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<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
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<title>x86: link vdso and boot with -z noexecstack --no-warn-rwx-segments</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T12:40:01Z</updated>
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<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
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<published>2022-08-10T22:24:41Z</published>
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commit ffcf9c5700e49c0aee42dcba9a12ba21338e8136 upstream.

Users of GNU ld (BFD) from binutils 2.39+ will observe multiple
instances of a new warning when linking kernels in the form:

  ld: warning: arch/x86/boot/pmjump.o: missing .note.GNU-stack section implies executable stack
  ld: NOTE: This behaviour is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the linker
  ld: warning: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions

Generally, we would like to avoid the stack being executable.  Because
there could be a need for the stack to be executable, assembler sources
have to opt-in to this security feature via explicit creation of the
.note.GNU-stack feature (which compilers create by default) or command
line flag --noexecstack.  Or we can simply tell the linker the
production of such sections is irrelevant and to link the stack as
--noexecstack.

LLVM's LLD linker defaults to -z noexecstack, so this flag isn't
strictly necessary when linking with LLD, only BFD, but it doesn't hurt
to be explicit here for all linkers IMO.  --no-warn-rwx-segments is
currently BFD specific and only available in the current latest release,
so it's wrapped in an ld-option check.

While the kernel makes extensive usage of ELF sections, it doesn't use
permissions from ELF segments.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/3af4127a-f453-4cf7-f133-a181cce06f73@kernel.dk/
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=ba951afb99912da01a6e8434126b8fac7aa75107
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/57009
Reported-and-tested-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Suggested-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86/boot: Wrap literal addresses in absolute_pointer()</title>
<updated>2022-06-25T13:29:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
</author>
<published>2022-02-27T19:59:18Z</published>
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commit aeb84412037b89e06f45e382f044da6f200e12f8 upstream.

GCC 11 (incorrectly[1]) assumes that literal values cast to (void *)
should be treated like a NULL pointer with an offset, and raises
diagnostics when doing bounds checking under -Warray-bounds. GCC 12
got "smarter" about finding these:

  In function 'rdfs8',
      inlined from 'vga_recalc_vertical' at /srv/code/arch/x86/boot/video-mode.c:124:29,
      inlined from 'set_mode' at /srv/code/arch/x86/boot/video-mode.c:163:3:
  /srv/code/arch/x86/boot/boot.h:114:9: warning: array subscript 0 is outside array bounds of 'u8[0]' {aka 'unsigned char[]'} [-Warray-bounds]
    114 |         asm volatile("movb %%fs:%1,%0" : "=q" (v) : "m" (*(u8 *)addr));
        |         ^~~

This has been solved in other places[2] already by using the recently
added absolute_pointer() macro. Do the same here.

  [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99578
  [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210912160149.2227137-1-linux@roeck-us.net/

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220227195918.705219-1-keescook@chromium.org
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'memcpy-v5.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2022-03-26T19:19:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2022-03-26T19:19:04Z</published>
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Pull FORTIFY_SOURCE updates from Kees Cook:
 "This series consists of two halves:

   - strict compile-time buffer size checking under FORTIFY_SOURCE for
     the memcpy()-family of functions (for extensive details and
     rationale, see the first commit)

   - enabling FORTIFY_SOURCE for Clang, which has had many overlapping
     bugs that we've finally worked past"

* tag 'memcpy-v5.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  fortify: Add Clang support
  fortify: Make sure strlen() may still be used as a constant expression
  fortify: Use __diagnose_as() for better diagnostic coverage
  fortify: Make pointer arguments const
  Compiler Attributes: Add __diagnose_as for Clang
  Compiler Attributes: Add __overloadable for Clang
  Compiler Attributes: Add __pass_object_size for Clang
  fortify: Replace open-coded __gnu_inline attribute
  fortify: Update compile-time tests for Clang 14
  fortify: Detect struct member overflows in memset() at compile-time
  fortify: Detect struct member overflows in memmove() at compile-time
  fortify: Detect struct member overflows in memcpy() at compile-time
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<title>x86: clean up symbol aliasing</title>
<updated>2022-02-22T16:21:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
</author>
<published>2022-02-16T16:22:28Z</published>
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Now that we have SYM_FUNC_ALIAS() and SYM_FUNC_ALIAS_WEAK(), use those
to simplify the definition of function aliases across arch/x86.

For clarity, where there are multiple annotations such as
EXPORT_SYMBOL(), I've tried to keep annotations grouped by symbol. For
example, where a function has a name and an alias which are both
exported, this is organised as:

	SYM_FUNC_START(func)
	    ... asm insns ...
	SYM_FUNC_END(func)
	EXPORT_SYMBOL(func)

	SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(alias, func)
	EXPORT_SYMBOL(alias)

Where there are only aliases and no exports or other annotations, I have
not bothered with line spacing, e.g.

	SYM_FUNC_START(func)
	    ... asm insns ...
	SYM_FUNC_END(func)
	SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(alias, func)

The tools/perf/ copies of memset_64.S and memset_64.S are updated
likewise to avoid the build system complaining these are mismatched:

| Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S' differs from latest version at 'arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S'
| diff -u tools/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S
| Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S' differs from latest version at 'arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S'
| diff -u tools/arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220216162229.1076788-4-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>fortify: Detect struct member overflows in memmove() at compile-time</title>
<updated>2022-02-14T00:50:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
</author>
<published>2021-06-16T21:48:19Z</published>
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As done for memcpy(), also update memmove() to use the same tightened
compile-time checks under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2022-01-19T09:15:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2022-01-19T09:15:19Z</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Add new kconfig target 'make mod2noconfig', which will be useful to
   speed up the build and test iteration.

 - Raise the minimum supported version of LLVM to 11.0.0

 - Refactor certs/Makefile

 - Change the format of include/config/auto.conf to stop double-quoting
   string type CONFIG options.

 - Fix ARCH=sh builds in dash

 - Separate compression macros for general purposes (cmd_bzip2 etc.) and
   the ones for decompressors (cmd_bzip2_with_size etc.)

 - Misc Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
  kbuild: add cmd_file_size
  arch: decompressor: remove useless vmlinux.bin.all-y
  kbuild: rename cmd_{bzip2,lzma,lzo,lz4,xzkern,zstd22}
  kbuild: drop $(size_append) from cmd_zstd
  sh: rename suffix-y to suffix_y
  doc: kbuild: fix default in `imply` table
  microblaze: use built-in function to get CPU_{MAJOR,MINOR,REV}
  certs: move scripts/extract-cert to certs/
  kbuild: do not quote string values in include/config/auto.conf
  kbuild: do not include include/config/auto.conf from shell scripts
  certs: simplify $(srctree)/ handling and remove config_filename macro
  kbuild: stop using config_filename in scripts/Makefile.modsign
  certs: remove misleading comments about GCC PR
  certs: refactor file cleaning
  certs: remove unneeded -I$(srctree) option for system_certificates.o
  certs: unify duplicated cmd_extract_certs and improve the log
  certs: use $&lt; and $@ to simplify the key generation rule
  kbuild: remove headers_check stub
  kbuild: move headers_check.pl to usr/include/
  certs: use if_changed to re-generate the key when the key type is changed
  ...
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<title>kbuild: rename cmd_{bzip2,lzma,lzo,lz4,xzkern,zstd22}</title>
<updated>2022-01-13T17:54:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
</author>
<published>2022-01-09T18:15:27Z</published>
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GZIP-compressed files end with 4 byte data that represents the size
of the original input. The decompressors (the self-extracting kernel)
exploit it to know the vmlinux size beforehand. To mimic the GZIP's
trailer, Kbuild provides cmd_{bzip2,lzma,lzo,lz4,xzkern,zstd22}.
Unfortunately these macros are used everywhere despite the appended
size data is only useful for the decompressors.

There is no guarantee that such hand-crafted trailers are safely ignored.
In fact, the kernel refuses compressed initramdfs with the garbage data.
That is why usr/Makefile overrides size_append to make it no-op.

To limit the use of such broken compressed files, this commit renames
the existing macros as follows:

  cmd_bzip2   --&gt; cmd_bzip2_with_size
  cmd_lzma    --&gt; cmd_lzma_with_size
  cmd_lzo     --&gt; cmd_lzo_with_size
  cmd_lz4     --&gt; cmd_lz4_with_size
  cmd_xzkern  --&gt; cmd_xzkern_with_size
  cmd_zstd22  --&gt; cmd_zstd22_with_size

To keep the decompressors working, I updated the following Makefiles
accordingly:

  arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/h8300/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/parisc/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/s390/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/sh/boot/compressed/Makefile
  arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile

I reused the current macro names for the normal usecases; they produce
the compressed data in the proper format.

I did not touch the following:

  arch/arc/boot/Makefile
  arch/arm64/boot/Makefile
  arch/csky/boot/Makefile
  arch/mips/boot/Makefile
  arch/riscv/boot/Makefile
  arch/sh/boot/Makefile
  kernel/Makefile

This means those Makefiles will stop appending the size data.

I dropped the 'override size_append' hack from usr/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'x86_core_for_v5.17_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-01-13T00:31:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2022-01-13T00:31:19Z</published>
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Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Get rid of all the .fixup sections because this generates
   misleading/wrong stacktraces and confuse RELIABLE_STACKTRACE and
   LIVEPATCH as the backtrace misses the function which is being fixed
   up.

 - Add Straight Line Speculation mitigation support which uses a new
   compiler switch -mharden-sls= which sticks an INT3 after a RET or an
   indirect branch in order to block speculation after them. Reportedly,
   CPUs do speculate behind such insns.

 - The usual set of cleanups and improvements

* tag 'x86_core_for_v5.17_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  x86/entry_32: Fix segment exceptions
  objtool: Remove .fixup handling
  x86: Remove .fixup section
  x86/word-at-a-time: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/usercopy: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/usercopy_32: Simplify __copy_user_intel_nocache()
  x86/sgx: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/checksum_32: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/vmx: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/kvm: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/segment: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/fpu: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/xen: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/uaccess: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/futex: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/msr: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/extable: Extend extable functionality
  x86/entry_32: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/entry_64: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/copy_mc_64: Remove .fixup usage
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2022-01-11T23:36:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2022-01-11T23:36:30Z</published>
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Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:

 - support taking the measurement of the initrd when loaded via the
   LoadFile2 protocol

 - kobject API cleanup from Greg

 - some header file whitespace fixes

* tag 'efi-next-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  efi: use default_groups in kobj_type
  efi/libstub: measure loaded initrd info into the TPM
  efi/libstub: consolidate initrd handling across architectures
  efi/libstub: x86/mixed: increase supported argument count
  efi/libstub: add prototype of efi_tcg2_protocol::hash_log_extend_event()
  include/linux/efi.h: Remove unneeded whitespaces before tabs
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_build_for_v5.17_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-01-10T18:18:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2022-01-10T18:18:58Z</published>
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Pull x86 build fix from Borislav Petkov:
 "A fix for cross-compiling the compressed stub on arm64 with clang"

* tag 'x86_build_for_v5.17_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot/compressed: Move CLANG_FLAGS to beginning of KBUILD_CFLAGS
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