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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/Makefile, branch v5.19-rc1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'modules-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2022-05-27T00:13:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-27T00:13:43+00:00</published>
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Pull modules updates from  Luis Chamberlain:

 - It was time to tidy up kernel/module.c and one way of starting with
   that effort was to split it up into files. At my request Aaron Tomlin
   spearheaded that effort with the goal to not introduce any functional
   at all during that endeavour. The penalty for the split is +1322
   bytes total, +112 bytes in data, +1210 bytes in text while bss is
   unchanged. One of the benefits of this other than helping make the
   code easier to read and review is summoning more help on review for
   changes with livepatching so kernel/module/livepatch.c is now pegged
   as maintained by the live patching folks.

   The before and after with just the move on a defconfig on x86-64:

     $ size kernel/module.o
        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       38434    4540     104   43078    a846 kernel/module.o

     $ size -t kernel/module/*.o
        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       4785     120       0    4905    1329 kernel/module/kallsyms.o
      28577    4416     104   33097    8149 kernel/module/main.o
       1158       8       0    1166     48e kernel/module/procfs.o
        902     108       0    1010     3f2 kernel/module/strict_rwx.o
       3390       0       0    3390     d3e kernel/module/sysfs.o
        832       0       0     832     340 kernel/module/tree_lookup.o
      39644    4652     104   44400    ad70 (TOTALS)

 - Aaron added module unload taint tracking (MODULE_UNLOAD_TAINT_TRACKING),
   to enable tracking unloaded modules which did taint the kernel.

 - Christophe Leroy added CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC
   which lets architectures to request having modules data in vmalloc
   area instead of module area. There are three reasons why an
   architecture might want this:

    a) On some architectures (like book3s/32) it is not possible to
       protect against execution on a page basis. The exec stuff can be
       mapped by different arch segment sizes (on book3s/32 that is 256M
       segments). By default the module area is in an Exec segment while
       vmalloc area is in a NoExec segment. Using vmalloc lets you muck
       with module data as NoExec on those architectures whereas before
       you could not.

    b) By pushing more module data to vmalloc you also increase the
       probability of module text to remain within a closer distance
       from kernel core text and this reduces trampolines, this has been
       reported on arm first and powerpc folks are following that lead.

    c) Free'ing module_alloc() (Exec by default) area leaves this
       exposed as Exec by default, some architectures have some security
       enhancements to set this as NoExec on free, and splitting module
       data with text let's future generic special allocators be added
       to the kernel without having developers try to grok the tribal
       knowledge per arch. Work like Rick Edgecombe's permission vmalloc
       interface [0] becomes easier to address over time.

       [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201120202426.18009-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/#r

 - Masahiro Yamada's symbol search enhancements

* tag 'modules-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (33 commits)
  module: merge check_exported_symbol() into find_exported_symbol_in_section()
  module: do not binary-search in __ksymtab_gpl if fsa-&gt;gplok is false
  module: do not pass opaque pointer for symbol search
  module: show disallowed symbol name for inherit_taint()
  module: fix [e_shstrndx].sh_size=0 OOB access
  module: Introduce module unload taint tracking
  module: Move module_assert_mutex_or_preempt() to internal.h
  module: Make module_flags_taint() accept a module's taints bitmap and usable outside core code
  module.h: simplify MODULE_IMPORT_NS
  powerpc: Select ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC on book3s/32 and 8xx
  module: Remove module_addr_min and module_addr_max
  module: Add CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC
  module: Introduce data_layout
  module: Prepare for handling several RB trees
  module: Always have struct mod_tree_root
  module: Rename debug_align() as strict_align()
  module: Rework layout alignment to avoid BUG_ON()s
  module: Move module_enable_x() and frob_text() in strict_rwx.c
  module: Make module_enable_x() independent of CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
  module: Move version support into a separate file
  ...
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Pull modules updates from  Luis Chamberlain:

 - It was time to tidy up kernel/module.c and one way of starting with
   that effort was to split it up into files. At my request Aaron Tomlin
   spearheaded that effort with the goal to not introduce any functional
   at all during that endeavour. The penalty for the split is +1322
   bytes total, +112 bytes in data, +1210 bytes in text while bss is
   unchanged. One of the benefits of this other than helping make the
   code easier to read and review is summoning more help on review for
   changes with livepatching so kernel/module/livepatch.c is now pegged
   as maintained by the live patching folks.

   The before and after with just the move on a defconfig on x86-64:

     $ size kernel/module.o
        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       38434    4540     104   43078    a846 kernel/module.o

     $ size -t kernel/module/*.o
        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       4785     120       0    4905    1329 kernel/module/kallsyms.o
      28577    4416     104   33097    8149 kernel/module/main.o
       1158       8       0    1166     48e kernel/module/procfs.o
        902     108       0    1010     3f2 kernel/module/strict_rwx.o
       3390       0       0    3390     d3e kernel/module/sysfs.o
        832       0       0     832     340 kernel/module/tree_lookup.o
      39644    4652     104   44400    ad70 (TOTALS)

 - Aaron added module unload taint tracking (MODULE_UNLOAD_TAINT_TRACKING),
   to enable tracking unloaded modules which did taint the kernel.

 - Christophe Leroy added CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC
   which lets architectures to request having modules data in vmalloc
   area instead of module area. There are three reasons why an
   architecture might want this:

    a) On some architectures (like book3s/32) it is not possible to
       protect against execution on a page basis. The exec stuff can be
       mapped by different arch segment sizes (on book3s/32 that is 256M
       segments). By default the module area is in an Exec segment while
       vmalloc area is in a NoExec segment. Using vmalloc lets you muck
       with module data as NoExec on those architectures whereas before
       you could not.

    b) By pushing more module data to vmalloc you also increase the
       probability of module text to remain within a closer distance
       from kernel core text and this reduces trampolines, this has been
       reported on arm first and powerpc folks are following that lead.

    c) Free'ing module_alloc() (Exec by default) area leaves this
       exposed as Exec by default, some architectures have some security
       enhancements to set this as NoExec on free, and splitting module
       data with text let's future generic special allocators be added
       to the kernel without having developers try to grok the tribal
       knowledge per arch. Work like Rick Edgecombe's permission vmalloc
       interface [0] becomes easier to address over time.

       [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201120202426.18009-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/#r

 - Masahiro Yamada's symbol search enhancements

* tag 'modules-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (33 commits)
  module: merge check_exported_symbol() into find_exported_symbol_in_section()
  module: do not binary-search in __ksymtab_gpl if fsa-&gt;gplok is false
  module: do not pass opaque pointer for symbol search
  module: show disallowed symbol name for inherit_taint()
  module: fix [e_shstrndx].sh_size=0 OOB access
  module: Introduce module unload taint tracking
  module: Move module_assert_mutex_or_preempt() to internal.h
  module: Make module_flags_taint() accept a module's taints bitmap and usable outside core code
  module.h: simplify MODULE_IMPORT_NS
  powerpc: Select ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC on book3s/32 and 8xx
  module: Remove module_addr_min and module_addr_max
  module: Add CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC
  module: Introduce data_layout
  module: Prepare for handling several RB trees
  module: Always have struct mod_tree_root
  module: Rename debug_align() as strict_align()
  module: Rework layout alignment to avoid BUG_ON()s
  module: Move module_enable_x() and frob_text() in strict_rwx.c
  module: Make module_enable_x() independent of CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
  module: Move version support into a separate file
  ...
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<entry>
<title>static_call: Don't make __static_call_return0 static</title>
<updated>2022-04-05T07:59:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-14T11:49:36+00:00</published>
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System.map shows that vmlinux contains several instances of
__static_call_return0():

	c0004fc0 t __static_call_return0
	c0011518 t __static_call_return0
	c00d8160 t __static_call_return0

arch_static_call_transform() uses the middle one to check whether we are
setting a call to __static_call_return0 or not:

	c0011520 &lt;arch_static_call_transform&gt;:
	c0011520:       3d 20 c0 01     lis     r9,-16383	&lt;== r9 =  0xc001 &lt;&lt; 16
	c0011524:       39 29 15 18     addi    r9,r9,5400	&lt;== r9 += 0x1518
	c0011528:       7c 05 48 00     cmpw    r5,r9		&lt;== r9 has value 0xc0011518 here

So if static_call_update() is called with one of the other instances of
__static_call_return0(), arch_static_call_transform() won't recognise it.

In order to work properly, global single instance of __static_call_return0() is required.

Fixes: 3f2a8fc4b15d ("static_call/x86: Add __static_call_return0()")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/30821468a0e7d28251954b578e5051dc09300d04.1647258493.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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System.map shows that vmlinux contains several instances of
__static_call_return0():

	c0004fc0 t __static_call_return0
	c0011518 t __static_call_return0
	c00d8160 t __static_call_return0

arch_static_call_transform() uses the middle one to check whether we are
setting a call to __static_call_return0 or not:

	c0011520 &lt;arch_static_call_transform&gt;:
	c0011520:       3d 20 c0 01     lis     r9,-16383	&lt;== r9 =  0xc001 &lt;&lt; 16
	c0011524:       39 29 15 18     addi    r9,r9,5400	&lt;== r9 += 0x1518
	c0011528:       7c 05 48 00     cmpw    r5,r9		&lt;== r9 has value 0xc0011518 here

So if static_call_update() is called with one of the other instances of
__static_call_return0(), arch_static_call_transform() won't recognise it.

In order to work properly, global single instance of __static_call_return0() is required.

Fixes: 3f2a8fc4b15d ("static_call/x86: Add __static_call_return0()")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/30821468a0e7d28251954b578e5051dc09300d04.1647258493.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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<title>module: Move all into module/</title>
<updated>2022-04-04T19:57:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aaron Tomlin</name>
<email>atomlin@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-22T14:03:31+00:00</published>
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No functional changes.

This patch moves all module related code into a separate directory,
modifies each file name and creates a new Makefile. Note: this effort
is in preparation to refactor core module code.

Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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No functional changes.

This patch moves all module related code into a separate directory,
modifies each file name and creates a new Makefile. Note: this effort
is in preparation to refactor core module code.

Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>kprobes: Use rethook for kretprobe if possible</title>
<updated>2022-03-29T02:38:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-26T02:27:05+00:00</published>
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Use rethook for kretprobe function return hooking if the arch sets
CONFIG_HAVE_RETHOOK=y. In this case, CONFIG_KRETPROBE_ON_RETHOOK is
set to 'y' automatically, and the kretprobe internal data fields
switches to use rethook. If not, it continues to use kretprobe
specific function return hooks.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/164826162556.2455864.12255833167233452047.stgit@devnote2
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Use rethook for kretprobe function return hooking if the arch sets
CONFIG_HAVE_RETHOOK=y. In this case, CONFIG_KRETPROBE_ON_RETHOOK is
set to 'y' automatically, and the kretprobe internal data fields
switches to use rethook. If not, it continues to use kretprobe
specific function return hooks.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/164826162556.2455864.12255833167233452047.stgit@devnote2
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<title>module: add in-kernel support for decompressing</title>
<updated>2022-01-12T02:45:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-05T21:55:12+00:00</published>
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Current scheme of having userspace decompress kernel modules before
loading them into the kernel runs afoul of LoadPin security policy, as
it loses link between the source of kernel module on the disk and binary
blob that is being loaded into the kernel. To solve this issue let's
implement decompression in kernel, so that we can pass a file descriptor
of compressed module file into finit_module() which will keep LoadPin
happy.

To let userspace know what compression/decompression scheme kernel
supports it will create /sys/module/compression attribute. kmod can read
this attribute and decide if it can pass compressed file to
finit_module(). New MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_DATA flag indicates that the
kernel should attempt to decompress the data read from file descriptor
prior to trying load the module.

To simplify things kernel will only implement single decompression
method matching compression method selected when generating modules.
This patch implements gzip and xz; more can be added later,

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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Current scheme of having userspace decompress kernel modules before
loading them into the kernel runs afoul of LoadPin security policy, as
it loses link between the source of kernel module on the disk and binary
blob that is being loaded into the kernel. To solve this issue let's
implement decompression in kernel, so that we can pass a file descriptor
of compressed module file into finit_module() which will keep LoadPin
happy.

To let userspace know what compression/decompression scheme kernel
supports it will create /sys/module/compression attribute. kmod can read
this attribute and decide if it can pass compressed file to
finit_module(). New MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_DATA flag indicates that the
kernel should attempt to decompress the data read from file descriptor
prior to trying load the module.

To simplify things kernel will only implement single decompression
method matching compression method selected when generating modules.
This patch implements gzip and xz; more can be added later,

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T03:05:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-02T03:05:19+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - kprobes: Restructured stack unwinder to show properly on x86 when a
   stack dump happens from a kretprobe callback.

 - Fix to bootconfig parsing

 - Have tracefs allow owner and group permissions by default (only
   denying others). There's been pressure to allow non root to tracefs
   in a controlled fashion, and using groups is probably the safest.

 - Bootconfig memory managament updates.

 - Bootconfig clean up to have the tools directory be less dependent on
   changes in the kernel tree.

 - Allow perf to be traced by function tracer.

 - Rewrite of function graph tracer to be a callback from the function
   tracer instead of having its own trampoline (this change will happen
   on an arch by arch basis, and currently only x86_64 implements it).

 - Allow multiple direct trampolines (bpf hooks to functions) be batched
   together in one synchronization.

 - Allow histogram triggers to add variables that can perform
   calculations against the event's fields.

 - Use the linker to determine architecture callbacks from the ftrace
   trampoline to allow for proper parameter prototypes and prevent
   warnings from the compiler.

 - Extend histogram triggers to key off of variables.

 - Have trace recursion use bit magic to determine preempt context over
   if branches.

 - Have trace recursion disable preemption as all use cases do anyway.

 - Added testing for verification of tracing utilities.

 - Various small clean ups and fixes.

* tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (101 commits)
  tracing/histogram: Fix semicolon.cocci warnings
  tracing/histogram: Fix documentation inline emphasis warning
  tracing: Increase PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE to handle Sentinel1 and docker together
  tracing: Show size of requested perf buffer
  bootconfig: Initialize ret in xbc_parse_tree()
  ftrace: do CPU checking after preemption disabled
  ftrace: disable preemption when recursion locked
  tracing/histogram: Document expression arithmetic and constants
  tracing/histogram: Optimize division by a power of 2
  tracing/histogram: Covert expr to const if both operands are constants
  tracing/histogram: Simplify handling of .sym-offset in expressions
  tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression
  tracing: Add division and multiplication support for hist triggers
  tracing: Add support for creating hist trigger variables from literal
  selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace file by default
  MAINTAINERS: Update KPROBES and TRACING entries
  test_kprobes: Move it from kernel/ to lib/
  docs, kprobes: Remove invalid URL and add new reference
  samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed
  lib/bootconfig: Fix the xbc_get_info kerneldoc
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - kprobes: Restructured stack unwinder to show properly on x86 when a
   stack dump happens from a kretprobe callback.

 - Fix to bootconfig parsing

 - Have tracefs allow owner and group permissions by default (only
   denying others). There's been pressure to allow non root to tracefs
   in a controlled fashion, and using groups is probably the safest.

 - Bootconfig memory managament updates.

 - Bootconfig clean up to have the tools directory be less dependent on
   changes in the kernel tree.

 - Allow perf to be traced by function tracer.

 - Rewrite of function graph tracer to be a callback from the function
   tracer instead of having its own trampoline (this change will happen
   on an arch by arch basis, and currently only x86_64 implements it).

 - Allow multiple direct trampolines (bpf hooks to functions) be batched
   together in one synchronization.

 - Allow histogram triggers to add variables that can perform
   calculations against the event's fields.

 - Use the linker to determine architecture callbacks from the ftrace
   trampoline to allow for proper parameter prototypes and prevent
   warnings from the compiler.

 - Extend histogram triggers to key off of variables.

 - Have trace recursion use bit magic to determine preempt context over
   if branches.

 - Have trace recursion disable preemption as all use cases do anyway.

 - Added testing for verification of tracing utilities.

 - Various small clean ups and fixes.

* tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (101 commits)
  tracing/histogram: Fix semicolon.cocci warnings
  tracing/histogram: Fix documentation inline emphasis warning
  tracing: Increase PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE to handle Sentinel1 and docker together
  tracing: Show size of requested perf buffer
  bootconfig: Initialize ret in xbc_parse_tree()
  ftrace: do CPU checking after preemption disabled
  ftrace: disable preemption when recursion locked
  tracing/histogram: Document expression arithmetic and constants
  tracing/histogram: Optimize division by a power of 2
  tracing/histogram: Covert expr to const if both operands are constants
  tracing/histogram: Simplify handling of .sym-offset in expressions
  tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression
  tracing: Add division and multiplication support for hist triggers
  tracing: Add support for creating hist trigger variables from literal
  selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace file by default
  MAINTAINERS: Update KPROBES and TRACING entries
  test_kprobes: Move it from kernel/ to lib/
  docs, kprobes: Remove invalid URL and add new reference
  samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed
  lib/bootconfig: Fix the xbc_get_info kerneldoc
  ...
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<title>test_kprobes: Move it from kernel/ to lib/</title>
<updated>2021-10-26T21:23:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiezhu Yang</name>
<email>yangtiezhu@loongson.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T01:51:30+00:00</published>
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Since config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST is in lib/Kconfig.debug, it is better to
let test_kprobes.c in lib/, just like other similar tests found in lib/.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1635213091-24387-4-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Since config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST is in lib/Kconfig.debug, it is better to
let test_kprobes.c in lib/, just like other similar tests found in lib/.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1635213091-24387-4-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>futex: Move to kernel/futex/</title>
<updated>2021-10-07T11:51:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-23T17:10:50+00:00</published>
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In preparation for splitup..

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: André Almeida &lt;andrealmeid@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: André Almeida &lt;andrealmeid@collabora.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210923171111.300673-2-andrealmeid@collabora.com
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In preparation for splitup..

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: André Almeida &lt;andrealmeid@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: André Almeida &lt;andrealmeid@collabora.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210923171111.300673-2-andrealmeid@collabora.com
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: update config_data.gz only when the content of .config is changed</title>
<updated>2021-05-01T15:43:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-25T06:24:07+00:00</published>
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If the timestamp of the .config file is updated, config_data.gz is
regenerated, then vmlinux is re-linked. This occurs even if the content
of the .config has not changed at all.

This issue was mitigated by commit 67424f61f813 ("kconfig: do not write
.config if the content is the same"); Kconfig does not update the
.config when it ends up with the identical configuration.

The issue is remaining when the .config is created by *_defconfig with
some config fragment(s) applied on top.

This is typical for powerpc and mips, where several *_defconfig targets
are constructed by using merge_config.sh.

One workaround is to have the copy of the .config. The filechk rule
updates the copy, kernel/config_data, by checking the content instead
of the timestamp.

With this commit, the second run with the same configuration avoids
the needless rebuilds.

  $ make ARCH=mips defconfig all
   [ snip ]
  $ make ARCH=mips defconfig all
  *** Default configuration is based on target '32r2el_defconfig'
  Using ./arch/mips/configs/generic_defconfig as base
  Merging arch/mips/configs/generic/32r2.config
  Merging arch/mips/configs/generic/el.config
  Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-boston.config
  Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-ni169445.config
  Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-ocelot.config
  Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-ranchu.config
  Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-sead-3.config
  Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-xilfpga.config
  #
  # configuration written to .config
  #
    SYNC    include/config/auto.conf
    CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
    CALL    scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
    CHK     include/generated/compile.h
    CHK     include/generated/autoksyms.h

Reported-by: Elliot Berman &lt;eberman@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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If the timestamp of the .config file is updated, config_data.gz is
regenerated, then vmlinux is re-linked. This occurs even if the content
of the .config has not changed at all.

This issue was mitigated by commit 67424f61f813 ("kconfig: do not write
.config if the content is the same"); Kconfig does not update the
.config when it ends up with the identical configuration.

The issue is remaining when the .config is created by *_defconfig with
some config fragment(s) applied on top.

This is typical for powerpc and mips, where several *_defconfig targets
are constructed by using merge_config.sh.

One workaround is to have the copy of the .config. The filechk rule
updates the copy, kernel/config_data, by checking the content instead
of the timestamp.

With this commit, the second run with the same configuration avoids
the needless rebuilds.

  $ make ARCH=mips defconfig all
   [ snip ]
  $ make ARCH=mips defconfig all
  *** Default configuration is based on target '32r2el_defconfig'
  Using ./arch/mips/configs/generic_defconfig as base
  Merging arch/mips/configs/generic/32r2.config
  Merging arch/mips/configs/generic/el.config
  Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-boston.config
  Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-ni169445.config
  Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-ocelot.config
  Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-ranchu.config
  Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-sead-3.config
  Merging ./arch/mips/configs/generic/board-xilfpga.config
  #
  # configuration written to .config
  #
    SYNC    include/config/auto.conf
    CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
    CALL    scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
    CHK     include/generated/compile.h
    CHK     include/generated/autoksyms.h

Reported-by: Elliot Berman &lt;eberman@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>add support for Clang CFI</title>
<updated>2021-04-08T23:04:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-08T18:28:26+00:00</published>
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This change adds support for Clang’s forward-edge Control Flow
Integrity (CFI) checking. With CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, the compiler
injects a runtime check before each indirect function call to ensure
the target is a valid function with the correct static type. This
restricts possible call targets and makes it more difficult for
an attacker to exploit bugs that allow the modification of stored
function pointers. For more details, see:

  https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html

Clang requires CONFIG_LTO_CLANG to be enabled with CFI to gain
visibility to possible call targets. Kernel modules are supported
with Clang’s cross-DSO CFI mode, which allows checking between
independently compiled components.

With CFI enabled, the compiler injects a __cfi_check() function into
the kernel and each module for validating local call targets. For
cross-module calls that cannot be validated locally, the compiler
calls the global __cfi_slowpath_diag() function, which determines
the target module and calls the correct __cfi_check() function. This
patch includes a slowpath implementation that uses __module_address()
to resolve call targets, and with CONFIG_CFI_CLANG_SHADOW enabled, a
shadow map that speeds up module look-ups by ~3x.

Clang implements indirect call checking using jump tables and
offers two methods of generating them. With canonical jump tables,
the compiler renames each address-taken function to &lt;function&gt;.cfi
and points the original symbol to a jump table entry, which passes
__cfi_check() validation. This isn’t compatible with stand-alone
assembly code, which the compiler doesn’t instrument, and would
result in indirect calls to assembly code to fail. Therefore, we
default to using non-canonical jump tables instead, where the compiler
generates a local jump table entry &lt;function&gt;.cfi_jt for each
address-taken function, and replaces all references to the function
with the address of the jump table entry.

Note that because non-canonical jump table addresses are local
to each component, they break cross-module function address
equality. Specifically, the address of a global function will be
different in each module, as it's replaced with the address of a local
jump table entry. If this address is passed to a different module,
it won’t match the address of the same function taken there. This
may break code that relies on comparing addresses passed from other
components.

CFI checking can be disabled in a function with the __nocfi attribute.
Additionally, CFI can be disabled for an entire compilation unit by
filtering out CC_FLAGS_CFI.

By default, CFI failures result in a kernel panic to stop a potential
exploit. CONFIG_CFI_PERMISSIVE enables a permissive mode, where the
kernel prints out a rate-limited warning instead, and allows execution
to continue. This option is helpful for locating type mismatches, but
should only be enabled during development.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408182843.1754385-2-samitolvanen@google.com
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This change adds support for Clang’s forward-edge Control Flow
Integrity (CFI) checking. With CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, the compiler
injects a runtime check before each indirect function call to ensure
the target is a valid function with the correct static type. This
restricts possible call targets and makes it more difficult for
an attacker to exploit bugs that allow the modification of stored
function pointers. For more details, see:

  https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html

Clang requires CONFIG_LTO_CLANG to be enabled with CFI to gain
visibility to possible call targets. Kernel modules are supported
with Clang’s cross-DSO CFI mode, which allows checking between
independently compiled components.

With CFI enabled, the compiler injects a __cfi_check() function into
the kernel and each module for validating local call targets. For
cross-module calls that cannot be validated locally, the compiler
calls the global __cfi_slowpath_diag() function, which determines
the target module and calls the correct __cfi_check() function. This
patch includes a slowpath implementation that uses __module_address()
to resolve call targets, and with CONFIG_CFI_CLANG_SHADOW enabled, a
shadow map that speeds up module look-ups by ~3x.

Clang implements indirect call checking using jump tables and
offers two methods of generating them. With canonical jump tables,
the compiler renames each address-taken function to &lt;function&gt;.cfi
and points the original symbol to a jump table entry, which passes
__cfi_check() validation. This isn’t compatible with stand-alone
assembly code, which the compiler doesn’t instrument, and would
result in indirect calls to assembly code to fail. Therefore, we
default to using non-canonical jump tables instead, where the compiler
generates a local jump table entry &lt;function&gt;.cfi_jt for each
address-taken function, and replaces all references to the function
with the address of the jump table entry.

Note that because non-canonical jump table addresses are local
to each component, they break cross-module function address
equality. Specifically, the address of a global function will be
different in each module, as it's replaced with the address of a local
jump table entry. If this address is passed to a different module,
it won’t match the address of the same function taken there. This
may break code that relies on comparing addresses passed from other
components.

CFI checking can be disabled in a function with the __nocfi attribute.
Additionally, CFI can be disabled for an entire compilation unit by
filtering out CC_FLAGS_CFI.

By default, CFI failures result in a kernel panic to stop a potential
exploit. CONFIG_CFI_PERMISSIVE enables a permissive mode, where the
kernel prints out a rate-limited warning instead, and allows execution
to continue. This option is helpful for locating type mismatches, but
should only be enabled during development.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408182843.1754385-2-samitolvanen@google.com
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