user/sven/linux.git/init, branch v4.9.5

Re-enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS in a slightly weaker form

2016-11-30T00:01:30Z

This enables CONFIG_MODVERSIONS again, but allows for missing symbol CRC information in order to work around the issue that newer binutils versions seem to occasionally drop the CRC on the floor. binutils 2.26 seems to work fine, while binutils 2.27 seems to break MODVERSIONS of symbols that have been defined in assembler files. [ We've had random missing CRC's before - it may be an old problem that just is now reliably triggered with the weak asm symbols and a new version of binutils ] Some day I really do want to remove MODVERSIONS entirely. Sadly, today does not appear to be that day: Debian people apparently do want the option to enable MODVERSIONS to make it easier to have external modules across kernel versions, and this seems to be a fairly minimal fix for the annoying problem. Cc: Ben Hutchings Acked-by: Michal Marek Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix subtle CONFIG_MODVERSIONS problems

2016-11-25T23:44:47Z

CONFIG_MODVERSIONS has been broken for pretty much the whole 4.9 series, and quite frankly, nobody has cared very deeply. We absolutely know how to fix it, and it's not _complicated_, but it's not exactly pretty either. This oneliner fixes it without the ugliness, and allows for further future cleanups. "We've secretly replaced their regular MODVERSIONS with nothing at all, let's see if they notice" Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init: use pr_cont() when displaying rotator during ramdisk loading.

2016-11-24T17:32:20Z

Otherwise each individual rotator char would be printed in a new line: (...) [ 0.642350] - [ 0.644374] | [ 0.646367] - (...) Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schichan Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2016-10-15T17:03:15Z

Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook: "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc). At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals" * tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin

Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild

2016-10-14T21:26:58Z

Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek: - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro. This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is working on a patch to fix this. Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely change prototypes. - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick Piggin - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan. - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me. * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits) initramfs: Escape colons in depfile ppc: there is no clear_pages to export powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search ia64: move exports to definitions sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h sparc: move exports to definitions ppc: move exports to definitions arm: move exports to definitions s390: move exports to definitions m68k: move exports to definitions alpha: move exports to actual definitions x86: move exports to actual definitions ...

relay: Use irq_work instead of plain timer for deferred wakeup

2016-10-11T22:06:32Z

Relay avoids calling wake_up_interruptible() for doing the wakeup of readers/consumers, waiting for the generation of new data, from the context of a process which produced the data. This is apparently done to prevent the possibility of a deadlock in case Scheduler itself is is generating data for the relay, after acquiring rq->lock. The following patch used a timer (to be scheduled at next jiffy), for delegating the wakeup to another context. commit 7c9cb38302e78d24e37f7d8a2ea7eed4ae5f2fa7 Author: Tom Zanussi Date: Wed May 9 02:34:01 2007 -0700 relay: use plain timer instead of delayed work relay doesn't need to use schedule_delayed_work() for waking readers when a simple timer will do. Scheduling a plain timer, at next jiffies boundary, to do the wakeup causes a significant wakeup latency for the Userspace client, which makes relay less suitable for the high-frequency low-payload use cases where the data gets generated at a very high rate, like multiple sub buffers getting filled within a milli second. Moreover the timer is re-scheduled on every newly produced sub buffer so the timer keeps getting pushed out if sub buffers are filled in a very quick succession (less than a jiffy gap between filling of 2 sub buffers). As a result relay runs out of sub buffers to store the new data. By using irq_work it is ensured that wakeup of userspace client, blocked in the poll call, is done at earliest (through self IPI or next timer tick) enabling it to always consume the data in time. Also this makes relay consistent with printk & ring buffers (trace), as they too use irq_work for deferred wake up of readers. [arnd@arndb.de: select CONFIG_IRQ_WORK] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912154035.3222156-1-arnd@arndb.de [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472906487-1559-1-git-send-email-akash.goel@intel.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Akash Goel Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Chris Wilson Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin

2016-10-10T21:51:44Z

This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc). At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals. The need for very-early boot entropy tends to be very architecture or system design specific, so this plugin is more suited for those sorts of special cases. The existing kernel RNG already attempts to extract entropy from reliable runtime variation, but this plugin takes the idea to a logical extreme by permuting a global variable based on any variation in code execution (e.g. a different value (and permutation function) is used to permute the global based on loop count, case statement, if/then/else branching, etc). To do this, the plugin starts by inserting a local variable in every marked function. The plugin then adds logic so that the value of this variable is modified by randomly chosen operations (add, xor and rol) and random values (gcc generates separate static values for each location at compile time and also injects the stack pointer at runtime). The resulting value depends on the control flow path (e.g., loops and branches taken). Before the function returns, the plugin mixes this local variable into the latent_entropy global variable. The value of this global variable is added to the kernel entropy pool in do_one_initcall() and _do_fork(), though it does not credit any bytes of entropy to the pool; the contents of the global are just used to mix the pool. Additionally, the plugin can pre-initialize arrays with build-time random contents, so that two different kernel builds running on identical hardware will not have the same starting values. Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy [kees: expanded commit message and code comments] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge branch 'parisc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux

2016-10-08T03:50:37Z

Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller: "Changes include: - Fix boot of 32bit SMP kernel (initial kernel mapping was too small) - Added hardened usercopy checks - Drop bootmem and switch to memblock and NO_BOOTMEM implementation - Drop the BROKEN_RODATA config option (and thus remove the relevant code from the generic headers and files because parisc was the last architecture which used this config option) - Improve segfault reporting by printing human readable error strings - Various smaller changes, e.g. dwarf debug support for assembly code, update comments regarding copy_user_page_asm, switch to kmalloc_array()" * 'parisc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux: parisc: Increase KERNEL_INITIAL_SIZE for 32-bit SMP kernels parisc: Drop bootmem and switch to memblock parisc: Add hardened usercopy feature parisc: Add cfi_startproc and cfi_endproc to assembly code parisc: Move hpmc stack into page aligned bss section parisc: Fix self-detected CPU stall warnings on Mako machines parisc: Report trap type as human readable string parisc: Update comment regarding implementation of copy_user_page_asm parisc: Use kmalloc_array() in add_system_map_addresses() parisc: Check return value of smp_boot_one_cpu() parisc: Drop BROKEN_RODATA config option

parisc: Drop BROKEN_RODATA config option

2016-09-20T16:02:35Z

PARISC was the only architecture which selected the BROKEN_RODATA config option. Drop it and remove the special handling from init.h as well. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

sched/core: Add try_get_task_stack() and put_task_stack()

2016-09-16T07:18:53Z

There are a few places in the kernel that access stack memory belonging to a different task. Before we can start freeing task stacks before the task_struct is freed, we need a way for those code paths to pin the stack. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/17a434f50ad3d77000104f21666575e10a9c1fbd.1474003868.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar