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<title>include/linux/module.h: copy __init/__exit attrs to init/cleanup_module</title>
<updated>2019-08-06T16:29:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Miguel Ojeda</name>
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commit a6e60d84989fa0e91db7f236eda40453b0e44afa upstream.

The upcoming GCC 9 release extends the -Wmissing-attributes warnings
(enabled by -Wall) to C and aliases: it warns when particular function
attributes are missing in the aliases but not in their target.

In particular, it triggers for all the init/cleanup_module
aliases in the kernel (defined by the module_init/exit macros),
ending up being very noisy.

These aliases point to the __init/__exit functions of a module,
which are defined as __cold (among other attributes). However,
the aliases themselves do not have the __cold attribute.

Since the compiler behaves differently when compiling a __cold
function as well as when compiling paths leading to calls
to __cold functions, the warning is trying to point out
the possibly-forgotten attribute in the alias.

In order to keep the warning enabled, we decided to silence
this case. Ideally, we would mark the aliases directly
as __init/__exit. However, there are currently around 132 modules
in the kernel which are missing __init/__exit in their init/cleanup
functions (either because they are missing, or for other reasons,
e.g. the functions being called from somewhere else); and
a section mismatch is a hard error.

A conservative alternative was to mark the aliases as __cold only.
However, since we would like to eventually enforce __init/__exit
to be always marked,  we chose to use the new __copy function
attribute (introduced by GCC 9 as well to deal with this).
With it, we copy the attributes used by the target functions
into the aliases. This way, functions that were not marked
as __init/__exit won't have their aliases marked either,
and therefore there won't be a section mismatch.

Note that the warning would go away marking either the extern
declaration, the definition, or both. However, we only mark
the definition of the alias, since we do not want callers
(which only see the declaration) to be compiled as if the function
was __cold (and therefore the paths leading to those calls
would be assumed to be unlikely).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/259986242.BvXPX32bHu@devpool35/
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190123173707.GA16603@gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190206175627.GA20399@gmail.com/
Suggested-by: Martin Sebor &lt;msebor@gcc.gnu.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Backport minimal compiler_attributes.h to support GCC 9</title>
<updated>2019-08-06T16:29:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Miguel Ojeda</name>
<email>miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com</email>
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This adds support for __copy to v4.9.y so that we can use it in
init/exit_module to avoid -Werror=missing-attributes errors on GCC 9.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/259986242.BvXPX32bHu@devpool35/
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Rolf Eike Beer &lt;eb@emlix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>coredump: fix race condition between collapse_huge_page() and core dumping</title>
<updated>2019-08-06T16:29:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-13T22:56:11Z</published>
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commit 59ea6d06cfa9247b586a695c21f94afa7183af74 upstream.

When fixing the race conditions between the coredump and the mmap_sem
holders outside the context of the process, we focused on
mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() callers in 04f5866e41fb70 ("coredump: fix
race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core
dumping"), but those aren't the only cases where the mmap_sem can be
taken outside of the context of the process as Michal Hocko noticed
while backporting that commit to older -stable kernels.

If mmgrab() is called in the context of the process, but then the
mm_count reference is transferred outside the context of the process,
that can also be a problem if the mmap_sem has to be taken for writing
through that mm_count reference.

khugepaged registration calls mmgrab() in the context of the process,
but the mmap_sem for writing is taken later in the context of the
khugepaged kernel thread.

collapse_huge_page() after taking the mmap_sem for writing doesn't
modify any vma, so it's not obvious that it could cause a problem to the
coredump, but it happens to modify the pmd in a way that breaks an
invariant that pmd_trans_huge_lock() relies upon.  collapse_huge_page()
needs the mmap_sem for writing just to block concurrent page faults that
call pmd_trans_huge_lock().

Specifically the invariant that "!pmd_trans_huge()" cannot become a
"pmd_trans_huge()" doesn't hold while collapse_huge_page() runs.

The coredump will call __get_user_pages() without mmap_sem for reading,
which eventually can invoke a lockless page fault which will need a
functional pmd_trans_huge_lock().

So collapse_huge_page() needs to use mmget_still_valid() to check it's
not running concurrently with the coredump...  as long as the coredump
can invoke page faults without holding the mmap_sem for reading.

This has "Fixes: khugepaged" to facilitate backporting, but in my view
it's more a bug in the coredump code that will eventually have to be
rewritten to stop invoking page faults without the mmap_sem for reading.
So the long term plan is still to drop all mmget_still_valid().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190607161558.32104-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Fixes: ba76149f47d8 ("thp: khugepaged")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[Ajay: Just adjusted to apply on v4.9]
Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher &lt;akaher@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>coredump: fix race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping</title>
<updated>2019-08-06T16:29:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-19T00:50:52Z</published>
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commit 04f5866e41fb70690e28397487d8bd8eea7d712a upstream.

