linux-toradex.git/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c, branch v4.4.154

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2015-11-10T20:07:22+00:00

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "Outside of the new ACPI-NFIT hot-add support this pull request is more
  notable for what it does not contain, than what it does.  There were a
  handful of development topics this cycle, dax get_user_pages, dax
  fsync, and raw block dax, that need more more iteration and will wait
  for 4.5.

  The patches to make devm and the pmem driver NUMA aware have been in
  -next for several weeks.  The hot-add support has not, but is
  contained to the NFIT driver and is passing unit tests.  The coredump
  support is straightforward and was looked over by Jeff.  All of it has
  received a 0day build success notification across 107 configs.

  Summary:

   - Add support for the ACPI 6.0 NFIT hot add mechanism to process
     updates of the NFIT at runtime.

   - Teach the coredump implementation how to filter out DAX mappings.

   - Introduce NUMA hints for allocations made by the pmem driver, and
     as a side effect all devm allocations now hint their NUMA node by
     default"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  coredump: add DAX filtering for FDPIC ELF coredumps
  coredump: add DAX filtering for ELF coredumps
  acpi: nfit: Add support for hot-add
  nfit: in acpi_nfit_init, break on a 0-length table
  pmem, memremap: convert to numa aware allocations
  devm_memremap_pages: use numa_mem_id
  devm: make allocations numa aware by default
  devm_memremap: convert to return ERR_PTR
  devm_memunmap: use devres_release()
  pmem: kill memremap_pmem()
  x86, mm: quiet arch_add_memory()

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2015-11-10T05:05:13+00:00

Merge third patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 "We're pretty much done over here - I'm still waiting for a nouveau
  merge so I can cleanly finish up Christoph's dma-mapping rework.

   - bunch of small misc stuff

   - fold abs64() into abs(), remove abs64()

   - new_valid_dev() cleanups

   - binfmt_elf_fdpic feature work"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (24 commits)
  fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c: provide NOMMU loader for regular ELF binaries
  fs/stat.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check
  fs/reiserfs/namei.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check
  fs/nilfs2/namei.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check
  fs/ncpfs/dir.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check
  fs/jfs: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() checks
  fs/hpfs/namei.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check
  fs/f2fs/namei.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check
  fs/ext2/namei.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check
  fs/exofs/namei.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check
  fs/btrfs/inode.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check
  fs/9p: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() checks
  include/linux/kdev_t.h: old/new_valid_dev() can return bool
  include/linux/kdev_t.h: remove unused huge_valid_dev()
  kmap_atomic_to_page() has no users, remove it
  drivers/scsi/cxgbi: fix build with EXTRA_CFLAGS
  dma: remove external references to dma_supported
  Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt: fix misleading code reference of overcommit_memory
  remove abs64()
  kernel.h: make abs() work with 64-bit types
  ...

fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c: provide NOMMU loader for regular ELF binaries

2015-11-09T23:11:24+00:00

The ELF binary loader in binfmt_elf.c requires an MMU, making it
impossible to use regular ELF binaries on NOMMU archs.  However, the FDPIC
ELF loader in binfmt_elf_fdpic.c is fully capable as a loader for plain
ELF, which requires constant displacements between LOAD segments, since it
already supports FDPIC ELF files flagged as needing constant displacement.

This patch adjusts the FDPIC ELF loader to accept non-FDPIC ELF files on
NOMMU archs.  They are treated identically to FDPIC ELF files with the
constant-displacement flag bit set, except for personality, which must
match the ABI of the program being loaded; the PER_LINUX_FDPIC personality
controls how the kernel interprets function pointers passed to sigaction.

Files that do not set a stack size requirement explicitly are given a
default stack size (matching the amount of committed stack the normal ELF
loader for MMU archs would give them) rather than being rejected; this is
necessary because plain ELF files generally do not declare stack
requirements in theit program headers.

Only ET_DYN (PIE) format ELF files are supported, since loading at a fixed
virtual address is not possible on NOMMU.

This patch was developed and tested on J2 (SH2-compatible) but should
be usable immediately on all archs where binfmt_elf_fdpic is
available. Moreover, by providing dummy definitions of the
elf_check_fdpic() and elf_check_const_displacement() macros for archs
which lack an FDPIC ABI, it should be possible to enable building of
binfmt_elf_fdpic on all other NOMMU archs and thereby give them ELF
binary support, but I have not yet tested this.

The motivation for using binfmt_elf_fdpic.c rather than adapting
binfmt_elf.c to NOMMU is that the former already has all the necessary
code to work properly on NOMMU and has already received widespread
real-world use and testing. I hope this is not controversial.

I'm not really happy with having to unset the FDPIC_FUNCPTRS
personality bit when loading non-FDPIC ELF. This bit should really
reset automatically on execve, since otherwise, executing non-ELF
binaries (e.g. bFLT) from an FDPIC process will leave the personality
in the wrong state and severely break signal handling. But that's a
separate, existing bug and I don't know the right place to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Rich Felker 
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Matt Mackall 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Oleg Endo 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

coredump: add DAX filtering for FDPIC ELF coredumps

2015-11-09T18:29:54+00:00

Add explicit filtering for DAX mappings to FDPIC ELF coredump.  This is
useful because DAX mappings have the potential to be very large.

This patch has only been compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler 
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c: fix brk area overlap with stack on NOMMU

2015-10-25T23:02:32+00:00

On NOMMU archs, the FDPIC ELF loader sets up the usable brk range to
overlap with all but the last PAGE_SIZE bytes of the stack. This leads
to catastrophic memory reuse/corruption if brk is used. Fix by setting
the brk area to zero size to disable its use.

Signed-off-by: Rich Felker 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer

handle suicide on late failure exits in execve() in search_binary_handler()

2014-10-09T06:39:00+00:00

... rather than doing that in the guts of ->load_binary().
[updated to fix the bug spotted by Shentino - for SIGSEGV we really need
something stronger than send_sig_info(); again, better do that in one place]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

elf{,_fdpic} coredump: get rid of pointless if (siginfo->si_signo)

2013-11-09T05:16:30+00:00

we can't get to do_coredump() if that condition isn't satisfied...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

new helper: dump_align()

2013-11-09T05:16:27+00:00

dump_skip to given alignment...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

dump_skip(): dump_seek() replacement taking coredump_params

2013-11-09T05:16:26+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

convert the rest of binfmt_elf_fdpic to dump_emit()

2013-11-09T05:16:24+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro