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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/parisc/kernel, branch v2.6.27.14</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>parisc: fix kernel crash when unwinding a userspace process</title>
<updated>2008-12-05T18:55:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2008-11-26T20:46:22+00:00</published>
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commit 7a3f5134a8f5bd7fa38b5645eef05e8a4eb62951 upstream.

Any user on existing parisc 32- and 64bit-kernels can easily crash
the kernel and as such enforce a DSO.
A simple testcase is available here:
        http://gsyprf10.external.hp.com/~deller/crash.tgz

The problem is introduced by the fact, that the handle_interruption()
crash handler calls the show_regs() function, which in turn tries to
unwind the stack by calling parisc_show_stack().  Since the stack contains
userspace addresses, a try to unwind the stack is dangerous and useless
and leads to the crash.

The fix is trivial: For userspace processes
a) avoid to unwind the stack, and
b) avoid to resolve userspace addresses to kernel symbol names.

While touching this code, I converted print_symbol() to %pS
printk formats and made parisc_show_stack() static.

An initial patch for this was written by Kyle McMartin back in August:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-parisc&amp;m=121805168830283&amp;w=2

Compile and run-tested with a 64bit parisc kernel.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Grant Grundler &lt;grundler@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 7a3f5134a8f5bd7fa38b5645eef05e8a4eb62951 upstream.

Any user on existing parisc 32- and 64bit-kernels can easily crash
the kernel and as such enforce a DSO.
A simple testcase is available here:
        http://gsyprf10.external.hp.com/~deller/crash.tgz

The problem is introduced by the fact, that the handle_interruption()
crash handler calls the show_regs() function, which in turn tries to
unwind the stack by calling parisc_show_stack().  Since the stack contains
userspace addresses, a try to unwind the stack is dangerous and useless
and leads to the crash.

The fix is trivial: For userspace processes
a) avoid to unwind the stack, and
b) avoid to resolve userspace addresses to kernel symbol names.

While touching this code, I converted print_symbol() to %pS
printk formats and made parisc_show_stack() static.

An initial patch for this was written by Kyle McMartin back in August:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-parisc&amp;m=121805168830283&amp;w=2

Compile and run-tested with a 64bit parisc kernel.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Grant Grundler &lt;grundler@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>lib: Correct printk %pF to work on all architectures</title>
<updated>2008-09-09T18:51:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Bottomley</name>
<email>James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com</email>
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<published>2008-09-04T01:43:36+00:00</published>
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It was introduced by "vsprintf: add support for '%pS' and '%pF' pointer
formats" in commit 0fe1ef24f7bd0020f29ffe287dfdb9ead33ca0b2.  However,
the current way its coded doesn't work on parisc64.  For two reasons: 1)
parisc isn't in the #ifdef and 2) parisc has a different format for
function descriptors

Make dereference_function_descriptor() more accommodating by allowing
architecture overrides.  I put the three overrides (for parisc64, ppc64
and ia64) in arch/kernel/module.c because that's where the kernel
internal linker which knows how to deal with function descriptors sits.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It was introduced by "vsprintf: add support for '%pS' and '%pF' pointer
formats" in commit 0fe1ef24f7bd0020f29ffe287dfdb9ead33ca0b2.  However,
the current way its coded doesn't work on parisc64.  For two reasons: 1)
parisc isn't in the #ifdef and 2) parisc has a different format for
function descriptors

Make dereference_function_descriptor() more accommodating by allowing
architecture overrides.  I put the three overrides (for parisc64, ppc64
and ia64) in arch/kernel/module.c because that's where the kernel
internal linker which knows how to deal with function descriptors sits.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus</title>
<updated>2008-07-15T19:55:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-15T19:55:59+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:

	arch/powerpc/Kconfig
	arch/s390/kernel/time.c
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
	arch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
	arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
	arch/x86/xen/smp.c
	include/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h
	include/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h
	include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h
	include/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h
	include/asm-x86/smp.h
	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Conflicts:

	arch/powerpc/Kconfig
	arch/s390/kernel/time.c
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
	arch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
	arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
	arch/x86/xen/smp.c
	include/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h
	include/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h
	include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h
	include/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h
	include/asm-x86/smp.h
	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core/rodata' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2008-07-14T22:28:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-14T22:28:10+00:00</published>
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* 'core/rodata' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  move BUG_TABLE into RODATA
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* 'core/rodata' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  move BUG_TABLE into RODATA
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<entry>
<title>Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removal</title>
<updated>2008-07-14T21:29:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Corbet</name>
<email>corbet@lwn.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-14T21:29:34+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>parisc-kernel-perf: BKL pushdown</title>
<updated>2008-07-02T21:06:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
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<published>2008-05-20T17:16:31+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameter</title>
<updated>2008-06-26T09:24:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-09T07:39:44+00:00</published>
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It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that
was removed. So kill it.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that
was removed. So kill it.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>parisc: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls</title>
<updated>2008-06-26T09:22:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-10T18:50:56+00:00</published>
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This converts parisc to use the new helpers for smp_call_function() and
friends, and adds support for smp_call_function_single(). Tested by
Kyle, seems to work.

Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Cc: Grant Grundler &lt;grundler@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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This converts parisc to use the new helpers for smp_call_function() and
friends, and adds support for smp_call_function_single(). Tested by
Kyle, seems to work.

Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Cc: Grant Grundler &lt;grundler@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into core/rodata</title>
<updated>2008-06-16T09:24:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
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<published>2008-06-16T09:24:00+00:00</published>
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<title>parisc: fix off by one in setup_sigcontext32</title>
<updated>2008-06-13T14:49:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kyle McMartin</name>
<email>kyle@minerva.i.cabal.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-27T05:56:29+00:00</published>
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Thankfully, the values were irrelevant... Spotted by
newer gcc.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
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Thankfully, the values were irrelevant... Spotted by
newer gcc.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
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