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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>powerpc/kernel: Change the do_syscall_trace_enter() API</title>
<updated>2015-07-29T01:56:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
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<published>2015-07-23T10:21:02+00:00</published>
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The API for calling do_syscall_trace_enter() is currently sensible
enough, it just returns the (modified) syscall number.

However once we enable seccomp filter it will get more complicated. When
seccomp filter runs, the seccomp kernel code (via SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO), or
a ptracer (via SECCOMP_RET_TRACE), may reject the syscall and *may* or may
*not* set a return value in r3.

That means the assembler that calls do_syscall_trace_enter() can not
blindly return ENOSYS, it needs to only return ENOSYS if a return value
has not already been set.

There is no way to implement that logic with the current API. So change
the do_syscall_trace_enter() API to make it deal with the return code
juggling, and the assembler can then just return whatever return code it
is given.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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The API for calling do_syscall_trace_enter() is currently sensible
enough, it just returns the (modified) syscall number.

However once we enable seccomp filter it will get more complicated. When
seccomp filter runs, the seccomp kernel code (via SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO), or
a ptracer (via SECCOMP_RET_TRACE), may reject the syscall and *may* or may
*not* set a return value in r3.

That means the assembler that calls do_syscall_trace_enter() can not
blindly return ENOSYS, it needs to only return ENOSYS if a return value
has not already been set.

There is no way to implement that logic with the current API. So change
the do_syscall_trace_enter() API to make it deal with the return code
juggling, and the assembler can then just return whatever return code it
is given.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc/kernel: Switch to using MAX_ERRNO</title>
<updated>2015-07-29T01:56:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
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<published>2015-07-23T10:21:01+00:00</published>
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Currently on powerpc we have our own #define for the highest (negative)
errno value, called _LAST_ERRNO. This is defined to be 516, for reasons
which are not clear.

The generic code, and x86, use MAX_ERRNO, which is defined to be 4095.

In particular seccomp uses MAX_ERRNO to restrict the value that a
seccomp filter can return.

Currently with the mismatch between _LAST_ERRNO and MAX_ERRNO, a seccomp
tracer wanting to return 600, expecting it to be seen as an error, would
instead find on powerpc that userspace sees a successful syscall with a
return value of 600.

To avoid this inconsistency, switch powerpc to use MAX_ERRNO.

We are somewhat confident that generic syscalls that can return a
non-error value above negative MAX_ERRNO have already been updated to
use force_successful_syscall_return().

I have also checked all the powerpc specific syscalls, and believe that
none of them expect to return a non-error value between -MAX_ERRNO and
-516. So this change should be safe ...

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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Currently on powerpc we have our own #define for the highest (negative)
errno value, called _LAST_ERRNO. This is defined to be 516, for reasons
which are not clear.

The generic code, and x86, use MAX_ERRNO, which is defined to be 4095.

In particular seccomp uses MAX_ERRNO to restrict the value that a
seccomp filter can return.

Currently with the mismatch between _LAST_ERRNO and MAX_ERRNO, a seccomp
tracer wanting to return 600, expecting it to be seen as an error, would
instead find on powerpc that userspace sees a successful syscall with a
return value of 600.

To avoid this inconsistency, switch powerpc to use MAX_ERRNO.

We are somewhat confident that generic syscalls that can return a
non-error value above negative MAX_ERRNO have already been updated to
use force_successful_syscall_return().

I have also checked all the powerpc specific syscalls, and believe that
none of them expect to return a non-error value between -MAX_ERRNO and
-516. So this change should be safe ...

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove old compile time disabled syscall tracing code</title>
<updated>2015-02-02T03:51:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-14T03:47:56+00:00</published>
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We have code to do syscall tracing which is disabled at compile time by
default. It's not been touched since the dawn of time (ie. v2.6.12).

There are now better ways to do syscall tracing, ie. using the
raw_syscall, or syscall tracepoints.

For the specific case of tracing syscalls at boot on a system that
doesn't get to userspace, you can boot with:

  trace_event=syscalls tp_printk=on

Which will trace syscalls from boot, and echo all output to the console.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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We have code to do syscall tracing which is disabled at compile time by
default. It's not been touched since the dawn of time (ie. v2.6.12).

There are now better ways to do syscall tracing, ie. using the
raw_syscall, or syscall tracepoints.

For the specific case of tracing syscalls at boot on a system that
doesn't get to userspace, you can boot with:

  trace_event=syscalls tp_printk=on

Which will trace syscalls from boot, and echo all output to the console.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>powerpc: Rename _TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A to _TIF_SYSCALL_DOTRACE</title>
<updated>2015-01-23T03:02:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-15T01:01:42+00:00</published>
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Once upon a time, at least 9 years ago (&lt; 2.6.12), _TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A
meant "TRACE or AUDIT". But these days it means TRACE or AUDIT or
SECCOMP or TRACEPOINT or NOHZ.