The core dumping code has always run without holding the mmap_sem for
writing, despite that is the only way to ensure that the entire vma
layout will not change from under it.  Only using some signal
serialization on the processes belonging to the mm is not nearly enough.
This was pointed out earlier.  For example in Hugh's post from Jul 2017:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1707191716030.2055@eggly.anvils

  "Not strictly relevant here, but a related note: I was very surprised
   to discover, only quite recently, how handle_mm_fault() may be called
   without down_read(mmap_sem) - when core dumping. That seems a
   misguided optimization to me, which would also be nice to correct"

In particular because the growsdown and growsup can move the
vm_start/vm_end the various loops the core dump does around the vma will
not be consistent if page faults can happen concurrently.

Pretty much all users calling mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and then
taking the mmap_sem had the potential to introduce unexpected side
effects in the core dumping code.

Adding mmap_sem for writing around the -&gt;core_dump invocation is a
viable long term fix, but it requires removing all copy user and page
faults and to replace them with get_dump_page() for all binary formats
which is not suitable as a short term fix.

For the time being this solution manually covers the places that can
confuse the core dump either by altering the vma layout or the vma flags
while it runs.  Once -&gt;core_dump runs under mmap_sem for writing the
function mmget_still_valid() can be dropped.

Allowing mmap_sem protected sections to run in parallel with the
coredump provides some minor parallelism advantage to the swapoff code
(which seems to be safe enough by never mangling any vma field and can
keep doing swapins in parallel to the core dumping) and to some other
corner case.

In order to facilitate the backporting I added "Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6"
however the side effect of this same race condition in /proc/pid/mem
should be reproducible since before 2.6.12-rc2 so I couldn't add any
other "Fixes:" because there's no hash beyond the git genesis commit.

Because find_extend_vma() is the only location outside of the process
context that could modify the "mm" structures under mmap_sem for
reading, by adding the mmget_still_valid() check to it, all other cases
that take the mmap_sem for reading don't need the new check after
mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm().  The expand_stack() in page fault
context also doesn't need the new check, because all tasks under core
dumping are frozen.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325224949.11068-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6 ("userfaultfd: add new syscall to provide memory externalization")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[akaher@vmware.com: stable 4.9 backport
-  handle binder_update_page_range - mhocko@suse.com]
Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher &lt;akaher@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>uapi linux/coda_psdev.h: move upc_req definition from uapi to kernel side headers</title>
<updated>2019-08-06T16:29:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikko Rapeli</name>
<email>mikko.rapeli@iki.fi</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T23:28:10Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit f90fb3c7e2c13ae829db2274b88b845a75038b8a ]

Only users of upc_req in kernel side fs/coda/psdev.c and
fs/coda/upcall.c already include linux/coda_psdev.h.

Suggested by Jan Harkes &lt;jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu&gt; in
  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20150531111913.GA23377@cs.cmu.edu/

Fixes these include/uapi/linux/coda_psdev.h compilation errors in userspace:

  linux/coda_psdev.h:12:19: error: field `uc_chain' has incomplete type
  struct list_head    uc_chain;
                   ^
  linux/coda_psdev.h:13:2: error: unknown type name `caddr_t'
  caddr_t             uc_data;
  ^
  linux/coda_psdev.h:14:2: error: unknown type name `u_short'
  u_short             uc_flags;
  ^
  linux/coda_psdev.h:15:2: error: unknown type name `u_short'
  u_short             uc_inSize;  /* Size is at most 5000 bytes */
  ^
  linux/coda_psdev.h:16:2: error: unknown type name `u_short'
  u_short             uc_outSize;
  ^
  linux/coda_psdev.h:17:2: error: unknown type name `u_short'
  u_short             uc_opcode;  /* copied from data to save lookup */
  ^
  linux/coda_psdev.h:19:2: error: unknown type name `wait_queue_head_t'
  wait_queue_head_t   uc_sleep;   /* process' wait queue */
  ^

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9f99f5ce6a0563d5266e6cf7aa9585aac2cae971.1558117389.git.jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu
Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli &lt;mikko.rapeli@iki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes &lt;jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Cc: Sam Protsenko &lt;semen.protsenko@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Yann Droneaud &lt;ydroneaud@opteya.com&gt;
Cc: Zhouyang Jia &lt;jiazhouyang09@gmail.com&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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<title>coda: fix build using bare-metal toolchain</title>
<updated>2019-08-06T16:29:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Protsenko</name>
<email>semen.protsenko@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T23:28:20Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit b2a57e334086602be56b74958d9f29b955cd157f ]

The kernel is self-contained project and can be built with bare-metal
toolchain.  But bare-metal toolchain doesn't define __linux__.  Because
of this u_quad_t type is not defined when using bare-metal toolchain and
codafs build fails.  This patch fixes it by defining u_quad_t type
unconditionally.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3cbb40b0a57b6f9923a9d67b53473c0b691a3eaa.1558117389.git.jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu
Signed-off-by: Sam Protsenko &lt;semen.protsenko@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes &lt;jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Cc: Mikko Rapeli &lt;mikko.rapeli@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Yann Droneaud &lt;ydroneaud@opteya.com&gt;
Cc: Zhouyang Jia &lt;jiazhouyang09@gmail.com&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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<title>ACPI: fix false-positive -Wuninitialized warning</title>
<updated>2019-08-06T16:29:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-12T09:01:21Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit dfd6f9ad36368b8dbd5f5a2b2f0a4705ae69a323 ]

clang gets confused by an uninitialized variable in what looks
to it like a never executed code path:

arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c:618:13: error: variable 'polarity' is uninitialized when used here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized]
        polarity = polarity ? ACPI_ACTIVE_LOW : ACPI_ACTIVE_HIGH;
                   ^~~~~~~~
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c:606:32: note: initialize the variable 'polarity' to silence this warning
        int rc, irq, trigger, polarity;
                                      ^
                                       = 0
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c:617:12: error: variable 'trigger' is uninitialized when used here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized]
        trigger = trigger ? ACPI_LEVEL_SENSITIVE : ACPI_EDGE_SENSITIVE;
                  ^~~~~~~
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c:606:22: note: initialize the variable 'trigger' to silence this warning
        int rc, irq, trigger, polarity;
                            ^
                             = 0

This is unfortunately a design decision in clang and won't be fixed.

Changing the acpi_get_override_irq() macro to an inline function
reliably avoids the issue.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Don't free p-&gt;numa_faults with concurrent readers</title>
<updated>2019-08-04T07:33:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T15:20:45Z</published>
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commit 16d51a590a8ce3befb1308e0e7ab77f3b661af33 upstream.

When going through execve(), zero out the NUMA fault statistics instead of
freeing them.

During execve, the task is reachable through procfs and the scheduler. A
concurrent /proc/*/sched reader can read data from a freed -&gt;numa_faults
allocation (confirmed by KASAN) and write it back to userspace.
I believe that it would also be possible for a use-after-free read to occur
through a race between a NUMA fault and execve(): task_numa_fault() can
lead to task_numa_compare(), which invokes task_weight() on the currently
running task of a different CPU.

Another way to fix this would be to make -&gt;numa_faults RCU-managed or add
extra locking, but it seems easier to wipe the NUMA fault statistics on
execve.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&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: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 82727018b0d3 ("sched/numa: Call task_numa_free() from do_execve()")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716152047.14424-1-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
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<entry>
<title>access: avoid the RCU grace period for the temporary subjective credentials</title>
<updated>2019-08-04T07:33:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-11T16:54:40Z</published>
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commit d7852fbd0f0423937fa287a598bfde188bb68c22 upstream.

It turns out that 'access()' (and 'faccessat()') can cause a lot of RCU
work because it installs a temporary credential that gets allocated and
freed for each system call.

The allocation and freeing overhead is mostly benign, but because
credentials can be accessed under the RCU read lock, the freeing
involves a RCU grace period.

Which is not a huge deal normally, but if you have a lot of access()
calls, this causes a fair amount of seconday damage: instead of having a
nice alloc/free patterns that hits in hot per-CPU slab caches, you have
all those delayed free's, and on big machines with hundreds of cores,
the RCU overhead can end up being enormous.

But it turns out that all of this is entirely unnecessary.  Exactly
because access() only installs the credential as the thread-local
subjective credential, the temporary cred pointer doesn't actually need
to be RCU free'd at all.  Once we're done using it, we can just free it
synchronously and avoid all the RCU overhead.

So add a 'non_rcu' flag to 'struct cred', which can be set by users that
know they only use it in non-RCU context (there are other potential
users for this).  We can make it a union with the rcu freeing list head
that we need for the RCU case, so this doesn't need any extra storage.

Note that this also makes 'get_current_cred()' clear the new non_rcu
flag, in case we have filesystems that take a long-term reference to the
cred and then expect the RCU delayed freeing afterwards.  It's not
entirely clear that this is required, but it makes for clear semantics:
the subjective cred remains non-RCU as long as you only access it
synchronously using the thread-local accessors, but you _can_ use it as
a generic cred if you want to.

It is possible that we should just remove the whole RCU markings for
-&gt;cred entirely.  Only -&gt;real_cred is really supposed to be accessed
through RCU, and the long-term cred copies that nfs uses might want to
explicitly re-enable RCU freeing if required, rather than have
get_current_cred() do it implicitly.

But this is a "minimal semantic changes" change for the immediate
problem.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Glauber &lt;jglauber@marvell.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jikos@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jayachandran Chandrasekharan Nair &lt;jnair@marvell.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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>compiler.h: Add read_word_at_a_time() function.</title>
<updated>2019-08-04T07:33:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Ryabinin</name>
<email>aryabinin@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T18:00:49Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7f1e541fc8d57a143dd5df1d0a1276046e08c083 ]

Sometimes we know that it's safe to do potentially out-of-bounds access
because we know it won't cross a page boundary.  Still, KASAN will
report this as a bug.

Add read_word_at_a_time() function which is supposed to be used in such
cases.  In read_word_at_a_time() KASAN performs relaxed check - only the
first byte of access is validated.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&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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