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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/boot/Makefile, branch v5.1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>x86/build: Specify elf_i386 linker emulation explicitly for i386 objects</title>
<updated>2019-01-11T23:11:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>George Rimar</name>
<email>grimar@accesssoftek.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-11T20:10:12+00:00</published>
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The kernel uses the OUTPUT_FORMAT linker script command in it's linker
scripts. Most of the time, the -m option is passed to the linker with
correct architecture, but sometimes (at least for x86_64) the -m option
contradicts the OUTPUT_FORMAT directive.

Specifically, arch/x86/boot and arch/x86/realmode/rm produce i386 object
files, but are linked with the -m elf_x86_64 linker flag when building
for x86_64.

The GNU linker manpage doesn't explicitly state any tie-breakers between
-m and OUTPUT_FORMAT. But with BFD and Gold linkers, OUTPUT_FORMAT
overrides the emulation value specified with the -m option.

LLVM lld has a different behavior, however. When supplied with
contradicting -m and OUTPUT_FORMAT values it fails with the following
error message:

  ld.lld: error: arch/x86/realmode/rm/header.o is incompatible with elf_x86_64

Therefore, just add the correct -m after the incorrect one (it overrides
it), so the linker invocation looks like this:

  ld -m elf_x86_64 -z max-page-size=0x200000 -m elf_i386 --emit-relocs -T \
    realmode.lds header.o trampoline_64.o stack.o reboot.o -o realmode.elf

This is not a functional change for GNU ld, because (although not
explicitly documented) OUTPUT_FORMAT overrides -m EMULATION.

Tested by building x86_64 kernel with GNU gcc/ld toolchain and booting
it in QEMU.

 [ bp: massage and clarify text. ]

Suggested-by: Dmitry Golovin &lt;dima@golovin.in&gt;
Signed-off-by: George Rimar &lt;grimar@accesssoftek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tri Vo &lt;trong@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Tri Vo &lt;trong@android.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Matz &lt;matz@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: morbo@google.com
Cc: ndesaulniers@google.com
Cc: ruiu@google.com
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190111201012.71210-1-trong@android.com
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The kernel uses the OUTPUT_FORMAT linker script command in it's linker
scripts. Most of the time, the -m option is passed to the linker with
correct architecture, but sometimes (at least for x86_64) the -m option
contradicts the OUTPUT_FORMAT directive.

Specifically, arch/x86/boot and arch/x86/realmode/rm produce i386 object
files, but are linked with the -m elf_x86_64 linker flag when building
for x86_64.

The GNU linker manpage doesn't explicitly state any tie-breakers between
-m and OUTPUT_FORMAT. But with BFD and Gold linkers, OUTPUT_FORMAT
overrides the emulation value specified with the -m option.

LLVM lld has a different behavior, however. When supplied with
contradicting -m and OUTPUT_FORMAT values it fails with the following
error message:

  ld.lld: error: arch/x86/realmode/rm/header.o is incompatible with elf_x86_64

Therefore, just add the correct -m after the incorrect one (it overrides
it), so the linker invocation looks like this:

  ld -m elf_x86_64 -z max-page-size=0x200000 -m elf_i386 --emit-relocs -T \
    realmode.lds header.o trampoline_64.o stack.o reboot.o -o realmode.elf

This is not a functional change for GNU ld, because (although not
explicitly documented) OUTPUT_FORMAT overrides -m EMULATION.

Tested by building x86_64 kernel with GNU gcc/ld toolchain and booting
it in QEMU.

 [ bp: massage and clarify text. ]

Suggested-by: Dmitry Golovin &lt;dima@golovin.in&gt;
Signed-off-by: George Rimar &lt;grimar@accesssoftek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tri Vo &lt;trong@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Tri Vo &lt;trong@android.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Matz &lt;matz@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: morbo@google.com
Cc: ndesaulniers@google.com
Cc: ruiu@google.com
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190111201012.71210-1-trong@android.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/build: Factor out fdimage/isoimage generation commands to standalone script</title>
<updated>2017-11-07T10:22:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Changbin Du</name>
<email>changbin.du@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-06T03:32:56+00:00</published>
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The build messages for fdimage/isoimage generation are pretty unstructured,
just the raw shell command blocks are printed.

