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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'next-keys2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2018-11-01T22:23:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-01T22:23:59+00:00</published>
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Pull keys updates from James Morris:
 "Provide five new operations in the key_type struct that can be used to
  provide access to asymmetric key operations. These will be implemented
  for the asymmetric key type in a later patch and may refer to a key
  retained in RAM by the kernel or a key retained in crypto hardware.

     int (*asym_query)(const struct kernel_pkey_params *params,
                       struct kernel_pkey_query *info);
     int (*asym_eds_op)(struct kernel_pkey_params *params,
                        const void *in, void *out);
     int (*asym_verify_signature)(struct kernel_pkey_params *params,
                                  const void *in, const void *in2);

  Since encrypt, decrypt and sign are identical in their interfaces,
  they're rolled together in the asym_eds_op() operation and there's an
  operation ID in the params argument to distinguish them.

  Verify is different in that we supply the data and the signature
  instead and get an error value (or 0) as the only result on the
  expectation that this may well be how a hardware crypto device may
  work"

* 'next-keys2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (22 commits)
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Add support for the sign operation [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Implement tpm_sign [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Implement signature verification [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Implement the decrypt operation [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Implement tpm_unbind [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Add loadkey2 and flushspecific [ver #2]
  KEYS: Move trusted.h to include/keys [ver #2]
  KEYS: trusted: Expose common functionality [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Implement encryption operation [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Implement pkey_query [ver #2]
  KEYS: Add parser for TPM-based keys [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: extract key size &amp; public key [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: add skeleton for asym_tpm [ver #2]
  crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad: Allow hash to be optional [ver #2]
  KEYS: Implement PKCS#8 RSA Private Key parser [ver #2]
  KEYS: Implement encrypt, decrypt and sign for software asymmetric key [ver #2]
  KEYS: Allow the public_key struct to hold a private key [ver #2]
  KEYS: Provide software public key query function [ver #2]
  KEYS: Make the X.509 and PKCS7 parsers supply the sig encoding type [ver #2]
  KEYS: Provide missing asymmetric key subops for new key type ops [ver #2]
  ...
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Pull keys updates from James Morris:
 "Provide five new operations in the key_type struct that can be used to
  provide access to asymmetric key operations. These will be implemented
  for the asymmetric key type in a later patch and may refer to a key
  retained in RAM by the kernel or a key retained in crypto hardware.

     int (*asym_query)(const struct kernel_pkey_params *params,
                       struct kernel_pkey_query *info);
     int (*asym_eds_op)(struct kernel_pkey_params *params,
                        const void *in, void *out);
     int (*asym_verify_signature)(struct kernel_pkey_params *params,
                                  const void *in, const void *in2);

  Since encrypt, decrypt and sign are identical in their interfaces,
  they're rolled together in the asym_eds_op() operation and there's an
  operation ID in the params argument to distinguish them.

  Verify is different in that we supply the data and the signature
  instead and get an error value (or 0) as the only result on the
  expectation that this may well be how a hardware crypto device may
  work"

* 'next-keys2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (22 commits)
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Add support for the sign operation [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Implement tpm_sign [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Implement signature verification [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Implement the decrypt operation [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Implement tpm_unbind [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Add loadkey2 and flushspecific [ver #2]
  KEYS: Move trusted.h to include/keys [ver #2]
  KEYS: trusted: Expose common functionality [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Implement encryption operation [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: Implement pkey_query [ver #2]
  KEYS: Add parser for TPM-based keys [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: extract key size &amp; public key [ver #2]
  KEYS: asym_tpm: add skeleton for asym_tpm [ver #2]
  crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad: Allow hash to be optional [ver #2]
  KEYS: Implement PKCS#8 RSA Private Key parser [ver #2]
  KEYS: Implement encrypt, decrypt and sign for software asymmetric key [ver #2]
  KEYS: Allow the public_key struct to hold a private key [ver #2]
  KEYS: Provide software public key query function [ver #2]
  KEYS: Make the X.509 and PKCS7 parsers supply the sig encoding type [ver #2]
  KEYS: Provide missing asymmetric key subops for new key type ops [ver #2]
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'stackleak-v4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2018-11-01T18:46:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-01T18:46:27+00:00</published>
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Pull stackleak gcc plugin from Kees Cook:
 "Please pull this new GCC plugin, stackleak, for v4.20-rc1. This plugin
  was ported from grsecurity by Alexander Popov. It provides efficient
  stack content poisoning at syscall exit. This creates a defense
  against at least two classes of flaws:

   - Uninitialized stack usage. (We continue to work on improving the
     compiler to do this in other ways: e.g. unconditional zero init was
     proposed to GCC and Clang, and more plugin work has started too).

   - Stack content exposure. By greatly reducing the lifetime of valid
     stack contents, exposures via either direct read bugs or unknown
     cache side-channels become much more difficult to exploit. This
     complements the existing buddy and heap poisoning options, but
     provides the coverage for stacks.

  The x86 hooks are included in this series (which have been reviewed by
  Ingo, Dave Hansen, and Thomas Gleixner). The arm64 hooks have already
  been merged through the arm64 tree (written by Laura Abbott and
  reviewed by Mark Rutland and Will Deacon).

  With VLAs having been removed this release, there is no need for
  alloca() protection, so it has been removed from the plugin"

* tag 'stackleak-v4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  arm64: Drop unneeded stackleak_check_alloca()
  stackleak: Allow runtime disabling of kernel stack erasing
  doc: self-protection: Add information about STACKLEAK feature
  fs/proc: Show STACKLEAK metrics in the /proc file system
  lkdtm: Add a test for STACKLEAK
  gcc-plugins: Add STACKLEAK plugin for tracking the kernel stack
  x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls
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Pull stackleak gcc plugin from Kees Cook:
 "Please pull this new GCC plugin, stackleak, for v4.20-rc1. This plugin
  was ported from grsecurity by Alexander Popov. It provides efficient
  stack content poisoning at syscall exit. This creates a defense
  against at least two classes of flaws:

   - Uninitialized stack usage. (We continue to work on improving the
     compiler to do this in other ways: e.g. unconditional zero init was
     proposed to GCC and Clang, and more plugin work has started too).

   - Stack content exposure. By greatly reducing the lifetime of valid
     stack contents, exposures via either direct read bugs or unknown
     cache side-channels become much more difficult to exploit. This
     complements the existing buddy and heap poisoning options, but
     provides the coverage for stacks.

  The x86 hooks are included in this series (which have been reviewed by
  Ingo, Dave Hansen, and Thomas Gleixner). The arm64 hooks have already
  been merged through the arm64 tree (written by Laura Abbott and
  reviewed by Mark Rutland and Will Deacon).

  With VLAs having been removed this release, there is no need for
  alloca() protection, so it has been removed from the plugin"

* tag 'stackleak-v4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  arm64: Drop unneeded stackleak_check_alloca()
  stackleak: Allow runtime disabling of kernel stack erasing
  doc: self-protection: Add information about STACKLEAK feature
  fs/proc: Show STACKLEAK metrics in the /proc file system
  lkdtm: Add a test for STACKLEAK
  gcc-plugins: Add STACKLEAK plugin for tracking the kernel stack
  x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls
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<entry>
<title>KEYS: Provide keyctls to drive the new key type ops for asymmetric keys [ver #2]</title>
<updated>2018-10-26T08:30:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-09T16:46:59+00:00</published>
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Provide five keyctl functions that permit userspace to make use of the new
key type ops for accessing and driving asymmetric keys.

 (*) Query an asymmetric key.

	long keyctl(KEYCTL_PKEY_QUERY,
		    key_serial_t key, unsigned long reserved,
		    struct keyctl_pkey_query *info);

     Get information about an asymmetric key.  The information is returned
     in the keyctl_pkey_query struct:

	__u32	supported_ops;

     A bit mask of flags indicating which ops are supported.  This is
     constructed from a bitwise-OR of:

	KEYCTL_SUPPORTS_{ENCRYPT,DECRYPT,SIGN,VERIFY}

	__u32	key_size;

     The size in bits of the key.

	__u16	max_data_size;
	__u16	max_sig_size;
	__u16	max_enc_size;
	__u16	max_dec_size;

     The maximum sizes in bytes of a blob of data to be signed, a signature
     blob, a blob to be encrypted and a blob to be decrypted.

     reserved must be set to 0.  This is intended for future use to hand
     over one or more passphrases needed unlock a key.

     If successful, 0 is returned.  If the key is not an asymmetric key,
     EOPNOTSUPP is returned.

 (*) Encrypt, decrypt, sign or verify a blob using an asymmetric key.

	long keyctl(KEYCTL_PKEY_ENCRYPT,
		    const struct keyctl_pkey_params *params,
		    const char *info,
		    const void *in,
		    void *out);

	long keyctl(KEYCTL_PKEY_DECRYPT,
		    const struct keyctl_pkey_params *params,
		    const char *info,
		    const void *in,
		    void *out);

	long keyctl(KEYCTL_PKEY_SIGN,
		    const struct keyctl_pkey_params *params,
		    const char *info,
		    const void *in,
		    void *out);

	long keyctl(KEYCTL_PKEY_VERIFY,
		    const struct keyctl_pkey_params *params,
		    const char *info,
		    const void *in,
		    const void *in2);

     Use an asymmetric key to perform a public-key cryptographic operation
     a blob of data.

     The parameter block pointed to by params contains a number of integer
     values:

	__s32		key_id;
	__u32		in_len;
	__u32		out_len;
	__u32		in2_len;

     For a given operation, the in and out buffers are used as follows:

	Operation ID		in,in_len	out,out_len	in2,in2_len
	=======================	===============	===============	===========
	KEYCTL_PKEY_ENCRYPT	Raw data	Encrypted data	-
	KEYCTL_PKEY_DECRYPT	Encrypted data	Raw data	-
	KEYCTL_PKEY_SIGN	Raw data	Signature	-
	KEYCTL_PKEY_VERIFY	Raw data	-		Signature

     info is a string of key=value pairs that supply supplementary
     information.

     The __spare space in the parameter block must be set to 0.  This is
     intended, amongst other things, to allow the passing of passphrases
     required to unlock a key.

     If successful, encrypt, decrypt and sign all return the amount of data
     written into the output buffer.  Verification returns 0 on success.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Denis Kenzior &lt;denkenz@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Denis Kenzior &lt;denkenz@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.morris@microsoft.com&gt;
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Provide five keyctl functions that permit userspace to make use of the new
key type ops for accessing and driving asymmetric keys.

 (*) Query an asymmetric key.

	long keyctl(KEYCTL_PKEY_QUERY,
		    key_serial_t key, unsigned long reserved,
		    struct keyctl_pkey_query *info);

     Get information about an asymmetric key.  The information is returned
     in the keyctl_pkey_query struct:

	__u32	supported_ops;

     A bit mask of flags indicating which ops are supported.  This is
     constructed from a bitwise-OR of:

	KEYCTL_SUPPORTS_{ENCRYPT,DECRYPT,SIGN,VERIFY}

	__u32	key_size;

     The size in bits of the key.

	__u16	max_data_size;
	__u16	max_sig_size;
	__u16	max_enc_size;
	__u16	max_dec_size;

     The maximum sizes in bytes of a blob of data to be signed, a signature
     blob, a blob to be encrypted and a blob to be decrypted.

     reserved must be set to 0.  This is intended for future use to hand
     over one or more passphrases needed unlock a key.

     If successful, 0 is returned.  If the key is not an asymmetric key,
     EOPNOTSUPP is returned.

 (*) Encrypt, decrypt, sign or verify a blob using an asymmetric key.

	long keyctl(KEYCTL_PKEY_ENCRYPT,
		    const struct keyctl_pkey_params *params,
		    const char *info,
		    const void *in,
		    void *out);

	long keyctl(KEYCTL_PKEY_DECRYPT,
		    const struct keyctl_pkey_params *params,
		    const char *info,
		    const void *in,
		    void *out);

	long keyctl(KEYCTL_PKEY_SIGN,
		    const struct keyctl_pkey_params *params,
		    const char *info,
		    const void *in,
		    void *out);

	long keyctl(KEYCTL_PKEY_VERIFY,
		    const struct keyctl_pkey_params *params,
		    const char *info,
		    const void *in,
		    const void *in2);

     Use an asymmetric key to perform a public-key cryptographic operation
     a blob of data.

     The parameter block pointed to by params contains a number of integer
     values:

	__s32		key_id;
	__u32		in_len;
	__u32		out_len;
	__u32		in2_len;

     For a given operation, the in and out buffers are used as follows:

	Operation ID		in,in_len	out,out_len	in2,in2_len
	=======================	===============	===============	===========
	KEYCTL_PKEY_ENCRYPT	Raw data	Encrypted data	-
	KEYCTL_PKEY_DECRYPT	Encrypted data	Raw data	-
	KEYCTL_PKEY_SIGN	Raw data	Signature	-
	KEYCTL_PKEY_VERIFY	Raw data	-		Signature

     info is a string of key=value pairs that supply supplementary
     information.

     The __spare space in the parameter block must be set to 0.  This is
     intended, amongst other things, to allow the passing of passphrases
     required to unlock a key.

     If successful, encrypt, decrypt and sign all return the amount of data
     written into the output buffer.  Verification returns 0 on success.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Denis Kenzior &lt;denkenz@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Denis Kenzior &lt;denkenz@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.morris@microsoft.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KEYS: Provide key type operations for asymmetric key ops [ver #2]</title>
<updated>2018-10-26T08:30:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-09T16:46:51+00:00</published>
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Provide five new operations in the key_type struct that can be used to
provide access to asymmetric key operations.  These will be implemented for
the asymmetric key type in a later patch and may refer to a key retained in
RAM by the kernel or a key retained in crypto hardware.

     int (*asym_query)(const struct kernel_pkey_params *params,
		       struct kernel_pkey_query *info);
     int (*asym_eds_op)(struct kernel_pkey_params *params,
			const void *in, void *out);
     int (*asym_verify_signature)(struct kernel_pkey_params *params,
			          const void *in, const void *in2);

Since encrypt, decrypt and sign are identical in their interfaces, they're
rolled together in the asym_eds_op() operation and there's an operation ID
in the params argument to distinguish them.

Verify is different in that we supply the data and the signature instead
and get an error value (or 0) as the only result on the expectation that
this may well be how a hardware crypto device may work.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Denis Kenzior &lt;denkenz@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Denis Kenzior &lt;denkenz@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.morris@microsoft.com&gt;
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<pre>
Provide five new operations in the key_type struct that can be used to
provide access to asymmetric key operations.  These will be implemented for
the asymmetric key type in a later patch and may refer to a key retained in
RAM by the kernel or a key retained in crypto hardware.

     int (*asym_query)(const struct kernel_pkey_params *params,
		       struct kernel_pkey_query *info);
     int (*asym_eds_op)(struct kernel_pkey_params *params,
			const void *in, void *out);
     int (*asym_verify_signature)(struct kernel_pkey_params *params,
			          const void *in, const void *in2);

Since encrypt, decrypt and sign are identical in their interfaces, they're
rolled together in the asym_eds_op() operation and there's an operation ID
in the params argument to distinguish them.

Verify is different in that we supply the data and the signature instead
and get an error value (or 0) as the only result on the expectation that
this may well be how a hardware crypto device may work.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Denis Kenzior &lt;denkenz@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Denis Kenzior &lt;denkenz@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.morris@microsoft.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2018-10-24T17:01:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-24T17:01:11+00:00</published>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome
  readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES
  updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the
  unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document
  from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo
  fixes and corrections"

* tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits)
  docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst
  docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list
  kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination
  doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst
  docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents
  doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes
  Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example
  dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature
  docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits
  LICENSES: Add ISC license text
  LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used
  docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals
  docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug
  docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight
  yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation
  docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api
  docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm
  doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs
  docs: fix some broken documentation references
  iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation
  ...
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<pre>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome
  readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES
  updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the
  unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document
  from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo
  fixes and corrections"

* tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits)
  docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst
  docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list
  kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination
  doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst
  docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents
  doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes
  Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example
  dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature
  docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits
  LICENSES: Add ISC license text
  LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used
  docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals
  docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug
  docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight
  yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation
  docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api
  docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm
  doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs
  docs: fix some broken documentation references
  iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>security: fix LSM description location</title>
<updated>2018-10-09T19:18:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-09T00:46:04+00:00</published>
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Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;

Fix Documentation location reference for where LSM descriptions should
be placed.

Suggested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.morris@microsoft.com&gt;
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Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;

Fix Documentation location reference for where LSM descriptions should
be placed.

Suggested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.morris@microsoft.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs</title>
<updated>2018-09-20T17:11:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Felix Eckhofer</name>
<email>felix@eckhofer.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-17T09:34:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=ff348763775e9ed39ca8f354b67f9ba62ec27f2c'/>
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"FEFEK" was incorrectly used as acronym for "File Encryption Key
Encryption Key". This replaces all occurences with "FEKEK".

