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<title>hex2bin: make the function hex_to_bin constant-time</title>
<updated>2022-05-12T10:17:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2022-04-25T12:07:48Z</published>
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commit e5be15767e7e284351853cbaba80cde8620341fb upstream.

The function hex2bin is used to load cryptographic keys into device
mapper targets dm-crypt and dm-integrity.  It should take constant time
independent on the processed data, so that concurrently running
unprivileged code can't infer any information about the keys via
microarchitectural convert channels.

This patch changes the function hex_to_bin so that it contains no
branches and no memory accesses.

Note that this shouldn't cause performance degradation because the size
of the new function is the same as the size of the old function (on
x86-64) - and the new function causes no branch misprediction penalties.

I compile-tested this function with gcc on aarch64 alpha arm hppa hppa64
i386 ia64 m68k mips32 mips64 powerpc powerpc64 riscv sh4 s390x sparc32
sparc64 x86_64 and with clang on aarch64 arm hexagon i386 mips32 mips64
powerpc powerpc64 s390x sparc32 sparc64 x86_64 to verify that there are
no branches in the generated code.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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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<entry>
<title>linux/kernel.h: fix overflow for DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL</title>
<updated>2019-07-21T07:04:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vinod Koul</name>
<email>vkoul@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-28T19:07:21Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8f9fab480c7a87b10bb5440b5555f370272a5d59 ]

DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL adds the two arguments and then invokes
DIV_ROUND_DOWN_ULL.  But on a 32bit system the addition of two 32 bit
values can overflow.  DIV_ROUND_DOWN_ULL does it correctly and stashes
the addition into a unsigned long long so cast the result to unsigned
long long here to avoid the overflow condition.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL must be an rval]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190625100518.30753-1-vkoul@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul &lt;vkoul@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Andersson &lt;bjorn.andersson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>linux/kernel.h: Use parentheses around argument in u64_to_user_ptr()</title>
<updated>2019-05-10T15:53:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-29T21:46:49Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit a0fe2c6479aab5723239b315ef1b552673f434a3 ]

Use parentheses around uses of the argument in u64_to_user_ptr() to
ensure that the cast doesn't apply to part of the argument.

There are existing uses of the macro of the form

  u64_to_user_ptr(A + B)

which expands to

  (void __user *)(uintptr_t)A + B

(the cast applies to the first operand of the addition, the addition
is a pointer addition). This happens to still work as intended, the
semantic difference doesn't cause a difference in behavior.

But I want to use u64_to_user_ptr() with a ternary operator in the
argument, like so:

  u64_to_user_ptr(A ? B : C)

This currently doesn't work as intended.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha &lt;mojha@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Qiaowei Ren &lt;qiaowei.ren@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190329214652.258477-1-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>linux/kernel.h: add/correct kernel-doc notation</title>
<updated>2017-10-13T23:18:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-13T22:58:11Z</published>
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Add kernel-doc notation for some macros.  Correct kernel-doc comments &amp;
typos for a few macros.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/76fa1403-1511-be4c-e9c4-456b43edfad3@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>linux/kernel.h: move DIV_ROUND_DOWN_ULL() macro</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T01:26:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-08T23:13:45Z</published>
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This macro is useful to avoid link error on 32-bit systems.

We have the same definition in two drivers, so move it to
include/linux/kernel.h

While we are here, refactor DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL() by using
DIV_ROUND_DOWN_ULL().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500945156-12907-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Cyrille Pitchen &lt;cyrille.pitchen@wedev4u.fr&gt;
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Cc: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Girdwood &lt;lgirdwood@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com&gt;
Cc: Marek Vasut &lt;marek.vasut@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection</title>
<updated>2017-08-17T08:40:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-15T16:19:24Z</published>
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This implements refcount_t overflow protection on x86 without a noticeable
performance impact, though without the fuller checking of REFCOUNT_FULL.

This is done by duplicating the existing atomic_t refcount implementation
but with normally a single instruction added to detect if the refcount
has gone negative (e.g. wrapped past INT_MAX or below zero). When detected,
the handler saturates the refcount_t to INT_MIN / 2. With this overflow
protection, the erroneous reference release that would follow a wrap back
to zero is blocked from happening, avoiding the class of refcount-overflow
use-after-free vulnerabilities entirely.

Only the overflow case of refcounting can be perfectly protected, since
it can be detected and stopped before the reference is freed and left to
be abused by an attacker. There isn't a way to block early decrements,
and while REFCOUNT_FULL stops increment-from-zero cases (which would
be the state _after_ an early decrement and stops potential double-free
conditions), this fast implementation does not, since it would require
the more expensive cmpxchg loops. Since the overflow case is much more
common (e.g. missing a "put" during an error path), this protection
provides real-world protection. For example, the two public refcount
overflow use-after-free exploits published in 2016 would have been
rendered unexploitable:

  http://perception-point.io/2016/01/14/analysis-and-exploitation-of-a-linux-kernel-vulnerability-cve-2016-0728/

  http://cyseclabs.com/page?n=02012016

This implementation does, however, notice an unchecked decrement to zero
(i.e. caller used refcount_dec() instead of refcount_dec_and_test() and it
resulted in a zero). Decrements under zero are noticed (since they will
have resulted in a negative value), though this only indicates that a
use-after-free may have already happened. Such notifications are likely
avoidable by an attacker that has already exploited a use-after-free
vulnerability, but it's better to have them reported than allow such
conditions to remain universally silent.

On first overflow detection, the refcount value is reset to INT_MIN / 2
(which serves as a saturation value) and a report and stack trace are
produced. When operations detect only negative value results (such as
changing an already saturated value), saturation still happens but no
notification is performed (since the value was already saturated).

On the matter of races, since the entire range beyond INT_MAX but before
0 is negative, every operation at INT_MIN / 2 will trap, leaving no
overflow-only race condition.

As for performance, this implementation adds a single "js" instruction
to the regular execution flow of a copy of the standard atomic_t refcount
operations. (The non-"and_test" refcount_dec() function, which is uncommon
in regular refcount design patterns, has an additional "jz" instruction
to detect reaching exactly zero.) Since this is a forward jump, it is by
default the non-predicted path, which will be reinforced by dynamic branch
prediction. The result is this protection having virtually no measurable
change in performance over standard atomic_t operations. The error path,
located in .text.unlikely, saves the refcount location and then uses UD0
to fire a refcount exception handler, which resets the refcount, handles
reporting, and returns to regular execution. This keeps the changes to
.text size minimal, avoiding return jumps and open-coded calls to the
error reporting routine.

Example assembly comparison:

refcount_inc() before:

  .text:
  ffffffff81546149:       f0 ff 45 f4             lock incl -0xc(%rbp)

refcount_inc() after:

  .text:
  ffffffff81546149:       f0 ff 45 f4             lock incl -0xc(%rbp)
  ffffffff8154614d:       0f 88 80 d5 17 00       js     ffffffff816c36d3
  ...
  .text.unlikely:
  ffffffff816c36d3:       48 8d 4d f4             lea    -0xc(%rbp),%rcx
  ffffffff816c36d7:       0f ff                   (bad)

These are the cycle counts comparing a loop of refcount_inc() from 1
to INT_MAX and back down to 0 (via refcount_dec_and_test()), between
unprotected refcount_t (atomic_t), fully protected REFCOUNT_FULL
(refcount_t-full), and this overflow-protected refcount (refcount_t-fast):

  2147483646 refcount_inc()s and 2147483647 refcount_dec_and_test()s:
		    cycles		protections
  atomic_t           82249267387	none
  refcount_t-fast    82211446892	overflow, untested dec-to-zero
  refcount_t-full   144814735193	overflow, untested dec-to-zero, inc-from-zero

This code is a modified version of the x86 PAX_REFCOUNT atomic_t
overflow defense from the last public patch of PaX/grsecurity, based
on my understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original
code are mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code. Thanks
to PaX Team for various suggestions for improvement for repurposing this
code to be a refcount-only protection.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers3@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Hans Liljestrand &lt;ishkamiel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: arozansk@redhat.com
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: linux-arch &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170815161924.GA133115@beast
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernel.h: handle pointers to arrays better in container_of()</title>
<updated>2017-07-12T23:25:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Abbott</name>
<email>abbotti@mev.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-12T21:33:04Z</published>
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If the first parameter of container_of() is a pointer to a
non-const-qualified array type (and the third parameter names a
non-const-qualified array member), the local variable __mptr will be
defined with a const-qualified array type.  In ISO C, these types are
incompatible.  They work as expected in GNU C, but some versions will
issue warnings.  For example, GCC 4.9 produces the warning
"initialization from incompatible pointer type".

Here is an example of where the problem occurs:

-------------------------------------------------------
   #include &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt;
   #include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;

  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

  struct st {
  	int a;
  	char b[16];
  };

  static int __init example_init(void) {
  	struct st t = { .a = 101, .b = "hello" };
  	char (*p)[16] = &amp;t.b;
  	struct st *x = container_of(p, struct st, b);
  	printk(KERN_DEBUG "%p %p\n", (void *)&amp;t, (void *)x);
  	return 0;
  }

  static void __exit example_exit(void) {
  }

  module_init(example_init);
  module_exit(example_exit);
-------------------------------------------------------

Building the module with gcc-4.9 results in these warnings (where '{m}'
is the module source and '{k}' is the kernel source):

-------------------------------------------------------
  In file included from {m}/example.c:1:0:
  {m}/example.c: In function `example_init':
  {k}/include/linux/kernel.h:854:48: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
    const typeof( ((type *)0)-&gt;member ) *__mptr = (ptr); \
                                                  ^
  {m}/example.c:14:17: note: in expansion of macro `container_of'
    struct st *x = container_of(p, struct st, b);
                   ^
  {k}/include/linux/kernel.h:854:48: warning: (near initialization for `x')
    const typeof( ((type *)0)-&gt;member ) *__mptr = (ptr); \
                                                  ^
  {m}/example.c:14:17: note: in expansion of macro `container_of'
    struct st *x = container_of(p, struct st, b);
                   ^
-------------------------------------------------------

Replace the type checking performed by the macro to avoid these
warnings.  Make sure `*(ptr)` either has type compatible with the
member, or has type compatible with `void`, ignoring qualifiers.  Raise
compiler errors if this is not true.  This is stronger than the previous
behaviour, which only resulted in compiler warnings for a type mismatch.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix new warnings for container_of()]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170620200940.90557-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525120316.24473-7-abbotti@mev.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott &lt;abbotti@mev.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz &lt;mina86@mina86.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Hidehiro Kawai &lt;hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.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>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>init: Introduce SYSTEM_SCHEDULING state</title>
<updated>2017-05-23T08:01:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-16T18:42:47Z</published>
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might_sleep() debugging and smp_processor_id() debugging should be active
right after the scheduler starts working. The init task can invoke
smp_processor_id() from preemptible context as it is pinned on the boot cpu
until sched_smp_init() removes the pinning and lets it schedule on all non
isolated cpus.

Add a new state which allows to enable those checks earlier and add it to
the xen do_poweroff() function.

No functional change.

Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170516184736.196214622@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T22:53:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-02T22:53:46Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu:
 "Here is the crypto update for 4.12:

  API:
   - Add batch registration for acomp/scomp
   - Change acomp testing to non-unique compressed result
   - Extend algorithm name limit to 128 bytes
   - Require setkey before accept(2) in algif_aead

  Algorithms:
   - Add support for deflate rfc1950 (zlib)

  Drivers:
   - Add accelerated crct10dif for powerpc
   - Add crc32 in stm32
   - Add sha384/sha512 in ccp
   - Add 3des/gcm(aes) for v5 devices in ccp
   - Add Queue Interface (QI) backend support in caam
   - Add new Exynos RNG driver
   - Add ThunderX ZIP driver
   - Add driver for hardware random generator on MT7623 SoC"

* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (101 commits)
  crypto: stm32 - Fix OF module alias information
  crypto: algif_aead - Require setkey before accept(2)
  crypto: scomp - add support for deflate rfc1950 (zlib)
  crypto: scomp - allow registration of multiple scomps
  crypto: ccp - Change ISR handler method for a v5 CCP
  crypto: ccp - Change ISR handler method for a v3 CCP
  crypto: crypto4xx - rename ce_ring_contol to ce_ring_control
  crypto: testmgr - Allow ecb(cipher_null) in FIPS mode
  Revert "crypto: arm64/sha - Add constant operand modifier to ASM_EXPORT"
  crypto: ccp - Disable interrupts early on unload
  crypto: ccp - Use only the relevant interrupt bits
  hwrng: mtk - Add driver for hardware random generator on MT7623 SoC
  dt-bindings: hwrng: Add Mediatek hardware random generator bindings
  crypto: crct10dif-vpmsum - Fix missing preempt_disable()
  crypto: testmgr - replace compression known answer test
  crypto: acomp - allow registration of multiple acomps
  hwrng: n2 - Use devm_kcalloc() in n2rng_probe()
  crypto: chcr - Fix error handling related to 'chcr_alloc_shash'
  padata: get_next is never NULL
  crypto: exynos - Add new Exynos RNG driver
  ...
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