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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support</title>
<updated>2015-01-29T18:51:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-29T18:51:32+00:00</published>
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The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit</title>
<updated>2014-10-19T23:25:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-19T23:25:56+00:00</published>
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Pull audit updates from Eric Paris:
 "So this change across a whole bunch of arches really solves one basic
  problem.  We want to audit when seccomp is killing a process.  seccomp
  hooks in before the audit syscall entry code.  audit_syscall_entry
  took as an argument the arch of the given syscall.  Since the arch is
  part of what makes a syscall number meaningful it's an important part
  of the record, but it isn't available when seccomp shoots the
  syscall...

  For most arch's we have a better way to get the arch (syscall_get_arch)
  So the solution was two fold: Implement syscall_get_arch() everywhere
  there is audit which didn't have it.  Use syscall_get_arch() in the
  seccomp audit code.  Having syscall_get_arch() everywhere meant it was
  a useless flag on the stack and we could get rid of it for the typical
  syscall entry.

  The other changes inside the audit system aren't grand, fixed some
  records that had invalid spaces.  Better locking around the task comm
  field.  Removing some dead functions and structs.  Make some things
  static.  Really minor stuff"

* git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (31 commits)
  audit: rename audit_log_remove_rule to disambiguate for trees
  audit: cull redundancy in audit_rule_change
  audit: WARN if audit_rule_change called illegally
  audit: put rule existence check in canonical order
  next: openrisc: Fix build
  audit: get comm using lock to avoid race in string printing
  audit: remove open_arg() function that is never used
  audit: correct AUDIT_GET_FEATURE return message type
  audit: set nlmsg_len for multicast messages.
  audit: use union for audit_field values since they are mutually exclusive
  audit: invalid op= values for rules
  audit: use atomic_t to simplify audit_serial()
  kernel/audit.c: use ARRAY_SIZE instead of sizeof/sizeof[0]
  audit: reduce scope of audit_log_fcaps
  audit: reduce scope of audit_net_id
  audit: arm64: Remove the audit arch argument to audit_syscall_entry
  arm64: audit: Add audit hook in syscall_trace_enter/exit()
  audit: x86: drop arch from __audit_syscall_entry() interface
  sparc: implement is_32bit_task
  sparc: properly conditionalize use of TIF_32BIT
  ...
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Pull audit updates from Eric Paris:
 "So this change across a whole bunch of arches really solves one basic
  problem.  We want to audit when seccomp is killing a process.  seccomp
  hooks in before the audit syscall entry code.  audit_syscall_entry
  took as an argument the arch of the given syscall.  Since the arch is
  part of what makes a syscall number meaningful it's an important part
  of the record, but it isn't available when seccomp shoots the
  syscall...

  For most arch's we have a better way to get the arch (syscall_get_arch)
  So the solution was two fold: Implement syscall_get_arch() everywhere
  there is audit which didn't have it.  Use syscall_get_arch() in the
  seccomp audit code.  Having syscall_get_arch() everywhere meant it was
  a useless flag on the stack and we could get rid of it for the typical
  syscall entry.

  The other changes inside the audit system aren't grand, fixed some
  records that had invalid spaces.  Better locking around the task comm
  field.  Removing some dead functions and structs.  Make some things
  static.  Really minor stuff"

* git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (31 commits)
  audit: rename audit_log_remove_rule to disambiguate for trees
  audit: cull redundancy in audit_rule_change
  audit: WARN if audit_rule_change called illegally
  audit: put rule existence check in canonical order
  next: openrisc: Fix build
  audit: get comm using lock to avoid race in string printing
  audit: remove open_arg() function that is never used
  audit: correct AUDIT_GET_FEATURE return message type
  audit: set nlmsg_len for multicast messages.
  audit: use union for audit_field values since they are mutually exclusive
  audit: invalid op= values for rules
  audit: use atomic_t to simplify audit_serial()
  kernel/audit.c: use ARRAY_SIZE instead of sizeof/sizeof[0]
  audit: reduce scope of audit_log_fcaps
  audit: reduce scope of audit_net_id
  audit: arm64: Remove the audit arch argument to audit_syscall_entry
  arm64: audit: Add audit hook in syscall_trace_enter/exit()
  audit: x86: drop arch from __audit_syscall_entry() interface
  sparc: implement is_32bit_task
  sparc: properly conditionalize use of TIF_32BIT
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: Add support for CONFIG_STACKTRACE</title>
<updated>2014-10-13T19:46:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Walter</name>
<email>dwalter@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-20T09:56:00+00:00</published>
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Add stacktrace support for User Mode Linux

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walter &lt;dwalter@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Add stacktrace support for User Mode Linux

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walter &lt;dwalter@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: delete unnecessary bootmem struct page array</title>
<updated>2014-10-13T15:15:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Honggang Li</name>
<email>enjoymindful@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-03T05:30:45+00:00</published>
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1) uml kernel bootmem managed through bootmem_data-&gt;node_bootmem_map,
not the struct page array, so the array is unnecessary.

2) the bootmem struct page array has been pointed by a *local* pointer,
struct page *map, in init_maps function. The array can be accessed only
in init_maps's scope. As a result, uml kernel wastes about 1% of total
memory.

Signed-off-by: Honggang Li &lt;enjoymindful@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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1) uml kernel bootmem managed through bootmem_data-&gt;node_bootmem_map,
not the struct page array, so the array is unnecessary.

2) the bootmem struct page array has been pointed by a *local* pointer,
struct page *map, in init_maps function. The array can be accessed only
in init_maps's scope. As a result, uml kernel wastes about 1% of total
memory.

Signed-off-by: Honggang Li &lt;enjoymindful@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARCH: AUDIT: audit_syscall_entry() should not require the arch</title>
<updated>2014-09-23T20:21:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-11T17:29:28+00:00</published>
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We have a function where the arch can be queried, syscall_get_arch().
So rather than have every single piece of arch specific code use and/or
duplicate syscall_get_arch(), just have the audit code use the
syscall_get_arch() code.

Based-on-patch-by: Richard Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux@lists.openrisc.net
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
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We have a function where the arch can be queried, syscall_get_arch().
So rather than have every single piece of arch specific code use and/or
duplicate syscall_get_arch(), just have the audit code use the
syscall_get_arch() code.

Based-on-patch-by: Richard Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux@lists.openrisc.net
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: Use get_signal() signal_setup_done()</title>
<updated>2014-08-06T11:03:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-06T19:57:10+00:00</published>
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Use the more generic functions get_signal() signal_setup_done()
for signal delivery.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Use the more generic functions get_signal() signal_setup_done()
for signal delivery.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: segv: Save regs only in case of a kernel mode fault</title>
<updated>2014-07-20T11:39:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-20T11:39:27+00:00</published>
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...otherwise me lose user mode regs and the resulting
stack trace is useless.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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...otherwise me lose user mode regs and the resulting
stack trace is useless.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: Fix hung task in fix_range_common()</title>
<updated>2014-07-20T11:16:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-20T11:16:20+00:00</published>
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If do_ops() fails we have to release current-&gt;mm-&gt;mmap_sem
otherwise the failing task will never terminate.

Reported-by: Toralf Förster &lt;toralf.foerster@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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If do_ops() fails we have to release current-&gt;mm-&gt;mmap_sem
otherwise the failing task will never terminate.

Reported-by: Toralf Förster &lt;toralf.foerster@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: Ensure that a stub page cannot get unmapped</title>
<updated>2014-07-20T11:09:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-20T11:09:15+00:00</published>
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Trinity discovered an execution path such that a task
can unmap his stub page.

Reported-by: Toralf Förster &lt;toralf.foerster@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Trinity discovered an execution path such that a task
can unmap his stub page.

Reported-by: Toralf Förster &lt;toralf.foerster@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: Memory corruption on startup</title>
<updated>2014-04-20T21:57:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Ivanov</name>
<email>antivano@cisco.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-07T18:37:47+00:00</published>
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The reverse case of this race (you must msync before read) is
well known. This is the not so common one.

It can be triggered only on systems which do a lot of task
switching and only at UML startup. If you are starting 200+ UMLs
~ 0.5% will always die without this fix.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;antivano@cisco.com&gt;
[rw: minor whitespace fixes]
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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The reverse case of this race (you must msync before read) is
well known. This is the not so common one.

It can be triggered only on systems which do a lot of task
switching and only at UML startup. If you are starting 200+ UMLs
~ 0.5% will always die without this fix.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;antivano@cisco.com&gt;
[rw: minor whitespace fixes]
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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