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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/select.c, branch v5.9-rc5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>pselect6() and friends: take handling the combined 6th/7th args into helper</title>
<updated>2020-05-29T23:10:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-19T14:54:24+00:00</published>
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... and use unsafe_get_user(), while we are at it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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... and use unsafe_get_user(), while we are at it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>y2038: syscalls: change remaining timeval to __kernel_old_timeval</title>
<updated>2019-11-15T13:38:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-25T20:56:17+00:00</published>
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All of the remaining syscalls that pass a timeval (gettimeofday, utime,
futimesat) can trivially be changed to pass a __kernel_old_timeval
instead, which has a compatible layout, but avoids ambiguity with
the timeval type in user space.

Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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All of the remaining syscalls that pass a timeval (gettimeofday, utime,
futimesat) can trivially be changed to pass a __kernel_old_timeval
instead, which has a compatible layout, but avoids ambiguity with
the timeval type in user space.

Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/select.c: use struct_size() in kmalloc()</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T02:23:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T23:30:58+00:00</published>
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One of the more common cases of allocation size calculations is finding
the size of a structure that has a zero-sized array at the end, along
with memory for some number of elements for that array.  For example:

  struct foo {
       int stuff;
       struct boo entry[];
  };

  size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
  instance = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now
use the new struct_size() helper:

  instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

Also, notice that variable size is unnecessary, hence it is removed.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604164226.GA13823@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&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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One of the more common cases of allocation size calculations is finding
the size of a structure that has a zero-sized array at the end, along
with memory for some number of elements for that array.  For example:

  struct foo {
       int stuff;
       struct boo entry[];
  };

  size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
  instance = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now
use the new struct_size() helper:

  instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

Also, notice that variable size is unnecessary, hence it is removed.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604164226.GA13823@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining()</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T02:23:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T23:29:59+00:00</published>
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Now that restore_saved_sigmask_unless() is always called with the same
argument right before poll_select_copy_remaining() we can move it into
poll_select_copy_remaining() and make it the only caller of restore() in
fs/select.c.

The patch also renames poll_select_copy_remaining(),
poll_select_finish() looks better after this change.

kern_select() doesn't use set_user_sigmask(), so in this case
poll_select_finish() does restore_saved_sigmask_unless() "for no
reason".  But this won't hurt, and WARN_ON(!TIF_SIGPENDING) is still
valid.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190606140915.GC13440@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Wong &lt;e@80x24.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&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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Now that restore_saved_sigmask_unless() is always called with the same
argument right before poll_select_copy_remaining() we can move it into
poll_select_copy_remaining() and make it the only caller of restore() in
fs/select.c.

The patch also renames poll_select_copy_remaining(),
poll_select_finish() looks better after this change.

kern_select() doesn't use set_user_sigmask(), so in this case
poll_select_finish() does restore_saved_sigmask_unless() "for no
reason".  But this won't hurt, and WARN_ON(!TIF_SIGPENDING) is still
valid.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190606140915.GC13440@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Wong &lt;e@80x24.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T02:23:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T23:29:56+00:00</published>
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do_poll() returns -EINTR if interrupted and after that all its callers
have to translate it into -ERESTARTNOHAND.  Change do_poll() to return
-ERESTARTNOHAND and update (simplify) the callers.

Note that this also unifies all users of restore_saved_sigmask_unless(),
see the next patch.

Linus:

: The *right* return value will actually be then chosen by
: poll_select_copy_remaining(), which will turn ERESTARTNOHAND to EINTR
: when it can't update the timeout.
:
: Except for the cases that use restart_block and do that instead and
: don't have the whole timeout restart issue as a result.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190606140852.GB13440@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Wong &lt;e@80x24.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&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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<pre>
do_poll() returns -EINTR if interrupted and after that all its callers
have to translate it into -ERESTARTNOHAND.  Change do_poll() to return
-ERESTARTNOHAND and update (simplify) the callers.

Note that this also unifies all users of restore_saved_sigmask_unless(),
see the next patch.

Linus:

: The *right* return value will actually be then chosen by
: poll_select_copy_remaining(), which will turn ERESTARTNOHAND to EINTR
: when it can't update the timeout.
:
: Except for the cases that use restart_block and do that instead and
: don't have the whole timeout restart issue as a result.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190606140852.GB13440@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Wong &lt;e@80x24.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: simplify set_user_sigmask/restore_user_sigmask</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T02:23:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T23:29:53+00:00</published>
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task-&gt;saved_sigmask and -&gt;restore_sigmask are only used in the ret-from-
syscall paths.  This means that set_user_sigmask() can save -&gt;blocked in
-&gt;saved_sigmask and do set_restore_sigmask() to indicate that -&gt;blocked
was modified.

This way the callers do not need 2 sigset_t's passed to set/restore and
restore_user_sigmask() renamed to restore_saved_sigmask_unless() turns
into the trivial helper which just calls restore_saved_sigmask().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190606113206.GA9464@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Wong &lt;e@80x24.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.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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task-&gt;saved_sigmask and -&gt;restore_sigmask are only used in the ret-from-
syscall paths.  This means that set_user_sigmask() can save -&gt;blocked in
-&gt;saved_sigmask and do set_restore_sigmask() to indicate that -&gt;blocked
was modified.

This way the callers do not need 2 sigset_t's passed to set/restore and
restore_user_sigmask() renamed to restore_saved_sigmask_unless() turns
into the trivial helper which just calls restore_saved_sigmask().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190606113206.GA9464@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Wong &lt;e@80x24.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: remove the wrong signal_pending() check in restore_user_sigmask()</title>
<updated>2019-06-29T08:43:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-28T19:06:50+00:00</published>
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This is the minimal fix for stable, I'll send cleanups later.

Commit 854a6ed56839 ("signal: Add restore_user_sigmask()") introduced
the visible change which breaks user-space: a signal temporary unblocked
by set_user_sigmask() can be delivered even if the caller returns
success or timeout.

Change restore_user_sigmask() to accept the additional "interrupted"
argument which should be used instead of signal_pending() check, and
update the callers.

Eric said:

: For clarity.  I don't think this is required by posix, or fundamentally to
: remove the races in select.  It is what linux has always done and we have
: applications who care so I agree this fix is needed.
:
: Further in any case where the semantic change that this patch rolls back
: (aka where allowing a signal to be delivered and the select like call to
: complete) would be advantage we can do as well if not better by using
: signalfd.
:
: Michael is there any chance we can get this guarantee of the linux
: implementation of pselect and friends clearly documented.  The guarantee
: that if the system call completes successfully we are guaranteed that no
: signal that is unblocked by using sigmask will be delivered?

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604134117.GA29963@redhat.com
Fixes: 854a6ed56839a40f6b5d02a2962f48841482eec4 ("signal: Add restore_user_sigmask()")
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Eric Wong &lt;e@80x24.org&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Wong &lt;e@80x24.org&gt;
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[5.0+]
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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This is the minimal fix for stable, I'll send cleanups later.

Commit 854a6ed56839 ("signal: Add restore_user_sigmask()") introduced
the visible change which breaks user-space: a signal temporary unblocked
by set_user_sigmask() can be delivered even if the caller returns
success or timeout.

Change restore_user_sigmask() to accept the additional "interrupted"
argument which should be used instead of signal_pending() check, and
update the callers.

Eric said:

: For clarity.  I don't think this is required by posix, or fundamentally to
: remove the races in select.  It is what linux has always done and we have
: applications who care so I agree this fix is needed.
:
: Further in any case where the semantic change that this patch rolls back
: (aka where allowing a signal to be delivered and the select like call to
: complete) would be advantage we can do as well if not better by using
: signalfd.
:
: Michael is there any chance we can get this guarantee of the linux
: implementation of pselect and friends clearly documented.  The guarantee
: that if the system call completes successfully we are guaranteed that no
: signal that is unblocked by using sigmask will be delivered?

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604134117.GA29963@redhat.com
Fixes: 854a6ed56839a40f6b5d02a2962f48841482eec4 ("signal: Add restore_user_sigmask()")
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Eric Wong &lt;e@80x24.org&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Wong &lt;e@80x24.org&gt;
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[5.0+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>y2038: syscalls: rename y2038 compat syscalls</title>
<updated>2019-02-06T23:13:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-06T23:33:08+00:00</published>
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A lot of system calls that pass a time_t somewhere have an implementation
using a COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() on 64-bit architectures, and have
been reworked so that this implementation can now be used on 32-bit
architectures as well.

The missing step is to redefine them using the regular SYSCALL_DEFINEx()
to get them out of the compat namespace and make it possible to build them
on 32-bit architectures.

Any system call that ends in 'time' gets a '32' suffix on its name for
that version, while the others get a '_time32' suffix, to distinguish
them from the normal version, which takes a 64-bit time argument in the
future.

In this step, only 64-bit architectures are changed, doing this rename
first lets us avoid touching the 32-bit architectures twice.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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A lot of system calls that pass a time_t somewhere have an implementation
using a COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() on 64-bit architectures, and have
been reworked so that this implementation can now be used on 32-bit
architectures as well.

The missing step is to redefine them using the regular SYSCALL_DEFINEx()
to get them out of the compat namespace and make it possible to build them
on 32-bit architectures.

Any system call that ends in 'time' gets a '32' suffix on its name for
that version, while the others get a '_time32' suffix, to distinguish
them from the normal version, which takes a 64-bit time argument in the
future.

In this step, only 64-bit architectures are changed, doing this rename
first lets us avoid touching the 32-bit architectures twice.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<title>Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</published>
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>pselect6: use __kernel_timespec</title>
<updated>2018-12-06T16:23:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-20T04:41:07+00:00</published>
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struct timespec is not y2038 safe.
struct __kernel_timespec is the new y2038 safe structure for all
syscalls that are using struct timespec.
Update pselect interfaces to use struct __kernel_timespec.

sigset_t also has different representations on 32 bit and 64 bit
architectures. Hence, we need to support the following different
syscalls:

New y2038 safe syscalls:
(Controlled by CONFIG_64BIT_TIME for 32 bit ABIs)

Native 64 bit(unchanged) and native 32 bit : sys_pselect6
Compat : compat_sys_pselect6_time64

Older y2038 unsafe syscalls:
(Controlled by CONFIG_32BIT_COMPAT_TIME for 32 bit ABIs)

Native 32 bit : pselect6_time32
Compat : compat_sys_pselect6

Note that all other versions of select syscalls will not have
y2038 safe versions.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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struct timespec is not y2038 safe.
struct __kernel_timespec is the new y2038 safe structure for all
syscalls that are using struct timespec.
Update pselect interfaces to use struct __kernel_timespec.

sigset_t also has different representations on 32 bit and 64 bit
architectures. Hence, we need to support the following different
syscalls:

New y2038 safe syscalls:
(Controlled by CONFIG_64BIT_TIME for 32 bit ABIs)

Native 64 bit(unchanged) and native 32 bit : sys_pselect6
Compat : compat_sys_pselect6_time64

Older y2038 unsafe syscalls:
(Controlled by CONFIG_32BIT_COMPAT_TIME for 32 bit ABIs)

Native 32 bit : pselect6_time32
Compat : compat_sys_pselect6

Note that all other versions of select syscalls will not have
y2038 safe versions.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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