Signed-off-by: Felix Eckhofer &lt;felix@eckhofer.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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"FEFEK" was incorrectly used as acronym for "File Encryption Key
Encryption Key". This replaces all occurences with "FEKEK".

Signed-off-by: Felix Eckhofer &lt;felix@eckhofer.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>doc: self-protection: Add information about STACKLEAK feature</title>
<updated>2018-09-04T17:35:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Popov</name>
<email>alex.popov@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-16T22:17:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=ed535a2dae1836d15c71e250475952881265d244'/>
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<content type='text'>
Add information about STACKLEAK feature to the "Memory poisoning"
section of self-protection.rst.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov &lt;alex.popov@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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<pre>
Add information about STACKLEAK feature to the "Memory poisoning"
section of self-protection.rst.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov &lt;alex.popov@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables</title>
<updated>2018-06-14T03:21:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-14T03:21:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=050e9baa9dc9fbd9ce2b27f0056990fc9e0a08a0'/>
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The changes to automatically test for working stack protector compiler
support in the Kconfig files removed the special STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO
option that picked the strongest stack protector that the compiler
supported.

That was all a nice cleanup - it makes no sense to have the AUTO case
now that the Kconfig phase can just determine the compiler support
directly.

HOWEVER.

It also meant that doing "make oldconfig" would now _disable_ the strong
stackprotector if you had AUTO enabled, because in a legacy config file,
the sane stack protector configuration would look like

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE is not set
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR is not set
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO=y

and when you ran this through "make oldconfig" with the Kbuild changes,
it would ask you about the regular CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR (that had
been renamed from CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR to just
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR), but it would think that the STRONG version
used to be disabled (because it was really enabled by AUTO), and would
disable it in the new config, resulting in:

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y

That's dangerously subtle - people could suddenly find themselves with
the weaker stack protector setup without even realizing.

The solution here is to just rename not just the old RECULAR stack
protector option, but also the strong one.  This does that by just
removing the CC_ prefix entirely for the user choices, because it really
is not about the compiler support (the compiler support now instead
automatially impacts _visibility_ of the options to users).

This results in "make oldconfig" actually asking the user for their
choice, so that we don't have any silent subtle security model changes.
The end result would generally look like this:

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
  CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y

where the "CC_" versions really are about internal compiler
infrastructure, not the user selections.

Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The changes to automatically test for working stack protector compiler
support in the Kconfig files removed the special STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO
option that picked the strongest stack protector that the compiler
supported.

That was all a nice cleanup - it makes no sense to have the AUTO case
now that the Kconfig phase can just determine the compiler support
directly.

HOWEVER.

It also meant that doing "make oldconfig" would now _disable_ the strong
stackprotector if you had AUTO enabled, because in a legacy config file,
the sane stack protector configuration would look like

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE is not set
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR is not set
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO=y

and when you ran this through "make oldconfig" with the Kbuild changes,
it would ask you about the regular CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR (that had
been renamed from CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR to just
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR), but it would think that the STRONG version
used to be disabled (because it was really enabled by AUTO), and would
disable it in the new config, resulting in:

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y

That's dangerously subtle - people could suddenly find themselves with
the weaker stack protector setup without even realizing.

The solution here is to just rename not just the old RECULAR stack
protector option, but also the strong one.  This does that by just
removing the CC_ prefix entirely for the user choices, because it really
is not about the compiler support (the compiler support now instead
automatially impacts _visibility_ of the options to users).

This results in "make oldconfig" actually asking the user for their
choice, so that we don't have any silent subtle security model changes.
The end result would generally look like this:

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
  CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y

where the "CC_" versions really are about internal compiler
infrastructure, not the user selections.

Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: */index.rst: Add newer documents to their respective index.rst</title>
<updated>2018-05-08T15:57:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+samsung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-07T09:35:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=2d93404f358312c8adb0bbf975d0e30662d40c33'/>
<id>2d93404f358312c8adb0bbf975d0e30662d40c33</id>
<content type='text'>
A number of new docs were added, but they're currently not on
the index.rst from the session they're supposed to be, causing
Sphinx warnings.

Add them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
A number of new docs were added, but they're currently not on
the index.rst from the session they're supposed to be, causing
Sphinx warnings.

Add them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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