linux-toradex.git/arch/mips/kernel/process.c, branch v6.19

MIPS: kernel: Fix random segmentation faults

2025-11-21T12:24:05+00:00

Commit 69896119dc9d ("MIPS: vdso: Switch to generic storage
implementation") switches to a generic vdso storage, which increases
the number of data pages from 1 to 4. But there is only one page
reserved, which causes segementation faults depending where the VDSO
area is randomized to. To fix this use the same size of reservation
and allocation of the VDSO data pages.

Fixes: 69896119dc9d ("MIPS: vdso: Switch to generic storage implementation")
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh 
Reviewed-by: Huacai Chen 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer

arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64

2025-09-01T13:31:34+00:00

With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add
clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was
increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags.
However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not
changed from the previous type of unsigned long.

While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits
(CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still
undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise.

Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of the copy_thread
function that is called from copy_process to consistently pass
clone_flags as u64, so that no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on
32-bit architectures.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-3-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com
Fixes: c5febea0956fd387 ("fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread")
Acked-by: Guo Ren (Alibaba Damo Academy) 
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson  # sparc
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven  # m68k
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

MIPS: Don't crash in stack_top() for tasks without ABI or vDSO

2025-07-03T10:35:11+00:00

Not all tasks have an ABI associated or vDSO mapped,
for example kthreads never do.
If such a task ever ends up calling stack_top(), it will derefence the
NULL ABI pointer and crash.

This can for example happen when using kunit:

    mips_stack_top+0x28/0xc0
    arch_pick_mmap_layout+0x190/0x220
    kunit_vm_mmap_init+0xf8/0x138
    __kunit_add_resource+0x40/0xa8
    kunit_vm_mmap+0x88/0xd8
    usercopy_test_init+0xb8/0x240
    kunit_try_run_case+0x5c/0x1a8
    kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x28/0x50
    kthread+0x118/0x240
    ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c

Only dereference the ABI point if it is set.

The GIC page is also included as it is specific to the vDSO.
Also move the randomization adjustment into the same conditional.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh 
Reviewed-by: David Gow 
Reviewed-by: Huacai Chen 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer

MIPS: kernel: Clear FPU states when setting up kernel threads

2023-12-05T17:47:11+00:00

io_uring sets up the io worker kernel thread via a syscall out of an
user space prrocess. This process might have used FPU and since
copy_thread() didn't clear FPU states for kernel threads a BUG()
is triggered for using FPU inside kernel. Move code around
to always clear FPU state for user and kernel threads.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Aurelien Jarno 
Closes: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1055021
Suggested-by: Jiaxun Yang 
Reviewed-by: Jiaxun Yang 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer

nmi_backtrace: allow excluding an arbitrary CPU

2023-08-18T17:19:00+00:00

The APIs that allow backtracing across CPUs have always had a way to
exclude the current CPU.  This convenience means callers didn't need to
find a place to allocate a CPU mask just to handle the common case.

Let's extend the API to take a CPU ID to exclude instead of just a
boolean.  This isn't any more complex for the API to handle and allows the
hardlockup detector to exclude a different CPU (the one it already did a
trace for) without needing to find space for a CPU mask.

Arguably, this new API also encourages safer behavior.  Specifically if
the caller wants to avoid tracing the current CPU (maybe because they
already traced the current CPU) this makes it more obvious to the caller
that they need to make sure that the current CPU ID can't change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix trigger_allbutcpu_cpu_backtrace() stub]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804065935.v4.1.Ia35521b91fc781368945161d7b28538f9996c182@changeid
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: kernel test robot 
Cc: Lecopzer Chen 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Pingfan Liu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

sched/idle: Mark arch_cpu_idle_dead() __noreturn

2023-03-08T16:44:28+00:00

Before commit 076cbf5d2163 ("x86/xen: don't let xen_pv_play_dead()
return"), in Xen, when a previously offlined CPU was brought back
online, it unexpectedly resumed execution where it left off in the
middle of the idle loop.

There were some hacks to make that work, but the behavior was surprising
as do_idle() doesn't expect an offlined CPU to return from the dead (in
arch_cpu_idle_dead()).

Now that Xen has been fixed, and the arch-specific implementations of
arch_cpu_idle_dead() also don't return, give it a __noreturn attribute.

This will cause the compiler to complain if an arch-specific
implementation might return.  It also improves code generation for both
caller and callee.

Also fixes the following warning:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_idle+0x25f: unreachable instruction

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/60d527353da8c99d4cf13b6473131d46719ed16d.1676358308.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf

treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function

2022-11-18T01:15:15+00:00

This is a simple mechanical transformation done by:

@@
expression E;
@@
- prandom_u32_max
+ get_random_u32_below
  (E)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong  # for xfs
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park  # for damon
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe  # for infiniband
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle)  # for arm
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson  # for mmc
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld

treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1

2022-10-11T23:42:55+00:00

Rather than incurring a division or requesting too many random bytes for
the given range, use the prandom_u32_max() function, which only takes
the minimum required bytes from the RNG and avoids divisions. This was
done mechanically with this coccinelle script:

@basic@
expression E;
type T;
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u64;
@@
(
- ((T)get_random_u32() % (E))
+ prandom_u32_max(E)
|
- ((T)get_random_u32() & ((E) - 1))
+ prandom_u32_max(E * XXX_MAKE_SURE_E_IS_POW2)
|
- ((u64)(E) * get_random_u32() >> 32)
+ prandom_u32_max(E)
|
- ((T)get_random_u32() & ~PAGE_MASK)
+ prandom_u32_max(PAGE_SIZE)
)

@multi_line@
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
identifier RAND;
expression E;
@@

-       RAND = get_random_u32();
        ... when != RAND
-       RAND %= (E);
+       RAND = prandom_u32_max(E);

// Find a potential literal
@literal_mask@
expression LITERAL;
type T;
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
position p;
@@

        ((T)get_random_u32()@p & (LITERAL))

// Add one to the literal.
@script:python add_one@
literal << literal_mask.LITERAL;
RESULT;
@@

value = None
if literal.startswith('0x'):
        value = int(literal, 16)
elif literal[0] in '123456789':
        value = int(literal, 10)
if value is None:
        print("I don't know how to handle %s" % (literal))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif value == 2**32 - 1 or value == 2**31 - 1 or value == 2**24 - 1 or value == 2**16 - 1 or value == 2**8 - 1:
        print("Skipping 0x%x for cleanup elsewhere" % (value))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif value & (value + 1) != 0:
        print("Skipping 0x%x because it's not a power of two minus one" % (value))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif literal.startswith('0x'):
        coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_expr("0x%x" % (value + 1))
else:
        coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_expr("%d" % (value + 1))

// Replace the literal mask with the calculated result.
@plus_one@
expression literal_mask.LITERAL;
position literal_mask.p;
expression add_one.RESULT;
identifier FUNC;
@@

-       (FUNC()@p & (LITERAL))
+       prandom_u32_max(RESULT)

@collapse_ret@
type T;
identifier VAR;
expression E;
@@

 {
-       T VAR;
-       VAR = (E);
-       return VAR;
+       return E;
 }

@drop_var@
type T;
identifier VAR;
@@

 {
-       T VAR;
        ... when != VAR
 }

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Yury Norov 
Reviewed-by: KP Singh 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara  # for ext4 and sbitmap
Reviewed-by: Christoph Böhmwalder  # for drbd
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # for s390
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson  # for mmc
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong  # for xfs
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld

fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling

2022-05-07T14:01:59+00:00

Add fn and fn_arg members into struct kernel_clone_args and test for
them in copy_thread (instead of testing for PF_KTHREAD | PF_IO_WORKER).
This allows any task that wants to be a user space task that only runs
in kernel mode to use this functionality.

The code on x86 is an exception and still retains a PF_KTHREAD test
because x86 unlikely everything else handles kthreads slightly
differently than user space tasks that start with a function.

The functions that created tasks that start with a function
have been updated to set ".fn" and ".fn_arg" instead of
".stack" and ".stack_size".  These functions are fork_idle(),
create_io_thread(), kernel_thread(), and user_mode_thread().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-4-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread

2022-05-07T14:01:48+00:00

With io_uring we have started supporting tasks that are for most
purposes user space tasks that exclusively run code in kernel mode.

The kernel task that exec's init and tasks that exec user mode
helpers are also user mode tasks that just run kernel code
until they call kernel execve.

Pass kernel_clone_args into copy_thread so these oddball
tasks can be supported more cleanly and easily.

v2: Fix spelling of kenrel_clone_args on h8300
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-2-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"