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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>security/keys: BIG_KEY requires CONFIG_CRYPTO</title>
<updated>2018-02-25T10:05:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-04T10:27:00+00:00</published>
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commit 3cd18d1981731d5f74b8e437009124ac99905d14 upstream.

The recent rework introduced a possible randconfig build failure
when CONFIG_CRYPTO configured to only allow modules:

security/keys/big_key.o: In function `big_key_crypt':
big_key.c:(.text+0x29f): undefined reference to `crypto_aead_setkey'
security/keys/big_key.o: In function `big_key_init':
big_key.c:(.init.text+0x1a): undefined reference to `crypto_alloc_aead'
big_key.c:(.init.text+0x45): undefined reference to `crypto_aead_setauthsize'
big_key.c:(.init.text+0x77): undefined reference to `crypto_destroy_tfm'
crypto/gcm.o: In function `gcm_hash_crypt_remain_continue':
gcm.c:(.text+0x167): undefined reference to `crypto_ahash_finup'
crypto/gcm.o: In function `crypto_gcm_exit_tfm':
gcm.c:(.text+0x847): undefined reference to `crypto_destroy_tfm'

When we 'select CRYPTO' like the other users, we always get a
configuration that builds.

Fixes: 428490e38b2e ("security/keys: rewrite all of big_key crypto")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3cd18d1981731d5f74b8e437009124ac99905d14 upstream.

The recent rework introduced a possible randconfig build failure
when CONFIG_CRYPTO configured to only allow modules:

security/keys/big_key.o: In function `big_key_crypt':
big_key.c:(.text+0x29f): undefined reference to `crypto_aead_setkey'
security/keys/big_key.o: In function `big_key_init':
big_key.c:(.init.text+0x1a): undefined reference to `crypto_alloc_aead'
big_key.c:(.init.text+0x45): undefined reference to `crypto_aead_setauthsize'
big_key.c:(.init.text+0x77): undefined reference to `crypto_destroy_tfm'
crypto/gcm.o: In function `gcm_hash_crypt_remain_continue':
gcm.c:(.text+0x167): undefined reference to `crypto_ahash_finup'
crypto/gcm.o: In function `crypto_gcm_exit_tfm':
gcm.c:(.text+0x847): undefined reference to `crypto_destroy_tfm'

When we 'select CRYPTO' like the other users, we always get a
configuration that builds.

Fixes: 428490e38b2e ("security/keys: rewrite all of big_key crypto")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>selinux: skip bounded transition processing if the policy isn't loaded</title>
<updated>2018-02-25T10:05:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-05T22:17:43+00:00</published>
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commit 4b14752ec4e0d87126e636384cf37c8dd9df157c upstream.

We can't do anything reasonable in security_bounded_transition() if we
don't have a policy loaded, and in fact we could run into problems
with some of the code inside expecting a policy.  Fix these problems
like we do many others in security/selinux/ss/services.c by checking
to see if the policy is loaded (ss_initialized) and returning quickly
if it isn't.

Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4b14752ec4e0d87126e636384cf37c8dd9df157c upstream.

We can't do anything reasonable in security_bounded_transition() if we
don't have a policy loaded, and in fact we could run into problems
with some of the code inside expecting a policy.  Fix these problems
like we do many others in security/selinux/ss/services.c by checking
to see if the policy is loaded (ss_initialized) and returning quickly
if it isn't.

Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>selinux: ensure the context is NUL terminated in security_context_to_sid_core()</title>
<updated>2018-02-25T10:05:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-28T23:51:12+00:00</published>
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commit ef28df55ac27e1e5cd122e19fa311d886d47a756 upstream.

The syzbot/syzkaller automated tests found a problem in
security_context_to_sid_core() during early boot (before we load the
SELinux policy) where we could potentially feed context strings without
NUL terminators into the strcmp() function.

We already guard against this during normal operation (after the SELinux
policy has been loaded) by making a copy of the context strings and
explicitly adding a NUL terminator to the end.  The patch extends this
protection to the early boot case (no loaded policy) by moving the context
copy earlier in security_context_to_sid_core().

Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Reviewed-By: William Roberts &lt;william.c.roberts@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ef28df55ac27e1e5cd122e19fa311d886d47a756 upstream.

The syzbot/syzkaller automated tests found a problem in
security_context_to_sid_core() during early boot (before we load the
SELinux policy) where we could potentially feed context strings without
NUL terminators into the strcmp() function.

We already guard against this during normal operation (after the SELinux
policy has been loaded) by making a copy of the context strings and
explicitly adding a NUL terminator to the end.  The patch extends this
protection to the early boot case (no loaded policy) by moving the context
copy earlier in security_context_to_sid_core().

Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Reviewed-By: William Roberts &lt;william.c.roberts@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KEYS: encrypted: fix buffer overread in valid_master_desc()</title>
<updated>2018-02-13T11:35:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-08T13:48:18+00:00</published>
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commit 794b4bc292f5d31739d89c0202c54e7dc9bc3add upstream.

With the 'encrypted' key type it was possible for userspace to provide a
data blob ending with a master key description shorter than expected,
e.g. 'keyctl add encrypted desc "new x" @s'.  When validating such a
master key description, validate_master_desc() could read beyond the end
of the buffer.  Fix this by using strncmp() instead of memcmp().  [Also
clean up the code to deduplicate some logic.]

Cc: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jin Qian &lt;jinqian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 794b4bc292f5d31739d89c0202c54e7dc9bc3add upstream.

With the 'encrypted' key type it was possible for userspace to provide a
data blob ending with a master key description shorter than expected,
e.g. 'keyctl add encrypted desc "new x" @s'.  When validating such a
master key description, validate_master_desc() could read beyond the end
of the buffer.  Fix this by using strncmp() instead of memcmp().  [Also
clean up the code to deduplicate some logic.]

Cc: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jin Qian &lt;jinqian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KPTI: Rename to PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION</title>
<updated>2018-01-05T14:46:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-03T18:17:35+00:00</published>
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This renames CONFIG_KAISER to CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This renames CONFIG_KAISER to CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/kaiser: Reenable PARAVIRT</title>
<updated>2018-01-05T14:46:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-02T13:19:49+00:00</published>
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Now that the required bits have been addressed, reenable
PARAVIRT.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Now that the required bits have been addressed, reenable
PARAVIRT.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kaiser: delete KAISER_REAL_SWITCH option</title>
<updated>2018-01-05T14:46:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-04T01:30:43+00:00</published>
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We fail to see what CONFIG_KAISER_REAL_SWITCH is for: it seems to be
left over from early development, and now just obscures tricky parts
of the code.  Delete it before adding PCIDs, or nokaiser boot option.

(Or if there is some good reason to keep the option, then it needs
a help text - and a "depends on KAISER", so that all those without
KAISER are not asked the question.  But we'd much rather delete it.)

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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We fail to see what CONFIG_KAISER_REAL_SWITCH is for: it seems to be
left over from early development, and now just obscures tricky parts
of the code.  Delete it before adding PCIDs, or nokaiser boot option.

(Or if there is some good reason to keep the option, then it needs
a help text - and a "depends on KAISER", so that all those without
KAISER are not asked the question.  But we'd much rather delete it.)

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kaiser: KAISER depends on SMP</title>
<updated>2018-01-05T14:46:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-13T21:03:10+00:00</published>
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It is absurd that KAISER should depend on SMP, but apparently nobody
has tried a UP build before: which breaks on implicit declaration of
function 'per_cpu_offset' in arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c.

Now, you would expect that to be trivially fixed up; but looking at
the System.map when that block is #ifdef'ed out of kaiser_init(),
I see that in a UP build __per_cpu_user_mapped_end is precisely at
__per_cpu_user_mapped_start, and the items carefully gathered into
that section for user-mapping on SMP, dispersed elsewhere on UP.

So, some other kind of section assignment will be needed on UP,
but implementing that is not a priority: just make KAISER depend
on SMP for now.

Also inserted a blank line before the option, tidied up the
brief Kconfig help message, and added an "If unsure, Y".

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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It is absurd that KAISER should depend on SMP, but apparently nobody
has tried a UP build before: which breaks on implicit declaration of
function 'per_cpu_offset' in arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c.

Now, you would expect that to be trivially fixed up; but looking at
the System.map when that block is #ifdef'ed out of kaiser_init(),
I see that in a UP build __per_cpu_user_mapped_end is precisely at
__per_cpu_user_mapped_start, and the items carefully gathered into
that section for user-mapping on SMP, dispersed elsewhere on UP.

So, some other kind of section assignment will be needed on UP,
but implementing that is not a priority: just make KAISER depend
on SMP for now.

Also inserted a blank line before the option, tidied up the
brief Kconfig help message, and added an "If unsure, Y".

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kaiser: merged update</title>
<updated>2018-01-05T14:46:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
<email>dave.hansen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-30T23:23:00+00:00</published>
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Merged fixes and cleanups, rebased to 4.9.51 tree (no 5-level paging).

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Merged fixes and cleanups, rebased to 4.9.51 tree (no 5-level paging).

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KAISER: Kernel Address Isolation</title>
<updated>2018-01-05T14:46:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Fellner</name>
<email>richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-04T12:26:50+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces our implementation of KAISER (Kernel Address Isolation to
have Side-channels Efficiently Removed), a kernel isolation technique to close
hardware side channels on kernel address information.

More information about the patch can be found on:

        https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER

From: Richard Fellner &lt;richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at&gt;
From: Daniel Gruss &lt;daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at&gt;
Subject: [RFC, PATCH] x86_64: KAISER - do not map kernel in user mode
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 14:26:50 +0200
Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=149390087310405&amp;w=2
Kaiser-4.10-SHA1: c4b1831d44c6144d3762ccc72f0c4e71a0c713e5

To: &lt;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org&gt;
To: &lt;kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;clementine.maurice@iaik.tugraz.at&gt;
Cc: &lt;moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at&gt;
Cc: Michael Schwarz &lt;michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at&gt;
Cc: Richard Fellner &lt;richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;anders.fogh@gdata-adan.de&gt;

After several recent works [1,2,3] KASLR on x86_64 was basically
considered dead by many researchers. We have been working on an
efficient but effective fix for this problem and found that not mapping
the kernel space when running in user mode is the solution to this
problem [4] (the corresponding paper [5] will be presented at ESSoS17).

With this RFC patch we allow anybody to configure their kernel with the
flag CONFIG_KAISER to add our defense mechanism.

If there are any questions we would love to answer them.
We also appreciate any comments!

Cheers,
Daniel (+ the KAISER team from Graz University of Technology)

[1] http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a191.pdf
[2] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Fogh-Using-Undocumented-CPU-Behaviour-To-See-Into-Kernel-Mode-And-Break-KASLR-In-The-Process.pdf
[3] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Jang-Breaking-Kernel-Address-Space-Layout-Randomization-KASLR-With-Intel-TSX.pdf
[4] https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER
[5] https://gruss.cc/files/kaiser.pdf

[patch based also on
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IAIK/KAISER/master/KAISER/0001-KAISER-Kernel-Address-Isolation.patch]

Signed-off-by: Richard Fellner &lt;richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Moritz Lipp &lt;moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gruss &lt;daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Schwarz &lt;michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This patch introduces our implementation of KAISER (Kernel Address Isolation to
have Side-channels Efficiently Removed), a kernel isolation technique to close
hardware side channels on kernel address information.

More information about the patch can be found on:

        https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER

From: Richard Fellner &lt;richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at&gt;
From: Daniel Gruss &lt;daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at&gt;
Subject: [RFC, PATCH] x86_64: KAISER - do not map kernel in user mode
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 14:26:50 +0200
Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=149390087310405&amp;w=2
Kaiser-4.10-SHA1: c4b1831d44c6144d3762ccc72f0c4e71a0c713e5

To: &lt;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org&gt;
To: &lt;kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;clementine.maurice@iaik.tugraz.at&gt;
Cc: &lt;moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at&gt;
Cc: Michael Schwarz &lt;michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at&gt;
Cc: Richard Fellner &lt;richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;anders.fogh@gdata-adan.de&gt;

After several recent works [1,2,3] KASLR on x86_64 was basically
considered dead by many researchers. We have been working on an
efficient but effective fix for this problem and found that not mapping
the kernel space when running in user mode is the solution to this
problem [4] (the corresponding paper [5] will be presented at ESSoS17).

With this RFC patch we allow anybody to configure their kernel with the
flag CONFIG_KAISER to add our defense mechanism.

If there are any questions we would love to answer them.
We also appreciate any comments!

Cheers,
Daniel (+ the KAISER team from Graz University of Technology)

[1] http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a191.pdf
[2] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Fogh-Using-Undocumented-CPU-Behaviour-To-See-Into-Kernel-Mode-And-Break-KASLR-In-The-Process.pdf
[3] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Jang-Breaking-Kernel-Address-Space-Layout-Randomization-KASLR-With-Intel-TSX.pdf
[4] https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER
[5] https://gruss.cc/files/kaiser.pdf

[patch based also on
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IAIK/KAISER/master/KAISER/0001-KAISER-Kernel-Address-Isolation.patch]

Signed-off-by: Richard Fellner &lt;richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Moritz Lipp &lt;moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gruss &lt;daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Schwarz &lt;michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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