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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>x86-64: Give vvars their own page</title>
<updated>2011-06-05T19:30:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@MIT.EDU</email>
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<published>2011-06-05T17:50:19+00:00</published>
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Move vvars out of the vsyscall page into their own page and mark
it NX.

Without this patch, an attacker who can force a daemon to call
some fixed address could wait until the time contains, say,
0xCD80, and then execute the current time.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Jesper Juhl &lt;jj@chaosbits.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;JBeulich@novell.com&gt;
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger &lt;richard.weinberger@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Pettersson &lt;mikpe@it.uu.se&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Louis Rilling &lt;Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com&gt;
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b1460f81dc4463d66ea3f2b5ce240f58d48effec.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Move vvars out of the vsyscall page into their own page and mark
it NX.

Without this patch, an attacker who can force a daemon to call
some fixed address could wait until the time contains, say,
0xCD80, and then execute the current time.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Jesper Juhl &lt;jj@chaosbits.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;JBeulich@novell.com&gt;
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger &lt;richard.weinberger@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Pettersson &lt;mikpe@it.uu.se&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Louis Rilling &lt;Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com&gt;
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b1460f81dc4463d66ea3f2b5ce240f58d48effec.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable</title>
<updated>2011-06-05T19:30:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-05T17:50:17+00:00</published>
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It's declared __attribute__((aligned(16)) but it's explicitly
not aligned.  This is probably harmless but it's a bit
embarrassing.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Jesper Juhl &lt;jj@chaosbits.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;JBeulich@novell.com&gt;
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger &lt;richard.weinberger@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Pettersson &lt;mikpe@it.uu.se&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Louis Rilling &lt;Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com&gt;
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5f3bc5542e9aaa9382d53f153f54373165cdef89.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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It's declared __attribute__((aligned(16)) but it's explicitly
not aligned.  This is probably harmless but it's a bit
embarrassing.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Jesper Juhl &lt;jj@chaosbits.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;JBeulich@novell.com&gt;
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger &lt;richard.weinberger@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Pettersson &lt;mikpe@it.uu.se&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Louis Rilling &lt;Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com&gt;
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5f3bc5542e9aaa9382d53f153f54373165cdef89.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86-64: Clean up vdso/kernel shared variables</title>
<updated>2011-05-24T12:51:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@MIT.EDU</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-23T13:31:24+00:00</published>
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Variables that are shared between the vdso and the kernel are
currently a bit of a mess.  They are each defined with their own
magic, they are accessed differently in the kernel, the vsyscall page,
and the vdso, and one of them (vsyscall_clock) doesn't even really
exist.

This changes them all to use a common mechanism.  All of them are
delcared in vvar.h with a fixed address (validated by the linker
script).  In the kernel (as before), they look like ordinary
read-write variables.  In the vsyscall page and the vdso, they are
accessed through a new macro VVAR, which gives read-only access.

The vdso is now loaded verbatim into memory without any fixups.  As a
side bonus, access from the vdso is faster because a level of
indirection is removed.

While we're at it, pack jiffies and vgetcpu_mode into the same
cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@amd64.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C7357882fbb51fa30491636a7b6528747301b7ee9.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Variables that are shared between the vdso and the kernel are
currently a bit of a mess.  They are each defined with their own
magic, they are accessed differently in the kernel, the vsyscall page,
and the vdso, and one of them (vsyscall_clock) doesn't even really
exist.

This changes them all to use a common mechanism.  All of them are
delcared in vvar.h with a fixed address (validated by the linker
script).  In the kernel (as before), they look like ordinary
read-write variables.  In the vsyscall page and the vdso, they are
accessed through a new macro VVAR, which gives read-only access.

The vdso is now loaded verbatim into memory without any fixups.  As a
side bonus, access from the vdso is faster because a level of
indirection is removed.

While we're at it, pack jiffies and vgetcpu_mode into the same
cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@amd64.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C7357882fbb51fa30491636a7b6528747301b7ee9.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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