All of those are implemented via syscall_dotrace() so rename the flag to
that to try and clarify things.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Once upon a time, at least 9 years ago (&lt; 2.6.12), _TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A
meant "TRACE or AUDIT". But these days it means TRACE or AUDIT or
SECCOMP or TRACEPOINT or NOHZ.

All of those are implemented via syscall_dotrace() so rename the flag to
that to try and clarify things.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/ftrace: Fix obsolete comment</title>
<updated>2014-11-09T22:59:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-29T07:24:06+00:00</published>
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CONFIG_MCOUNT is not defined anymore, the corresponding #ifdef there
is CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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CONFIG_MCOUNT is not defined anymore, the corresponding #ifdef there
is CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/ftrace: simplify prepare_ftrace_return</title>
<updated>2014-11-09T22:59:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-17T07:07:04+00:00</published>
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Instead of passing in the stack address of the link register
to be modified, just pass in the old value and return the
new value and rely on ftrace_graph_caller to do the
modification.

This removes the exception handling around the stack update -
it isn't needed and we weren't consistent about it. Later on
we would do an unprotected modification:

       if (!ftrace_graph_entry(&amp;trace)) {
               *parent = old;

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Instead of passing in the stack address of the link register
to be modified, just pass in the old value and return the
new value and rely on ftrace_graph_caller to do the
modification.

This removes the exception handling around the stack update -
it isn't needed and we weren't consistent about it. Later on
we would do an unprotected modification:

       if (!ftrace_graph_entry(&amp;trace)) {
               *parent = old;

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/32bit:Store temporary result in r0 instead of r8</title>
<updated>2013-05-31T22:29:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Priyanka Jain</name>
<email>Priyanka.Jain@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-31T01:20:02+00:00</published>
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Commit a9c4e541ea9b22944da356f2a9258b4eddcc953b
"powerpc/kprobe: Complete kprobe and migrate exception frame"
introduced a regression:

While returning from exception handling in case of PREEMPT enabled,
_TIF_NEED_RESCHED bit is checked in TI_FLAGS (thread_info flag) of current
task. Only if this bit is set, it should continue with the process of
calling preempt_schedule_irq() to schedule highest priority task if
available.

Current code assumes that r8 contains TI_FLAGS and check this for
_TIF_NEED_RESCHED, but as r8 is modified in the code which executes before
this check, r8 no longer contains the expected TI_FLAGS information.

As a result check for comparison with _TIF_NEED_RESCHED was failing even if
NEED_RESCHED bit is set in the current thread_info flag. Due to this,
preempt_schedule_irq() and in turn scheduler was not getting called even if
highest priority task is ready for execution.

So, store temporary results in r0 instead of r8 to prevent r8 from getting
modified as subsequent code is dependent on its value.

Signed-off-by: Priyanka Jain &lt;Priyanka.Jain@freescale.com&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; [v3.7+]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Commit a9c4e541ea9b22944da356f2a9258b4eddcc953b
"powerpc/kprobe: Complete kprobe and migrate exception frame"
introduced a regression:

While returning from exception handling in case of PREEMPT enabled,
_TIF_NEED_RESCHED bit is checked in TI_FLAGS (thread_info flag) of current
task. Only if this bit is set, it should continue with the process of
calling preempt_schedule_irq() to schedule highest priority task if
available.

Current code assumes that r8 contains TI_FLAGS and check this for
_TIF_NEED_RESCHED, but as r8 is modified in the code which executes before
this check, r8 no longer contains the expected TI_FLAGS information.

As a result check for comparison with _TIF_NEED_RESCHED was failing even if
NEED_RESCHED bit is set in the current thread_info flag. Due to this,
preempt_schedule_irq() and in turn scheduler was not getting called even if
highest priority task is ready for execution.

So, store temporary results in r0 instead of r8 to prevent r8 from getting
modified as subsequent code is dependent on its value.

Signed-off-by: Priyanka Jain &lt;Priyanka.Jain@freescale.com&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; [v3.7+]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low warning again</title>
<updated>2013-05-14T04:36:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zhong</name>
<email>zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-06T22:44:41+00:00</published>
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Saw this warning again, and this time from the ret_from_fork path.

It seems we could clear the back chain earlier in copy_thread(), which
could cover both path, and also fix potential lockdep usage in
schedule_tail(), or exception occurred before we clear the back chain.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Saw this warning again, and this time from the ret_from_fork path.

It seems we could clear the back chain earlier in copy_thread(), which
could cover both path, and also fix potential lockdep usage in
schedule_tail(), or exception occurred before we clear the back chain.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low warning for ppc32</title>
<updated>2013-01-28T23:10:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zhong</name>
<email>zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-02T20:19:22+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low warning for ppc32,
which is similar to commit 12660b17.

Reported-by: Christian Kujau &lt;lists@nerdbynature.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Christian Kujau &lt;lists@nerdbynature.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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This patch fixes MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low warning for ppc32,
which is similar to commit 12660b17.

Reported-by: Christian Kujau &lt;lists@nerdbynature.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Christian Kujau &lt;lists@nerdbynature.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics</title>
<updated>2012-10-14T23:35:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-11T12:41:43+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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