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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/arm/vdso, branch v5.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>arm: port KCOV to arm</title>
<updated>2018-06-14T22:55:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Vyukov</name>
<email>dvyukov@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-14T22:27:44+00:00</published>
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KCOV is code coverage collection facility used, in particular, by
syzkaller system call fuzzer.  There is some interest in using syzkaller
on arm devices.  So port KCOV to arm.

On implementation level this merely declares that KCOV is supported and
disables instrumentation of 3 special cases.  Reasons for disabling are
commented in code.

Tested with qemu-system-arm/vexpress-a15.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180511143248.112484-1-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Abbott Liu &lt;liuwenliang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Koguchi Takuo &lt;takuo.koguchi.sw@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.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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<pre>
KCOV is code coverage collection facility used, in particular, by
syzkaller system call fuzzer.  There is some interest in using syzkaller
on arm devices.  So port KCOV to arm.

On implementation level this merely declares that KCOV is supported and
disables instrumentation of 3 special cases.  Reasons for disabling are
commented in code.

Tested with qemu-system-arm/vexpress-a15.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180511143248.112484-1-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Abbott Liu &lt;liuwenliang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Koguchi Takuo &lt;takuo.koguchi.sw@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to resolve conflicts</title>
<updated>2017-11-07T09:32:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-07T09:32:44+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	include/linux/compiler-clang.h
	include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
	include/linux/compiler-intel.h
	include/uapi/linux/stddef.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Conflicts:
	include/linux/compiler-clang.h
	include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
	include/linux/compiler-intel.h
	include/uapi/linux/stddef.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE()</title>
<updated>2017-10-25T09:01:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-23T21:07:29+00:00</published>
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Please do not apply this to mainline directly, instead please re-run the
coccinelle script shown below and apply its output.

For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in
preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the
former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of
ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't harmful, and changing them results in
churn.

However, for some features, the read/write distinction is critical to
correct operation. To distinguish these cases, separate read/write
accessors must be used. This patch migrates (most) remaining
ACCESS_ONCE() instances to {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), using the following
coccinelle script:

----
// Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() uses to equivalent READ_ONCE() and
// WRITE_ONCE()

// $ make coccicheck COCCI=/home/mark/once.cocci SPFLAGS="--include-headers" MODE=patch

virtual patch

@ depends on patch @
expression E1, E2;
@@

- ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2
+ WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2)

@ depends on patch @
expression E;
@@

- ACCESS_ONCE(E)
+ READ_ONCE(E)
----

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: shuah@kernel.org
Cc: snitzer@redhat.com
Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-19-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Please do not apply this to mainline directly, instead please re-run the
coccinelle script shown below and apply its output.

For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in
preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the
former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of
ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't harmful, and changing them results in
churn.

However, for some features, the read/write distinction is critical to
correct operation. To distinguish these cases, separate read/write
accessors must be used. This patch migrates (most) remaining
ACCESS_ONCE() instances to {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), using the following
coccinelle script:

----
// Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() uses to equivalent READ_ONCE() and
// WRITE_ONCE()

// $ make coccicheck COCCI=/home/mark/once.cocci SPFLAGS="--include-headers" MODE=patch

virtual patch

@ depends on patch @
expression E1, E2;
@@

- ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2
+ WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2)

@ depends on patch @
expression E;
@@

- ACCESS_ONCE(E)
+ READ_ONCE(E)
----

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: shuah@kernel.org
Cc: snitzer@redhat.com
Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-19-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: drop FORCE from PHONY targets</title>
<updated>2016-04-20T08:27:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-13T00:13:55+00:00</published>
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These targets are marked as PHONY.  No need to add FORCE to their
dependency.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.com&gt;
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<pre>
These targets are marked as PHONY.  No need to add FORCE to their
dependency.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM/vdso: Mark the vDSO code read-only after init</title>
<updated>2016-02-22T07:51:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Brown</name>
<email>david.brown@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-17T22:41:18+00:00</published>
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Although the ARM vDSO is cleanly separated by code/data with the code
being read-only in userspace mappings, the code page is still writable
from the kernel.

There have been exploits (such as http://itszn.com/blog/?p=21) that
take advantage of this on x86 to go from a bad kernel write to full
root.

Prevent this specific exploit class on ARM as well by putting the vDSO
code page in post-init read-only memory as well.

Before:
	vdso: 1 text pages at base 80927000
	root@Vexpress:/ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables
	---[ Modules ]---
	---[ Kernel Mapping ]---
	0x80000000-0x80100000           1M     RW NX SHD
	0x80100000-0x80600000           5M     ro x  SHD
	0x80600000-0x80800000           2M     ro NX SHD
	0x80800000-0xbe000000         984M     RW NX SHD

After:
	vdso: 1 text pages at base 8072b000
	root@Vexpress:/ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables
	---[ Modules ]---
	---[ Kernel Mapping ]---
	0x80000000-0x80100000           1M     RW NX SHD
	0x80100000-0x80600000           5M     ro x  SHD
	0x80600000-0x80800000           2M     ro NX SHD
	0x80800000-0xbe000000         984M     RW NX SHD

Inspired by https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/19/494 based on work by the
PaX Team, Brad Spengler, and Kees Cook.

Signed-off-by: David Brown &lt;david.brown@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathan_lynch@mentor.com&gt;
Cc: PaX Team &lt;pageexec@freemail.hu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: linux-arch &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455748879-21872-8-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Although the ARM vDSO is cleanly separated by code/data with the code
being read-only in userspace mappings, the code page is still writable
from the kernel.

There have been exploits (such as http://itszn.com/blog/?p=21) that
take advantage of this on x86 to go from a bad kernel write to full
root.

Prevent this specific exploit class on ARM as well by putting the vDSO
code page in post-init read-only memory as well.

Before:
	vdso: 1 text pages at base 80927000
	root@Vexpress:/ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables
	---[ Modules ]---
	---[ Kernel Mapping ]---
	0x80000000-0x80100000           1M     RW NX SHD
	0x80100000-0x80600000           5M     ro x  SHD
	0x80600000-0x80800000           2M     ro NX SHD
	0x80800000-0xbe000000         984M     RW NX SHD

After:
	vdso: 1 text pages at base 8072b000
	root@Vexpress:/ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables
	---[ Modules ]---
	---[ Kernel Mapping ]---
	0x80000000-0x80100000           1M     RW NX SHD
	0x80100000-0x80600000           5M     ro x  SHD
	0x80600000-0x80800000           2M     ro NX SHD
	0x80800000-0xbe000000         984M     RW NX SHD

Inspired by https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/19/494 based on work by the
PaX Team, Brad Spengler, and Kees Cook.

Signed-off-by: David Brown &lt;david.brown@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathan_lynch@mentor.com&gt;
Cc: PaX Team &lt;pageexec@freemail.hu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: linux-arch &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455748879-21872-8-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8449/1: fix bug in vdsomunge swab32 macro</title>
<updated>2015-10-29T15:20:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Nikolaus Schaller</name>
<email>hns@goldelico.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-28T18:00:26+00:00</published>
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Commit 8a603f91cc48 ("ARM: 8445/1: fix vdsomunge not to depend on
glibc specific byteswap.h") unfortunately introduced a bug created but
not found during discussion and patch simplification.

Reported-by: Efraim Yawitz &lt;efraim.yawitz@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller &lt;hns@goldelico.com&gt;
Fixes: 8a603f91cc48 ("ARM: 8445/1: fix vdsomunge not to depend on glibc specific byteswap.h")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathan_lynch@mentor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Commit 8a603f91cc48 ("ARM: 8445/1: fix vdsomunge not to depend on
glibc specific byteswap.h") unfortunately introduced a bug created but
not found during discussion and patch simplification.

Reported-by: Efraim Yawitz &lt;efraim.yawitz@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller &lt;hns@goldelico.com&gt;
Fixes: 8a603f91cc48 ("ARM: 8445/1: fix vdsomunge not to depend on glibc specific byteswap.h")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathan_lynch@mentor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8445/1: fix vdsomunge not to depend on glibc specific byteswap.h</title>
<updated>2015-10-19T16:07:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Nikolaus Schaller</name>
<email>hns@goldelico.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-16T21:19:06+00:00</published>
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If the host toolchain is not glibc based then the arm kernel build
fails with

  HOSTCC  arch/arm/vdso/vdsomunge
  arch/arm/vdso/vdsomunge.c:48:22: fatal error: byteswap.h: No such file or directory

Observed: with omap2plus_defconfig and compile on Mac OS X with arm ELF
cross-compiler.

Reason: byteswap.h is a glibc only header.

