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<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 9030/1: entry: omit FP emulation for UND exceptions taken in kernel mode</title>
<updated>2020-12-08T10:15:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
</author>
<published>2020-11-19T17:09:16Z</published>
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There are a couple of problems with the exception entry code that deals
with FP exceptions (which are reported as UND exceptions) when building
the kernel in Thumb2 mode:
- the conditional branch to vfp_kmode_exception in vfp_support_entry()
  may be out of range for its target, depending on how the linker decides
  to arrange the sections;
- when the UND exception is taken in kernel mode, the emulation handling
  logic is entered via the 'call_fpe' label, which means we end up using
  the wrong value/mask pairs to match and detect the NEON opcodes.

Since UND exceptions in kernel mode are unlikely to occur on a hot path
(as opposed to the user mode version which is invoked for VFP support
code and lazy restore), we can use the existing undef hook machinery for
any kernel mode instruction emulation that is needed, including calling
the existing vfp_kmode_exception() routine for unexpected cases. So drop
the call to call_fpe, and instead, install an undef hook that will get
called for NEON and VFP instructions that trigger an UND exception in
kernel mode.

While at it, make sure that the PC correction is accurate for the
execution mode where the exception was taken, by checking the PSR
Thumb bit.

Cc: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;digetx@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Fixes: eff8728fe698 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Add PGO and AutoFDO input sections")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 9015/2: Define the virtual space of KASan's shadow region</title>
<updated>2020-10-27T12:11:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
</author>
<published>2020-10-25T22:53:46Z</published>
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Define KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET,KASAN_SHADOW_START and KASAN_SHADOW_END for
the Arm kernel address sanitizer. We are "stealing" lowmem (the 4GB
addressable by a 32bit architecture) out of the virtual address
space to use as shadow memory for KASan as follows:

 +----+ 0xffffffff
 |    |
 |    | |-&gt; Static kernel image (vmlinux) BSS and page table
 |    |/
 +----+ PAGE_OFFSET
 |    |
 |    | |-&gt;  Loadable kernel modules virtual address space area
 |    |/
 +----+ MODULES_VADDR = KASAN_SHADOW_END
 |    |
 |    | |-&gt; The shadow area of kernel virtual address.
 |    |/
 +----+-&gt;  TASK_SIZE (start of kernel space) = KASAN_SHADOW_START the
 |    |   shadow address of MODULES_VADDR
 |    | |
 |    | |
 |    | |-&gt; The user space area in lowmem. The kernel address
 |    | |   sanitizer do not use this space, nor does it map it.
 |    | |
 |    | |
 |    | |
 |    | |
 |    |/
 ------ 0

0 .. TASK_SIZE is the memory that can be used by shared
userspace/kernelspace. It us used for userspace processes and for
passing parameters and memory buffers in system calls etc. We do not
need to shadow this area.

KASAN_SHADOW_START:
 This value begins with the MODULE_VADDR's shadow address. It is the
 start of kernel virtual space. Since we have modules to load, we need
 to cover also that area with shadow memory so we can find memory
 bugs in modules.

KASAN_SHADOW_END
 This value is the 0x100000000's shadow address: the mapping that would
 be after the end of the kernel memory at 0xffffffff. It is the end of
 kernel address sanitizer shadow area. It is also the start of the
 module area.

KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET:
 This value is used to map an address to the corresponding shadow
 address by the following formula:

   shadow_addr = (address &gt;&gt; 3) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET;

 As you would expect, &gt;&gt; 3 is equal to dividing by 8, meaning each
 byte in the shadow memory covers 8 bytes of kernel memory, so one
 bit shadow memory per byte of kernel memory is used.

 The KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET is provided in a Kconfig option depending
 on the VMSPLIT layout of the system: the kernel and userspace can
 split up lowmem in different ways according to needs, so we calculate
 the shadow offset depending on this.

When kasan is enabled, the definition of TASK_SIZE is not an 8-bit
rotated constant, so we need to modify the TASK_SIZE access code in the
*.s file.

The kernel and modules may use different amounts of memory,
according to the VMSPLIT configuration, which in turn
determines the PAGE_OFFSET.

We use the following KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSETs depending on how the
virtual memory is split up:

- 0x1f000000 if we have 1G userspace / 3G kernelspace split:
  - The kernel address space is 3G (0xc0000000)
  - PAGE_OFFSET is then set to 0x40000000 so the kernel static
    image (vmlinux) uses addresses 0x40000000 .. 0xffffffff
  - On top of that we have the MODULES_VADDR which under
    the worst case (using ARM instructions) is
    PAGE_OFFSET - 16M (0x01000000) = 0x3f000000
    so the modules use addresses 0x3f000000 .. 0x3fffffff
  - So the addresses 0x3f000000 .. 0xffffffff need to be
    covered with shadow memory. That is 0xc1000000 bytes
    of memory.
  - 1/8 of that is needed for its shadow memory, so
    0x18200000 bytes of shadow memory is needed. We
    "steal" that from the remaining lowmem.
  - The KASAN_SHADOW_START becomes 0x26e00000, to
    KASAN_SHADOW_END at 0x3effffff.
  - Now we can calculate the KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET for any
    kernel address as 0x3f000000 needs to map to the first
    byte of shadow memory and 0xffffffff needs to map to
    the last byte of shadow memory. Since:
    SHADOW_ADDR = (address &gt;&gt; 3) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
    0x26e00000 = (0x3f000000 &gt;&gt; 3) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
    KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET = 0x26e00000 - (0x3f000000 &gt;&gt; 3)
    KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET = 0x26e00000 - 0x07e00000
    KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET = 0x1f000000

- 0x5f000000 if we have 2G userspace / 2G kernelspace split:
  - The kernel space is 2G (0x80000000)
  - PAGE_OFFSET is set to 0x80000000 so the kernel static
    image uses 0x80000000 .. 0xffffffff.
  - On top of that we have the MODULES_VADDR which under
    the worst case (using ARM instructions) is
    PAGE_OFFSET - 16M (0x01000000) = 0x7f000000
    so the modules use addresses 0x7f000000 .. 0x7fffffff
  - So the addresses 0x7f000000 .. 0xffffffff need to be
    covered with shadow memory. That is 0x81000000 bytes
    of memory.
  - 1/8 of that is needed for its shadow memory, so
    0x10200000 bytes of shadow memory is needed. We
    "steal" that from the remaining lowmem.
  - The KASAN_SHADOW_START becomes 0x6ee00000, to
    KASAN_SHADOW_END at 0x7effffff.
  - Now we can calculate the KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET for any
    kernel address as 0x7f000000 needs to map to the first
    byte of shadow memory and 0xffffffff needs to map to
    the last byte of shadow memory. Since:
    SHADOW_ADDR = (address &gt;&gt; 3) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
    0x6ee00000 = (0x7f000000 &gt;&gt; 3) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
    KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET = 0x6ee00000 - (0x7f000000 &gt;&gt; 3)
    KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET = 0x6ee00000 - 0x0fe00000
    KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET = 0x5f000000

- 0x9f000000 if we have 3G userspace / 1G kernelspace split,
  and this is the default split for ARM:
  - The kernel address space is 1GB (0x40000000)
  - PAGE_OFFSET is set to 0xc0000000 so the kernel static
    image uses 0xc0000000 .. 0xffffffff.
  - On top of that we have the MODULES_VADDR which under
    the worst case (using ARM instructions) is
    PAGE_OFFSET - 16M (0x01000000) = 0xbf000000
    so the modules use addresses 0xbf000000 .. 0xbfffffff
  - So the addresses 0xbf000000 .. 0xffffffff need to be
    covered with shadow memory. That is 0x41000000 bytes
    of memory.
  - 1/8 of that is needed for its shadow memory, so
    0x08200000 bytes of shadow memory is needed. We
    "steal" that from the remaining lowmem.
  - The KASAN_SHADOW_START becomes 0xb6e00000, to
    KASAN_SHADOW_END at 0xbfffffff.
  - Now we can calculate the KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET for any
    kernel address as 0xbf000000 needs to map to the first
    byte of shadow memory and 0xffffffff needs to map to
    the last byte of shadow memory. Since:
    SHADOW_ADDR = (address &gt;&gt; 3) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
    0xb6e00000 = (0xbf000000 &gt;&gt; 3) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
    KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET = 0xb6e00000 - (0xbf000000 &gt;&gt; 3)
    KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET = 0xb6e00000 - 0x17e00000
    KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET = 0x9f000000

- 0x8f000000 if we have 3G userspace / 1G kernelspace with
  full 1 GB low memory (VMSPLIT_3G_OPT):
  - The kernel address space is 1GB (0x40000000)
  - PAGE_OFFSET is set to 0xb0000000 so the kernel static
    image uses 0xb0000000 .. 0xffffffff.
  - On top of that we have the MODULES_VADDR which under
    the worst case (using ARM instructions) is
    PAGE_OFFSET - 16M (0x01000000) = 0xaf000000
    so the modules use addresses 0xaf000000 .. 0xaffffff
  - So the addresses 0xaf000000 .. 0xffffffff need to be
    covered with shadow memory. That is 0x51000000 bytes
    of memory.
  - 1/8 of that is needed for its shadow memory, so
    0x0a200000 bytes of shadow memory is needed. We
    "steal" that from the remaining lowmem.
  - The KASAN_SHADOW_START becomes 0xa4e00000, to
    KASAN_SHADOW_END at 0xaeffffff.
  - Now we can calculate the KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET for any
    kernel address as 0xaf000000 needs to map to the first
    byte of shadow memory and 0xffffffff needs to map to
    the last byte of shadow memory. Since:
    SHADOW_ADDR = (address &gt;&gt; 3) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
    0xa4e00000 = (0xaf000000 &gt;&gt; 3) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
    KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET = 0xa4e00000 - (0xaf000000 &gt;&gt; 3)
    KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET = 0xa4e00000 - 0x15e00000
    KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET = 0x8f000000

- The default value of 0xffffffff for KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
  is an error value. We should always match one of the
  above shadow offsets.

When we do this, TASK_SIZE will sometimes get a bit odd values
that will not fit into immediate mov assembly instructions.
To account for this, we need to rewrite some assembly using
TASK_SIZE like this:

-       mov     r1, #TASK_SIZE
+       ldr     r1, =TASK_SIZE

or

-       cmp     r4, #TASK_SIZE
+       ldr     r0, =TASK_SIZE
+       cmp     r4, r0

this is done to avoid the immediate #TASK_SIZE that need to
fit into a limited number of bits.

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: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt; # QEMU/KVM/mach-virt/LPAE/8G
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt; # Brahma SoCs
Tested-by: Ahmad Fatoum &lt;a.fatoum@pengutronix.de&gt; # i.MX6Q
Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Abbott Liu &lt;liuwenliang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: uaccess: consolidate uaccess asm to asm/uaccess-asm.h</title>
<updated>2020-05-03T16:30:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
</author>
<published>2020-05-03T12:03:54Z</published>
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Consolidate the user access assembly code to asm/uaccess-asm.h.  This
moves the csdb, check_uaccess, uaccess_mask_range_ptr, uaccess_enable,
uaccess_disable, uaccess_save, uaccess_restore macros, and creates two
new ones for exception entry and exit - uaccess_entry and uaccess_exit.

This makes the uaccess_save and uaccess_restore macros private to
asm/uaccess-asm.h.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/rt, ARM: Use CONFIG_PREEMPTION</title>
<updated>2019-12-08T13:37:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
</author>
<published>2019-10-15T19:17:48Z</published>
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CONFIG_PREEMPTION is selected by CONFIG_PREEMPT and by CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.
Both PREEMPT and PREEMPT_RT require the same functionality which today
depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT.

Switch the entry code, cache over to use CONFIG_PREEMPTION and add output
in show_stack() for PREEMPT_RT.

