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<title>parisc: use compat_sys_keyctl()</title>
<updated>2017-07-21T05:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-13T06:18:30+00:00</published>
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commit b0f94efd5aa8daa8a07d7601714c2573266cd4c9 upstream.

Architectures with a compat syscall table must put compat_sys_keyctl()
in it, not sys_keyctl().  The parisc architecture was not doing this;
fix it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b0f94efd5aa8daa8a07d7601714c2573266cd4c9 upstream.

Architectures with a compat syscall table must put compat_sys_keyctl()
in it, not sys_keyctl().  The parisc architecture was not doing this;
fix it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas</title>
<updated>2017-06-26T05:13:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-19T11:03:24+00:00</published>
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commit 1be7107fbe18eed3e319a6c3e83c78254b693acb upstream.

Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing
into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which
is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping.
But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in
userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly
used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX]
which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN.

This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default
no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be
tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call
could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical,
unfortunatelly.

Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap
to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size
because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in
the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack
allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is
somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot.

One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace,
but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong
for some special case applications.  For now, add a kernel command line
option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units).

Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page:
because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a
stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point,
a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was
counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK
and strict non-overcommit mode.

Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard
gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start
(or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few
places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(),
and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that.

Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[wt: backport to 4.11: adjust context]
[wt: backport to 4.9: adjust context ; kernel doc was not in admin-guide]
[wt: backport to 4.4: adjust context ; drop ppc hugetlb_radix changes]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
[gkh: minor build fixes for 4.4]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 1be7107fbe18eed3e319a6c3e83c78254b693acb upstream.

Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing
into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which
is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping.
But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in
userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly
used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX]
which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN.

This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default
no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be
tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call
could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical,
unfortunatelly.

Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap
to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size
because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in
the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack
allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is
somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot.

One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace,
but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong
for some special case applications.  For now, add a kernel command line
option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units).

Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page:
because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a
stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point,
a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was
counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK
and strict non-overcommit mode.

Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard
gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start
(or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few
places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(),
and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that.

Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[wt: backport to 4.11: adjust context]
[wt: backport to 4.9: adjust context ; kernel doc was not in admin-guide]
[wt: backport to 4.4: adjust context ; drop ppc hugetlb_radix changes]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
[gkh: minor build fixes for 4.4]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: Fix TLB related boot crash on SMP machines</title>
<updated>2016-12-15T16:49:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-08T20:00:46+00:00</published>
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commit 24d0492b7d5d321a9c5846c8c974eba9823ffaa0 upstream.

At bootup we run measurements to calculate the best threshold for when we
should be using full TLB flushes instead of just flushing a specific amount of
TLB entries.  This performance test is run over the kernel text segment.

But running this TLB performance test on the kernel text segment turned out to
crash some SMP machines when the kernel text pages were mapped as huge pages.

To avoid those crashes this patch simply skips this test on some SMP machines
and calculates an optimal threshold based on the maximum number of available
TLB entries and number of online CPUs.

On a technical side, this seems to happen:
The TLB measurement code uses flush_tlb_kernel_range() to flush specific TLB
entries with a page size of 4k (pdtlb 0(sr1,addr)). On UP systems this purge
instruction seems to work without problems even if the pages were mapped as
huge pages.  But on SMP systems the TLB purge instruction is broadcasted to
other CPUs. Those CPUs then crash the machine because the page size is not as
expected.  C8000 machines with PA8800/PA8900 CPUs were not affected by this
problem, because the required cache coherency prohibits to use huge pages at
all.  Sadly I didn't found any documentation about this behaviour, so this
finding is purely based on testing with phyiscal SMP machines (A500-44 and
J5000, both were 2-way boxes).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 24d0492b7d5d321a9c5846c8c974eba9823ffaa0 upstream.

At bootup we run measurements to calculate the best threshold for when we
should be using full TLB flushes instead of just flushing a specific amount of
TLB entries.  This performance test is run over the kernel text segment.

But running this TLB performance test on the kernel text segment turned out to
crash some SMP machines when the kernel text pages were mapped as huge pages.

To avoid those crashes this patch simply skips this test on some SMP machines
and calculates an optimal threshold based on the maximum number of available
TLB entries and number of online CPUs.

On a technical side, this seems to happen:
The TLB measurement code uses flush_tlb_kernel_range() to flush specific TLB
entries with a page size of 4k (pdtlb 0(sr1,addr)). On UP systems this purge
instruction seems to work without problems even if the pages were mapped as
huge pages.  But on SMP systems the TLB purge instruction is broadcasted to
other CPUs. Those CPUs then crash the machine because the page size is not as
expected.  C8000 machines with PA8800/PA8900 CPUs were not affected by this
problem, because the required cache coherency prohibits to use huge pages at
all.  Sadly I didn't found any documentation about this behaviour, so this
finding is purely based on testing with phyiscal SMP machines (A500-44 and
J5000, both were 2-way boxes).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Remove unnecessary TLB purges from flush_dcache_page_asm and flush_icache_page_asm</title>
<updated>2016-12-15T16:49:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-07T03:02:01+00:00</published>
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commit febe42964fe182281859b3d43d844bb25ca49367 upstream.

We have four routines in pacache.S that use temporary alias pages:
copy_user_page_asm(), clear_user_page_asm(), flush_dcache_page_asm() and
flush_icache_page_asm().  copy_user_page_asm() and clear_user_page_asm()
don't purge the TLB entry used for the operation.
flush_dcache_page_asm() and flush_icache_page_asm do purge the entry.

Presumably, this was thought to optimize TLB use.  However, the
operation is quite heavy weight on PA 1.X processors as we need to take
the TLB lock and a TLB broadcast is sent to all processors.

This patch removes the purges from flush_dcache_page_asm() and
flush_icache_page_asm.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin  &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit febe42964fe182281859b3d43d844bb25ca49367 upstream.

We have four routines in pacache.S that use temporary alias pages:
copy_user_page_asm(), clear_user_page_asm(), flush_dcache_page_asm() and
flush_icache_page_asm().  copy_user_page_asm() and clear_user_page_asm()
don't purge the TLB entry used for the operation.
flush_dcache_page_asm() and flush_icache_page_asm do purge the entry.

Presumably, this was thought to optimize TLB use.  However, the
operation is quite heavy weight on PA 1.X processors as we need to take
the TLB lock and a TLB broadcast is sent to all processors.

This patch removes the purges from flush_dcache_page_asm() and
flush_icache_page_asm.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin  &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Also flush data TLB in flush_icache_page_asm</title>
<updated>2016-12-02T08:09:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-25T01:18:14+00:00</published>
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commit 5035b230e7b67ac12691ed3b5495bbb617027b68 upstream.

This is the second issue I noticed in reviewing the parisc TLB code.

The fic instruction may use either the instruction or data TLB in
flushing the instruction cache.  Thus, on machines with a split TLB, we
should also flush the data TLB after setting up the temporary alias
registers.

Although this has no functional impact, I changed the pdtlb and pitlb
instructions to consistently use the index register %r0.  These
instructions do not support integer displacements.

Tested on rp3440 and c8000.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin  &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5035b230e7b67ac12691ed3b5495bbb617027b68 upstream.

This is the second issue I noticed in reviewing the parisc TLB code.

The fic instruction may use either the instruction or data TLB in
flushing the instruction cache.  Thus, on machines with a split TLB, we
should also flush the data TLB after setting up the temporary alias
registers.

Although this has no functional impact, I changed the pdtlb and pitlb
instructions to consistently use the index register %r0.  These
instructions do not support integer displacements.

Tested on rp3440 and c8000.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin  &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Fix race in pci-dma.c</title>
<updated>2016-12-02T08:09:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-25T01:06:32+00:00</published>
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commit c0452fb9fb8f49c7d68ab9fa0ad092016be7b45f upstream.

We are still troubled by occasional random segmentation faults and
memory memory corruption on SMP machines.  The causes quite a few
package builds to fail on the Debian buildd machines for parisc.  When
gcc-6 failed to build three times in a row, I looked again at the TLB
related code.  I found a couple of issues.  This is the first.

In general, we need to ensure page table updates and corresponding TLB
purges are atomic.  The attached patch fixes an instance in pci-dma.c
where the page table update was not guarded by the TLB lock.

Tested on rp3440 and c8000.  So far, no further random segmentation
faults have been observed.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin  &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c0452fb9fb8f49c7d68ab9fa0ad092016be7b45f upstream.

We are still troubled by occasional random segmentation faults and
memory memory corruption on SMP machines.  The causes quite a few
package builds to fail on the Debian buildd machines for parisc.  When
gcc-6 failed to build three times in a row, I looked again at the TLB
related code.  I found a couple of issues.  This is the first.

In general, we need to ensure page table updates and corresponding TLB
purges are atomic.  The attached patch fixes an instance in pci-dma.c
where the page table update was not guarded by the TLB lock.

Tested on rp3440 and c8000.  So far, no further random segmentation
faults have been observed.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin  &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Fix races in parisc_setup_cache_timing()</title>
<updated>2016-12-02T08:09:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-21T02:12:36+00:00</published>
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commit 741dc7bf1c7c7d93b853bb55efe77baa27e1b0a9 upstream.

Helge reported to me the following startup crash:

[    0.000000] Linux version 4.8.0-1-parisc64-smp (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 5.4.1 20161019 (GCC) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.8.7-1 (2016-11-13)
[    0.000000] The 64-bit Kernel has started...
[    0.000000] Kernel default page size is 4 KB. Huge pages enabled with 1 MB physical and 2 MB virtual size.
[    0.000000] Determining PDC firmware type: System Map.
[    0.000000] model 9000/785/J5000
[    0.000000] Total Memory: 2048 MB
[    0.000000] Memory: 2018528K/2097152K available (9272K kernel code, 3053K rwdata, 1319K rodata, 1024K init, 840K bss, 78624K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[    0.000000] virtual kernel memory layout:
[    0.000000]     vmalloc : 0x0000000000008000 - 0x000000003f000000   (1007 MB)
[    0.000000]     memory  : 0x0000000040000000 - 0x00000000c0000000   (2048 MB)
[    0.000000]       .init : 0x0000000040100000 - 0x0000000040200000   (1024 kB)
[    0.000000]       .data : 0x0000000040b0e000 - 0x0000000040f533e0   (4372 kB)
[    0.000000]       .text : 0x0000000040200000 - 0x0000000040b0e000   (9272 kB)
[    0.768910] Brought up 1 CPUs
[    0.992465] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    2.429981] Releasing cpu 1 now, hpa=fffffffffffa2000
[    2.635751] CPU(s): 2 out of 2 PA8500 (PCX-W) at 440.000000 MHz online
[    2.726692] Setting cache flush threshold to 1024 kB
[    2.729932] Not-handled unaligned insn 0x43ffff80
[    2.798114] Setting TLB flush threshold to 140 kB
[    2.928039] Unaligned handler failed, ret = -1
[    3.000419]       _______________________________
[    3.000419]      &lt; Your System ate a SPARC! Gah! &gt;
[    3.000419]       -------------------------------
[    3.000419]              \   ^__^
[    3.000419]                  (__)\       )\/\
[    3.000419]                   U  ||----w |
[    3.000419]                      ||     ||
[    9.340055] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.8.0-1-parisc64-smp #1 Debian 4.8.7-1
[    9.448082] task: 00000000bfd48060 task.stack: 00000000bfd50000
[    9.528040]
[   10.760029] IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 000000004025d154 000000004025d158
[   10.868052]  IIR: 43ffff80    ISR: 0000000000340000  IOR: 000001ff54150960
[   10.960029]  CPU:        1   CR30: 00000000bfd50000 CR31: 0000000011111111
[   11.052057]  ORIG_R28: 000000004021e3b4
[   11.100045]  IAOQ[0]: irq_exit+0x94/0x120
[   11.152062]  IAOQ[1]: irq_exit+0x98/0x120
[   11.208031]  RP(r2): irq_exit+0xb8/0x120
[   11.256074] Backtrace:
[   11.288067]  [&lt;00000000402cd944&gt;] cpu_startup_entry+0x1e4/0x598
[   11.368058]  [&lt;0000000040109528&gt;] smp_callin+0x2c0/0x2f0
[   11.436308]  [&lt;00000000402b53fc&gt;] update_curr+0x18c/0x2d0
[   11.508055]  [&lt;00000000402b73b8&gt;] dequeue_entity+0x2c0/0x1030
[   11.584040]  [&lt;00000000402b3cc0&gt;] set_next_entity+0x80/0xd30
[   11.660069]  [&lt;00000000402c1594&gt;] pick_next_task_fair+0x614/0x720
[   11.740085]  [&lt;000000004020dd34&gt;] __schedule+0x394/0xa60
[   11.808054]  [&lt;000000004020e488&gt;] schedule+0x88/0x118
[   11.876039]  [&lt;0000000040283d3c&gt;] rescuer_thread+0x4d4/0x5b0
[   11.948090]  [&lt;000000004028fc4c&gt;] kthread+0x1ec/0x248
[   12.016053]  [&lt;0000000040205020&gt;] end_fault_vector+0x20/0xc0
[   12.092239]  [&lt;00000000402050c0&gt;] _switch_to_ret+0x0/0xf40
[   12.164044]
[   12.184036] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.8.0-1-parisc64-smp #1 Debian 4.8.7-1
[   12.244040] Backtrace:
[   12.244040]  [&lt;000000004021c480&gt;] show_stack+0x68/0x80
[   12.244040]  [&lt;00000000406f332c&gt;] dump_stack+0xec/0x168
[   12.244040]  [&lt;000000004021c74c&gt;] die_if_kernel+0x25c/0x430
[   12.244040]  [&lt;000000004022d320&gt;] handle_unaligned+0xb48/0xb50
[   12.244040]
[   12.632066] ---[ end trace 9ca05a7215c7bbb2 ]---
[   12.692036] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!

We have the insn 0x43ffff80 in IIR but from IAOQ we should have:
   4025d150:   0f f3 20 df     ldd,s r19(r31),r31
   4025d154:   0f 9f 00 9c     ldw r31(ret0),ret0
   4025d158:   bf 80 20 58     cmpb,*&lt;&gt; r0,ret0,4025d18c &lt;irq_exit+0xcc&gt;

Cpu0 has just completed running parisc_setup_cache_timing:

[    2.429981] Releasing cpu 1 now, hpa=fffffffffffa2000
[    2.635751] CPU(s): 2 out of 2 PA8500 (PCX-W) at 440.000000 MHz online
[    2.726692] Setting cache flush threshold to 1024 kB
[    2.729932] Not-handled unaligned insn 0x43ffff80
[    2.798114] Setting TLB flush threshold to 140 kB
[    2.928039] Unaligned handler failed, ret = -1

From the backtrace, cpu1 is in smp_callin:

void __init smp_callin(void)
{
       int slave_id = cpu_now_booting;

       smp_cpu_init(slave_id);
       preempt_disable();

       flush_cache_all_local(); /* start with known state */
       flush_tlb_all_local(NULL);

       local_irq_enable();  /* Interrupts have been off until now */

       cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);

So, it has just flushed its caches and the TLB. It would seem either the
flushes in parisc_setup_cache_timing or smp_callin have corrupted kernel
memory.

The attached patch reworks parisc_setup_cache_timing to remove the races
in setting the cache and TLB flush thresholds. It also corrects the
number of bytes flushed in the TLB calculation.

The patch flushes the cache and TLB on cpu0 before starting the
secondary processors so that they are started from a known state.

Tested with a few reboots on c8000.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin  &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 741dc7bf1c7c7d93b853bb55efe77baa27e1b0a9 upstream.

Helge reported to me the following startup crash:

