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<title>kernel.git/arch/Kconfig, branch linux-5.16.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
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<updated>2022-04-08T12:05:38Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>stack: Constrain and fix stack offset randomization with Clang builds</title>
<updated>2022-04-08T12:05:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
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<published>2022-01-31T09:05:21Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit efa90c11f62e6b7252fb75efe2787056872a627c ]

All supported versions of Clang perform auto-init of __builtin_alloca()
when stack auto-init is on (CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_{ZERO,PATTERN}).

add_random_kstack_offset() uses __builtin_alloca() to add a stack
offset. This means, when CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_{ZERO,PATTERN} is
enabled, add_random_kstack_offset() will auto-init that unused portion
of the stack used to add an offset.

There are several problems with this:

	1. These offsets can be as large as 1023 bytes. Performing
	   memset() on them isn't exactly cheap, and this is done on
	   every syscall entry.

	2. Architectures adding add_random_kstack_offset() to syscall
	   entry implemented in C require them to be 'noinstr' (e.g. see
	   x86 and s390). The potential problem here is that a call to
	   memset may occur, which is not noinstr.

A x86_64 defconfig kernel with Clang 11 and CONFIG_VMLINUX_VALIDATION shows:

 | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_syscall_64()+0x9d: call to memset() leaves .noinstr.text section
 | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_int80_syscall_32()+0xab: call to memset() leaves .noinstr.text section
 | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __do_fast_syscall_32()+0xe2: call to memset() leaves .noinstr.text section
 | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: fixup_bad_iret()+0x2f: call to memset() leaves .noinstr.text section

Clang 14 (unreleased) will introduce a way to skip alloca initialization
via __builtin_alloca_uninitialized() (https://reviews.llvm.org/D115440).

Constrain RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET to only be enabled if no stack
auto-init is enabled, the compiler is GCC, or Clang is version 14+. Use
__builtin_alloca_uninitialized() if the compiler provides it, as is done
by Clang 14.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YbHTKUjEejZCLyhX@elver.google.com
Fixes: 39218ff4c625 ("stack: Optionally randomize kernel stack offset each syscall")
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220131090521.1947110-2-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch: Add generic Kconfig option indicating page size smaller than 64k</title>
<updated>2021-11-27T22:34:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
</author>
<published>2021-11-27T15:44:40Z</published>
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NTFS_RW and VMXNET3 require a page size smaller than 64kB.  Add generic
Kconfig option for use outside architecture code to avoid architecture
specific Kconfig options in that code.

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov &lt;anton@tuxera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.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>2021-11-02T03:05:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2021-11-02T03:05:19Z</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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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_cc_for_v5.16_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-11-01T22:16:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2021-11-01T22:16:52Z</published>
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Pull generic confidential computing updates from Borislav Petkov:
 "Add an interface called cc_platform_has() which is supposed to be used
  by confidential computing solutions to query different aspects of the
  system.

  The intent behind it is to unify testing of such aspects instead of
  having each confidential computing solution add its own set of tests
  to code paths in the kernel, leading to an unwieldy mess"

* tag 'x86_cc_for_v5.16_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  treewide: Replace the use of mem_encrypt_active() with cc_platform_has()
  x86/sev: Replace occurrences of sev_es_active() with cc_platform_has()
  x86/sev: Replace occurrences of sev_active() with cc_platform_has()
  x86/sme: Replace occurrences of sme_active() with cc_platform_has()
  powerpc/pseries/svm: Add a powerpc version of cc_platform_has()
  x86/sev: Add an x86 version of cc_platform_has()
  arch/cc: Introduce a function to check for confidential computing features
  x86/ioremap: Selectively build arch override encryption functions
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<title>kprobes: Add a test case for stacktrace from kretprobe handler</title>
<updated>2021-10-26T21:23:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
</author>
<published>2021-10-25T11:41:52Z</published>
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Add a test case for stacktrace from kretprobe handler and
nested kretprobe handlers.

This test checks both of stack trace inside kretprobe handler
and stack trace from pt_regs. Those stack trace must include
actual function return address instead of kretprobe trampoline.
The nested kretprobe stacktrace test checks whether the unwinder
can correctly unwind the call frame on the stack which has been
modified by the kretprobe.

Since the stacktrace on kretprobe is correctly fixed only on x86,
this introduces a meta kconfig ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE
which tells user that the stacktrace on kretprobe is correct or not.

The test results will be shown like below;

 TAP version 14
 1..1
     # Subtest: kprobes_test
     1..6
     ok 1 - test_kprobe
     ok 2 - test_kprobes
     ok 3 - test_kretprobe
     ok 4 - test_kretprobes
     ok 5 - test_stacktrace_on_kretprobe
     ok 6 - test_stacktrace_on_nested_kretprobe
 # kprobes_test: pass:6 fail:0 skip:0 total:6
 # Totals: pass:6 fail:0 skip:0 total:6
 ok 1 - kprobes_test

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163516211244.604541.18350507860972214415.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-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>signal: Add an optional check for altstack size</title>
<updated>2021-10-26T08:15:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
</author>
<published>2021-10-21T22:55:05Z</published>
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New x86 FPU features will be very large, requiring ~10k of stack in
signal handlers.  These new features require a new approach called
"dynamic features".

The kernel currently tries to ensure that altstacks are reasonably
sized. Right now, on x86, sys_sigaltstack() requires a size of &gt;=2k.
However, that 2k is a constant. Simply raising that 2k requirement
to &gt;10k for the new features would break existing apps which have a
compiled-in size of 2k.

Instead of universally enforcing a larger stack, prohibit a process from
using dynamic features without properly-sized altstacks. This must be
enforced in two places:

 * A dynamic feature can not be enabled without an large-enough altstack
   for each process thread.
 * Once a dynamic feature is enabled, any request to install a too-small
   altstack will be rejected

The dynamic feature enabling code must examine each thread in a
process to ensure that the altstacks are large enough. Add a new lock
(sigaltstack_lock()) to ensure that threads can not race and change
their altstack after being examined.

Add the infrastructure in form of a config option and provide empty
stubs for architectures which do not need dynamic altstack size checks.

This implementation will be fleshed out for x86 in a future patch called

  x86/arch_prctl: Add controls for dynamic XSTATE components

  [dhansen: commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae &lt;chang.seok.bae@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211021225527.10184-2-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
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<entry>
<title>arch/cc: Introduce a function to check for confidential computing features</title>
<updated>2021-10-04T09:46:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lendacky</name>
</author>
<published>2021-09-08T22:58:33Z</published>
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In preparation for other confidential computing technologies, introduce
a generic helper function, cc_platform_has(), that can be used to
check for specific active confidential computing attributes, like
memory encryption. This is intended to eliminate having to add multiple
technology-specific checks to the code (e.g. if (sev_active() ||
tdx_active() || ... ).

 [ bp: s/_CC_PLATFORM_H/_LINUX_CC_PLATFORM_H/g ]

Co-developed-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan &lt;sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan &lt;sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210928191009.32551-3-bp@alien8.de
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2021-09-08T19:55:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2021-09-08T19:55:35Z</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "147 patches, based on 7d2a07b769330c34b4deabeed939325c77a7ec2f.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memory-hotplug, rmap,
  ioremap, highmem, cleanups, secretmem, kfence, damon, and vmscan),
  alpha, percpu, procfs, misc, core-kernel, MAINTAINERS, lib,
  checkpatch, epoll, init, nilfs2, coredump, fork, pids, criu, kconfig,
  selftests, ipc, and scripts"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (94 commits)
  scripts: check_extable: fix typo in user error message
  mm/workingset: correct kernel-doc notations
  ipc: replace costly bailout check in sysvipc_find_ipc()
  selftests/memfd: remove unused variable
  Kconfig.debug: drop selecting non-existing HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
  configs: remove the obsolete CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV
  prctl: allow to setup brk for et_dyn executables
  pid: cleanup the stale comment mentioning pidmap_init().
  kernel/fork.c: unexport get_{mm,task}_exe_file
  coredump: fix memleak in dump_vma_snapshot()
  fs/coredump.c: log if a core dump is aborted due to changed file permissions
  nilfs2: use refcount_dec_and_lock() to fix potential UAF
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group
  nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group
  trap: cleanup trap_init()
  init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arch: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "seperate" -&gt; "separate"</title>
<updated>2021-09-08T18:50:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
</author>
<published>2021-09-08T02:57:38Z</published>
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Threre is a spelling mistake in the Kconfig text. Fix it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210704095207.37342-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2021-09-05T18:50:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2021-09-05T18:50:41Z</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - simplify the Kconfig use of FTRACE and TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT

 - bootconfig can now start histograms

 - bootconfig supports group/all enabling

 - histograms now can put values in linear size buckets

 - execnames can be passed to synthetic events

 - introduce "event probes" that attach to other events and can retrieve
   data from pointers of fields, or record fields as different types (a
   pointer to a string as a string instead of just a hex number)

 - various fixes and clean ups

* tag 'trace-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (35 commits)
  tracing/doc: Fix table format in histogram code
  selftests/ftrace: Add selftest for testing duplicate eprobes and kprobes
  selftests/ftrace: Add selftest for testing eprobe events on synthetic events
  selftests/ftrace: Add test case to test adding and removing of event probe
  selftests/ftrace: Fix requirement check of README file
  selftests/ftrace: Add clear_dynamic_events() to test cases
  tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events
  tracing/probes: Reject events which have the same name of existing one
  tracing/probes: Have process_fetch_insn() take a void * instead of pt_regs
  tracing/probe: Change traceprobe_set_print_fmt() to take a type
  tracing/probes: Use struct_size() instead of defining custom macros
  tracing/probes: Allow for dot delimiter as well as slash for system names
  tracing/probe: Have traceprobe_parse_probe_arg() take a const arg
  tracing: Have dynamic events have a ref counter
  tracing: Add DYNAMIC flag for dynamic events
  tracing: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions.
  MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for os noise/latency
  tracepoint: Fix kerneldoc comments
  bootconfig/tracing/ktest: Update ktest example for boot-time tracing
  tools/bootconfig: Use per-group/all enable option in ftrace2bconf script
  ...
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