linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c, branch v6.19-rc2

powerpc: rtas: use lock guard for mutex

2025-06-23T04:27:10+00:00

use guard(mutex) for scope based resource management of mutex.
This would make the code simpler and easier to maintain.

More details on lock guards can be found at
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230612093537.614161713@infradead.org/T/#u

Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju 
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde 
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote 
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250505075333.184463-3-sshegde@linux.ibm.com

powerpc: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros

2024-07-04T12:39:20+00:00

With ARCH=powerpc, make allmodconfig && make W=1 C=1 reports:
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in arch/powerpc/sysdev/rtc_cmos_setup.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/cbe_thermal.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/cpufreq_spudemand.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/cbe_powerbutton.o

Add the missing invocation of the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro to all
files which have a MODULE_LICENSE().

This includes 85xx/t1042rdb_diu.c and chrp/nvram.c which, although
they did not produce a warning with the powerpc allmodconfig
configuration, may cause this warning with other configurations.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Link: https://msgid.link/20240615-md-powerpc-arch-powerpc-v1-1-ba4956bea47a@quicinc.com

powerpc/rtas_flash: allow user copy to flash block cache objects

2023-08-16T23:46:14+00:00

With hardened usercopy enabled (CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y), using the
/proc/powerpc/rtas/firmware_update interface to prepare a system
firmware update yields a BUG():

  kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!
  Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
  LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 2232 Comm: dd Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3+ #2
  Hardware name: IBM,8408-E8E POWER8E (raw) 0x4b0201 0xf000004 of:IBM,FW860.50 (SV860_146) hv:phyp pSeries
  NIP:  c0000000005991d0 LR: c0000000005991cc CTR: 0000000000000000
  REGS: c0000000148c76a0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (6.5.0-rc3+)
  MSR:  8000000000029033   CR: 24002242  XER: 0000000c
  CFAR: c0000000001fbd34 IRQMASK: 0
  [ ... GPRs omitted ... ]
  NIP usercopy_abort+0xa0/0xb0
  LR  usercopy_abort+0x9c/0xb0
  Call Trace:
    usercopy_abort+0x9c/0xb0 (unreliable)
    __check_heap_object+0x1b4/0x1d0
    __check_object_size+0x2d0/0x380
    rtas_flash_write+0xe4/0x250
    proc_reg_write+0xfc/0x160
    vfs_write+0xfc/0x4e0
    ksys_write+0x90/0x160
    system_call_exception+0x178/0x320
    system_call_common+0x160/0x2c4

The blocks of the firmware image are copied directly from user memory
to objects allocated from flash_block_cache, so flash_block_cache must
be created using kmem_cache_create_usercopy() to mark it safe for user
access.

Fixes: 6d07d1cd300f ("usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch 
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
[mpe: Trim and indent oops]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Link: https://msgid.link/20230810-rtas-flash-vs-hardened-usercopy-v2-1-dcf63793a938@linux.ibm.com

powerpc/rtas: arch-wide function token lookup conversions

2023-02-13T11:35:03+00:00

With the tokens for all implemented RTAS functions now available via
rtas_function_token(), which is optimal and safe for arbitrary
contexts, there is no need to use rtas_token() or cache its result.

Most conversions are trivial, but a few are worth describing in more
detail:

* Error injection token comparisons for lockdown purposes are
  consolidated into a simple predicate: token_is_restricted_errinjct().

* A couple of special cases in block_rtas_call() do not use
  rtas_token() but perform string comparisons against names in the
  function table. These are converted to compare against token values
  instead, which is logically equivalent but less expensive.

* The lookup for the ibm,os-term token can be deferred until needed,
  instead of caching it at boot to avoid device tree traversal during
  panic.

* Since rtas_function_token() accesses a read-only data structure
  without taking any locks, xmon's lookup of set-indicator can be
  performed as needed instead of cached at startup.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230125-b4-powerpc-rtas-queue-v3-20-26929c8cce78@linux.ibm.com

powerpc: fix typos in comments

2022-05-05T12:12:44+00:00

Various spelling mistakes in comments.
Detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220430185654.5855-1-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr

proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops"

2020-02-04T03:05:26+00:00

The most notable change is DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE macro split in
seq_file.h.

Conversion rule is:

	llseek		=> proc_lseek
	unlocked_ioctl	=> proc_ioctl

	xxx		=> proc_xxx

	delete ".owner = THIS_MODULE" line

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi_proc.c]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix kernel/sched/psi.c]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122180545.36222f50@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191225172546.GB13378@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

2019-05-30T18:26:32+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal 
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function

2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00

Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc: Use octal numbers for file permissions

2018-01-21T18:48:33+00:00

Symbolic macros are unintuitive and hard to read, whereas octal constants
are much easier to interpret.  Replace macros for the basic permission
flags (user/group/other read/write/execute) with numeric constants
instead, across the whole powerpc tree.

Introducing a significant number of changes across the tree for no runtime
benefit isn't exactly desirable, but so long as these macros are still
used in the tree people will keep sending patches that add them.  Not only
are they hard to parse at a glance, there are multiple ways of coming to
the same value (as you can see with 0444 and 0644 in this patch) which
hurts readability.

Signed-off-by: Russell Currey 
Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Replace with globally

2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include !" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds