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<title>kasan: rework Kconfig settings</title>
<updated>2018-02-25T10:05:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
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<published>2018-02-19T10:13:20+00:00</published>
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commit e7c52b84fb18f08ce49b6067ae6285aca79084a8 upstream.

We get a lot of very large stack frames using gcc-7.0.1 with the default
-fsanitize-address-use-after-scope --param asan-stack=1 options, which can
easily cause an overflow of the kernel stack, e.g.

  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/handlers.c:2434:1: warning: the frame size of 46176 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c:5650:1: warning: the frame size of 23632 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  lib/atomic64_test.c:250:1: warning: the frame size of 11200 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/handlers.c:2621:1: warning: the frame size of 9208 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv090x.c:3431:1: warning: the frame size of 6816 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  fs/fscache/stats.c:287:1: warning: the frame size of 6536 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes

To reduce this risk, -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope is now split out
into a separate CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA Kconfig option, leading to stack
frames that are smaller than 2 kilobytes most of the time on x86_64.  An
earlier version of this patch also prevented combining KASAN_EXTRA with
KASAN_INLINE, but that is no longer necessary with gcc-7.0.1.

All patches to get the frame size below 2048 bytes with CONFIG_KASAN=y
and CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA=n have been merged by maintainers now, so we can
bring back that default now.  KASAN_EXTRA=y still causes lots of
warnings but now defaults to !COMPILE_TEST to disable it in
allmodconfig, and it remains disabled in all other defconfigs since it
is a new option.  I arbitrarily raise the warning limit for KASAN_EXTRA
to 3072 to reduce the noise, but an allmodconfig kernel still has around
50 warnings on gcc-7.

I experimented a bit more with smaller stack frames and have another
follow-up series that reduces the warning limit for 64-bit architectures
to 1280 bytes (without CONFIG_KASAN).

With earlier versions of this patch series, I also had patches to address
the warnings we get with KASAN and/or KASAN_EXTRA, using a
"noinline_if_stackbloat" annotation.

That annotation now got replaced with a gcc-8 bugfix (see
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81715) and a workaround for
older compilers, which means that KASAN_EXTRA is now just as bad as
before and will lead to an instant stack overflow in a few extreme
cases.

This reverts parts of commit 3f181b4d8652 ("lib/Kconfig.debug: disable
-Wframe-larger-than warnings with KASAN=y").  Two patches in linux-next
should be merged first to avoid introducing warnings in an allmodconfig
build:
  3cd890dbe2a4 ("media: dvb-frontends: fix i2c access helpers for KASAN")
  16c3ada89cff ("media: r820t: fix r820t_write_reg for KASAN")

Do we really need to backport this?

I think we do: without this patch, enabling KASAN will lead to
unavoidable kernel stack overflow in certain device drivers when built
with gcc-7 or higher on linux-4.10+ or any version that contains a
backport of commit c5caf21ab0cf8.  Most people are probably still on
older compilers, but it will get worse over time as they upgrade their
distros.

The warnings we get on kernels older than this should all be for code
that uses dangerously large stack frames, though most of them do not
cause an actual stack overflow by themselves.The asan-stack option was
added in linux-4.0, and commit 3f181b4d8652 ("lib/Kconfig.debug:
disable -Wframe-larger-than warnings with KASAN=y") effectively turned
off the warning for allmodconfig kernels, so I would like to see this
fix backported to any kernels later than 4.0.

I have done dozens of fixes for individual functions with stack frames
larger than 2048 bytes with asan-stack, and I plan to make sure that
all those fixes make it into the stable kernels as well (most are
already there).

Part of the complication here is that asan-stack (from 4.0) was
originally assumed to always require much larger stacks, but that
turned out to be a combination of multiple gcc bugs that we have now
worked around and fixed, but sanitize-address-use-after-scope (from
v4.10) has a much higher inherent stack usage and also suffers from at
least three other problems that we have analyzed but not yet fixed
upstream, each of them makes the stack usage more severe than it should
be.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171221134744.2295529-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[arnd: rebase to v4.9; only re-enable warning]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit e7c52b84fb18f08ce49b6067ae6285aca79084a8 upstream.

We get a lot of very large stack frames using gcc-7.0.1 with the default
-fsanitize-address-use-after-scope --param asan-stack=1 options, which can
easily cause an overflow of the kernel stack, e.g.

  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/handlers.c:2434:1: warning: the frame size of 46176 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c:5650:1: warning: the frame size of 23632 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  lib/atomic64_test.c:250:1: warning: the frame size of 11200 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/handlers.c:2621:1: warning: the frame size of 9208 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv090x.c:3431:1: warning: the frame size of 6816 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
  fs/fscache/stats.c:287:1: warning: the frame size of 6536 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes

To reduce this risk, -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope is now split out
into a separate CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA Kconfig option, leading to stack
frames that are smaller than 2 kilobytes most of the time on x86_64.  An
earlier version of this patch also prevented combining KASAN_EXTRA with
KASAN_INLINE, but that is no longer necessary with gcc-7.0.1.

All patches to get the frame size below 2048 bytes with CONFIG_KASAN=y
and CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA=n have been merged by maintainers now, so we can
bring back that default now.  KASAN_EXTRA=y still causes lots of
warnings but now defaults to !COMPILE_TEST to disable it in
allmodconfig, and it remains disabled in all other defconfigs since it
is a new option.  I arbitrarily raise the warning limit for KASAN_EXTRA
to 3072 to reduce the noise, but an allmodconfig kernel still has around
50 warnings on gcc-7.

I experimented a bit more with smaller stack frames and have another
follow-up series that reduces the warning limit for 64-bit architectures
to 1280 bytes (without CONFIG_KASAN).

With earlier versions of this patch series, I also had patches to address
the warnings we get with KASAN and/or KASAN_EXTRA, using a
"noinline_if_stackbloat" annotation.

That annotation now got replaced with a gcc-8 bugfix (see
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81715) and a workaround for
older compilers, which means that KASAN_EXTRA is now just as bad as
before and will lead to an instant stack overflow in a few extreme
cases.

This reverts parts of commit 3f181b4d8652 ("lib/Kconfig.debug: disable
-Wframe-larger-than warnings with KASAN=y").  Two patches in linux-next
should be merged first to avoid introducing warnings in an allmodconfig
build:
  3cd890dbe2a4 ("media: dvb-frontends: fix i2c access helpers for KASAN")
  16c3ada89cff ("media: r820t: fix r820t_write_reg for KASAN")

Do we really need to backport this?

I think we do: without this patch, enabling KASAN will lead to
unavoidable kernel stack overflow in certain device drivers when built
with gcc-7 or higher on linux-4.10+ or any version that contains a
backport of commit c5caf21ab0cf8.  Most people are probably still on
older compilers, but it will get worse over time as they upgrade their
distros.

The warnings we get on kernels older than this should all be for code
that uses dangerously large stack frames, though most of them do not
cause an actual stack overflow by themselves.The asan-stack option was
added in linux-4.0, and commit 3f181b4d8652 ("lib/Kconfig.debug:
disable -Wframe-larger-than warnings with KASAN=y") effectively turned
off the warning for allmodconfig kernels, so I would like to see this
fix backported to any kernels later than 4.0.

I have done dozens of fixes for individual functions with stack frames
larger than 2048 bytes with asan-stack, and I plan to make sure that
all those fixes make it into the stable kernels as well (most are
already there).

Part of the complication here is that asan-stack (from 4.0) was
originally assumed to always require much larger stacks, but that
turned out to be a combination of multiple gcc bugs that we have now
worked around and fixed, but sanitize-address-use-after-scope (from
v4.10) has a much higher inherent stack usage and also suffers from at
least three other problems that we have analyzed but not yet fixed
upstream, each of them makes the stack usage more severe than it should
be.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171221134744.2295529-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[arnd: rebase to v4.9; only re-enable warning]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lib/Kconfig.debug: fix frv build failure</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:49:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sudip Mukherjee</name>
<email>sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-11T00:57:45+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit da0510c47519fe0999cffe316e1d370e29f952be ]

The build of frv allmodconfig was failing with the errors like:

  /tmp/cc0JSPc3.s: Assembler messages:
  /tmp/cc0JSPc3.s:1839: Error: symbol `.LSLT0' is already defined
  /tmp/cc0JSPc3.s:1842: Error: symbol `.LASLTP0' is already defined
  /tmp/cc0JSPc3.s:1969: Error: symbol `.LELTP0' is already defined
  /tmp/cc0JSPc3.s:1970: Error: symbol `.LELT0' is already defined

Commit 866ced950bcd ("kbuild: Support split debug info v4") introduced
splitting the debug info and keeping that in a separate file.  Somehow,
the frv-linux gcc did not like that and I am guessing that instead of
splitting it started copying.  The first report about this is at:

  https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all/2015-July/010527.html.

I will try and see if this can work with frv and if still fails I will
open a bug report with gcc.  But meanwhile this is the easiest option to
solve build failure of frv.

Fixes: 866ced950bcd ("kbuild: Support split debug info v4")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482062348-5352-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee &lt;sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@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;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit da0510c47519fe0999cffe316e1d370e29f952be ]

The build of frv allmodconfig was failing with the errors like:

  /tmp/cc0JSPc3.s: Assembler messages:
  /tmp/cc0JSPc3.s:1839: Error: symbol `.LSLT0' is already defined
  /tmp/cc0JSPc3.s:1842: Error: symbol `.LASLTP0' is already defined
  /tmp/cc0JSPc3.s:1969: Error: symbol `.LELTP0' is already defined
  /tmp/cc0JSPc3.s:1970: Error: symbol `.LELT0' is already defined

Commit 866ced950bcd ("kbuild: Support split debug info v4") introduced
splitting the debug info and keeping that in a separate file.  Somehow,
the frv-linux gcc did not like that and I am guessing that instead of
splitting it started copying.  The first report about this is at:

  https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all/2015-July/010527.html.

I will try and see if this can work with frv and if still fails I will
open a bug report with gcc.  But meanwhile this is the easiest option to
solve build failure of frv.

Fixes: 866ced950bcd ("kbuild: Support split debug info v4")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482062348-5352-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee &lt;sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@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;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>config: Adding the new config parameter CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING_SMALL for sparc</title>
<updated>2016-11-18T19:33:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Babu Moger</name>
<email>babu.moger@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-02T16:36:32+00:00</published>
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This new config parameter limits the space used for "Lock debugging:
prove locking correctness" by about 4MB. The current sparc systems have
the limitation of 32MB size for kernel size including .text, .data and
.bss sections. With PROVE_LOCKING feature, the kernel size could grow
beyond this limit and causing system boot-up issues. With this option,
kernel limits the size of the entries of lock_chains, stack_trace etc.,
so that kernel fits in required size limit. This is not visible to user
and only used for sparc.

Signed-off-by: Babu Moger &lt;babu.moger@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This new config parameter limits the space used for "Lock debugging:
prove locking correctness" by about 4MB. The current sparc systems have
the limitation of 32MB size for kernel size including .text, .data and
.bss sections. With PROVE_LOCKING feature, the kernel size could grow
beyond this limit and causing system boot-up issues. With this option,
kernel limits the size of the entries of lock_chains, stack_trace etc.,
so that kernel fits in required size limit. This is not visible to user
and only used for sparc.

Signed-off-by: Babu Moger &lt;babu.moger@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>latent_entropy: raise CONFIG_FRAME_WARN by default</title>
<updated>2016-10-28T01:43:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-28T00:46:41+00:00</published>
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When building with the latent_entropy plugin, set the default
CONFIG_FRAME_WARN to 2048, since some __init functions have many basic
blocks that, when instrumented by the latent_entropy plugin, grow beyond
1024 byte stack size on 32-bit builds.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161018211216.GA39687@beast
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When building with the latent_entropy plugin, set the default
CONFIG_FRAME_WARN to 2048, since some __init functions have many basic
blocks that, when instrumented by the latent_entropy plugin, grow beyond
1024 byte stack size on 32-bit builds.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161018211216.GA39687@beast
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-4.9-rc1-update' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest</title>
<updated>2016-10-14T22:17:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-14T22:17:12+00:00</published>
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Pull kselftest updates from Shuah Khan:
 "This update consists of:

   - Fixes and improvements to existing tests

   - Moving code from Documentation to selftests, samples, and tools:

     * Moves dnotify_test, prctl, ptp, vDSO, ia64, watchdog, and
       networking tests from Documentation to selftests.

     * Moves mic/mpssd, misc-devices/mei, timers, watchdog, auxdisplay,
       and blackfin examples from Documentation to samples.

     * Moves accounting, laptops/dslm, and pcmcia/crc32hash tools from
       Documentation to tools.

     * Deletes BUILD_DOCSRC and its dependencies"

* tag 'linux-kselftest-4.9-rc1-update' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: (21 commits)
  selftests/futex: Check ANSI terminal color support
  Doc: update 00-INDEX files to reflect the runnable code move
  samples: move blackfin gptimers-example from Documentation
  tools: move pcmcia crc32hash tool from Documentation
  tools: move laptops dslm tool from Documentation
  tools: move accounting tool from Documentation
  samples: move auxdisplay example code from Documentation
  samples: move watchdog example code from Documentation
  samples: move timers example code from Documentation
  samples: move misc-devices/mei example code from Documentation
  samples: move mic/mpssd example code from Documentation
  selftests: Move networking/timestamping from Documentation
  selftests: move watchdog tests from Documentation/watchdog
  selftests: move ia64 tests from Documentation/ia64
  selftests: move vDSO tests from Documentation/vDSO
  selftests: move ptp tests from Documentation/ptp
  selftests: move prctl tests from Documentation/prctl
  selftests: move dnotify_test from Documentation/filesystems
  selftests/timers: Add missing error code assignment before test
  selftests/zram: replace ZRAM_LZ4_COMPRESS
  ...
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Pull kselftest updates from Shuah Khan:
 "This update consists of:

   - Fixes and improvements to existing tests

   - Moving code from Documentation to selftests, samples, and tools:

     * Moves dnotify_test, prctl, ptp, vDSO, ia64, watchdog, and
       networking tests from Documentation to selftests.

     * Moves mic/mpssd, misc-devices/mei, timers, watchdog, auxdisplay,
       and blackfin examples from Documentation to samples.

     * Moves accounting, laptops/dslm, and pcmcia/crc32hash tools from
       Documentation to tools.

     * Deletes BUILD_DOCSRC and its dependencies"

* tag 'linux-kselftest-4.9-rc1-update' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: (21 commits)
  selftests/futex: Check ANSI terminal color support
  Doc: update 00-INDEX files to reflect the runnable code move
  samples: move blackfin gptimers-example from Documentation
  tools: move pcmcia crc32hash tool from Documentation
  tools: move laptops dslm tool from Documentation
  tools: move accounting tool from Documentation
  samples: move auxdisplay example code from Documentation
  samples: move watchdog example code from Documentation
  samples: move timers example code from Documentation
  samples: move misc-devices/mei example code from Documentation
  samples: move mic/mpssd example code from Documentation
  selftests: Move networking/timestamping from Documentation
  selftests: move watchdog tests from Documentation/watchdog
  selftests: move ia64 tests from Documentation/ia64
  selftests: move vDSO tests from Documentation/vDSO
  selftests: move ptp tests from Documentation/ptp
  selftests: move prctl tests from Documentation/prctl
  selftests: move dnotify_test from Documentation/filesystems
  selftests/timers: Add missing error code assignment before test
  selftests/zram: replace ZRAM_LZ4_COMPRESS
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>samples: move blackfin gptimers-example from Documentation</title>
<updated>2016-10-10T13:12:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shuah Khan</name>
<email>shuahkh@osg.samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-06T22:00:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=184892925118d924aa9304b466946ae18c029932'/>
<id>184892925118d924aa9304b466946ae18c029932</id>
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Move blackfin gptimers-example to samples and remove it from Documentation
Makefile. Update samples Kconfig and Makefile to build gptimers-example.

blackfin is the last CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC target in Documentation/Makefile.
Hence this patch also includes changes to remove CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC from
Makefile and lib/Kconfig.debug and updates VIDEO_PCI_SKELETON dependency
on BUILD_DOCSRC.

Documentation/Makefile is not deleted to avoid braking make htmldocs and
make distclean.

Acked-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Valentin Rothberg &lt;valentinrothberg@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;shuahkh@osg.samsung.com&gt;
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Move blackfin gptimers-example to samples and remove it from Documentation
Makefile. Update samples Kconfig and Makefile to build gptimers-example.

blackfin is the last CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC target in Documentation/Makefile.
Hence this patch also includes changes to remove CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC from
Makefile and lib/Kconfig.debug and updates VIDEO_PCI_SKELETON dependency
on BUILD_DOCSRC.

Documentation/Makefile is not deleted to avoid braking make htmldocs and
make distclean.

Acked-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Valentin Rothberg &lt;valentinrothberg@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;shuahkh@osg.samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T19:24:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-07T19:24:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=2ab704a47e0f27df758840a589aec3298dbb98dd'/>
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Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "The usual rocket science from the trivial tree"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  tracing/syscalls: fix multiline in error message text
  lib/Kconfig.debug: fix DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH description
  doc: vfs: fix fadvise() sycall name
  x86/entry: spell EBX register correctly in documentation
  securityfs: fix securityfs_create_dir comment
  irq: Fix typo in tracepoint.xml
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Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "The usual rocket science from the trivial tree"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  tracing/syscalls: fix multiline in error message text
  lib/Kconfig.debug: fix DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH description
  doc: vfs: fix fadvise() sycall name
  x86/entry: spell EBX register correctly in documentation
  securityfs: fix securityfs_create_dir comment
  irq: Fix typo in tracepoint.xml
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lib/Kconfig.debug: fix DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH description</title>
<updated>2016-09-29T08:19:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-09T08:04:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=67797b9237766b1608818d5379e06a0a3c9fb2ee'/>
<id>67797b9237766b1608818d5379e06a0a3c9fb2ee</id>
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Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/hung_task: Fix typo in CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK help text</title>
<updated>2016-09-23T05:30:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vivien Didelot</name>
<email>vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-22T20:55:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=96b03ab86d843524ec4aed7fe0ceef412c684c68'/>
<id>96b03ab86d843524ec4aed7fe0ceef412c684c68</id>
<content type='text'>
Fix the indefinitiley -&gt; indefinitely typo in Kconfig.debug.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot &lt;vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160922205513.17821-1-vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Fix the indefinitiley -&gt; indefinitely typo in Kconfig.debug.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot &lt;vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160922205513.17821-1-vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/usercopy: get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS</title>
<updated>2016-08-30T17:10:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-30T13:04:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=0d025d271e55f3de21f0aaaf54b42d20404d2b23'/>
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There are three usercopy warnings which are currently being silenced for
gcc 4.6 and newer:

1) "copy_from_user() buffer size is too small" compile warning/error

   This is a static warning which happens when object size and copy size
   are both const, and copy size &gt; object size.  I didn't see any false
   positives for this one.  So the function warning attribute seems to
   be working fine here.

   Note this scenario is always a bug and so I think it should be
   changed to *always* be an error, regardless of
   CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS.

2) "copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct" compile warning

   This is another static warning which happens when I enable
   __compiletime_object_size() for new compilers (and
   CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS).  It happens when object size
   is const, but copy size is *not*.  In this case there's no way to
   compare the two at build time, so it gives the warning.  (Note the
   warning is a byproduct of the fact that gcc has no way of knowing
   whether the overflow function will be called, so the call isn't dead
   code and the warning attribute is activated.)

   So this warning seems to only indicate "this is an unusual pattern,
   maybe you should check it out" rather than "this is a bug".

   I get 102(!) of these warnings with allyesconfig and the
   __compiletime_object_size() gcc check removed.  I don't know if there
   are any real bugs hiding in there, but from looking at a small
   sample, I didn't see any.  According to Kees, it does sometimes find
   real bugs.  But the false positive rate seems high.

3) "Buffer overflow detected" runtime warning

   This is a runtime warning where object size is const, and copy size &gt;
   object size.

All three warnings (both static and runtime) were completely disabled
for gcc 4.6 with the following commit:

  2fb0815c9ee6 ("gcc4: disable __compiletime_object_size for GCC 4.6+")

That commit mistakenly assumed that the false positives were caused by a
gcc bug in __compiletime_object_size().  But in fact,
__compiletime_object_size() seems to be working fine.  The false
positives were instead triggered by #2 above.  (Though I don't have an
explanation for why the warnings supposedly only started showing up in
gcc 4.6.)

So remove warning #2 to get rid of all the false positives, and re-enable
warnings #1 and #3 by reverting the above commit.

Furthermore, since #1 is a real bug which is detected at compile time,
upgrade it to always be an error.

Having done all that, CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS is no longer
needed.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul.park@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Nilay Vaish &lt;nilayvaish@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
There are three usercopy warnings which are currently being silenced for
gcc 4.6 and newer:

1) "copy_from_user() buffer size is too small" compile warning/error

   This is a static warning which happens when object size and copy size
   are both const, and copy size &gt; object size.  I didn't see any false
   positives for this one.  So the function warning attribute seems to
   be working fine here.

   Note this scenario is always a bug and so I think it should be
   changed to *always* be an error, regardless of
   CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS.

2) "copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct" compile warning

   This is another static warning which happens when I enable
   __compiletime_object_size() for new compilers (and
   CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS).  It happens when object size
   is const, but copy size is *not*.  In this case there's no way to
   compare the two at build time, so it gives the warning.  (Note the
   warning is a byproduct of the fact that gcc has no way of knowing
   whether the overflow function will be called, so the call isn't dead
   code and the warning attribute is activated.)

   So this warning seems to only indicate "this is an unusual pattern,
   maybe you should check it out" rather than "this is a bug".

   I get 102(!) of these warnings with allyesconfig and the
   __compiletime_object_size() gcc check removed.  I don't know if there
   are any real bugs hiding in there, but from looking at a small
   sample, I didn't see any.  According to Kees, it does sometimes find
   real bugs.  But the false positive rate seems high.

3) "Buffer overflow detected" runtime warning

   This is a runtime warning where object size is const, and copy size &gt;
   object size.

All three warnings (both static and runtime) were completely disabled
for gcc 4.6 with the following commit:

  2fb0815c9ee6 ("gcc4: disable __compiletime_object_size for GCC 4.6+")

That commit mistakenly assumed that the false positives were caused by a
gcc bug in __compiletime_object_size().  But in fact,
__compiletime_object_size() seems to be working fine.  The false
positives were instead triggered by #2 above.  (Though I don't have an
explanation for why the warnings supposedly only started showing up in
gcc 4.6.)

So remove warning #2 to get rid of all the false positives, and re-enable
warnings #1 and #3 by reverting the above commit.

Furthermore, since #1 is a real bug which is detected at compile time,
upgrade it to always be an error.

Having done all that, CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS is no longer
needed.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul.park@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Nilay Vaish &lt;nilayvaish@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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