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<title>exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests</title>
<updated>2013-11-29T18:50:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2013-11-12T23:11:17+00:00</published>
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commit d049f74f2dbe71354d43d393ac3a188947811348 upstream.

The get_dumpable() return value is not boolean.  Most users of the
function actually want to be testing for non-SUID_DUMP_USER(1) rather than
SUID_DUMP_DISABLE(0).  The SUID_DUMP_ROOT(2) is also considered a
protected state.  Almost all places did this correctly, excepting the two
places fixed in this patch.

Wrong logic:
    if (dumpable == SUID_DUMP_DISABLE) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable == 0) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (!dumpable) { /* be protective */ }

Correct logic:
    if (dumpable != SUID_DUMP_USER) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable != 1) { /* be protective */ }

Without this patch, if the system had set the sysctl fs/suid_dumpable=2, a
user was able to ptrace attach to processes that had dropped privileges to
that user.  (This may have been partially mitigated if Yama was enabled.)

The macros have been moved into the file that declares get/set_dumpable(),
which means things like the ia64 code can see them too.

CVE-2013-2929

Reported-by: Vasily Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d049f74f2dbe71354d43d393ac3a188947811348 upstream.

The get_dumpable() return value is not boolean.  Most users of the
function actually want to be testing for non-SUID_DUMP_USER(1) rather than
SUID_DUMP_DISABLE(0).  The SUID_DUMP_ROOT(2) is also considered a
protected state.  Almost all places did this correctly, excepting the two
places fixed in this patch.

Wrong logic:
    if (dumpable == SUID_DUMP_DISABLE) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable == 0) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (!dumpable) { /* be protective */ }

Correct logic:
    if (dumpable != SUID_DUMP_USER) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable != 1) { /* be protective */ }

Without this patch, if the system had set the sysctl fs/suid_dumpable=2, a
user was able to ptrace attach to processes that had dropped privileges to
that user.  (This may have been partially mitigated if Yama was enabled.)

The macros have been moved into the file that declares get/set_dumpable(),
which means things like the ia64 code can see them too.

CVE-2013-2929

Reported-by: Vasily Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Wrong asm register contraints in the futex implementation</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T02:51:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephan Schreiber</name>
<email>info@fs-driver.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-19T22:22:27+00:00</published>
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commit 136f39ddc53db3bcee2befbe323a56d4fbf06da8 upstream.

The Linux Kernel contains some inline assembly source code which has
wrong asm register constraints in arch/ia64/include/asm/futex.h.

I observed this on Kernel 3.2.23 but it is also true on the most
recent Kernel 3.9-rc1.

File arch/ia64/include/asm/futex.h:

static inline int
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr,
			      u32 oldval, u32 newval)
{
	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(u32)))
		return -EFAULT;

	{
		register unsigned long r8 __asm ("r8");
		unsigned long prev;
		__asm__ __volatile__(
			"	mf;;					\n"
			"	mov %0=r0				\n"
			"	mov ar.ccv=%4;;				\n"
			"[1:]	cmpxchg4.acq %1=[%2],%3,ar.ccv		\n"
			"	.xdata4 \"__ex_table\", 1b-., 2f-.	\n"
			"[2:]"
			: "=r" (r8), "=r" (prev)
			: "r" (uaddr), "r" (newval),
			  "rO" ((long) (unsigned) oldval)
			: "memory");
		*uval = prev;
		return r8;
	}
}

The list of output registers is
			: "=r" (r8), "=r" (prev)
The constraint "=r" means that the GCC has to maintain that these vars
are in registers and contain valid info when the program flow leaves
the assembly block (output registers).
But "=r" also means that GCC can put them in registers that are used
as input registers. Input registers are uaddr, newval, oldval on the
example.
The second assembly instruction
			"	mov %0=r0				\n"
is the first one which writes to a register; it sets %0 to 0. %0 means
the first register operand; it is r8 here. (The r0 is read-only and
always 0 on the Itanium; it can be used if an immediate zero value is
needed.)
This instruction might overwrite one of the other registers which are
still needed.
Whether it really happens depends on how GCC decides what registers it
uses and how it optimizes the code.

The objdump utility can give us disassembly.
The futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() function is inline, so we have to
look for a module that uses the funtion. This is the
cmpxchg_futex_value_locked() function in
kernel/futex.c:

static int cmpxchg_futex_value_locked(u32 *curval, u32 __user *uaddr,
				      u32 uval, u32 newval)
{
	int ret;

	pagefault_disable();
	ret = futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(curval, uaddr, uval, newval);
	pagefault_enable();

	return ret;
}

Now the disassembly. At first from the Kernel package 3.2.23 which has
been compiled with GCC 4.4, remeber this Kernel seemed to work:
objdump -d linux-3.2.23/debian/build/build_ia64_none_mckinley/kernel/futex.o

0000000000000230 &lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked&gt;:
      230:	0b 18 80 1b 18 21 	[MMI]       adds r3=3168,r13;;
      236:	80 40 0d 00 42 00 	            adds r8=40,r3
      23c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      240:	0b 50 00 10 10 10 	[MMI]       ld4 r10=[r8];;
      246:	90 08 28 00 42 00 	            adds r9=1,r10
      24c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      250:	09 00 00 00 01 00 	[MMI]       nop.m 0x0
      256:	00 48 20 20 23 00 	            st4 [r8]=r9
      25c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      260:	08 10 80 06 00 21 	[MMI]       adds r2=32,r3
      266:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      26c:	02 08 f1 52       	            extr.u r16=r33,0,61
      270:	05 40 88 00 08 e0 	[MLX]       addp4 r8=r34,r0
      276:	ff ff 0f 00 00 e0 	            movl r15=0xfffffffbfff;;
      27c:	f1 f7 ff 65
      280:	09 70 00 04 18 10 	[MMI]       ld8 r14=[r2]
      286:	00 00 00 02 00 c0 	            nop.m 0x0
      28c:	f0 80 1c d0       	            cmp.ltu p6,p7=r15,r16;;
      290:	08 40 fc 1d 09 3b 	[MMI]       cmp.eq p8,p9=-1,r14
      296:	00 00 00 02 00 40 	            nop.m 0x0
      29c:	e1 08 2d d0       	            cmp.ltu p10,p11=r14,r33
      2a0:	56 01 10 00 40 10 	[BBB] (p10) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2a6:	02 08 00 80 21 03 	      (p08) br.cond.dpnt.few 2b0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0x80&gt;
      2ac:	40 00 00 41       	      (p06) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2b0:	0a 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
      2c6:	10 1a 85 22 20 00 	            cmpxchg4.acq r33=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2d0:	10 00 84 40 90 11 	[MIB]       st4 [r32]=r33
      2d6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.i 0x0
      2dc:	20 00 00 40       	            br.few 2f0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xc0&gt;
      2e0:	09 40 c8 f9 ff 27 	[MMI]       mov r8=-14
      2e6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2ec:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2f0:	0b 58 20 1a 19 21 	[MMI]       adds r11=3208,r13;;
      2f6:	20 01 2c 20 20 00 	            ld4 r18=[r11]
      2fc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      300:	0b 88 fc 25 3f 23 	[MMI]       adds r17=-1,r18;;
      306:	00 88 2c 20 23 00 	            st4 [r11]=r17
      30c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      310:	11 00 00 00 01 00 	[MIB]       nop.m 0x0
      316:	00 00 00 02 00 80 	            nop.i 0x0
      31c:	08 00 84 00       	            br.ret.sptk.many b0;;

The lines
      2b0:	0a 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
      2c6:	10 1a 85 22 20 00 	            cmpxchg4.acq r33=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
are the instructions of the assembly block.
The line
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
sets the r8 register to 0 and after that
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
prepares the 'oldvalue' for the cmpxchg but it takes it from r8. This
is wrong.
What happened here is what I explained above: An input register is
overwritten which is still needed.
The register operand constraints in futex.h are wrong.

(The problem doesn't occur when the Kernel is compiled with GCC 4.6.)

The attached patch fixes the register operand constraints in futex.h.
The code after patching of it:

static inline int
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr,
			      u32 oldval, u32 newval)
{
	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(u32)))
		return -EFAULT;

	{
		register unsigned long r8 __asm ("r8") = 0;
		unsigned long prev;
		__asm__ __volatile__(
			"	mf;;					\n"
			"	mov ar.ccv=%4;;				\n"
			"[1:]	cmpxchg4.acq %1=[%2],%3,ar.ccv		\n"
			"	.xdata4 \"__ex_table\", 1b-., 2f-.	\n"
			"[2:]"
			: "+r" (r8), "=&amp;r" (prev)
			: "r" (uaddr), "r" (newval),
			  "rO" ((long) (unsigned) oldval)
			: "memory");
		*uval = prev;
		return r8;
	}
}

I also initialized the 'r8' var with the C programming language.
The _asm qualifier on the definition of the 'r8' var forces GCC to use
the r8 processor register for it.
I don't believe that we should use inline assembly for zeroing out a
local variable.
The constraint is
"+r" (r8)
what means that it is both an input register and an output register.
Note that the page fault handler will modify the r8 register which
will be the return value of the function.
The real fix is
"=&amp;r" (prev)
The &amp; means that GCC must not use any of the input registers to place
this output register in.

Patched the Kernel 3.2.23 and compiled it with GCC4.4:

0000000000000230 &lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked&gt;:
      230:	0b 18 80 1b 18 21 	[MMI]       adds r3=3168,r13;;
      236:	80 40 0d 00 42 00 	            adds r8=40,r3
      23c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      240:	0b 50 00 10 10 10 	[MMI]       ld4 r10=[r8];;
      246:	90 08 28 00 42 00 	            adds r9=1,r10
      24c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      250:	09 00 00 00 01 00 	[MMI]       nop.m 0x0
      256:	00 48 20 20 23 00 	            st4 [r8]=r9
      25c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      260:	08 10 80 06 00 21 	[MMI]       adds r2=32,r3
      266:	20 12 01 10 40 00 	            addp4 r34=r34,r0
      26c:	02 08 f1 52       	            extr.u r16=r33,0,61
      270:	05 40 00 00 00 e1 	[MLX]       mov r8=r0
      276:	ff ff 0f 00 00 e0 	            movl r15=0xfffffffbfff;;
      27c:	f1 f7 ff 65
      280:	09 70 00 04 18 10 	[MMI]       ld8 r14=[r2]
      286:	00 00 00 02 00 c0 	            nop.m 0x0
      28c:	f0 80 1c d0       	            cmp.ltu p6,p7=r15,r16;;
      290:	08 40 fc 1d 09 3b 	[MMI]       cmp.eq p8,p9=-1,r14
      296:	00 00 00 02 00 40 	            nop.m 0x0
      29c:	e1 08 2d d0       	            cmp.ltu p10,p11=r14,r33
      2a0:	56 01 10 00 40 10 	[BBB] (p10) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2a6:	02 08 00 80 21 03 	      (p08) br.cond.dpnt.few 2b0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0x80&gt;
      2ac:	40 00 00 41       	      (p06) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2b0:	0b 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	00 10 81 54 08 00 	            mov.m ar.ccv=r34
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2c0:	09 58 8c 42 11 10 	[MMI]       cmpxchg4.acq r11=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2c6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2d0:	10 00 2c 40 90 11 	[MIB]       st4 [r32]=r11
      2d6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.i 0x0
      2dc:	20 00 00 40       	            br.few 2f0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xc0&gt;
      2e0:	09 40 c8 f9 ff 27 	[MMI]       mov r8=-14
      2e6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2ec:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2f0:	0b 88 20 1a 19 21 	[MMI]       adds r17=3208,r13;;
      2f6:	30 01 44 20 20 00 	            ld4 r19=[r17]
      2fc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      300:	0b 90 fc 27 3f 23 	[MMI]       adds r18=-1,r19;;
      306:	00 90 44 20 23 00 	            st4 [r17]=r18
      30c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      310:	11 00 00 00 01 00 	[MIB]       nop.m 0x0
      316:	00 00 00 02 00 80 	            nop.i 0x0
      31c:	08 00 84 00       	            br.ret.sptk.many b0;;

Much better.
There is a
      270:	05 40 00 00 00 e1 	[MLX]       mov r8=r0
which was generated by C code r8 = 0. Below
      2b6:	00 10 81 54 08 00 	            mov.m ar.ccv=r34
what means that oldval is no longer overwritten.

This is Debian bug#702641
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702641).

The patch is applicable on Kernel 3.9-rc1, 3.2.23 and many other versions.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Schreiber &lt;info@fs-driver.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 136f39ddc53db3bcee2befbe323a56d4fbf06da8 upstream.

The Linux Kernel contains some inline assembly source code which has
wrong asm register constraints in arch/ia64/include/asm/futex.h.

I observed this on Kernel 3.2.23 but it is also true on the most
recent Kernel 3.9-rc1.

File arch/ia64/include/asm/futex.h:

static inline int
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr,
			      u32 oldval, u32 newval)
{
	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(u32)))
		return -EFAULT;

	{
		register unsigned long r8 __asm ("r8");
		unsigned long prev;
		__asm__ __volatile__(
			"	mf;;					\n"
			"	mov %0=r0				\n"
			"	mov ar.ccv=%4;;				\n"
			"[1:]	cmpxchg4.acq %1=[%2],%3,ar.ccv		\n"
			"	.xdata4 \"__ex_table\", 1b-., 2f-.	\n"
			"[2:]"
			: "=r" (r8), "=r" (prev)
			: "r" (uaddr), "r" (newval),
			  "rO" ((long) (unsigned) oldval)
			: "memory");
		*uval = prev;
		return r8;
	}
}

The list of output registers is
			: "=r" (r8), "=r" (prev)
The constraint "=r" means that the GCC has to maintain that these vars
are in registers and contain valid info when the program flow leaves
the assembly block (output registers).
But "=r" also means that GCC can put them in registers that are used
as input registers. Input registers are uaddr, newval, oldval on the
example.
The second assembly instruction
			"	mov %0=r0				\n"
is the first one which writes to a register; it sets %0 to 0. %0 means
the first register operand; it is r8 here. (The r0 is read-only and
always 0 on the Itanium; it can be used if an immediate zero value is
needed.)
This instruction might overwrite one of the other registers which are
still needed.
Whether it really happens depends on how GCC decides what registers it
uses and how it optimizes the code.

The objdump utility can give us disassembly.
The futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() function is inline, so we have to
look for a module that uses the funtion. This is the
cmpxchg_futex_value_locked() function in
kernel/futex.c:

static int cmpxchg_futex_value_locked(u32 *curval, u32 __user *uaddr,
				      u32 uval, u32 newval)
{
	int ret;

	pagefault_disable();
	ret = futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(curval, uaddr, uval, newval);
	pagefault_enable();

	return ret;
}

Now the disassembly. At first from the Kernel package 3.2.23 which has
been compiled with GCC 4.4, remeber this Kernel seemed to work:
objdump -d linux-3.2.23/debian/build/build_ia64_none_mckinley/kernel/futex.o

0000000000000230 &lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked&gt;:
      230:	0b 18 80 1b 18 21 	[MMI]       adds r3=3168,r13;;
      236:	80 40 0d 00 42 00 	            adds r8=40,r3
      23c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      240:	0b 50 00 10 10 10 	[MMI]       ld4 r10=[r8];;
      246:	90 08 28 00 42 00 	            adds r9=1,r10
      24c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      250:	09 00 00 00 01 00 	[MMI]       nop.m 0x0
      256:	00 48 20 20 23 00 	            st4 [r8]=r9
      25c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      260:	08 10 80 06 00 21 	[MMI]       adds r2=32,r3
      266:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      26c:	02 08 f1 52       	            extr.u r16=r33,0,61
      270:	05 40 88 00 08 e0 	[MLX]       addp4 r8=r34,r0
      276:	ff ff 0f 00 00 e0 	            movl r15=0xfffffffbfff;;
      27c:	f1 f7 ff 65
      280:	09 70 00 04 18 10 	[MMI]       ld8 r14=[r2]
      286:	00 00 00 02 00 c0 	            nop.m 0x0
      28c:	f0 80 1c d0       	            cmp.ltu p6,p7=r15,r16;;
      290:	08 40 fc 1d 09 3b 	[MMI]       cmp.eq p8,p9=-1,r14
      296:	00 00 00 02 00 40 	            nop.m 0x0
      29c:	e1 08 2d d0       	            cmp.ltu p10,p11=r14,r33
      2a0:	56 01 10 00 40 10 	[BBB] (p10) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2a6:	02 08 00 80 21 03 	      (p08) br.cond.dpnt.few 2b0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0x80&gt;
      2ac:	40 00 00 41       	      (p06) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2b0:	0a 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
      2c6:	10 1a 85 22 20 00 	            cmpxchg4.acq r33=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2d0:	10 00 84 40 90 11 	[MIB]       st4 [r32]=r33
      2d6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.i 0x0
      2dc:	20 00 00 40       	            br.few 2f0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xc0&gt;
      2e0:	09 40 c8 f9 ff 27 	[MMI]       mov r8=-14
      2e6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2ec:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2f0:	0b 58 20 1a 19 21 	[MMI]       adds r11=3208,r13;;
      2f6:	20 01 2c 20 20 00 	            ld4 r18=[r11]
      2fc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      300:	0b 88 fc 25 3f 23 	[MMI]       adds r17=-1,r18;;
      306:	00 88 2c 20 23 00 	            st4 [r11]=r17
      30c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      310:	11 00 00 00 01 00 	[MIB]       nop.m 0x0
      316:	00 00 00 02 00 80 	            nop.i 0x0
      31c:	08 00 84 00       	            br.ret.sptk.many b0;;

The lines
      2b0:	0a 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
      2c6:	10 1a 85 22 20 00 	            cmpxchg4.acq r33=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
are the instructions of the assembly block.
The line
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
sets the r8 register to 0 and after that
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
prepares the 'oldvalue' for the cmpxchg but it takes it from r8. This
is wrong.
What happened here is what I explained above: An input register is
overwritten which is still needed.
The register operand constraints in futex.h are wrong.

(The problem doesn't occur when the Kernel is compiled with GCC 4.6.)

The attached patch fixes the register operand constraints in futex.h.
The code after patching of it:

static inline int
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr,
			      u32 oldval, u32 newval)
{
	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(u32)))
		return -EFAULT;

	{
		register unsigned long r8 __asm ("r8") = 0;
		unsigned long prev;
		__asm__ __volatile__(
			"	mf;;					\n"
			"	mov ar.ccv=%4;;				\n"
			"[1:]	cmpxchg4.acq %1=[%2],%3,ar.ccv		\n"
			"	.xdata4 \"__ex_table\", 1b-., 2f-.	\n"
			"[2:]"
			: "+r" (r8), "=&amp;r" (prev)
			: "r" (uaddr), "r" (newval),
			  "rO" ((long) (unsigned) oldval)
			: "memory");
		*uval = prev;
		return r8;
	}
}

I also initialized the 'r8' var with the C programming language.
The _asm qualifier on the definition of the 'r8' var forces GCC to use
the r8 processor register for it.
I don't believe that we should use inline assembly for zeroing out a
local variable.
The constraint is
"+r" (r8)
what means that it is both an input register and an output register.
Note that the page fault handler will modify the r8 register which
will be the return value of the function.
The real fix is
"=&amp;r" (prev)
The &amp; means that GCC must not use any of the input registers to place
this output register in.

Patched the Kernel 3.2.23 and compiled it with GCC4.4:

0000000000000230 &lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked&gt;:
      230:	0b 18 80 1b 18 21 	[MMI]       adds r3=3168,r13;;
      236:	80 40 0d 00 42 00 	            adds r8=40,r3
      23c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      240:	0b 50 00 10 10 10 	[MMI]       ld4 r10=[r8];;
      246:	90 08 28 00 42 00 	            adds r9=1,r10
      24c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      250:	09 00 00 00 01 00 	[MMI]       nop.m 0x0
      256:	00 48 20 20 23 00 	            st4 [r8]=r9
      25c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      260:	08 10 80 06 00 21 	[MMI]       adds r2=32,r3
      266:	20 12 01 10 40 00 	            addp4 r34=r34,r0
      26c:	02 08 f1 52       	            extr.u r16=r33,0,61
      270:	05 40 00 00 00 e1 	[MLX]       mov r8=r0
      276:	ff ff 0f 00 00 e0 	            movl r15=0xfffffffbfff;;
      27c:	f1 f7 ff 65
      280:	09 70 00 04 18 10 	[MMI]       ld8 r14=[r2]
      286:	00 00 00 02 00 c0 	            nop.m 0x0
      28c:	f0 80 1c d0       	            cmp.ltu p6,p7=r15,r16;;
      290:	08 40 fc 1d 09 3b 	[MMI]       cmp.eq p8,p9=-1,r14
      296:	00 00 00 02 00 40 	            nop.m 0x0
      29c:	e1 08 2d d0       	            cmp.ltu p10,p11=r14,r33
      2a0:	56 01 10 00 40 10 	[BBB] (p10) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2a6:	02 08 00 80 21 03 	      (p08) br.cond.dpnt.few 2b0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0x80&gt;
      2ac:	40 00 00 41       	      (p06) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2b0:	0b 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	00 10 81 54 08 00 	            mov.m ar.ccv=r34
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2c0:	09 58 8c 42 11 10 	[MMI]       cmpxchg4.acq r11=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2c6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2d0:	10 00 2c 40 90 11 	[MIB]       st4 [r32]=r11
      2d6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.i 0x0
      2dc:	20 00 00 40       	            br.few 2f0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xc0&gt;
      2e0:	09 40 c8 f9 ff 27 	[MMI]       mov r8=-14
      2e6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2ec:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2f0:	0b 88 20 1a 19 21 	[MMI]       adds r17=3208,r13;;
      2f6:	30 01 44 20 20 00 	            ld4 r19=[r17]
      2fc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      300:	0b 90 fc 27 3f 23 	[MMI]       adds r18=-1,r19;;
      306:	00 90 44 20 23 00 	            st4 [r17]=r18
      30c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      310:	11 00 00 00 01 00 	[MIB]       nop.m 0x0
      316:	00 00 00 02 00 80 	            nop.i 0x0
      31c:	08 00 84 00       	            br.ret.sptk.many b0;;

Much better.
There is a
      270:	05 40 00 00 00 e1 	[MLX]       mov r8=r0
which was generated by C code r8 = 0. Below
      2b6:	00 10 81 54 08 00 	            mov.m ar.ccv=r34
what means that oldval is no longer overwritten.

This is Debian bug#702641
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702641).

The patch is applicable on Kernel 3.9-rc1, 3.2.23 and many other versions.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Schreiber &lt;info@fs-driver.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix initialization of CMCI/CMCP interrupts</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T02:51:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-20T17:30:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=5bf457bc84549a0f0a9a499bf9d823f222a5484f'/>
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commit d303e9e98fce56cdb3c6f2ac92f626fc2bd51c77 upstream.

Back 2010 during a revamp of the irq code some initializations
were moved from ia64_mca_init() to ia64_mca_late_init() in

	commit c75f2aa13f5b268aba369b5dc566088b5194377c
	Cannot use register_percpu_irq() from ia64_mca_init()

But this was hideously wrong. First of all these initializations
are now down far too late. Specifically after all the other cpus
have been brought up and initialized their own CMC vectors from
smp_callin(). Also ia64_mca_late_init() may be called from any cpu
so the line:
	ia64_mca_cmc_vector_setup();       /* Setup vector on BSP */
is generally not executed on the BSP, and so the CMC vector isn't
setup at all on that processor.

Make use of the arch_early_irq_init() hook to get this code executed
at just the right moment: not too early, not too late.

Reported-by: Fred Hartnett &lt;fred.hartnett@hp.com&gt;
Tested-by: Fred Hartnett &lt;fred.hartnett@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d303e9e98fce56cdb3c6f2ac92f626fc2bd51c77 upstream.

Back 2010 during a revamp of the irq code some initializations
were moved from ia64_mca_init() to ia64_mca_late_init() in

	commit c75f2aa13f5b268aba369b5dc566088b5194377c
	Cannot use register_percpu_irq() from ia64_mca_init()

But this was hideously wrong. First of all these initializations
are now down far too late. Specifically after all the other cpus
have been brought up and initialized their own CMC vectors from
smp_callin(). Also ia64_mca_late_init() may be called from any cpu
so the line:
	ia64_mca_cmc_vector_setup();       /* Setup vector on BSP */
is generally not executed on the BSP, and so the CMC vector isn't
setup at all on that processor.

Make use of the arch_early_irq_init() hook to get this code executed
at just the right moment: not too early, not too late.

Reported-by: Fred Hartnett &lt;fred.hartnett@hp.com&gt;
Tested-by: Fred Hartnett &lt;fred.hartnett@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Redefine ATOMIC_INIT and ATOMIC64_INIT to drop the casts</title>
<updated>2012-08-15T15:10:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-26T17:55:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=5eaac83b7362a1944afde7e867e53c7135e36d68'/>
<id>5eaac83b7362a1944afde7e867e53c7135e36d68</id>
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commit a119365586b0130dfea06457f584953e0ff6481d upstream.

The following build error occured during a ia64 build with
swap-over-NFS patches applied.

net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant
net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: (near initialization for 'memalloc_socks')
net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant

This is identical to a parisc build error. Fengguang Wu, Mel Gorman
and James Bottomley did all the legwork to track the root cause of
the problem. This fix and entire commit log is shamelessly copied
from them with one extra detail to change a dubious runtime use of
ATOMIC_INIT() to atomic_set() in drivers/char/mspec.c

Dave Anglin says:
&gt; Here is the line in sock.i:
&gt;
&gt; struct static_key memalloc_socks = ((struct static_key) { .enabled =
&gt; ((atomic_t) { (0) }) });

The above line contains two compound literals.  It also uses a designated
initializer to initialize the field enabled.  A compound literal is not a
constant expression.

The location of the above statement isn't fully clear, but if a compound
literal occurs outside the body of a function, the initializer list must
consist of constant expressions.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a119365586b0130dfea06457f584953e0ff6481d upstream.

The following build error occured during a ia64 build with
swap-over-NFS patches applied.

net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant
net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: (near initialization for 'memalloc_socks')
net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant

This is identical to a parisc build error. Fengguang Wu, Mel Gorman
and James Bottomley did all the legwork to track the root cause of
the problem. This fix and entire commit log is shamelessly copied
from them with one extra detail to change a dubious runtime use of
ATOMIC_INIT() to atomic_set() in drivers/char/mspec.c

Dave Anglin says:
&gt; Here is the line in sock.i:
&gt;
&gt; struct static_key memalloc_socks = ((struct static_key) { .enabled =
&gt; ((atomic_t) { (0) }) });

The above line contains two compound literals.  It also uses a designated
initializer to initialize the field enabled.  A compound literal is not a
constant expression.

The location of the above statement isn't fully clear, but if a compound
literal occurs outside the body of a function, the initializer list must
consist of constant expressions.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>IA64: Add cmpxchg.h to exported userspace headers</title>
<updated>2012-06-09T15:36:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>maximilian attems</name>
<email>max@stro.at</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-16T07:46:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=dadce2efa18e448bb42678efdc72a819bceaa9b7'/>
<id>dadce2efa18e448bb42678efdc72a819bceaa9b7</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 98e4cff73a18af27f0d40d0b0d37f105dfc1994a upstream.

Fixes klibc build on ia64 after 85f8f7759e418c814ee2ceacf73eddb9bed39492.

Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: maximilian attems &lt;max@stro.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 98e4cff73a18af27f0d40d0b0d37f105dfc1994a upstream.

Fixes klibc build on ia64 after 85f8f7759e418c814ee2ceacf73eddb9bed39492.

Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: maximilian attems &lt;max@stro.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64: fix futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()</title>
<updated>2012-04-17T01:30:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luck, Tony</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-16T23:28:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=c76f39bddb84f93f70a5520d9253ec0317bec216'/>
<id>c76f39bddb84f93f70a5520d9253ec0317bec216</id>
<content type='text'>
Michel Lespinasse cleaned up the futex calling conventions in commit
37a9d912b24f ("futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API").

But the ia64 implementation was subtly broken.  Gcc does not know that
register "r8" will be updated by the fault handler if the cmpxchg
instruction takes an exception.  So it feels safe in letting the
initialization of r8 slide to after the cmpxchg.  Result: we always
return 0 whether the user address faulted or not.

Fix by moving the initialization of r8 into the __asm__ code so gcc
won't move it.

Reported-by: &lt;emeric.maschino@gmail.com&gt;
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42757
Tested-by: &lt;emeric.maschino@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.39+
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Michel Lespinasse cleaned up the futex calling conventions in commit
37a9d912b24f ("futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API").

But the ia64 implementation was subtly broken.  Gcc does not know that
register "r8" will be updated by the fault handler if the cmpxchg
instruction takes an exception.  So it feels safe in letting the
initialization of r8 slide to after the cmpxchg.  Result: we always
return 0 whether the user address faulted or not.

Fix by moving the initialization of r8 into the __asm__ code so gcc
won't move it.

Reported-by: &lt;emeric.maschino@gmail.com&gt;
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42757
Tested-by: &lt;emeric.maschino@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.39+
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64: populate the cmpxchg header with appropriate code</title>
<updated>2012-04-13T17:15:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-03T17:51:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=85f8f7759e418c814ee2ceacf73eddb9bed39492'/>
<id>85f8f7759e418c814ee2ceacf73eddb9bed39492</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 93f378883cecb9dcb2cf5b51d9d24175906659da

    "Fix ia64 build errors (fallout from system.h disintegration)"

introduced arch/ia64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h as a temporary
build fix and stated:

    "... leave the migration of xchg() and cmpxchg() to this new
     header file for a future patch."

Migrate the appropriate chunks from asm/intrinsics.h and fix
the whitespace issues in the migrated chunk.

Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
</content>
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commit 93f378883cecb9dcb2cf5b51d9d24175906659da

    "Fix ia64 build errors (fallout from system.h disintegration)"

introduced arch/ia64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h as a temporary
build fix and stated:

    "... leave the migration of xchg() and cmpxchg() to this new
     header file for a future patch."

Migrate the appropriate chunks from asm/intrinsics.h and fix
the whitespace issues in the migrated chunk.

Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping</title>
<updated>2012-04-05T00:13:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-05T00:13:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=58bca4a8fa90fcf9069379653b396b2cec642f7f'/>
<id>58bca4a8fa90fcf9069379653b396b2cec642f7f</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull DMA mapping branch from Marek Szyprowski:
 "Short summary for the whole series:

  A few limitations have been identified in the current dma-mapping
  design and its implementations for various architectures.  There exist
  more than one function for allocating and freeing the buffers:
  currently these 3 are used dma_{alloc, free}_coherent,
  dma_{alloc,free}_writecombine, dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent.

  For most of the systems these calls are almost equivalent and can be
  interchanged.  For others, especially the truly non-coherent ones
  (like ARM), the difference can be easily noticed in overall driver
  performance.  Sadly not all architectures provide implementations for
  all of them, so the drivers might need to be adapted and cannot be
  easily shared between different architectures.  The provided patches
  unify all these functions and hide the differences under the already
  existing dma attributes concept.  The thread with more references is
  available here:

    http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sh/msg09777.html

  These patches are also a prerequisite for unifying DMA-mapping
  implementation on ARM architecture with the common one provided by
  dma_map_ops structure and extending it with IOMMU support.  More
  information is available in the following thread:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/12819

  More works on dma-mapping framework are planned, especially in the
  area of buffer sharing and managing the shared mappings (together with
  the recently introduced dma_buf interface: commit d15bd7ee445d
  "dma-buf: Introduce dma buffer sharing mechanism").

  The patches in the current set introduce a new alloc/free methods
  (with support for memory attributes) in dma_map_ops structure, which
  will later replace dma_alloc_coherent and dma_alloc_writecombine
  functions."

People finally started piping up with support for merging this, so I'm
merging it as the last of the pending stuff from the merge window.
Looks like pohmelfs is going to wait for 3.5 and more external support
for merging.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping:
  common: DMA-mapping: add NON-CONSISTENT attribute
  common: DMA-mapping: add WRITE_COMBINE attribute
  common: dma-mapping: introduce mmap method
  common: dma-mapping: remove old alloc_coherent and free_coherent methods
  Hexagon: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  Unicore32: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  Microblaze: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  SH: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  Alpha: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  SPARC: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  PowerPC: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  MIPS: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  X86 &amp; IA64: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  common: dma-mapping: introduce generic alloc() and free() methods
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Pull DMA mapping branch from Marek Szyprowski:
 "Short summary for the whole series:

  A few limitations have been identified in the current dma-mapping
  design and its implementations for various architectures.  There exist
  more than one function for allocating and freeing the buffers:
  currently these 3 are used dma_{alloc, free}_coherent,
  dma_{alloc,free}_writecombine, dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent.

  For most of the systems these calls are almost equivalent and can be
  interchanged.  For others, especially the truly non-coherent ones
  (like ARM), the difference can be easily noticed in overall driver
  performance.  Sadly not all architectures provide implementations for
  all of them, so the drivers might need to be adapted and cannot be
  easily shared between different architectures.  The provided patches
  unify all these functions and hide the differences under the already
  existing dma attributes concept.  The thread with more references is
  available here:

    http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sh/msg09777.html

  These patches are also a prerequisite for unifying DMA-mapping
  implementation on ARM architecture with the common one provided by
  dma_map_ops structure and extending it with IOMMU support.  More
  information is available in the following thread:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/12819

  More works on dma-mapping framework are planned, especially in the
  area of buffer sharing and managing the shared mappings (together with
  the recently introduced dma_buf interface: commit d15bd7ee445d
  "dma-buf: Introduce dma buffer sharing mechanism").

  The patches in the current set introduce a new alloc/free methods
  (with support for memory attributes) in dma_map_ops structure, which
  will later replace dma_alloc_coherent and dma_alloc_writecombine
  functions."

People finally started piping up with support for merging this, so I'm
merging it as the last of the pending stuff from the merge window.
Looks like pohmelfs is going to wait for 3.5 and more external support
for merging.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping:
  common: DMA-mapping: add NON-CONSISTENT attribute
  common: DMA-mapping: add WRITE_COMBINE attribute
  common: dma-mapping: introduce mmap method
  common: dma-mapping: remove old alloc_coherent and free_coherent methods
  Hexagon: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  Unicore32: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  Microblaze: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  SH: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  Alpha: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  SPARC: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  PowerPC: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  MIPS: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  X86 &amp; IA64: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
  common: dma-mapping: introduce generic alloc() and free() methods
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<title>ia64: Fixup asm/cmpxchg.h</title>
<updated>2012-03-30T19:34:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-30T18:43:11+00:00</published>
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The empty asm/cmpxchg.h file that was provided as a temporary build fix
for the asm/system.h disintgration build problem should really include
&lt;asm/intrinsics.h&gt; to make definitions of xchg() and cmpxchg()
available.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The empty asm/cmpxchg.h file that was provided as a temporary build fix
for the asm/system.h disintgration build problem should really include
&lt;asm/intrinsics.h&gt; to make definitions of xchg() and cmpxchg()
available.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-03-30T01:12:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-30T01:12:23+00:00</published>
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Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86:
  32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel
  syscalls.

  This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address
  space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address
  space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc."

Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c}

* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
  x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
  x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format
  x32: Add ptrace for x32
  x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t
  x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates
  x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls
  x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect
  x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old
  x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once
  x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks
  fs: Remove missed -&gt;fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally
  fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable
  x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO
  x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code
  x32: Add x32 VDSO support
  x32: Allow x32 to be configured
  x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables
  x32: Handle process creation
  x32: Signal-related system calls
  x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to &lt;asm/sys_ia32.h&gt;
  ...
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Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86:
  32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel
  syscalls.

  This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address
  space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address
  space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc."

Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c}

* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
  x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
  x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format
  x32: Add ptrace for x32
  x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t
  x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates
  x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls
  x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect
  x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old
  x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once
  x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks
  fs: Remove missed -&gt;fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally
  fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable
  x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO
  x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code
  x32: Add x32 VDSO support
  x32: Allow x32 to be configured
  x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables
  x32: Handle process creation
  x32: Signal-related system calls
  x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to &lt;asm/sys_ia32.h&gt;
  ...
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