Emit shortened messages similar to existing kbuild messages, and move
the Makefile commands into a separate shell script - which is much
easier to handle.

This patch factors out the commands used for fdimage/isoimage generation
from arch/x86/boot/Makefile to a new script arch/x86/boot/genimage.sh.
Then it adds the new kbuild command 'genimage' which invokes the new script.
All fdimages/isoimage files are now generated by a call to 'genimage' with
different parameters.

Now 'make isoimage' becomes:

	...
	Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#30)
	  GENIMAGE arch/x86/boot/image.iso
	Size of boot image is 4 sectors -&gt; No emulation
	 15.37% done, estimate finish Sun Nov  5 23:36:57 2017
	 30.68% done, estimate finish Sun Nov  5 23:36:57 2017
	 46.04% done, estimate finish Sun Nov  5 23:36:57 2017
	 61.35% done, estimate finish Sun Nov  5 23:36:57 2017
	 76.69% done, estimate finish Sun Nov  5 23:36:57 2017
	 92.00% done, estimate finish Sun Nov  5 23:36:57 2017
	Total translation table size: 2048
	Total rockridge attributes bytes: 659
	Total directory bytes: 0
	Path table size(bytes): 10
	Max brk space used 0
	32608 extents written (63 MB)
	Kernel: arch/x86/boot/image.iso is ready

Before:

	Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#63)
	rm -rf arch/x86/boot/isoimage
	mkdir arch/x86/boot/isoimage
	for i in lib lib64 share end ; do \
		if [ -f /usr/$i/syslinux/isolinux.bin ] ; then \
			cp /usr/$i/syslinux/isolinux.bin arch/x86/boot/isoimage ; \
			if [ -f /usr/$i/syslinux/ldlinux.c32 ]; then \
				cp /usr/$i/syslinux/ldlinux.c32 arch/x86/boot/isoimage ; \
			fi ; \
			break ; \
		fi ; \
		if [ $i = end ] ; then exit 1 ; fi ; \
	done
	...

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509939179-7556-2-git-send-email-changbin.du@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The build messages for fdimage/isoimage generation are pretty unstructured,
just the raw shell command blocks are printed.

Emit shortened messages similar to existing kbuild messages, and move
the Makefile commands into a separate shell script - which is much
easier to handle.

This patch factors out the commands used for fdimage/isoimage generation
from arch/x86/boot/Makefile to a new script arch/x86/boot/genimage.sh.
Then it adds the new kbuild command 'genimage' which invokes the new script.
All fdimages/isoimage files are now generated by a call to 'genimage' with
different parameters.

Now 'make isoimage' becomes:

	...
	Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#30)
	  GENIMAGE arch/x86/boot/image.iso
	Size of boot image is 4 sectors -&gt; No emulation
	 15.37% done, estimate finish Sun Nov  5 23:36:57 2017
	 30.68% done, estimate finish Sun Nov  5 23:36:57 2017
	 46.04% done, estimate finish Sun Nov  5 23:36:57 2017
	 61.35% done, estimate finish Sun Nov  5 23:36:57 2017
	 76.69% done, estimate finish Sun Nov  5 23:36:57 2017
	 92.00% done, estimate finish Sun Nov  5 23:36:57 2017
	Total translation table size: 2048
	Total rockridge attributes bytes: 659
	Total directory bytes: 0
	Path table size(bytes): 10
	Max brk space used 0
	32608 extents written (63 MB)
	Kernel: arch/x86/boot/image.iso is ready

Before:

	Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#63)
	rm -rf arch/x86/boot/isoimage
	mkdir arch/x86/boot/isoimage
	for i in lib lib64 share end ; do \
		if [ -f /usr/$i/syslinux/isolinux.bin ] ; then \
			cp /usr/$i/syslinux/isolinux.bin arch/x86/boot/isoimage ; \
			if [ -f /usr/$i/syslinux/ldlinux.c32 ]; then \
				cp /usr/$i/syslinux/ldlinux.c32 arch/x86/boot/isoimage ; \
			fi ; \
			break ; \
		fi ; \
		if [ $i = end ] ; then exit 1 ; fi ; \
	done
	...

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509939179-7556-2-git-send-email-changbin.du@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/build: Silence the build with "make -s"</title>
<updated>2017-07-20T08:46:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-19T12:53:03+00:00</published>
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Every kernel build on x86 will result in some output:

  Setup is 13084 bytes (padded to 13312 bytes).
  System is 4833 kB
  CRC 6d35fa35
  Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#2)

This shuts it up, so that 'make -s' is truely silent as long as
everything works. Building without '-s' should produce unchanged
output.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170719125310.2487451-6-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Every kernel build on x86 will result in some output:

  Setup is 13084 bytes (padded to 13312 bytes).
  System is 4833 kB
  CRC 6d35fa35
  Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#2)

This shuts it up, so that 'make -s' is truely silent as long as
everything works. Building without '-s' should produce unchanged
output.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170719125310.2487451-6-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot/build: Remove always empty $(USERINCLUDE)</title>
<updated>2016-11-07T06:30:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Bolle</name>
<email>pebolle@tiscali.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-03T09:47:48+00:00</published>
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Commmit b6eea87fc685:

  ("x86, boot: Explicitly include autoconf.h for hostprogs")

correctly noted:

    [...] that because $(USERINCLUDE) isn't exported by
    the top-level Makefile it's actually empty in arch/x86/boot/Makefile.

So let's do the sane thing and remove the reference to that make variable.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478166468-9760-1-git-send-email-pebolle@tiscali.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Commmit b6eea87fc685:

  ("x86, boot: Explicitly include autoconf.h for hostprogs")

correctly noted:

    [...] that because $(USERINCLUDE) isn't exported by
    the top-level Makefile it's actually empty in arch/x86/boot/Makefile.

So let's do the sane thing and remove the reference to that make variable.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478166468-9760-1-git-send-email-pebolle@tiscali.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild</title>
<updated>2016-08-02T20:37:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-02T20:37:12+00:00</published>
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - GCC plugin support by Emese Revfy from grsecurity, with a fixup from
   Kees Cook.  The plugins are meant to be used for static analysis of
   the kernel code.  Two plugins are provided already.

 - reduction of the gcc commandline by Arnd Bergmann.

 - IS_ENABLED / IS_REACHABLE macro enhancements by Masahiro Yamada

 - bin2c fix by Michael Tautschnig

 - setlocalversion fix by Wolfram Sang

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  gcc-plugins: disable under COMPILE_TEST
  kbuild: Abort build on bad stack protector flag
  scripts: Fix size mismatch of kexec_purgatory_size
  kbuild: make samples depend on headers_install
  Kbuild: don't add obj tree in additional includes
  Kbuild: arch: look for generated headers in obtree
  Kbuild: always prefix objtree in LINUXINCLUDE
  Kbuild: avoid duplicate include path
  Kbuild: don't add ../../ to include path
  vmlinux.lds.h: replace config_enabled() with IS_ENABLED()
  kconfig.h: allow to use IS_{ENABLE,REACHABLE} in macro expansion
  kconfig.h: use already defined macros for IS_REACHABLE() define
  export.h: use __is_defined() to check if __KSYM_* is defined
  kconfig.h: use __is_defined() to check if MODULE is defined
  kbuild: setlocalversion: print error to STDERR
  Add sancov plugin
  Add Cyclomatic complexity GCC plugin
  GCC plugin infrastructure
  Shared library support
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - GCC plugin support by Emese Revfy from grsecurity, with a fixup from
   Kees Cook.  The plugins are meant to be used for static analysis of
   the kernel code.  Two plugins are provided already.

