_user()" functions, introduced over three years ago.
Using a "jump to error label" interface is somewhat odd, but very
convenient as a programming interface, and more importantly, it fits
very well with simply making the target be the exception handler address
directly from the inline asm.
The reason it took over three years to actually do this? We need "asm
goto" support for it, which only became the default on x86 last year.
It's now been a year that we've forced asm goto support (see commit
e501ce957a78 "x86: Force asm-goto"), and so let's just do it here too.
[ Side note: this commit was originally done back in 2016. The above
commentary about timing is obviously about it only now getting merged
into my real upstream tree - Linus ]
Sadly, gcc still only supports "asm goto" with asms that do not have any
outputs, so we are limited to only the put_user case for this. Maybe in
several more years we can do the get_user case too.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The alternative coding patch for parisc in kernel 4.20 broke booting
machines with PA8500-PA8700 CPUs. The problem is, that for such machines
the parisc kernel automatically utilizes huge pages to access kernel
text code, but the set_kernel_text_rw() function, which is used shortly
before applying any alternative patches, didn't used the correctly
hugepage-aligned addresses to remap the kernel text read-writeable.
Fixes: 3847dab77421 ("parisc: Add alternative coding infrastructure")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.20]
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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Merge in a few missing patches from the pull request (my copy of the
branch was behind the staged version in linux-next).
* next/drivers:
memory: pl353: Add driver for arm pl353 static memory controller
dt-bindings: memory: Add pl353 smc controller devicetree binding information
firmware: qcom: scm: fix compilation error when disabled
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
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Enable the UniPhier MIO DMAC driver. This is used as the DMA engine
for accelerating the SD/eMMC controller drivers.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
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This is already done for us internally by the signal machinery.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181116002713.8474-4-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Moving page-tables at the PMD-level on x86 is known to be safe. Enable
this option so that we can do fast mremap when possible.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108181201.88826-4-joelaf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Android needs to mremap large regions of memory during memory management
related operations. The mremap system call can be really slow if THP is
not enabled. The bottleneck is move_page_tables, which is copying each
pte at a time, and can be really slow across a large map. Turning on
THP may not be a viable option, and is not for us. This patch speeds up
the performance for non-THP system by copying at the PMD level when
possible.
The speedup is an order of magnitude on x86 (~20x). On a 1GB mremap,
the mremap completion times drops from 3.4-3.6 milliseconds to 144-160
microseconds.
Before:
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 3521942 nanoseconds.
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 3449229 nanoseconds.
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 3488230 nanoseconds.
After:
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 150279 nanoseconds.
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 144665 nanoseconds.
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 158708 nanoseconds.
If THP is enabled the optimization is mostly skipped except in certain
situations.
[joel@joelfernandes.org: fix 'move_normal_pmd' unused function warning]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108224457.GB209347@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108181201.88826-3-joelaf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "Add support for fast mremap".
This series speeds up the mremap(2) syscall by copying page tables at
the PMD level even for non-THP systems. There is concern that the extra
'address' argument that mremap passes to pte_alloc may do something
subtle architecture related in the future that may make the scheme not
work. Also we find that there is no point in passing the 'address' to
pte_alloc since its unused. This patch therefore removes this argument
tree-wide resulting in a nice negative diff as well. Also ensuring
along the way that the enabled architectures do not do anything funky
with the 'address' argument that goes unnoticed by the optimization.
Build and boot tested on x86-64. Build tested on arm64. The config
enablement patch for arm64 will be posted in the future after more
testing.
The changes were obtained by applying the following Coccinelle script.
(thanks Julia for answering all Coccinelle questions!).
Following fix ups were done manually:
* Removal of address argument from pte_fragment_alloc
* Removal of pte_alloc_one_fast definitions from m68k and microblaze.
// Options: --include-headers --no-includes
// Note: I split the 'identifier fn' line, so if you are manually
// running it, please unsplit it so it runs for you.
virtual patch
@pte_alloc_func_def depends on patch exists@
identifier E2;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
type T2;
@@
fn(...
- , T2 E2
)
{ ... }
@pte_alloc_func_proto_noarg depends on patch exists@
type T1, T2, T3, T4;
identifier fn =~ "^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@
(
- T3 fn(T1, T2);
+ T3 fn(T1);
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- T3 fn(T1, T2, T4);
+ T3 fn(T1, T2);
)
@pte_alloc_func_proto depends on patch exists@
identifier E1, E2, E4;
type T1, T2, T3, T4;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@
(
- T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2);
+ T3 fn(T1 E1);
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- T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2, T4 E4);
+ T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2);
)
@pte_alloc_func_call depends on patch exists@
expression E2;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@
fn(...
-, E2
)
@pte_alloc_macro depends on patch exists@
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
identifier a, b, c;
expression e;
position p;
@@
(
- #define fn(a, b, c) e
+ #define fn(a, b) e
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- #define fn(a, b) e
+ #define fn(a) e
)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108181201.88826-2-joelaf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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When testing in userspace, UBSAN pointed out that shifting into the sign
bit is undefined behaviour. It doesn't really make sense to ask for the
highest set bit of a negative value, so just turn the argument type into
an unsigned int.
Some architectures (eg ppc) already had it declared as an unsigned int,
so I don't expect too many problems.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105221117.31828-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Originally, the rule used to be that you'd have to do access_ok()
separately, and then user_access_begin() before actually doing the
direct (optimized) user access.
But experience has shown that people then decide not to do access_ok()
at all, and instead rely on it being implied by other operations or
similar. Which makes it very hard to verify that the access has
actually been range-checked.
If you use the unsafe direct user accesses, hardware features (either
SMAP - Supervisor Mode Access Protection - on x86, or PAN - Privileged
Access Never - on ARM) do force you to use user_access_begin(). But
nothing really forces the range check.
By putting the range check into user_access_begin(), we actually force
people to do the right thing (tm), and the range check vill be visible
near the actual accesses. We have way too long a history of people
trying to avoid them.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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These two architectures actually had an intentional use of the 'type'
argument to access_ok() just to avoid warnings.
I had actually noticed the powerpc one, but forgot to then fix it up.
And I missed the sparc32 case entirely.
This is hopefully all of it.
Reported-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Fixes: 96d4f267e40f ("Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit 73aeb2cbcdc9 ("ARM: 8787/1: wire up io_pgetevents syscall")
hooked up the io_pgetevents() system call for 32-bit ARM, so we can
do the same for the compat wrapper on arm64.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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The syscall number may have been changed by a tracer, so we should pass
the actual number in from the caller instead of pulling it from the
saved r7 value directly.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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The ARM Linux kernel handles the EABI syscall numbers as follows:
0 - NR_SYSCALLS-1 : Invoke syscall via syscall table
NR_SYSCALLS - 0xeffff : -ENOSYS (to be allocated in future)
0xf0000 - 0xf07ff : Private syscall or -ENOSYS if not allocated
> 0xf07ff : SIGILL
Our compat code gets this wrong and ends up sending SIGILL in response
to all syscalls greater than NR_SYSCALLS which have a value greater
than 0x7ff in the bottom 16 bits.
Fix this by defining the end of the ARM private syscall region and
checking the syscall number against that directly. Update the comment
while we're at it.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Reported-by: Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Currently, <uapi/asm/sigcontext.h> provides common definitions for
describing SVE context structures that are also used by the ptrace
definitions in <uapi/asm/ptrace.h>.
For this reason, a #include of <asm/sigcontext.h> was added in
ptrace.h, but it this turns out that this can interact badly with
userspace code that tries to include ptrace.h on top of the libc
headers (which may provide their own shadow definitions for
sigcontext.h).
To make the headers easier for userspace to consume, this patch
bounces the common definitions into an __SVE_* namespace and moves
them to a backend header <uapi/asm/sve_context.h> that can be
included by the other headers as appropriate. This should allow
ptrace.h to be used alongside libc's sigcontext.h (if any) without
ill effects.
This should make the situation unambiguous: <asm/sigcontext.h> is
the header to include for the sigframe-specific definitions, while
<asm/ptrace.h> is the header to include for ptrace-specific
definitions.
To avoid conflicting with existing usage, <asm/sigcontext.h>
remains the canonical way to get the common definitions for
SVE_VQ_MIN, sve_vq_from_vl() etc., both in userspace and in the
kernel: relying on these being defined as a side effect of
including just <asm/ptrace.h> was never intended to be safe.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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SVE_PT_REGS_OFFSET is supposed to indicate the offset for skipping
over the ptrace NT_ARM_SVE header (struct user_sve_header) to the
start of the SVE register data proper.
However, currently SVE_PT_REGS_OFFSET is defined in terms of struct
sve_context, which is wrong: that structure describes the SVE
header in the signal frame, not in the ptrace regset.
This patch fixes the definition to use the ptrace header structure
struct user_sve_header instead.
By good fortune, the two structures are the same size anyway, so
there is no functional or ABI change.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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In commit 05a4ab823983 ("powerpc/uaccess: fix warning/error with
access_ok()") an attempt was made to remove a warning by referencing
the variable `type`. However in commit 96d4f267e40f ("Remove 'type'
argument from access_ok() function") the variable `type` has been
removed, breaking the build:
arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:66:32: error: ‘type’ undeclared (first use in this function)
This essentially reverts commit 05a4ab823983 ("powerpc/uaccess: fix
warning/error with access_ok()") to fix the error.
Fixes: 96d4f267e40f ("Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function")
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
[mpe: Reword change log slightly.]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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We have a fix to apply on top of commit 96d4f267e40f ("Remove 'type'
argument from access_ok() function"), so merge master to get it.
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Use the standard obj-$(CONFIG_...) syntex. The behavior is still the
same.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Adding a function inside a WARN_ON() didn't close the WARN_ON parathesis.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201901020958.28Mzbs0O%fengguang.wu@intel.com
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Fixes: cec8d0e7f06e ("sh: ftrace: Use ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() instead of curr_ret_stack")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.
It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access. But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.
A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model. And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.
This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.
There were a couple of notable cases:
- csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.
- the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
really used it)
- microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout
but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.
I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something. Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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