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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/binfmt_elf.c, branch v4.9.119</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>fs, elf: make sure to page align bss in load_elf_library</title>
<updated>2018-07-17T09:37:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oscar Salvador</name>
<email>osalvador@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-13T23:59:13+00:00</published>
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commit 24962af7e1041b7e50c1bc71d8d10dc678c556b5 upstream.

The current code does not make sure to page align bss before calling
vm_brk(), and this can lead to a VM_BUG_ON() in __mm_populate() due to
the requested lenght not being correctly aligned.

Let us make sure to align it properly.

Kees: only applicable to CONFIG_USELIB kernels: 32-bit and configured
for libc5.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180705145539.9627-1-osalvador@techadventures.net
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+5dcb560fe12aa5091c06@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 24962af7e1041b7e50c1bc71d8d10dc678c556b5 upstream.

The current code does not make sure to page align bss before calling
vm_brk(), and this can lead to a VM_BUG_ON() in __mm_populate() due to
the requested lenght not being correctly aligned.

Let us make sure to align it properly.

Kees: only applicable to CONFIG_USELIB kernels: 32-bit and configured
for libc5.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180705145539.9627-1-osalvador@techadventures.net
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+5dcb560fe12aa5091c06@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>binfmt_elf: use ELF_ET_DYN_BASE only for PIE</title>
<updated>2017-07-21T05:42:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-10T22:52:37+00:00</published>
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commit eab09532d40090698b05a07c1c87f39fdbc5fab5 upstream.

The ELF_ET_DYN_BASE position was originally intended to keep loaders
away from ET_EXEC binaries.  (For example, running "/lib/ld-linux.so.2
/bin/cat" might cause the subsequent load of /bin/cat into where the
loader had been loaded.)

With the advent of PIE (ET_DYN binaries with an INTERP Program Header),
ELF_ET_DYN_BASE continued to be used since the kernel was only looking
at ET_DYN.  However, since ELF_ET_DYN_BASE is traditionally set at the
top 1/3rd of the TASK_SIZE, a substantial portion of the address space
is unused.

For 32-bit tasks when RLIMIT_STACK is set to RLIM_INFINITY, programs are
loaded above the mmap region.  This means they can be made to collide
(CVE-2017-1000370) or nearly collide (CVE-2017-1000371) with
pathological stack regions.

Lowering ELF_ET_DYN_BASE solves both by moving programs below the mmap
region in all cases, and will now additionally avoid programs falling
back to the mmap region by enforcing MAP_FIXED for program loads (i.e.
if it would have collided with the stack, now it will fail to load
instead of falling back to the mmap region).

To allow for a lower ELF_ET_DYN_BASE, loaders (ET_DYN without INTERP)
are loaded into the mmap region, leaving space available for either an
ET_EXEC binary with a fixed location or PIE being loaded into mmap by
the loader.  Only PIE programs are loaded offset from ELF_ET_DYN_BASE,
which means architectures can now safely lower their values without risk
of loaders colliding with their subsequently loaded programs.

For 64-bit, ELF_ET_DYN_BASE is best set to 4GB to allow runtimes to use
the entire 32-bit address space for 32-bit pointers.

Thanks to PaX Team, Daniel Micay, and Rik van Riel for inspiration and
suggestions on how to implement this solution.

Fixes: d1fd836dcf00 ("mm: split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170621173201.GA114489@beast
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Micay &lt;danielmicay@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Qualys Security Advisory &lt;qsa@qualys.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dsafonov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Grzegorz Andrejczuk &lt;grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Pratyush Anand &lt;panand@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit eab09532d40090698b05a07c1c87f39fdbc5fab5 upstream.

The ELF_ET_DYN_BASE position was originally intended to keep loaders
away from ET_EXEC binaries.  (For example, running "/lib/ld-linux.so.2
/bin/cat" might cause the subsequent load of /bin/cat into where the
loader had been loaded.)

With the advent of PIE (ET_DYN binaries with an INTERP Program Header),
ELF_ET_DYN_BASE continued to be used since the kernel was only looking
at ET_DYN.  However, since ELF_ET_DYN_BASE is traditionally set at the
top 1/3rd of the TASK_SIZE, a substantial portion of the address space
is unused.

For 32-bit tasks when RLIMIT_STACK is set to RLIM_INFINITY, programs are
loaded above the mmap region.  This means they can be made to collide
(CVE-2017-1000370) or nearly collide (CVE-2017-1000371) with
pathological stack regions.

Lowering ELF_ET_DYN_BASE solves both by moving programs below the mmap
region in all cases, and will now additionally avoid programs falling
back to the mmap region by enforcing MAP_FIXED for program loads (i.e.
if it would have collided with the stack, now it will fail to load
instead of falling back to the mmap region).

To allow for a lower ELF_ET_DYN_BASE, loaders (ET_DYN without INTERP)
are loaded into the mmap region, leaving space available for either an
ET_EXEC binary with a fixed location or PIE being loaded into mmap by
the loader.  Only PIE programs are loaded offset from ELF_ET_DYN_BASE,
which means architectures can now safely lower their values without risk
of loaders colliding with their subsequently loaded programs.

For 64-bit, ELF_ET_DYN_BASE is best set to 4GB to allow runtimes to use
the entire 32-bit address space for 32-bit pointers.

Thanks to PaX Team, Daniel Micay, and Rik van Riel for inspiration and
suggestions on how to implement this solution.

Fixes: d1fd836dcf00 ("mm: split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170621173201.GA114489@beast
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Micay &lt;danielmicay@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Qualys Security Advisory &lt;qsa@qualys.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dsafonov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Grzegorz Andrejczuk &lt;grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Pratyush Anand &lt;panand@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>coredump: Ensure proper size of sparse core files</title>
<updated>2017-07-05T12:40:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Kleikamp</name>
<email>dave.kleikamp@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-11T19:25:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4d22c75d4c7b5c5f4bd31054f09103ee490878fd ]

If the last section of a core file ends with an unmapped or zero page,
the size of the file does not correspond with the last dump_skip() call.
gdb complains that the file is truncated and can be confusing to users.

After all of the vma sections are written, make sure that the file size
is no smaller than the current file position.

This problem can be demonstrated with gdb's bigcore testcase on the
sparc architecture.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp &lt;dave.kleikamp@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4d22c75d4c7b5c5f4bd31054f09103ee490878fd ]

If the last section of a core file ends with an unmapped or zero page,
the size of the file does not correspond with the last dump_skip() call.
gdb complains that the file is truncated and can be confusing to users.

After all of the vma sections are written, make sure that the file size
is no smaller than the current file position.

This problem can be demonstrated with gdb's bigcore testcase on the
sparc architecture.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp &lt;dave.kleikamp@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/coredump: Use pr_reg size, rather that TIF_IA32 flag</title>
<updated>2016-09-14T19:28:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dsafonov@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-05T13:33:06+00:00</published>
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Killed PR_REG_SIZE and PR_REG_PTR macro as we can get regset size
from regset view.
I wish I could also kill PRSTATUS_SIZE nicely.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dsafonov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: 0x7f454c46@gmail.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Cc: gorcunov@openvz.org
Cc: xemul@virtuozzo.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160905133308.28234-5-dsafonov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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Killed PR_REG_SIZE and PR_REG_PTR macro as we can get regset size
from regset view.
I wish I could also kill PRSTATUS_SIZE nicely.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dsafonov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: 0x7f454c46@gmail.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Cc: gorcunov@openvz.org
Cc: xemul@virtuozzo.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160905133308.28234-5-dsafonov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>binfmt_elf: switch to new creds when switching to new mm</title>
<updated>2016-08-31T16:13:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-22T23:41:46+00:00</published>
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We used to delay switching to the new credentials until after we had
mapped the executable (and possible elf interpreter).  That was kind of
odd to begin with, since the new executable will actually then _run_
with the new creds, but whatever.

The bigger problem was that we also want to make sure that we turn off
prof events and tracing before we start mapping the new executable
state.  So while this is a cleanup, it's also a fix for a possible
information leak.

Reported-by: Robert Święcki &lt;robert@swiecki.net&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We used to delay switching to the new credentials until after we had
mapped the executable (and possible elf interpreter).  That was kind of
odd to begin with, since the new executable will actually then _run_
with the new creds, but whatever.

The bigger problem was that we also want to make sure that we turn off
prof events and tracing before we start mapping the new executable
state.  So while this is a cleanup, it's also a fix for a possible
information leak.

Reported-by: Robert Święcki &lt;robert@swiecki.net&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>binfmt_elf: fix calculations for bss padding</title>
<updated>2016-08-02T23:35:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-02T21:04:51+00:00</published>
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A double-bug exists in the bss calculation code, where an overflow can
happen in the "last_bss - elf_bss" calculation, but vm_brk internally
aligns the argument, underflowing it, wrapping back around safe.  We
shouldn't depend on these bugs staying in sync, so this cleans up the
bss padding handling to avoid the overflow.

This moves the bss padzero() before the last_bss &gt; elf_bss case, since
the zero-filling of the ELF_PAGE should have nothing to do with the
relationship of last_bss and elf_bss: any trailing portion should be
zeroed, and a zero size is already handled by padzero().

Then it handles the math on elf_bss vs last_bss correctly.  These need
to both be ELF_PAGE aligned to get the comparison correct, since that's
the expected granularity of the mappings.  Since elf_bss already had
alignment-based padding happen in padzero(), the "start" of the new
vm_brk() should be moved forward as done in the original code.  However,
since the "end" of the vm_brk() area will already become PAGE_ALIGNed in
vm_brk() then last_bss should get aligned here to avoid hiding it as a
side-effect.

Additionally makes a cosmetic change to the initial last_bss calculation
so it's easier to read in comparison to the load_addr calculation above
it (i.e.  the only difference is p_filesz vs p_memsz).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468014494-25291-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Hector Marco-Gisbert &lt;hecmargi@upv.es&gt;
Cc: Ismael Ripoll Ripoll &lt;iripoll@upv.es&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.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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A double-bug exists in the bss calculation code, where an overflow can
happen in the "last_bss - elf_bss" calculation, but vm_brk internally
aligns the argument, underflowing it, wrapping back around safe.  We
shouldn't depend on these bugs staying in sync, so this cleans up the
bss padding handling to avoid the overflow.

This moves the bss padzero() before the last_bss &gt; elf_bss case, since
the zero-filling of the ELF_PAGE should have nothing to do with the
relationship of last_bss and elf_bss: any trailing portion should be
zeroed, and a zero size is already handled by padzero().

Then it handles the math on elf_bss vs last_bss correctly.  These need
to both be ELF_PAGE aligned to get the comparison correct, since that's
the expected granularity of the mappings.  Since elf_bss already had
alignment-based padding happen in padzero(), the "start" of the new
vm_brk() should be moved forward as done in the original code.  However,
since the "end" of the vm_brk() area will already become PAGE_ALIGNed in
vm_brk() then last_bss should get aligned here to avoid hiding it as a
side-effect.

Additionally makes a cosmetic change to the initial last_bss calculation
so it's easier to read in comparison to the load_addr calculation above
it (i.e.  the only difference is p_filesz vs p_memsz).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468014494-25291-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Hector Marco-Gisbert &lt;hecmargi@upv.es&gt;
Cc: Ismael Ripoll Ripoll &lt;iripoll@upv.es&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.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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<title>coredump: fix dumping through pipes</title>
<updated>2016-06-08T02:07:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mguzik@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-05T21:14:14+00:00</published>
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The offset in the core file used to be tracked with -&gt;written field of
the coredump_params structure. The field was retired in favour of
file-&gt;f_pos.

However, -&gt;f_pos is not maintained for pipes which leads to breakage.

Restore explicit tracking of the offset in coredump_params. Introduce
-&gt;pos field for this purpose since -&gt;written was already reused.

Fixes: a00839395103 ("get rid of coredump_params-&gt;written").

Reported-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek &lt;zbyszek@in.waw.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mguzik@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The offset in the core file used to be tracked with -&gt;written field of
the coredump_params structure. The field was retired in favour of
file-&gt;f_pos.

However, -&gt;f_pos is not maintained for pipes which leads to breakage.

Restore explicit tracking of the offset in coredump_params. Introduce
-&gt;pos field for this purpose since -&gt;written was already reused.

Fixes: a00839395103 ("get rid of coredump_params-&gt;written").

Reported-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek &lt;zbyszek@in.waw.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mguzik@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove more IS_ERR_VALUE abuses</title>
<updated>2016-05-27T22:57:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-27T22:57:31+00:00</published>
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The do_brk() and vm_brk() return value was "unsigned long" and returned
the starting address on success, and an error value on failure.  The
reasons are entirely historical, and go back to it basically behaving
like the mmap() interface does.

However, nobody actually wanted that interface, and it causes totally
pointless IS_ERR_VALUE() confusion.

What every single caller actually wants is just the simpler integer
return of zero for success and negative error number on failure.

So just convert to that much clearer and more common calling convention,
and get rid of all the IS_ERR_VALUE() uses wrt vm_brk().

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The do_brk() and vm_brk() return value was "unsigned long" and returned
the starting address on success, and an error value on failure.  The
reasons are entirely historical, and go back to it basically behaving
like the mmap() interface does.

However, nobody actually wanted that interface, and it causes totally
pointless IS_ERR_VALUE() confusion.

What every single caller actually wants is just the simpler integer
return of zero for success and negative error number on failure.

So just convert to that much clearer and more common calling convention,
and get rid of all the IS_ERR_VALUE() uses wrt vm_brk().

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, elf: handle vm_brk error</title>
<updated>2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-23T23:25:39+00:00</published>
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load_elf_library doesn't handle vm_brk failure although nothing really
indicates it cannot do that because the function is allowed to fail due
to vm_mmap failures already.  This might be not a problem now but later
patch will make vm_brk killable (resp.  mmap_sem for write waiting will
become killable) and so the failure will be more probable.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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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load_elf_library doesn't handle vm_brk failure although nothing really
indicates it cannot do that because the function is allowed to fail due
to vm_mmap failures already.  This might be not a problem now but later
patch will make vm_brk killable (resp.  mmap_sem for write waiting will
become killable) and so the failure will be more probable.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-05-18T18:51:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-18T18:51:59+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs cleanups from Al Viro:
 "Assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  coredump: only charge written data against RLIMIT_CORE
  coredump: get rid of coredump_params-&gt;written
  ecryptfs_lookup(): try either only encrypted or plaintext name
  ecryptfs: avoid multiple aliases for directories
  bpf: reject invalid names right in -&gt;lookup()
  __d_alloc(): treat NULL name as QSTR("/", 1)
  mtd: switch ubi_open_volume_path() to vfs_stat()
  mtd: switch open_mtd_by_chdev() to use of vfs_stat()
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Pull misc vfs cleanups from Al Viro:
 "Assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  coredump: only charge written data against RLIMIT_CORE
  coredump: get rid of coredump_params-&gt;written
  ecryptfs_lookup(): try either only encrypted or plaintext name
  ecryptfs: avoid multiple aliases for directories
  bpf: reject invalid names right in -&gt;lookup()
  __d_alloc(): treat NULL name as QSTR("/", 1)
  mtd: switch ubi_open_volume_path() to vfs_stat()
  mtd: switch open_mtd_by_chdev() to use of vfs_stat()
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