 - reduction of the gcc commandline by Arnd Bergmann.

 - IS_ENABLED / IS_REACHABLE macro enhancements by Masahiro Yamada

 - bin2c fix by Michael Tautschnig

 - setlocalversion fix by Wolfram Sang

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  gcc-plugins: disable under COMPILE_TEST
  kbuild: Abort build on bad stack protector flag
  scripts: Fix size mismatch of kexec_purgatory_size
  kbuild: make samples depend on headers_install
  Kbuild: don't add obj tree in additional includes
  Kbuild: arch: look for generated headers in obtree
  Kbuild: always prefix objtree in LINUXINCLUDE
  Kbuild: avoid duplicate include path
  Kbuild: don't add ../../ to include path
  vmlinux.lds.h: replace config_enabled() with IS_ENABLED()
  kconfig.h: allow to use IS_{ENABLE,REACHABLE} in macro expansion
  kconfig.h: use already defined macros for IS_REACHABLE() define
  export.h: use __is_defined() to check if __KSYM_* is defined
  kconfig.h: use __is_defined() to check if MODULE is defined
  kbuild: setlocalversion: print error to STDERR
  Add sancov plugin
  Add Cyclomatic complexity GCC plugin
  GCC plugin infrastructure
  Shared library support
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Kbuild: arch: look for generated headers in obtree</title>
<updated>2016-07-18T19:31:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-15T15:45:46+00:00</published>
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There are very few files that need add an -I$(obj) gcc for the preprocessor
or the assembler. For C files, we add always these for both the objtree and
srctree, but for the other ones we require the Makefile to add them, and
Kbuild then adds it for both trees.

As a preparation for changing the meaning of the -I$(obj) directive to
only refer to the srctree, this changes the two instances in arch/x86 to use
an explictit $(objtree) prefix where needed, otherwise we won't find the
headers any more, as reported by the kbuild 0day builder.

arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.lds.S:75:20: fatal error: pasyms.h: No such file or directory

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.com&gt;
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There are very few files that need add an -I$(obj) gcc for the preprocessor
or the assembler. For C files, we add always these for both the objtree and
srctree, but for the other ones we require the Makefile to add them, and
Kbuild then adds it for both trees.

As a preparation for changing the meaning of the -I$(obj) directive to
only refer to the srctree, this changes the two instances in arch/x86 to use
an explictit $(objtree) prefix where needed, otherwise we won't find the
headers any more, as reported by the kbuild 0day builder.

arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.lds.S:75:20: fatal error: pasyms.h: No such file or directory

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, build: copy ldlinux.c32 to image.iso</title>
<updated>2016-06-07T22:54:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-06T00:01:33+00:00</published>
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For newer versions of Syslinux, we need ldlinux.c32 in addition to
isolinux.bin to reside on the boot disk, so if the latter is found,
copy it, too, to the isoimage tree.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linux Stable Tree &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
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For newer versions of Syslinux, we need ldlinux.c32 in addition to
isolinux.bin to reside on the boot disk, so if the latter is found,
copy it, too, to the isoimage tree.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linux Stable Tree &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Fix "run_size" calculation</title>
<updated>2016-04-29T09:03:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yinghai Lu</name>
<email>yinghai@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-29T00:09:06+00:00</published>
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Currently, the "run_size" variable holds the total kernel size
(size of code plus brk and bss) and is calculated via the shell script
arch/x86/tools/calc_run_size.sh. It gets the file offset and mem size
of the .bss and .brk sections from the vmlinux, and adds them as follows:

  run_size = $(( $offsetA + $sizeA + $sizeB ))

However, this is not correct (it is too large). To illustrate, here's
a walk-through of the script's calculation, compared to the correct way
to find it.

First, offsetA is found as the starting address of the first .bss or
.brk section seen in the ELF file. The sizeA and sizeB values are the
respective section sizes.

 [bhe@x1 linux]$ objdump -h vmlinux

 vmlinux:     file format elf64-x86-64

 Sections:
 Idx Name    Size      VMA               LMA               File off  Algn
  27 .bss    00170000  ffffffff81ec8000  0000000001ec8000  012c8000  2**12
             ALLOC
  28 .brk    00027000  ffffffff82038000  0000000002038000  012c8000  2**0
             ALLOC

Here, offsetA is 0x012c8000, with sizeA at 0x00170000 and sizeB at
0x00027000. The resulting run_size is 0x145f000:

 0x012c8000 + 0x00170000 + 0x00027000 = 0x145f000

However, if we instead examine the ELF LOAD program headers, we see a
different picture.

 [bhe@x1 linux]$ readelf -l vmlinux

 Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file)
 Entry point 0x1000000
 There are 5 program headers, starting at offset 64

 Program Headers:
  Type        Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
              FileSiz            MemSiz              Flags  Align
  LOAD        0x0000000000200000 0xffffffff81000000 0x0000000001000000
              0x0000000000b5e000 0x0000000000b5e000  R E    200000
  LOAD        0x0000000000e00000 0xffffffff81c00000 0x0000000001c00000
              0x0000000000145000 0x0000000000145000  RW     200000
  LOAD        0x0000000001000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000001d45000
              0x0000000000018158 0x0000000000018158  RW     200000
  LOAD        0x000000000115e000 0xffffffff81d5e000 0x0000000001d5e000
              0x000000000016a000 0x0000000000301000  RWE    200000
  NOTE        0x000000000099bcac 0xffffffff8179bcac 0x000000000179bcac
              0x00000000000001bc 0x00000000000001bc         4

 Section to Segment mapping:
  Segment Sections...
   00     .text .notes __ex_table .rodata __bug_table .pci_fixup .tracedata
          __ksymtab __ksymtab_gpl __ksymtab_strings __init_rodata __param
          __modver
   01     .data .vvar
   02     .data..percpu
   03     .init.text .init.data .x86_cpu_dev.init .parainstructions
          .altinstructions .altinstr_replacement .iommu_table .apicdrivers
          .exit.text .smp_locks .bss .brk
   04     .notes

As mentioned, run_size needs to be the size of the running kernel
including .bss and .brk. We can see from the Section/Segment mapping
above that .bss and .brk are included in segment 03 (which corresponds
to the final LOAD program header). To find the run_size, we calculate
the end of the LOAD segment from its PhysAddr start (0x0000000001d5e000)
and its MemSiz (0x0000000000301000), minus the physical load address of
the kernel (the first LOAD segment's PhysAddr: 0x0000000001000000). The
resulting run_size is 0x105f000:

 0x0000000001d5e000 + 0x0000000000301000 - 0x0000000001000000 = 0x105f000

So, from this we can see that the existing run_size calculation is
0x400000 too high. And, as it turns out, the correct run_size is
actually equal to VO_end - VO_text, which is certainly easier to calculate.
_end: 0xffffffff8205f000
_text:0xffffffff81000000

 0xffffffff8205f000 - 0xffffffff81000000 = 0x105f000

As a result, run_size is a simple constant, so we don't need to pass it
around; we already have voffset.h for such things. We can share voffset.h
between misc.c and header.S instead of getting run_size in other ways.
This patch moves voffset.h creation code to boot/compressed/Makefile,
and switches misc.c to use the VO_end - VO_text calculation for run_size.

Dependence before:

 boot/header.S ==&gt; boot/voffset.h ==&gt; vmlinux
 boot/header.S ==&gt; compressed/vmlinux ==&gt; compressed/misc.c

Dependence after:

 boot/header.S ==&gt; compressed/vmlinux ==&gt; compressed/misc.c ==&gt; boot/voffset.h ==&gt; vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
[ Rewrote the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Junjie Mao &lt;eternal.n08@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: lasse.collin@tukaani.org
Fixes: e6023367d779 ("x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461888548-32439-5-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Currently, the "run_size" variable holds the total kernel size
(size of code plus brk and bss) and is calculated via the shell script
arch/x86/tools/calc_run_size.sh. It gets the file offset and mem size
of the .bss and .brk sections from the vmlinux, and adds them as follows:

  run_size = $(( $offsetA + $sizeA + $sizeB ))

However, this is not correct (it is too large). To illustrate, here's
a walk-through of the script's calculation, compared to the correct way
to find it.

First, offsetA is found as the starting address of the first .bss or
.brk section seen in the ELF file. The sizeA and sizeB values are the
respective section sizes.

 [bhe@x1 linux]$ objdump -h vmlinux

 vmlinux:     file format elf64-x86-64

 Sections:
 Idx Name    Size      VMA               LMA               File off  Algn
  27 .bss    00170000  ffffffff81ec8000  0000000001ec8000  012c8000  2**12
             ALLOC
  28 .brk    00027000  ffffffff82038000  0000000002038000  012c8000  2**0
             ALLOC

Here, offsetA is 0x012c8000, with sizeA at 0x00170000 and sizeB at
0x00027000. The resulting run_size is 0x145f000:

 0x012c8000 + 0x00170000 + 0x00027000 = 0x145f000

However, if we instead examine the ELF LOAD program headers, we see a
different picture.

 [bhe@x1 linux]$ readelf -l vmlinux

 Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file)
 Entry point 0x1000000
 There are 5 program headers, starting at offset 64

 Program Headers:
  Type        Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
              FileSiz            MemSiz              Flags  Align
  LOAD        0x0000000000200000 0xffffffff81000000 0x0000000001000000
              0x0000000000b5e000 0x0000000000b5e000  R E    200000
  LOAD        0x0000000000e00000 0xffffffff81c00000 0x0000000001c00000
              0x0000000000145000 0x0000000000145000  RW     200000
  LOAD        0x0000000001000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000001d45000
              0x0000000000018158 0x0000000000018158  RW     200000
  LOAD        0x000000000115e000 0xffffffff81d5e000 0x0000000001d5e000
              0x000000000016a000 0x0000000000301000  RWE    200000
  NOTE        0x000000000099bcac 0xffffffff8179bcac 0x000000000179bcac
              0x00000000000001bc 0x00000000000001bc         4

 Section to Segment mapping:
  Segment Sections...
   00     .text .notes __ex_table .rodata __bug_table .pci_fixup .tracedata
          __ksymtab __ksymtab_gpl __ksymtab_strings __init_rodata __param
          __modver
   01     .data .vvar
   02     .data..percpu
   03     .init.text .init.data .x86_cpu_dev.init .parainstructions
          .altinstructions .altinstr_replacement .iommu_table .apicdrivers
          .exit.text .smp_locks .bss .brk
   04     .notes

As mentioned, run_size needs to be the size of the running kernel
including .bss and .brk. We can see from the Section/Segment mapping
above that .bss and .brk are included in segment 03 (which corresponds
to the final LOAD program header). To find the run_size, we calculate
the end of the LOAD segment from its PhysAddr start (0x0000000001d5e000)
and its MemSiz (0x0000000000301000), minus the physical load address of
the kernel (the first LOAD segment's PhysAddr: 0x0000000001000000). The
resulting run_size is 0x105f000:

 0x0000000001d5e000 + 0x0000000000301000 - 0x0000000001000000 = 0x105f000

So, from this we can see that the existing run_size calculation is
0x400000 too high. And, as it turns out, the correct run_size is
actually equal to VO_end - VO_text, which is certainly easier to calculate.
_end: 0xffffffff8205f000
_text:0xffffffff81000000

 0xffffffff8205f000 - 0xffffffff81000000 = 0x105f000

As a result, run_size is a simple constant, so we don't need to pass it
around; we already have voffset.h for such things. We can share voffset.h
between misc.c and header.S instead of getting run_size in other ways.
This patch moves voffset.h creation code to boot/compressed/Makefile,
and switches misc.c to use the VO_end - VO_text calculation for run_size.