[bigeasy: +traps.c]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191015191821.11479-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: arm: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst</title>
<updated>2019-07-15T12:20:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
</author>
<published>2019-04-14T18:51:10Z</published>
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Converts ARM the text files to ReST, preparing them to be an
architecture book.

The conversion is actually:
  - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
  - fix tables markups;
  - add some lists markups;
  - mark literal blocks;
  - adjust title markups.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by Corentin Labbe &lt;clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com&gt; # For sun4i-ss
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500</title>
<updated>2019-06-19T15:09:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
</author>
<published>2019-06-04T08:11:33Z</published>
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8844/1: use unified assembler in assembly files</title>
<updated>2019-02-26T11:26:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Agner</name>
</author>
<published>2019-02-17T23:57:38Z</published>
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Use unified assembler syntax (UAL) in assembly files. Divided
syntax is considered deprecated. This will also allow to build
the kernel using LLVM's integrated assembler.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner &lt;stefan@agner.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: Convert to GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER</title>
<updated>2018-08-03T10:14:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Palmer Dabbelt</name>
</author>
<published>2018-06-22T17:01:23Z</published>
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Converts the ARM interrupt code to use the recently added
GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER, which is essentially just a copy of ARM's
existhing MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER.  The only changes are:

* handle_arch_irq is now defined in a generic C file instead of an
  arm-specific assembly file.
 
* handle_arch_irq is now marked as __ro_after_init.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: jonas@southpole.se
Cc: stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi
Cc: shorne@gmail.com
Cc: jason@lakedaemon.net
Cc: marc.zyngier@arm.com
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Cc: vladimir.murzin@arm.com
Cc: keescook@chromium.org
Cc: jinb.park7@gmail.com
Cc: yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Cc: alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com
Cc: pombredanne@nexb.com
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: kstewart@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: jhogan@kernel.org
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: james.morse@arm.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180622170126.6308-3-palmer@sifive.com

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables</title>
<updated>2018-06-14T03:21:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2018-06-14T03:21:18Z</published>
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The changes to automatically test for working stack protector compiler
support in the Kconfig files removed the special STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO
option that picked the strongest stack protector that the compiler
supported.

That was all a nice cleanup - it makes no sense to have the AUTO case
now that the Kconfig phase can just determine the compiler support
directly.

HOWEVER.

It also meant that doing "make oldconfig" would now _disable_ the strong
stackprotector if you had AUTO enabled, because in a legacy config file,
the sane stack protector configuration would look like

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE is not set
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR is not set
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO=y

and when you ran this through "make oldconfig" with the Kbuild changes,
it would ask you about the regular CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR (that had
been renamed from CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR to just
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR), but it would think that the STRONG version
used to be disabled (because it was really enabled by AUTO), and would
disable it in the new config, resulting in:

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y

That's dangerously subtle - people could suddenly find themselves with
the weaker stack protector setup without even realizing.

The solution here is to just rename not just the old RECULAR stack
protector option, but also the strong one.  This does that by just
removing the CC_ prefix entirely for the user choices, because it really
is not about the compiler support (the compiler support now instead
automatially impacts _visibility_ of the options to users).

This results in "make oldconfig" actually asking the user for their
choice, so that we don't have any silent subtle security model changes.
The end result would generally look like this:

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
  CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y

where the "CC_" versions really are about internal compiler
infrastructure, not the user selections.

Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: probes: avoid adding kprobes to sensitive kernel-entry/exit code</title>
<updated>2017-12-17T22:14:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
</author>
<published>2017-11-24T23:54:22Z</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:c608906165355089a4de3c9133c72e81e011096c</id>
<content type='text'>
Avoid adding kprobes to any of the kernel entry/exit or startup
assembly code, or code in the identity-mapped region.  This code does
not conform to the standard C conventions, which means that the
expectations of the kprobes code is not forfilled.

Placing kprobes at some of these locations results in the kernel trying
to return to userspace addresses while retaining the CPU in kernel mode.

Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju &lt;naresh.kamboju@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
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