[    0.000000] Linux version 4.8.0-1-parisc64-smp (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 5.4.1 20161019 (GCC) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.8.7-1 (2016-11-13)
[    0.000000] The 64-bit Kernel has started...
[    0.000000] Kernel default page size is 4 KB. Huge pages enabled with 1 MB physical and 2 MB virtual size.
[    0.000000] Determining PDC firmware type: System Map.
[    0.000000] model 9000/785/J5000
[    0.000000] Total Memory: 2048 MB
[    0.000000] Memory: 2018528K/2097152K available (9272K kernel code, 3053K rwdata, 1319K rodata, 1024K init, 840K bss, 78624K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[    0.000000] virtual kernel memory layout:
[    0.000000]     vmalloc : 0x0000000000008000 - 0x000000003f000000   (1007 MB)
[    0.000000]     memory  : 0x0000000040000000 - 0x00000000c0000000   (2048 MB)
[    0.000000]       .init : 0x0000000040100000 - 0x0000000040200000   (1024 kB)
[    0.000000]       .data : 0x0000000040b0e000 - 0x0000000040f533e0   (4372 kB)
[    0.000000]       .text : 0x0000000040200000 - 0x0000000040b0e000   (9272 kB)
[    0.768910] Brought up 1 CPUs
[    0.992465] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    2.429981] Releasing cpu 1 now, hpa=fffffffffffa2000
[    2.635751] CPU(s): 2 out of 2 PA8500 (PCX-W) at 440.000000 MHz online
[    2.726692] Setting cache flush threshold to 1024 kB
[    2.729932] Not-handled unaligned insn 0x43ffff80
[    2.798114] Setting TLB flush threshold to 140 kB
[    2.928039] Unaligned handler failed, ret = -1
[    3.000419]       _______________________________
[    3.000419]      &lt; Your System ate a SPARC! Gah! &gt;
[    3.000419]       -------------------------------
[    3.000419]              \   ^__^
[    3.000419]                  (__)\       )\/\
[    3.000419]                   U  ||----w |
[    3.000419]                      ||     ||
[    9.340055] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.8.0-1-parisc64-smp #1 Debian 4.8.7-1
[    9.448082] task: 00000000bfd48060 task.stack: 00000000bfd50000
[    9.528040]
[   10.760029] IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 000000004025d154 000000004025d158
[   10.868052]  IIR: 43ffff80    ISR: 0000000000340000  IOR: 000001ff54150960
[   10.960029]  CPU:        1   CR30: 00000000bfd50000 CR31: 0000000011111111
[   11.052057]  ORIG_R28: 000000004021e3b4
[   11.100045]  IAOQ[0]: irq_exit+0x94/0x120
[   11.152062]  IAOQ[1]: irq_exit+0x98/0x120
[   11.208031]  RP(r2): irq_exit+0xb8/0x120
[   11.256074] Backtrace:
[   11.288067]  [&lt;00000000402cd944&gt;] cpu_startup_entry+0x1e4/0x598
[   11.368058]  [&lt;0000000040109528&gt;] smp_callin+0x2c0/0x2f0
[   11.436308]  [&lt;00000000402b53fc&gt;] update_curr+0x18c/0x2d0
[   11.508055]  [&lt;00000000402b73b8&gt;] dequeue_entity+0x2c0/0x1030
[   11.584040]  [&lt;00000000402b3cc0&gt;] set_next_entity+0x80/0xd30
[   11.660069]  [&lt;00000000402c1594&gt;] pick_next_task_fair+0x614/0x720
[   11.740085]  [&lt;000000004020dd34&gt;] __schedule+0x394/0xa60
[   11.808054]  [&lt;000000004020e488&gt;] schedule+0x88/0x118
[   11.876039]  [&lt;0000000040283d3c&gt;] rescuer_thread+0x4d4/0x5b0
[   11.948090]  [&lt;000000004028fc4c&gt;] kthread+0x1ec/0x248
[   12.016053]  [&lt;0000000040205020&gt;] end_fault_vector+0x20/0xc0
[   12.092239]  [&lt;00000000402050c0&gt;] _switch_to_ret+0x0/0xf40
[   12.164044]
[   12.184036] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.8.0-1-parisc64-smp #1 Debian 4.8.7-1
[   12.244040] Backtrace:
[   12.244040]  [&lt;000000004021c480&gt;] show_stack+0x68/0x80
[   12.244040]  [&lt;00000000406f332c&gt;] dump_stack+0xec/0x168
[   12.244040]  [&lt;000000004021c74c&gt;] die_if_kernel+0x25c/0x430
[   12.244040]  [&lt;000000004022d320&gt;] handle_unaligned+0xb48/0xb50
[   12.244040]
[   12.632066] ---[ end trace 9ca05a7215c7bbb2 ]---
[   12.692036] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!

We have the insn 0x43ffff80 in IIR but from IAOQ we should have:
   4025d150:   0f f3 20 df     ldd,s r19(r31),r31
   4025d154:   0f 9f 00 9c     ldw r31(ret0),ret0
   4025d158:   bf 80 20 58     cmpb,*&lt;&gt; r0,ret0,4025d18c &lt;irq_exit+0xcc&gt;

Cpu0 has just completed running parisc_setup_cache_timing:

[    2.429981] Releasing cpu 1 now, hpa=fffffffffffa2000
[    2.635751] CPU(s): 2 out of 2 PA8500 (PCX-W) at 440.000000 MHz online
[    2.726692] Setting cache flush threshold to 1024 kB
[    2.729932] Not-handled unaligned insn 0x43ffff80
[    2.798114] Setting TLB flush threshold to 140 kB
[    2.928039] Unaligned handler failed, ret = -1

From the backtrace, cpu1 is in smp_callin:

void __init smp_callin(void)
{
       int slave_id = cpu_now_booting;

       smp_cpu_init(slave_id);
       preempt_disable();

       flush_cache_all_local(); /* start with known state */
       flush_tlb_all_local(NULL);

       local_irq_enable();  /* Interrupts have been off until now */

       cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);

So, it has just flushed its caches and the TLB. It would seem either the
flushes in parisc_setup_cache_timing or smp_callin have corrupted kernel
memory.

