linux-toradex.git/arch/arc/kernel, branch v4.0-rc2

Merge tag 'arc-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc

2015-02-16T22:56:52+00:00

Pull ARC updates from Vineet Gupta:
 "Some fixes, nothing too exciting this time as well..."

* tag 'arc-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
  ARC: fix page address calculation if PAGE_OFFSET != LINUX_LINK_BASE
  ARC: Fix earlycon build breakage
  ARC: Dynamically determine BASE_BAUD from DeviceTree
  arc: Remove unused prepare_to_copy()
  ARC: use ACCESS_ONCE in cmpxchg loop
  ARC: add some more comments to ret_from_fork
  ARC: fix /proc/cpuinfo for offline cpus

all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct

2015-02-13T02:54:12+00:00

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 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: David Miller 
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt 
Cc: Steven Miao 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Jesper Nilsson 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Richard Kuo 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman  (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman  (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Chen Liqin 
Cc: Lennox Wu 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ARC: Fix earlycon build breakage

2015-02-04T05:08:15+00:00

Commit ffb7fcd66f14 ("ARC: Dynamically determine BASE_BAUD from DeviceTree")
breaks arc:defconfig build:

       drivers/built-in.o: In function `of_setup_earlycon':
       (.init.text+0xb3e): undefined reference to `arc_early_base_baud'
       drivers/built-in.o: In function `setup_earlycon':
       (.init.text+0xcd0): undefined reference to `arc_early_base_baud'
       make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

BASE_BAUD is only required for earlycon, which should depend on
CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON.

Reported-by: Guenter Roeck 
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: Dynamically determine BASE_BAUD from DeviceTree

2015-02-02T11:38:37+00:00

8250 earlycon is broken on multi-platform ARC because the UART clk
value (BASE_BAUD) is fixed at build time.

Instead, determine the appropriate UART clk at runtime; parse the
devicetree early for platforms requiring alternate UART clk values
(currently only the TB10X platform).

Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rob Herring 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: use ACCESS_ONCE in cmpxchg loop

2015-02-02T11:38:37+00:00

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: add some more comments to ret_from_fork

2015-02-02T11:38:37+00:00

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: fix /proc/cpuinfo for offline cpus

2015-02-02T11:38:37+00:00

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: R-M-W assist locks only needed for !LLSC

2014-12-12T10:32:34+00:00

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

Merge tag 'remove-weak-declarations' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci

2014-10-23T22:04:27+00:00

Pull weak function declaration removal from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "The "weak" attribute is commonly used for the default version of a
  function, where an architecture can override it by providing a strong
  version.

  Some header file declarations included the "weak" attribute.  That's
  error-prone because it causes every implementation to be weak, with no
  strong version at all, and the linker chooses one based on link order.

  What we want is the "weak" attribute only on the *definition* of the
  default implementation.  These changes remove "weak" from the
  declarations, leaving it on the default definitions"

* tag 'remove-weak-declarations' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci:
  uprobes: Remove "weak" from function declarations
  memory-hotplug: Remove "weak" from memory_block_size_bytes() declaration
  kgdb: Remove "weak" from kgdb_arch_pc() declaration
  ARC: kgdb: generic kgdb_arch_pc() suffices
  vmcore: Remove "weak" from function declarations
  clocksource: Remove "weak" from clocksource_default_clock() declaration
  x86, intel-mid: Remove "weak" from function declarations
  audit: Remove "weak" from audit_classify_compat_syscall() declaration

ARC: kgdb: generic kgdb_arch_pc() suffices

2014-10-22T22:14:04+00:00

The ARC version of kgdb_arch_pc() is identical to the generic version in
kernel/debug/debug_core.c.  Drop the ARC version so we use the generic one.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas