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<entry>
<title>x86/unwind: Handle NULL pointer calls better in frame unwinder</title>
<updated>2019-03-27T05:13:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
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<published>2019-03-01T03:12:00Z</published>
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commit f4f34e1b82eb4219d8eaa1c7e2e17ca219a6a2b5 upstream.

When the frame unwinder is invoked for an oops caused by a call to NULL, it
currently skips the parent function because BP still points to the parent's
stack frame; the (nonexistent) current function only has the first half of
a stack frame, and BP doesn't point to it yet.

Add a special case for IP==0 that calculates a fake BP from SP, then uses
the real BP for the next frame.

Note that this handles first_frame specially: Return information about the
parent function as long as the saved IP is &gt;=first_frame, even if the fake
BP points below it.

With an artificially-added NULL call in prctl_set_seccomp(), before this
patch, the trace is:

Call Trace:
 ? prctl_set_seccomp+0x3a/0x50
 __x64_sys_prctl+0x457/0x6f0
 ? __ia32_sys_prctl+0x750/0x750
 do_syscall_64+0x72/0x160
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

After this patch, the trace is:

Call Trace:
 prctl_set_seccomp+0x3a/0x50
 __x64_sys_prctl+0x457/0x6f0
 ? __ia32_sys_prctl+0x750/0x750
 do_syscall_64+0x72/0x160
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: syzbot &lt;syzbot+ca95b2b7aef9e7cbd6ab@syzkaller.appspotmail.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Marek &lt;michal.lkml@markovi.net&gt;
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190301031201.7416-1-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>x86/unwind: Disable unwinder warnings on 32-bit</title>
<updated>2017-10-10T10:49:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
</author>
<published>2017-10-10T01:20:05Z</published>
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x86-32 doesn't have stack validation, so in most cases it doesn't make
sense to warn about bad frame pointers.

Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul.park@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: LKP &lt;lkp@01.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a69658760800bf281e6353248c23e0fa0acf5230.1507597785.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/unwind: Align stack pointer in unwinder dump</title>
<updated>2017-10-10T10:49:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
</author>
<published>2017-10-10T01:20:04Z</published>
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When printing the unwinder dump, the stack pointer could be unaligned,
for one of two reasons:

- stack corruption; or

- GCC created an unaligned stack.

There's no way for the unwinder to tell the difference between the two,
so we have to assume one or the other.  GCC unaligned stacks are very
rare, and have only been spotted before GCC 5.  Presumably, if we're
doing an unwinder stack dump, stack corruption is more likely than a
GCC unaligned stack.  So always align the stack before starting the
dump.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul.park@lge.com&gt;
Cc: LKP &lt;lkp@01.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2f540c515946ab09ed267e1a1d6421202a0cce08.1507597785.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/unwind: Use MSB for frame pointer encoding on 32-bit</title>
<updated>2017-10-10T10:49:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
</author>
<published>2017-10-10T01:20:03Z</published>
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On x86-32, Tetsuo Handa and Fengguang Wu reported unwinder warnings
like:

  WARNING: kernel stack regs at f60bb9c8 in swapper:1 has bad 'bp' value 0ba00000

And also there were some stack dumps with a bunch of unreliable '?'
symbols after an apic_timer_interrupt symbol, meaning the unwinder got
confused when it tried to read the regs.

The cause of those issues is that, with GCC 4.8 (and possibly older),
there are cases where GCC misaligns the stack pointer in a leaf function
for no apparent reason:

  c124a388 &lt;acpi_rs_move_data&gt;:
  c124a388:       55                      push   %ebp
  c124a389:       89 e5                   mov    %esp,%ebp
  c124a38b:       57                      push   %edi
  c124a38c:       56                      push   %esi
  c124a38d:       89 d6                   mov    %edx,%esi
  c124a38f:       53                      push   %ebx
  c124a390:       31 db                   xor    %ebx,%ebx
  c124a392:       83 ec 03                sub    $0x3,%esp
  ...
  c124a3e3:       83 c4 03                add    $0x3,%esp
  c124a3e6:       5b                      pop    %ebx
  c124a3e7:       5e                      pop    %esi
  c124a3e8:       5f                      pop    %edi
  c124a3e9:       5d                      pop    %ebp
  c124a3ea:       c3                      ret

If an interrupt occurs in such a function, the regs on the stack will be
unaligned, which breaks the frame pointer encoding assumption.  So on
32-bit, use the MSB instead of the LSB to encode the regs.

This isn't an issue on 64-bit, because interrupts align the stack before
writing to it.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul.park@lge.com&gt;
Cc: LKP &lt;lkp@01.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/279a26996a482ca716605c7dbc7f2db9d8d91e81.1507597785.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/unwind: Fix dereference of untrusted pointer</title>
<updated>2017-10-10T10:49:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
</author>
<published>2017-10-10T01:20:02Z</published>
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Tetsuo Handa and Fengguang Wu reported a panic in the unwinder:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000001f2
  IP: update_stack_state+0xd4/0x340
  *pde = 00000000

  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  CPU: 0 PID: 18728 Comm: 01-cpu-hotplug Not tainted 4.13.0-rc4-00170-gb09be67 #592
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.3-20161025_171302-gandalf 04/01/2014
  task: bb0b53c0 task.stack: bb3ac000
  EIP: update_stack_state+0xd4/0x340
  EFLAGS: 00010002 CPU: 0
  EAX: 0000a570 EBX: bb3adccb ECX: 0000f401 EDX: 0000a570
  ESI: 00000001 EDI: 000001ba EBP: bb3adc6b ESP: bb3adc3f
   DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
  CR0: 80050033 CR2: 000001f2 CR3: 0b3a7000 CR4: 00140690
  DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
  DR6: fffe0ff0 DR7: 00000400
  Call Trace:
   ? unwind_next_frame+0xea/0x400
   ? __unwind_start+0xf5/0x180
   ? __save_stack_trace+0x81/0x160
   ? save_stack_trace+0x20/0x30
   ? __lock_acquire+0xfa5/0x12f0
   ? lock_acquire+0x1c2/0x230
   ? tick_periodic+0x3a/0xf0
   ? _raw_spin_lock+0x42/0x50
   ? tick_periodic+0x3a/0xf0
   ? tick_periodic+0x3a/0xf0
   ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x12/0x20
   ? tick_handle_periodic+0x23/0xc0
   ? local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x63/0x70
   ? smp_trace_apic_timer_interrupt+0x235/0x6a0
   ? trace_apic_timer_interrupt+0x37/0x3c
   ? strrchr+0x23/0x50
  Code: 0f 95 c1 89 c7 89 45 e4 0f b6 c1 89 c6 89 45 dc 8b 04 85 98 cb 74 bc 88 4d e3 89 45 f0 83 c0 01 84 c9 89 04 b5 98 cb 74 bc 74 3b &lt;8b&gt; 47 38 8b 57 34 c6 43 1d 01 25 00 00 02 00 83 e2 03 09 d0 83
  EIP: update_stack_state+0xd4/0x340 SS:ESP: 0068:bb3adc3f
  CR2: 00000000000001f2
  ---[ end trace 0d147fd4aba8ff50 ]---
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

On x86-32, after decoding a frame pointer to get a regs address,
regs_size() dereferences the regs pointer when it checks regs-&gt;cs to see
if the regs are user mode.  This is dangerous because it's possible that
what looks like a decoded frame pointer is actually a corrupt value, and
we don't want the unwinder to make things worse.

Instead of calling regs_size() on an unsafe pointer, just assume they're
kernel regs to start with.  Later, once it's safe to access the regs, we
can do the user mode check and corresponding safety check for the
remaining two regs.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul.park@lge.com&gt;
Cc: LKP &lt;lkp@01.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 5ed8d8bb38c5 ("x86/unwind: Move common code into update_stack_state()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7f95b9a6993dec7674b3f3ab3dcd3294f7b9644d.1507597785.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-09-04T16:52:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2017-09-04T16:52:57Z</published>
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Introduce the ORC unwinder, which can be enabled via
   CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.

   The ORC unwinder is a lightweight, Linux kernel specific debuginfo
   implementation, which aims to be DWARF done right for unwinding.
   Objtool is used to generate the ORC unwinder tables during build, so
   the data format is flexible and kernel internal: there's no
   dependency on debuginfo created by an external toolchain.

   The ORC unwinder is almost two orders of magnitude faster than the
   (out of tree) DWARF unwinder - which is important for perf call graph
   profiling. It is also significantly simpler and is coded defensively:
   there has not been a single ORC related kernel crash so far, even
   with early versions. (knock on wood!)

   But the main advantage is that enabling the ORC unwinder allows
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS to be turned off - which speeds up the kernel
   measurably:

   With frame pointers disabled, GCC does not have to add frame pointer
   instrumentation code to every function in the kernel. The kernel's
   .text size decreases by about 3.2%, resulting in better cache
   utilization and fewer instructions executed, resulting in a broad
   kernel-wide speedup. Average speedup of system calls should be
   roughly in the 1-3% range - measurements by Mel Gorman [1] have shown
   a speedup of 5-10% for some function execution intense workloads.

   The main cost of the unwinder is that the unwinder data has to be
   stored in RAM: the memory cost is 2-4MB of RAM, depending on kernel
   config - which is a modest cost on modern x86 systems.

   Given how young the ORC unwinder code is it's not enabled by default
   - but given the performance advantages the plan is to eventually make
   it the default unwinder on x86.

   See Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for more details.

 - Remove lguest support: its intended role was that of a temporary
   proof of concept for virtualization, plus its removal will enable the
   reduction (removal) of the paravirt API as well, so Rusty agreed to
   its removal. (Juergen Gross)

 - Clean up and fix FSGS related functionality (Andy Lutomirski)

 - Clean up IO access APIs (Andy Shevchenko)

 - Enhance the symbol namespace (Jiri Slaby)

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
  objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug
  x86/entry/64: Use ENTRY() instead of ALIGN+GLOBAL for stub32_clone()
  x86/fpu/math-emu: Add ENDPROC to functions
  x86/boot/64: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_64()
  x86/boot/32: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_32()
  x86/lguest: Remove lguest support
  x86/paravirt/xen: Remove xen_patch()
  objtool: Fix objtool fallthrough detection with function padding
  x86/xen/64: Fix the reported SS and CS in SYSCALL
  objtool: Track DRAP separately from callee-saved registers
  objtool: Fix validate_branch() return codes
  x86: Clarify/fix no-op barriers for text_poke_bp()
  x86/switch_to/64: Rewrite FS/GS switching yet again to fix AMD CPUs
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test selectors 1, 2, and 3
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Report FSBASE and GSBASE correctly in core dumps
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common
  x86/asm: Fix UNWIND_HINT_REGS macro for older binutils
  x86/asm/32: Fix regs_get_register() on segment registers
  x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries
  x86/asm/32: Remove a bunch of '&amp; 0xffff' from pt_regs segment reads
  ...
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<entry>
<title>irq: Make the irqentry text section unconditional</title>
<updated>2017-08-10T14:28:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
</author>
<published>2017-08-03T02:38:21Z</published>
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Generate irqentry and softirqentry text sections without
any Kconfig dependencies. This will add extra sections, but
there should be no performace impact.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: David S . Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Francis Deslauriers &lt;francis.deslauriers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150172789110.27216.3955739126693102122.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder</title>
<updated>2017-07-26T11:18:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
</author>
<published>2017-07-24T23:36:57Z</published>
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Add the new ORC unwinder which is enabled by CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.
It plugs into the existing x86 unwinder framework.

It relies on objtool to generate the needed .orc_unwind and
.orc_unwind_ip sections.

For more details on why ORC is used instead of DWARF, see
Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt - but the short version is
that it's a simplified, fundamentally more robust debugninfo
data structure, which also allows up to two orders of magnitude
faster lookups than the DWARF unwinder - which matters to
profiling workloads like perf.

Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the performance improvement ideas:
splitting the ORC unwind table into two parallel arrays and creating a
fast lookup table to search a subset of the unwind table.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a6cbfb40f8da99b7a45a1a8302dc6aef16ec812.1500938583.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
[ Extended the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/unwind: Add end-of-stack check for ftrace handlers</title>
<updated>2017-05-24T07:05:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
</author>
<published>2017-05-23T15:37:30Z</published>
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Dave Jones and Steven Rostedt reported unwinder warnings like the
following:

  WARNING: kernel stack frame pointer at ffff8800bda0ff30 in sshd:1090 has bad value 000055b32abf1fa8

In both cases, the unwinder was attempting to unwind from an ftrace
handler into entry code.  The callchain was something like:

  syscall entry code
    C function
      ftrace handler
        save_stack_trace()

The problem is that the unwinder's end-of-stack logic gets confused by
the way ftrace lays out the stack frame (with fentry enabled).

I was able to recreate this warning with:

  echo call_usermodehelper_exec_async:stacktrace &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
  (exit login session)

I considered fixing this by changing the ftrace code to rewrite the
stack to make the unwinder happy.  But that seemed too intrusive after I
implemented it.  Instead, just add another check to the unwinder's
end-of-stack logic to detect this special case.

Side note: We could probably get rid of these end-of-stack checks by
encoding the frame pointer for syscall entry just like we do for
interrupt entry.  That would be simpler, but it would also be a lot more
intrusive since it would slightly affect the performance of every
syscall.

Reported-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-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: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c32c47c68a0a ("x86/unwind: Warn on bad frame pointer")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/671ba22fbc0156b8f7e0cfa5ab2a795e08bc37e1.1495553739.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching</title>
<updated>2017-05-03T01:24:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
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<published>2017-05-03T01:24:16Z</published>
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Pull livepatch updates from Jiri Kosina:

 - a per-task consistency model is being added for architectures that
   support reliable stack dumping (extending this, currently rather
   trivial set, is currently in the works).

   This extends the nature of the types of patches that can be applied
   by live patching infrastructure. The code stems from the design
   proposal made [1] back in November 2014. It's a hybrid of SUSE's
   kGraft and RH's kpatch, combining advantages of both: it uses
   kGraft's per-task consistency and syscall barrier switching combined
   with kpatch's stack trace switching. There are also a number of
   fallback options which make it quite flexible.

   Most of the heavy lifting done by Josh Poimboeuf with help from
   Miroslav Benes and Petr Mladek

   [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141107140458.GA21774@suse.cz

 - module load time patch optimization from Zhou Chengming

 - a few assorted small fixes

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
  livepatch: add missing printk newlines
  livepatch: Cancel transition a safe way for immediate patches
  livepatch: Reduce the time of finding module symbols
  livepatch: make klp_mutex proper part of API
  livepatch: allow removal of a disabled patch
  livepatch: add /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/patch_state
  livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model
  livepatch: store function sizes
  livepatch: use kstrtobool() in enabled_store()
  livepatch: move patching functions into patch.c
  livepatch: remove unnecessary object loaded check
  livepatch: separate enabled and patched states
  livepatch/s390: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch/s390: reorganize TIF thread flag bits
  livepatch/powerpc: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch/x86: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch: create temporary klp_update_patch_state() stub
  x86/entry: define _TIF_ALLWORK_MASK flags explicitly
  stacktrace/x86: add function for detecting reliable stack traces
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