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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-05-27T15:52:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-27T15:52:27+00:00</published>
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Pull kthread fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A single fix which prevents a use after free when kthread fork fails"

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails
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Pull kthread fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A single fix which prevents a use after free when kthread fork fails"

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails</title>
<updated>2017-05-22T20:21:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vegard Nossum</name>
<email>vegard.nossum@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-09T07:39:59+00:00</published>
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If a kthread forks (e.g. usermodehelper since commit 1da5c46fa965) but
fails in copy_process() between calling dup_task_struct() and setting
p-&gt;set_child_tid, then the value of p-&gt;set_child_tid will be inherited
from the parent and get prematurely freed by free_kthread_struct().

    kthread()
     - worker_thread()
        - process_one_work()
        |  - call_usermodehelper_exec_work()
        |     - kernel_thread()
        |        - _do_fork()
        |           - copy_process()
        |              - dup_task_struct()
        |                 - arch_dup_task_struct()
        |                    - tsk-&gt;set_child_tid = current-&gt;set_child_tid // implied
        |              - ...
        |              - goto bad_fork_*
        |              - ...
        |              - free_task(tsk)
        |                 - free_kthread_struct(tsk)
        |                    - kfree(tsk-&gt;set_child_tid)
        - ...
        - schedule()
           - __schedule()
              - wq_worker_sleeping()
                 - kthread_data(task)-&gt;flags // UAF

The problem started showing up with commit 1da5c46fa965 since it reused
-&gt;set_child_tid for the kthread worker data.

A better long-term solution might be to get rid of the -&gt;set_child_tid
abuse. The comment in set_kthread_struct() also looks slightly wrong.

Debugged-by: Jamie Iles &lt;jamie.iles@oracle.com&gt;
Fixes: 1da5c46fa965 ("kthread: Make struct kthread kmalloc'ed")
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jamie Iles &lt;jamie.iles@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170509073959.17858-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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If a kthread forks (e.g. usermodehelper since commit 1da5c46fa965) but
fails in copy_process() between calling dup_task_struct() and setting
p-&gt;set_child_tid, then the value of p-&gt;set_child_tid will be inherited
from the parent and get prematurely freed by free_kthread_struct().

    kthread()
     - worker_thread()
        - process_one_work()
        |  - call_usermodehelper_exec_work()
        |     - kernel_thread()
        |        - _do_fork()
        |           - copy_process()
        |              - dup_task_struct()
        |                 - arch_dup_task_struct()
        |                    - tsk-&gt;set_child_tid = current-&gt;set_child_tid // implied
        |              - ...
        |              - goto bad_fork_*
        |              - ...
        |              - free_task(tsk)
        |                 - free_kthread_struct(tsk)
        |                    - kfree(tsk-&gt;set_child_tid)
        - ...
        - schedule()
           - __schedule()
              - wq_worker_sleeping()
                 - kthread_data(task)-&gt;flags // UAF

The problem started showing up with commit 1da5c46fa965 since it reused
-&gt;set_child_tid for the kthread worker data.

A better long-term solution might be to get rid of the -&gt;set_child_tid
abuse. The comment in set_kthread_struct() also looks slightly wrong.

Debugged-by: Jamie Iles &lt;jamie.iles@oracle.com&gt;
Fixes: 1da5c46fa965 ("kthread: Make struct kthread kmalloc'ed")
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jamie Iles &lt;jamie.iles@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170509073959.17858-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>pid_ns: Fix race between setns'ed fork() and zap_pid_ns_processes()</title>
<updated>2017-05-13T22:26:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill Tkhai</name>
<email>ktkhai@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-12T16:11:31+00:00</published>
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Imagine we have a pid namespace and a task from its parent's pid_ns,
which made setns() to the pid namespace. The task is doing fork(),
while the pid namespace's child reaper is dying. We have the race
between them:

Task from parent pid_ns             Child reaper
copy_process()                      ..
  alloc_pid()                       ..
  ..                                zap_pid_ns_processes()
  ..                                  disable_pid_allocation()
  ..                                  read_lock(&amp;tasklist_lock)
  ..                                  iterate over pids in pid_ns
  ..                                    kill tasks linked to pids
  ..                                  read_unlock(&amp;tasklist_lock)
  write_lock_irq(&amp;tasklist_lock);   ..
  attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PID);       ..
  ..                                ..

So, just created task p won't receive SIGKILL signal,
and the pid namespace will be in contradictory state.
Only manual kill will help there, but does the userspace
care about this? I suppose, the most users just inject
a task into a pid namespace and wait a SIGCHLD from it.

The patch fixes the problem. It simply checks for
(pid_ns-&gt;nr_hashed &amp; PIDNS_HASH_ADDING) in copy_process().
We do it under the tasklist_lock, and can't skip
PIDNS_HASH_ADDING as noted by Oleg:

"zap_pid_ns_processes() does disable_pid_allocation()
and then takes tasklist_lock to kill the whole namespace.
Given that copy_process() checks PIDNS_HASH_ADDING
under write_lock(tasklist) they can't race;
if copy_process() takes this lock first, the new child will
be killed, otherwise copy_process() can't miss
the change in -&gt;nr_hashed."

If allocation is disabled, we just return -ENOMEM
like it's made for such cases in alloc_pid().

v2: Do not move disable_pid_allocation(), do not
introduce a new variable in copy_process() and simplify
the patch as suggested by Oleg Nesterov.
Account the problem with double irq enabling
found by Eric W. Biederman.

Fixes: c876ad768215 ("pidns: Stop pid allocation when init dies")
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
CC: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
CC: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
CC: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
CC: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
CC: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
CC: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
CC: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
CC: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
CC: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
CC: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Imagine we have a pid namespace and a task from its parent's pid_ns,
which made setns() to the pid namespace. The task is doing fork(),
while the pid namespace's child reaper is dying. We have the race
between them:

Task from parent pid_ns             Child reaper
copy_process()                      ..
  alloc_pid()                       ..
  ..                                zap_pid_ns_processes()
  ..                                  disable_pid_allocation()
  ..                                  read_lock(&amp;tasklist_lock)
  ..                                  iterate over pids in pid_ns
  ..                                    kill tasks linked to pids
  ..                                  read_unlock(&amp;tasklist_lock)
  write_lock_irq(&amp;tasklist_lock);   ..
  attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PID);       ..
  ..                                ..

So, just created task p won't receive SIGKILL signal,
and the pid namespace will be in contradictory state.
Only manual kill will help there, but does the userspace
care about this? I suppose, the most users just inject
a task into a pid namespace and wait a SIGCHLD from it.

The patch fixes the problem. It simply checks for
(pid_ns-&gt;nr_hashed &amp; PIDNS_HASH_ADDING) in copy_process().
We do it under the tasklist_lock, and can't skip
PIDNS_HASH_ADDING as noted by Oleg:

"zap_pid_ns_processes() does disable_pid_allocation()
and then takes tasklist_lock to kill the whole namespace.
Given that copy_process() checks PIDNS_HASH_ADDING
under write_lock(tasklist) they can't race;
if copy_process() takes this lock first, the new child will
be killed, otherwise copy_process() can't miss
the change in -&gt;nr_hashed."

If allocation is disabled, we just return -ENOMEM
like it's made for such cases in alloc_pid().

v2: Do not move disable_pid_allocation(), do not
introduce a new variable in copy_process() and simplify
the patch as suggested by Oleg Nesterov.
Account the problem with double irq enabling
found by Eric W. Biederman.

Fixes: c876ad768215 ("pidns: Stop pid allocation when init dies")
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
CC: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
CC: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
CC: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
CC: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
CC: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
CC: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
CC: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
CC: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
CC: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
CC: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-05-12T17:41:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-12T17:41:45+00:00</published>
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Pull stackprotector fixlet from Ingo Molnar:
 "A single fix/enhancement to increase stackprotector canary randomness
  on 64-bit kernels with very little cost"

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms
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<pre>
Pull stackprotector fixlet from Ingo Molnar:
 "A single fix/enhancement to increase stackprotector canary randomness
  on 64-bit kernels with very little cost"

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-05-10T17:30:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-10T16:50:55+00:00</published>
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Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - Debloat RCU headers

   - Parallelize SRCU callback handling (plus overlapping patches)

   - Improve the performance of Tree SRCU on a CPU-hotplug stress test

   - Documentation updates

   - Miscellaneous fixes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (74 commits)
  rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_lazy_cbs() function
  rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_cbs() function
  rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_empty() function
  rcu: Separately compile large rcu_segcblist functions
  srcu: Debloat the &lt;linux/rcu_segcblist.h&gt; header
  srcu: Adjust default auto-expediting holdoff
  srcu: Specify auto-expedite holdoff time
  srcu: Expedite first synchronize_srcu() when idle
  srcu: Expedited grace periods with reduced memory contention
  srcu: Make rcutorture writer stalls print SRCU GP state
  srcu: Exact tracking of srcu_data structures containing callbacks
  srcu: Make SRCU be built by default
  srcu: Fix Kconfig botch when SRCU not selected
  rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule be Tasks RCU quiescent state
  srcu: Expedite srcu_schedule_cbs_snp() callback invocation
  srcu: Parallelize callback handling
  kvm: Move srcu_struct fields to end of struct kvm
  rcu: Fix typo in PER_RCU_NODE_PERIOD header comment
  rcu: Use true/false in assignment to bool
  rcu: Use bool value directly
  ...
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Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - Debloat RCU headers

   - Parallelize SRCU callback handling (plus overlapping patches)

   - Improve the performance of Tree SRCU on a CPU-hotplug stress test

   - Documentation updates

   - Miscellaneous fixes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (74 commits)
  rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_lazy_cbs() function
  rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_cbs() function
  rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_empty() function
  rcu: Separately compile large rcu_segcblist functions
  srcu: Debloat the &lt;linux/rcu_segcblist.h&gt; header
  srcu: Adjust default auto-expediting holdoff
  srcu: Specify auto-expedite holdoff time
  srcu: Expedite first synchronize_srcu() when idle
  srcu: Expedited grace periods with reduced memory contention
  srcu: Make rcutorture writer stalls print SRCU GP state
  srcu: Exact tracking of srcu_data structures containing callbacks
  srcu: Make SRCU be built by default
  srcu: Fix Kconfig botch when SRCU not selected
  rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule be Tasks RCU quiescent state
  srcu: Expedite srcu_schedule_cbs_snp() callback invocation
  srcu: Parallelize callback handling
  kvm: Move srcu_struct fields to end of struct kvm
  rcu: Fix typo in PER_RCU_NODE_PERIOD header comment
  rcu: Use true/false in assignment to bool
  rcu: Use bool value directly
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T00:15:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T22:57:44+00:00</published>
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__vmalloc* allows users to provide gfp flags for the underlying
allocation.  This API is quite popular

  $ git grep "=[[:space:]]__vmalloc\|return[[:space:]]*__vmalloc" | wc -l
  77

The only problem is that many people are not aware that they really want
to give __GFP_HIGHMEM along with other flags because there is really no
reason to consume precious lowmemory on CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems for pages
which are mapped to the kernel vmalloc space.  About half of users don't
use this flag, though.  This signals that we make the API unnecessarily
too complex.

This patch simply uses __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly when allocating pages to
be mapped to the vmalloc space.  Current users which add __GFP_HIGHMEM
are simplified and drop the flag.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307141020.29107-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Cristopher Lameter &lt;cl@linux.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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__vmalloc* allows users to provide gfp flags for the underlying
allocation.  This API is quite popular

  $ git grep "=[[:space:]]__vmalloc\|return[[:space:]]*__vmalloc" | wc -l
  77

The only problem is that many people are not aware that they really want
to give __GFP_HIGHMEM along with other flags because there is really no
reason to consume precious lowmemory on CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems for pages
which are mapped to the kernel vmalloc space.  About half of users don't
use this flag, though.  This signals that we make the API unnecessarily
too complex.

This patch simply uses __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly when allocating pages to
be mapped to the vmalloc space.  Current users which add __GFP_HIGHMEM
are simplified and drop the flag.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307141020.29107-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Cristopher Lameter &lt;cl@linux.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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fork: free vmapped stacks in cache when cpus are offline</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T00:15:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hoeun Ryu</name>
<email>hoeun.ryu@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T22:56:11+00:00</published>
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Using virtually mapped stack, kernel stacks are allocated via vmalloc.

In the current implementation, two stacks per cpu can be cached when
tasks are freed and the cached stacks are used again in task
duplications.  But the cached stacks may remain unfreed even when cpu
are offline.  By adding a cpu hotplug callback to free the cached stacks
when a cpu goes offline, the pages of the cached stacks are not wasted.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487076043-17802-1-git-send-email-hoeun.ryu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hoeun Ryu &lt;hoeun.ryu@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mguzik@redhat.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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Using virtually mapped stack, kernel stacks are allocated via vmalloc.

In the current implementation, two stacks per cpu can be cached when
tasks are freed and the cached stacks are used again in task
duplications.  But the cached stacks may remain unfreed even when cpu
are offline.  By adding a cpu hotplug callback to free the cached stacks
when a cpu goes offline, the pages of the cached stacks are not wasted.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487076043-17802-1-git-send-email-hoeun.ryu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hoeun Ryu &lt;hoeun.ryu@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mguzik@redhat.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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<entry>
<title>stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms</title>
<updated>2017-05-05T06:05:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Micay</name>
<email>danielmicay@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-04T13:32:09+00:00</published>
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The stack canary is an 'unsigned long' and should be fully initialized to
random data rather than only 32 bits of random data.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Micay &lt;danielmicay@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170504133209.3053-1-danielmicay@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The stack canary is an 'unsigned long' and should be fully initialized to
random data rather than only 32 bits of random data.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Micay &lt;danielmicay@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170504133209.3053-1-danielmicay@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2017-05-03T15:50:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T15:50:52+00:00</published>
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "Highlights:

  IMA:
   - provide "&gt;" and "&lt;" operators for fowner/uid/euid rules

  KEYS:
   - add a system blacklist keyring

   - add KEYCTL_RESTRICT_KEYRING, exposes keyring link restriction
     functionality to userland via keyctl()

  LSM:
   - harden LSM API with __ro_after_init

   - add prlmit security hook, implement for SELinux

   - revive security_task_alloc hook

  TPM:
   - implement contextual TPM command 'spaces'"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (98 commits)
  tpm: Fix reference count to main device
  tpm_tis: convert to using locality callbacks
  tpm: fix handling of the TPM 2.0 event logs
  tpm_crb: remove a cruft constant
  keys: select CONFIG_CRYPTO when selecting DH / KDF
  apparmor: Make path_max parameter readonly
  apparmor: fix parameters so that the permission test is bypassed at boot
  apparmor: fix invalid reference to index variable of iterator line 836
  apparmor: use SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK
  security/apparmor/lsm.c: set debug messages
  apparmor: fix boolreturn.cocci warnings
  Smack: Use GFP_KERNEL for smk_netlbl_mls().
  smack: fix double free in smack_parse_opts_str()
  KEYS: add SP800-56A KDF support for DH
  KEYS: Keyring asymmetric key restrict method with chaining
  KEYS: Restrict asymmetric key linkage using a specific keychain
  KEYS: Add a lookup_restriction function for the asymmetric key type
  KEYS: Add KEYCTL_RESTRICT_KEYRING
  KEYS: Consistent ordering for __key_link_begin and restrict check
  KEYS: Add an optional lookup_restriction hook to key_type
  ...
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "Highlights:

  IMA:
   - provide "&gt;" and "&lt;" operators for fowner/uid/euid rules

  KEYS:
   - add a system blacklist keyring

   - add KEYCTL_RESTRICT_KEYRING, exposes keyring link restriction
     functionality to userland via keyctl()

  LSM:
   - harden LSM API with __ro_after_init

   - add prlmit security hook, implement for SELinux

   - revive security_task_alloc hook

  TPM:
   - implement contextual TPM command 'spaces'"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (98 commits)
  tpm: Fix reference count to main device
  tpm_tis: convert to using locality callbacks
  tpm: fix handling of the TPM 2.0 event logs
  tpm_crb: remove a cruft constant
  keys: select CONFIG_CRYPTO when selecting DH / KDF
  apparmor: Make path_max parameter readonly
  apparmor: fix parameters so that the permission test is bypassed at boot
  apparmor: fix invalid reference to index variable of iterator line 836
  apparmor: use SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK
  security/apparmor/lsm.c: set debug messages
  apparmor: fix boolreturn.cocci warnings
  Smack: Use GFP_KERNEL for smk_netlbl_mls().
  smack: fix double free in smack_parse_opts_str()
  KEYS: add SP800-56A KDF support for DH
  KEYS: Keyring asymmetric key restrict method with chaining
  KEYS: Restrict asymmetric key linkage using a specific keychain
  KEYS: Add a lookup_restriction function for the asymmetric key type
  KEYS: Add KEYCTL_RESTRICT_KEYRING
  KEYS: Consistent ordering for __key_link_begin and restrict check
  KEYS: Add an optional lookup_restriction hook to key_type
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching</title>
<updated>2017-05-03T01:24:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T01:24:16+00:00</published>
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Pull livepatch updates from Jiri Kosina:

 - a per-task consistency model is being added for architectures that
   support reliable stack dumping (extending this, currently rather
   trivial set, is currently in the works).

   This extends the nature of the types of patches that can be applied
   by live patching infrastructure. The code stems from the design
   proposal made [1] back in November 2014. It's a hybrid of SUSE's
   kGraft and RH's kpatch, combining advantages of both: it uses
   kGraft's per-task consistency and syscall barrier switching combined
   with kpatch's stack trace switching. There are also a number of
   fallback options which make it quite flexible.

   Most of the heavy lifting done by Josh Poimboeuf with help from
   Miroslav Benes and Petr Mladek

   [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141107140458.GA21774@suse.cz

 - module load time patch optimization from Zhou Chengming

 - a few assorted small fixes

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
  livepatch: add missing printk newlines
  livepatch: Cancel transition a safe way for immediate patches
  livepatch: Reduce the time of finding module symbols
  livepatch: make klp_mutex proper part of API
  livepatch: allow removal of a disabled patch
  livepatch: add /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/patch_state
  livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model
  livepatch: store function sizes
  livepatch: use kstrtobool() in enabled_store()
  livepatch: move patching functions into patch.c
  livepatch: remove unnecessary object loaded check
  livepatch: separate enabled and patched states
  livepatch/s390: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch/s390: reorganize TIF thread flag bits
  livepatch/powerpc: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch/x86: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch: create temporary klp_update_patch_state() stub
  x86/entry: define _TIF_ALLWORK_MASK flags explicitly
  stacktrace/x86: add function for detecting reliable stack traces
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<pre>
Pull livepatch updates from Jiri Kosina:

 - a per-task consistency model is being added for architectures that
   support reliable stack dumping (extending this, currently rather
   trivial set, is currently in the works).

   This extends the nature of the types of patches that can be applied
   by live patching infrastructure. The code stems from the design
   proposal made [1] back in November 2014. It's a hybrid of SUSE's
   kGraft and RH's kpatch, combining advantages of both: it uses
   kGraft's per-task consistency and syscall barrier switching combined
   with kpatch's stack trace switching. There are also a number of
   fallback options which make it quite flexible.

   Most of the heavy lifting done by Josh Poimboeuf with help from
   Miroslav Benes and Petr Mladek

   [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141107140458.GA21774@suse.cz

 - module load time patch optimization from Zhou Chengming

 - a few assorted small fixes

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
  livepatch: add missing printk newlines
  livepatch: Cancel transition a safe way for immediate patches
  livepatch: Reduce the time of finding module symbols
  livepatch: make klp_mutex proper part of API
  livepatch: allow removal of a disabled patch
  livepatch: add /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/patch_state
  livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model
  livepatch: store function sizes
  livepatch: use kstrtobool() in enabled_store()
  livepatch: move patching functions into patch.c
  livepatch: remove unnecessary object loaded check
  livepatch: separate enabled and patched states
  livepatch/s390: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch/s390: reorganize TIF thread flag bits
  livepatch/powerpc: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch/x86: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch: create temporary klp_update_patch_state() stub
  x86/entry: define _TIF_ALLWORK_MASK flags explicitly
  stacktrace/x86: add function for detecting reliable stack traces
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