The attached patch reworks parisc_setup_cache_timing to remove the races
in setting the cache and TLB flush thresholds. It also corrects the
number of bytes flushed in the TLB calculation.

The patch flushes the cache and TLB on cpu0 before starting the
secondary processors so that they are started from a known state.

Tested with a few reboots on c8000.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin  &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>parisc: Ensure consistent state when switching to kernel stack at syscall entry</title>
<updated>2016-11-10T15:36:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-29T03:00:34+00:00</published>
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commit 6ed518328d0189e0fdf1bb7c73290d546143ea66 upstream.

We have one critical section in the syscall entry path in which we switch from
the userspace stack to kernel stack. In the event of an external interrupt, the
interrupt code distinguishes between those two states by analyzing the value of
sr7. If sr7 is zero, it uses the kernel stack. Therefore it's important, that
the value of sr7 is in sync with the currently enabled stack.

This patch now disables interrupts while executing the critical section.  This
prevents the interrupt handler to possibly see an inconsistent state which in
the worst case can lead to crashes.

Interestingly, in the syscall exit path interrupts were already disabled in the
critical section which switches back to the userspace stack.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6ed518328d0189e0fdf1bb7c73290d546143ea66 upstream.

We have one critical section in the syscall entry path in which we switch from
the userspace stack to kernel stack. In the event of an external interrupt, the
interrupt code distinguishes between those two states by analyzing the value of
sr7. If sr7 is zero, it uses the kernel stack. Therefore it's important, that
the value of sr7 is in sync with the currently enabled stack.

This patch now disables interrupts while executing the critical section.  This
prevents the interrupt handler to possibly see an inconsistent state which in
the worst case can lead to crashes.

Interestingly, in the syscall exit path interrupts were already disabled in the
critical section which switches back to the userspace stack.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>parisc: Fix kernel memory layout regarding position of __gp</title>
<updated>2016-10-28T07:01:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-09T09:12:34+00:00</published>
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commit f8850abb7ba68229838014b3409460e576751c6d upstream.

Architecturally we need to keep __gp below 0x1000000.

But because of ftrace and tracepoint support, the RO_DATA_SECTION now gets much
bigger than it was before. By moving the linkage tables before RO_DATA_SECTION
we can avoid that __gp gets positioned at a too high address.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f8850abb7ba68229838014b3409460e576751c6d upstream.

Architecturally we need to keep __gp below 0x1000000.

But because of ftrace and tracepoint support, the RO_DATA_SECTION now gets much
bigger than it was before. By moving the linkage tables before RO_DATA_SECTION
we can avoid that __gp gets positioned at a too high address.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>parisc: Increase KERNEL_INITIAL_SIZE for 32-bit SMP kernels</title>
<updated>2016-10-28T07:01:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-07T16:19:55+00:00</published>
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commit 690d097c00c88fa9d93d198591e184164b1d8c20 upstream.

Increase the initial kernel default page mapping size for SMP kernels to 32MB
and add a runtime check which panics early if the kernel is bigger than the
initial mapping size.

This fixes boot crashes of 32bit SMP kernels. Due to the introduction of huge
page support in kernel 4.4 and it's required initial kernel layout in memory, a
32bit SMP kernel usually got bigger (in layout, not size) than 16MB.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 690d097c00c88fa9d93d198591e184164b1d8c20 upstream.

Increase the initial kernel default page mapping size for SMP kernels to 32MB
and add a runtime check which panics early if the kernel is bigger than the
initial mapping size.

This fixes boot crashes of 32bit SMP kernels. Due to the introduction of huge
page support in kernel 4.4 and it's required initial kernel layout in memory, a
32bit SMP kernel usually got bigger (in layout, not size) than 16MB.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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