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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>arch: Remove exec_domain from remaining archs</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T19:03:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-30T05:30:38+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T02:54:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T23:01:14+00:00</published>
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If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target.  This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.

Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.

Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.

It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target.  This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.

Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.

Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.

It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/idle, alpha: Switch from TS_POLLING to TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG</title>
<updated>2014-05-08T07:16:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-11T07:59:17+00:00</published>
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Standardize the idle polling indicator to TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG such that
both TIF_NEED_RESCHED and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG are in the same word.
This will allow us, using fetch_or(), to both set NEED_RESCHED and
check for POLLING_NRFLAG in a single operation and avoid pointless
wakeups.

Changing from the non-atomic thread_info::status flags to the atomic
thread_info::flags shouldn't be a big issue since most polling state
changes were followed/preceded by a full memory barrier anyway.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: 蔡正龙 &lt;zhenglong.cai@cs2c.com.cn&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9tfzr196gs0n2afxv0ga8pc3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Standardize the idle polling indicator to TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG such that
both TIF_NEED_RESCHED and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG are in the same word.
This will allow us, using fetch_or(), to both set NEED_RESCHED and
check for POLLING_NRFLAG in a single operation and avoid pointless
wakeups.

Changing from the non-atomic thread_info::status flags to the atomic
thread_info::flags shouldn't be a big issue since most polling state
changes were followed/preceded by a full memory barrier anyway.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: 蔡正龙 &lt;zhenglong.cai@cs2c.com.cn&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9tfzr196gs0n2afxv0ga8pc3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: Enable system-call auditing support.</title>
<updated>2014-01-31T17:21:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>蔡正龙</name>
<email>zhenglong.cai@cs2c.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-20T02:04:10+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Zhenglong.cai &lt;zhenglong.cai@cs2c.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Zhenglong.cai &lt;zhenglong.cai@cs2c.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>preempt: Make PREEMPT_ACTIVE generic</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T19:21:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-17T18:53:09+00:00</published>
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No point in having this bit defined by architecture.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130917183629.090698799@linutronix.de
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No point in having this bit defined by architecture.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130917183629.090698799@linutronix.de
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Consolidate tsk_is_polling()</title>
<updated>2013-04-08T15:39:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-21T21:49:32+00:00</published>
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Move it to a common place. Preparatory patch for implementing
set/clear for the idle need_resched poll implementation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Damm &lt;magnus.damm@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130321215233.446034505@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Move it to a common place. Preparatory patch for implementing
set/clear for the idle need_resched poll implementation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Damm &lt;magnus.damm@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130321215233.446034505@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: separate thread-synchronous flags</title>
<updated>2012-10-24T02:16:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-20T14:52:23+00:00</published>
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... and fix the race in updating unaligned control ones

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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... and fix the race in updating unaligned control ones

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sanitize tsk_is_polling()</title>
<updated>2012-10-01T13:58:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-01T18:22:01+00:00</published>
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Make default just return 0.  The current default (checking
TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG) is taken to architectures that need it;
ones that don't do polling in their idle threads don't need
to defined TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG at all.

ia64 defined both TS_POLLING (used by its tsk_is_polling())
and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG (not used at all).  Killed the latter...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Make default just return 0.  The current default (checking
TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG) is taken to architectures that need it;
ones that don't do polling in their idle threads don't need
to defined TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG at all.

ia64 defined both TS_POLLING (used by its tsk_is_polling())
and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG (not used at all).  Killed the latter...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bury _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK</title>
<updated>2012-10-01T13:58:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-01T18:21:16+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
never used...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
never used...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>freezer: remove now unused TIF_FREEZE</title>
<updated>2011-11-21T20:32:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-21T20:32:25+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
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