Solution: replace by private byte-swapping macros (taken from
arch/mips/boot/elf2ecoff.c and kindly improved by Russell King)

Tested to compile on Mac OS X 10.9.5 host.

Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller &lt;hns@goldelico.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathan_lynch@mentor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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If the host toolchain is not glibc based then the arm kernel build
fails with

  HOSTCC  arch/arm/vdso/vdsomunge
  arch/arm/vdso/vdsomunge.c:48:22: fatal error: byteswap.h: No such file or directory

Observed: with omap2plus_defconfig and compile on Mac OS X with arm ELF
cross-compiler.

Reason: byteswap.h is a glibc only header.

Solution: replace by private byte-swapping macros (taken from
arch/mips/boot/elf2ecoff.c and kindly improved by Russell King)

Tested to compile on Mac OS X 10.9.5 host.

Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller &lt;hns@goldelico.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathan_lynch@mentor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8405/1: VDSO: fix regression with toolchains lacking ld.bfd executable</title>
<updated>2015-07-31T17:54:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
<email>nathan_lynch@mentor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-17T20:40:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=3473f26592c1c365d376aee29433d7db75f14d1e'/>
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The Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05 toolchain (gcc 4.8.3, binutils
2.24.51) has a GCC which implements -fuse-ld, and it doesn't include
the gold linker, but it lacks an ld.bfd executable in its
installation.  This means that passing -fuse-ld=bfd fails with:

      VDSO    arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so.raw
    collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'

Arguably this is a deficiency in the toolchain, but I suspect it's
commonly used enough that it's worth accommodating: just use

cc-ldoption (to cause a link attempt) instead of cc-option to test
whether we can use -fuse-ld.  So -fuse-ld=bfd won't be used with this
toolchain, but the build will rightly succeed, just as it does for
toolchains which don't implement -fuse-ld (and don't use gold as the
default linker).

Note: this will change the failure mode for a corner case I was trying
to handle in d2b30cd4b722, where the toolchain defaults to the gold
linker and the BFD linker is not found in PATH, from:

      VDSO    arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so.raw
    collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'

i.e. the BFD linker is not found, to:

      OBJCOPY arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so
    BFD: arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so: Not enough room for program headers, try
    linking with -N

that is, we fail to prevent gold from being used as the linker, and it
produces an object that objcopy can't digest.

Reported-by: Baruch Siach &lt;baruch@tkos.co.il&gt;
Tested-by: Baruch Siach &lt;baruch@tkos.co.il&gt;
Tested-by: Raphaël Poggi &lt;poggi.raph@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: d2b30cd4b722 ("ARM: 8384/1: VDSO: force use of BFD linker")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathan_lynch@mentor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05 toolchain (gcc 4.8.3, binutils
2.24.51) has a GCC which implements -fuse-ld, and it doesn't include
the gold linker, but it lacks an ld.bfd executable in its
installation.  This means that passing -fuse-ld=bfd fails with:

      VDSO    arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so.raw
    collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'

Arguably this is a deficiency in the toolchain, but I suspect it's
commonly used enough that it's worth accommodating: just use

cc-ldoption (to cause a link attempt) instead of cc-option to test
whether we can use -fuse-ld.  So -fuse-ld=bfd won't be used with this
toolchain, but the build will rightly succeed, just as it does for
toolchains which don't implement -fuse-ld (and don't use gold as the
default linker).

Note: this will change the failure mode for a corner case I was trying
to handle in d2b30cd4b722, where the toolchain defaults to the gold
linker and the BFD linker is not found in PATH, from:

      VDSO    arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so.raw
    collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'

i.e. the BFD linker is not found, to:

      OBJCOPY arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so
    BFD: arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so: Not enough room for program headers, try
    linking with -N

that is, we fail to prevent gold from being used as the linker, and it
produces an object that objcopy can't digest.

Reported-by: Baruch Siach &lt;baruch@tkos.co.il&gt;
Tested-by: Baruch Siach &lt;baruch@tkos.co.il&gt;
Tested-by: Raphaël Poggi &lt;poggi.raph@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: d2b30cd4b722 ("ARM: 8384/1: VDSO: force use of BFD linker")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathan_lynch@mentor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'fixes' and 'ioremap' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2015-07-07T11:35:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-07T11:35:33+00:00</published>
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