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<updated>2020-11-05T10:08:41Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>printk: reduce LOG_BUF_SHIFT range for H8300</title>
<updated>2020-11-05T10:08:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>John Ogness</name>
<email>john.ogness@linutronix.de</email>
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<published>2020-08-12T07:31:22Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 550c10d28d21bd82a8bb48debbb27e6ed53262f6 ]

The .bss section for the h8300 is relatively small. A value of
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT that is larger than 19 will create a static
printk ringbuffer that is too large. Limit the range appropriately
for the H8300.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200812073122.25412-1-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>printk: queue wake_up_klogd irq_work only if per-CPU areas are ready</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T07:32:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-03T11:30:02Z</published>
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commit ab6f762f0f53162d41497708b33c9a3236d3609e upstream.

printk_deferred(), similarly to printk_safe/printk_nmi, does not
immediately attempt to print a new message on the consoles, avoiding
calls into non-reentrant kernel paths, e.g. scheduler or timekeeping,
which potentially can deadlock the system.

Those printk() flavors, instead, rely on per-CPU flush irq_work to print
messages from safer contexts.  For same reasons (recursive scheduler or
timekeeping calls) printk() uses per-CPU irq_work in order to wake up
user space syslog/kmsg readers.

However, only printk_safe/printk_nmi do make sure that per-CPU areas
have been initialised and that it's safe to modify per-CPU irq_work.
This means that, for instance, should printk_deferred() be invoked "too
early", that is before per-CPU areas are initialised, printk_deferred()
will perform illegal per-CPU access.

Lech Perczak [0] reports that after commit 1b710b1b10ef ("char/random:
silence a lockdep splat with printk()") user-space syslog/kmsg readers
are not able to read new kernel messages.

The reason is printk_deferred() being called too early (as was pointed
out by Petr and John).

Fix printk_deferred() and do not queue per-CPU irq_work before per-CPU
areas are initialized.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aa0732c6-5c4e-8a8b-a1c1-75ebe3dca05b@camlintechnologies.com/
Reported-by: Lech Perczak &lt;l.perczak@camlintechnologies.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&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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<entry>
<title>x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:18:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-22T16:11:30Z</published>
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commit a9a3ed1eff3601b63aea4fb462d8b3b92c7c1e7e upstream.

... or the odyssey of trying to disable the stack protector for the
function which generates the stack canary value.

The whole story started with Sergei reporting a boot crash with a kernel
built with gcc-10:

  Kernel panic — not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: start_secondary
  CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.6.0-rc5—00235—gfffb08b37df9 #139
  Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./H77M—D3H, BIOS F12 11/14/2013
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack
    panic
    ? start_secondary
    __stack_chk_fail
    start_secondary
    secondary_startup_64
  -—-[ end Kernel panic — not syncing: stack—protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: start_secondary

This happens because gcc-10 tail-call optimizes the last function call
in start_secondary() - cpu_startup_entry() - and thus emits a stack
canary check which fails because the canary value changes after the
boot_init_stack_canary() call.

To fix that, the initial attempt was to mark the one function which
generates the stack canary with:

  __attribute__((optimize("-fno-stack-protector"))) ... start_secondary(void *unused)

however, using the optimize attribute doesn't work cumulatively
as the attribute does not add to but rather replaces previously
supplied optimization options - roughly all -fxxx options.

The key one among them being -fno-omit-frame-pointer and thus leading to
not present frame pointer - frame pointer which the kernel needs.

The next attempt to prevent compilers from tail-call optimizing
the last function call cpu_startup_entry(), shy of carving out
start_secondary() into a separate compilation unit and building it with
-fno-stack-protector, was to add an empty asm("").

This current solution was short and sweet, and reportedly, is supported
by both compilers but we didn't get very far this time: future (LTO?)
optimization passes could potentially eliminate this, which leads us
to the third attempt: having an actual memory barrier there which the
compiler cannot ignore or move around etc.

That should hold for a long time, but hey we said that about the other
two solutions too so...

Reported-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyfox@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200314164451.346497-1-slyfox@gentoo.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:18:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-09T20:57:10Z</published>
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commit 78a5255ffb6a1af189a83e493d916ba1c54d8c75 upstream.

We have some rather random rules about when we accept the
"maybe-initialized" warnings, and when we don't.

For example, we consider it unreliable for gcc versions &lt; 4.9, but also
if -O3 is enabled, or if optimizing for size.  And then various kernel
config options disabled it, because they know that they trigger that
warning by confusing gcc sufficiently (ie PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES).

And now gcc-10 seems to be introducing a lot of those warnings too, so
it falls under the same heading as 4.9 did.

At the same time, we have a very straightforward way to _enable_ that
warning when wanted: use "W=2" to enable more warnings.

So stop playing these ad-hoc games, and just disable that warning by
default, with the known and straight-forward "if you want to work on the
extra compiler warnings, use W=123".

Would it be great to have code that is always so obvious that it never
confuses the compiler whether a variable is used initialized or not?
Yes, it would.  In a perfect world, the compilers would be smarter, and
our source code would be simpler.

That's currently not the world we live in, though.

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>kbuild: compute false-positive -Wmaybe-uninitialized cases in Kconfig</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:18:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-21T04:13:38Z</published>
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commit b303c6df80c9f8f13785aa83a0471fca7e38b24d upstream.

Since -Wmaybe-uninitialized was introduced by GCC 4.7, we have patched
various false positives:

 - commit e74fc973b6e5 ("Turn off -Wmaybe-uninitialized when building
   with -Os") turned off this option for -Os.

 - commit 815eb71e7149 ("Kbuild: disable 'maybe-uninitialized' warning
   for CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES") turned off this option for
   CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES

 - commit a76bcf557ef4 ("Kbuild: enable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
   for "make W=1"") turned off this option for GCC &lt; 4.9
   Arnd provided more explanation in https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/14/903

I think this looks better by shifting the logic from Makefile to Kconfig.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/350
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>fork: fix some -Wmissing-prototypes warnings</title>
<updated>2019-12-05T08:21:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yi Wang</name>
<email>wang.yi59@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T23:28:03Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit fb5bf31722d0805a3f394f7d59f2e8cd07acccb7 ]

We get a warning when building kernel with W=1:

  kernel/fork.c:167:13: warning: no previous prototype for `arch_release_thread_stack' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
  kernel/fork.c:779:13: warning: no previous prototype for `fork_init' [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Add the missing declaration in head file to fix this.

Also, remove arch_release_thread_stack() completely because no arch
seems to implement it since bb9d81264 (arch: remove tile port).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542170087-23645-1-git-send-email-wang.yi59@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Yi Wang &lt;wang.yi59@zte.com.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.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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<entry>
<title>initramfs: don't free a non-existent initrd</title>
<updated>2019-10-01T06:26:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Price</name>
<email>steven.price@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-17T21:31:47Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5d59aa8f9ce972b472201aed86e904bb75879ff0 ]

Since commit 54c7a8916a88 ("initramfs: free initrd memory if opening
/initrd.image fails"), the kernel has unconditionally attempted to free
the initrd even if it doesn't exist.

In the non-existent case this causes a boot-time splat if
CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is enabled due to a call to virt_to_phys() with a
NULL address.

Instead we should check that the initrd actually exists and only attempt
to free it if it does.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190516143125.48948-1-steven.price@arm.com
Fixes: 54c7a8916a88 ("initramfs: free initrd memory if opening /initrd.image fails")
Signed-off-by: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&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>initramfs: free initrd memory if opening /initrd.image fails</title>
<updated>2019-06-15T09:54:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-14T00:18:17Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 54c7a8916a887f357088f99e9c3a7720cd57d2c8 ]

Patch series "initramfs tidyups".

I've spent some time chasing down behavior in initramfs and found
plenty of opportunity to improve the code.  A first stab on that is
contained in this series.

This patch (of 7):

We free the initrd memory for all successful or error cases except for the
case where opening /initrd.image fails, which looks like an oversight.

Steven said:

: This also changes the behaviour when CONFIG_INITRAMFS_FORCE is enabled
: - specifically it means that the initrd is freed (previously it was
: ignored and never freed).  But that seems like reasonable behaviour and
: the previous behaviour looks like another oversight.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;	[arm64]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;	[m68k]
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@pku.edu.cn&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>jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig</title>
<updated>2019-06-04T06:02:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-30T15:14:15Z</published>
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commit e9666d10a5677a494260d60d1fa0b73cc7646eb3 upstream.

Currently, CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL just means "I _want_ to use jump label".

The jump label is controlled by HAVE_JUMP_LABEL, which is defined
like this:

  #if defined(CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO) &amp;&amp; defined(CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL)
  # define HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
  #endif

We can improve this by testing 'asm goto' support in Kconfig, then
make JUMP_LABEL depend on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO.

Ugly #ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL will go away, and CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL will
match to the real kernel capability.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
[nc: Fix trivial conflicts in 4.19
     arch/xtensa/kernel/jump_label.c doesn't exist yet
     Ensured CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO and HAVE_JUMP_LABEL were sufficiently
     eliminated]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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<entry>
<title>init: initialize jump labels before command line option parsing</title>
<updated>2019-05-16T17:41:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-19T00:50:44Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6041186a32585fc7a1d0f6cfe2f138b05fdc3c82 ]

When a module option, or core kernel argument, toggles a static-key it
requires jump labels to be initialized early.  While x86, PowerPC, and
ARM64 arrange for jump_label_init() to be called before parse_args(),
ARM does not.

  Kernel command line: rdinit=/sbin/init page_alloc.shuffle=1 panic=-1 console=ttyAMA0,115200 page_alloc.shuffle=1
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at ./include/linux/jump_label.h:303
  page_alloc_shuffle+0x12c/0x1ac
  static_key_enable(): static key 'page_alloc_shuffle_key+0x0/0x4' used
  before call to jump_label_init()
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted
  5.1.0-rc4-next-20190410-00003-g3367c36ce744 #1
  Hardware name: ARM Integrator/CP (Device Tree)
  [&lt;c0011c68&gt;] (unwind_backtrace) from [&lt;c000ec48&gt;] (show_stack+0x10/0x18)
  [&lt;c000ec48&gt;] (show_stack) from [&lt;c07e9710&gt;] (dump_stack+0x18/0x24)
  [&lt;c07e9710&gt;] (dump_stack) from [&lt;c001bb1c&gt;] (__warn+0xe0/0x108)
  [&lt;c001bb1c&gt;] (__warn) from [&lt;c001bb88&gt;] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x44/0x6c)
  [&lt;c001bb88&gt;] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [&lt;c0b0c4a8&gt;]
  (page_alloc_shuffle+0x12c/0x1ac)
  [&lt;c0b0c4a8&gt;] (page_alloc_shuffle) from [&lt;c0b0c550&gt;] (shuffle_store+0x28/0x48)
  [&lt;c0b0c550&gt;] (shuffle_store) from [&lt;c003e6a0&gt;] (parse_args+0x1f4/0x350)
  [&lt;c003e6a0&gt;] (parse_args) from [&lt;c0ac3c00&gt;] (start_kernel+0x1c0/0x488)

Move the fallback call to jump_label_init() to occur before
parse_args().

The redundant calls to jump_label_init() in other archs are left intact
in case they have static key toggling use cases that are even earlier
than option parsing.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155544804466.1032396.13418949511615676665.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;groeck@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@armlinux.org.uk&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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