Dependence before:

 boot/header.S ==&gt; boot/voffset.h ==&gt; vmlinux
 boot/header.S ==&gt; compressed/vmlinux ==&gt; compressed/misc.c

Dependence after:

 boot/header.S ==&gt; compressed/vmlinux ==&gt; compressed/misc.c ==&gt; boot/voffset.h ==&gt; vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
[ Rewrote the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Junjie Mao &lt;eternal.n08@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: lasse.collin@tukaani.org
Fixes: e6023367d779 ("x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461888548-32439-5-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Calculate decompression size during boot not build</title>
<updated>2016-04-29T09:03:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yinghai Lu</name>
<email>yinghai@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-29T00:09:05+00:00</published>
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Currently z_extract_offset is calculated in boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c.
This doesn't work well because mkpiggy.c doesn't know the details of the
decompressor in use. As a result, it can only make an estimation, which
has risks:

 - output + output_len (VO) could be much bigger than input + input_len
   (ZO). In this case, the decompressed kernel plus relocs could overwrite
   the decompression code while it is running.

 - The head code of ZO could be bigger than z_extract_offset. In this case
   an overwrite could happen when the head code is running to move ZO to
   the end of buffer. Though currently the size of the head code is very
   small it's still a potential risk. Since there is no rule to limit the
   size of the head code of ZO, it runs the risk of suddenly becoming a
   (hard to find) bug.

Instead, this moves the z_extract_offset calculation into header.S, and
makes adjustments to be sure that the above two cases can never happen,
and further corrects the comments describing the calculations.

Since we have (in the previous patch) made ZO always be located against
the end of decompression buffer, z_extract_offset is only used here to
calculate an appropriate buffer size (INIT_SIZE), and is not longer used
elsewhere. As such, it can be removed from voffset.h.

Additionally clean up #if/#else #define to improve readability.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
[ Rewrote the changelog and comments. ]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: lasse.collin@tukaani.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461888548-32439-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Currently z_extract_offset is calculated in boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c.
This doesn't work well because mkpiggy.c doesn't know the details of the
decompressor in use. As a result, it can only make an estimation, which
has risks:

 - output + output_len (VO) could be much bigger than input + input_len
   (ZO). In this case, the decompressed kernel plus relocs could overwrite
   the decompression code while it is running.

 - The head code of ZO could be bigger than z_extract_offset. In this case
   an overwrite could happen when the head code is running to move ZO to
   the end of buffer. Though currently the size of the head code is very
   small it's still a potential risk. Since there is no rule to limit the
   size of the head code of ZO, it runs the risk of suddenly becoming a
   (hard to find) bug.

Instead, this moves the z_extract_offset calculation into header.S, and
makes adjustments to be sure that the above two cases can never happen,
and further corrects the comments describing the calculations.

Since we have (in the previous patch) made ZO always be located against
the end of decompression buffer, z_extract_offset is only used here to
calculate an appropriate buffer size (INIT_SIZE), and is not longer used
elsewhere. As such, it can be removed from voffset.h.

Additionally clean up #if/#else #define to improve readability.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
[ Rewrote the changelog and comments. ]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: lasse.collin@tukaani.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461888548-32439-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: add kcov code coverage</title>
<updated>2016-03-22T22:36:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Vyukov</name>
<email>dvyukov@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-22T21:27:30+00:00</published>
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kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing
(randomized testing).  Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique
that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a
system.  A notable user-space example is AFL
(http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).  However, this technique is not
widely used for kernel testing due to missing compiler and kernel
support.

kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible.  It aims to
collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs.
To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard
interrupts and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic or
non-interesting parts of kernel is disbled (e.g.  scheduler, locking).

Currently there is a single coverage collection mode (tracing), but the
API anticipates additional collection modes.  Initially I also
implemented a second mode which exposes coverage in a fixed-size hash
table of counters (what Quentin used in his original patch).  I've
dropped the second mode for simplicity.

This patch adds the necessary support on kernel side.  The complimentary
compiler support was added in gcc revision 231296.

We've used this support to build syzkaller system call fuzzer, which has
found 90 kernel bugs in just 2 months:

  https://github.com/google/syzkaller/wiki/Found-Bugs

We've also found 30+ bugs in our internal systems with syzkaller.
Another (yet unexplored) direction where kcov coverage would greatly
help is more traditional "blob mutation".  For example, mounting a
random blob as a filesystem, or receiving a random blob over wire.

Why not gcov.  Typical fuzzing loop looks as follows: (1) reset
coverage, (2) execute a bit of code, (3) collect coverage, repeat.  A
typical coverage can be just a dozen of basic blocks (e.g.  an invalid
input).  In such context gcov becomes prohibitively expensive as
reset/collect coverage steps depend on total number of basic
blocks/edges in program (in case of kernel it is about 2M).  Cost of
kcov depends only on number of executed basic blocks/edges.  On top of
that, kernel requires per-thread coverage because there are always
background threads and unrelated processes that also produce coverage.
With inlined gcov instrumentation per-thread coverage is not possible.

kcov exposes kernel PCs and control flow to user-space which is
insecure.  But debugfs should not be mapped as user accessible.

Based on a patch by Quentin Casasnovas.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make task_struct.kcov_mode have type `enum kcov_mode']
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak allmodconfig]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: follow x86 Makefile layout standards]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: syzkaller &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tavis Ormandy &lt;taviso@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Kostya Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Drysdale &lt;drysdale@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing
(randomized testing).  Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique
that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a
system.  A notable user-space example is AFL
(http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).  However, this technique is not
widely used for kernel testing due to missing compiler and kernel
support.

kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible.  It aims to
collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs.
To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard
interrupts and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic or
non-interesting parts of kernel is disbled (e.g.  scheduler, locking).

Currently there is a single coverage collection mode (tracing), but the
API anticipates additional collection modes.  Initially I also
implemented a second mode which exposes coverage in a fixed-size hash
table of counters (what Quentin used in his original patch).  I've
dropped the second mode for simplicity.

This patch adds the necessary support on kernel side.  The complimentary
compiler support was added in gcc revision 231296.

We've used this support to build syzkaller system call fuzzer, which has
found 90 kernel bugs in just 2 months:

  https://github.com/google/syzkaller/wiki/Found-Bugs

We've also found 30+ bugs in our internal systems with syzkaller.
Another (yet unexplored) direction where kcov coverage would greatly
help is more traditional "blob mutation".  For example, mounting a
random blob as a filesystem, or receiving a random blob over wire.

Why not gcov.  Typical fuzzing loop looks as follows: (1) reset
coverage, (2) execute a bit of code, (3) collect coverage, repeat.  A
typical coverage can be just a dozen of basic blocks (e.g.  an invalid
input).  In such context gcov becomes prohibitively expensive as
reset/collect coverage steps depend on total number of basic
blocks/edges in program (in case of kernel it is about 2M).  Cost of
kcov depends only on number of executed basic blocks/edges.  On top of
that, kernel requires per-thread coverage because there are always
background threads and unrelated processes that also produce coverage.
With inlined gcov instrumentation per-thread coverage is not possible.

kcov exposes kernel PCs and control flow to user-space which is
insecure.  But debugfs should not be mapped as user accessible.

Based on a patch by Quentin Casasnovas.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make task_struct.kcov_mode have type `enum kcov_mode']
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak allmodconfig]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: follow x86 Makefile layout standards]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: syzkaller &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tavis Ormandy &lt;taviso@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Kostya Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Drysdale &lt;drysdale@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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