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<entry>
<title>panic: ensure preemption is disabled during panic()</title>
<updated>2019-10-17T20:43:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-07T00:58:00Z</published>
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commit 20bb759a66be52cf4a9ddd17fddaf509e11490cd upstream.

Calling 'panic()' on a kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y can leave the
calling CPU in an infinite loop, but with interrupts and preemption
enabled.  From this state, userspace can continue to be scheduled,
despite the system being "dead" as far as the kernel is concerned.

This is easily reproducible on arm64 when booting with "nosmp" on the
command line; a couple of shell scripts print out a periodic "Ping"
message whilst another triggers a crash by writing to
/proc/sysrq-trigger:

  | sysrq: Trigger a crash
  | Kernel panic - not syncing: sysrq triggered crash
  | CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 5.2.15 #1
  | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
  | Call trace:
  |  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x148
  |  show_stack+0x14/0x20
  |  dump_stack+0xa0/0xc4
  |  panic+0x140/0x32c
  |  sysrq_handle_reboot+0x0/0x20
  |  __handle_sysrq+0x124/0x190
  |  write_sysrq_trigger+0x64/0x88
  |  proc_reg_write+0x60/0xa8
  |  __vfs_write+0x18/0x40
  |  vfs_write+0xa4/0x1b8
  |  ksys_write+0x64/0xf0
  |  __arm64_sys_write+0x14/0x20
  |  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x168
  |  el0_svc_handler+0x28/0x78
  |  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
  | Kernel Offset: disabled
  | CPU features: 0x0002,24002004
  | Memory Limit: none
  | ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: sysrq triggered crash ]---
  |  Ping 2!
  |  Ping 1!
  |  Ping 1!
  |  Ping 2!

The issue can also be triggered on x86 kernels if CONFIG_SMP=n,
otherwise local interrupts are disabled in 'smp_send_stop()'.

Disable preemption in 'panic()' before re-enabling interrupts.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191002123538.22609-1-will@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/BX1W47JXPMR8.58IYW53H6M5N@dragonstone
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Xogium &lt;contact@xogium.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>panic: avoid deadlocks in re-entrant console drivers</title>
<updated>2018-12-29T12:39:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-25T10:10:36Z</published>
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commit c7c3f05e341a9a2bd1a92993d4f996cfd6e7348e upstream.

From printk()/serial console point of view panic() is special, because
it may force CPU to re-enter printk() or/and serial console driver.
Therefore, some of serial consoles drivers are re-entrant. E.g. 8250:

serial8250_console_write()
{
	if (port-&gt;sysrq)
		locked = 0;
	else if (oops_in_progress)
		locked = spin_trylock_irqsave(&amp;port-&gt;lock, flags);
	else
		spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;port-&gt;lock, flags);
	...
}

panic() does set oops_in_progress via bust_spinlocks(1), so in theory
we should be able to re-enter serial console driver from panic():

	CPU0
	&lt;NMI&gt;
	uart_console_write()
	serial8250_console_write()		// if (oops_in_progress)
						//    spin_trylock_irqsave()
	call_console_drivers()
	console_unlock()
	console_flush_on_panic()
	bust_spinlocks(1)			// oops_in_progress++
	panic()
	&lt;NMI/&gt;
	spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;port-&gt;lock, flags)   // spin_lock_irqsave()
	serial8250_console_write()
	call_console_drivers()
	console_unlock()
	printk()
	...

However, this does not happen and we deadlock in serial console on
port-&gt;lock spinlock. And the problem is that console_flush_on_panic()
called after bust_spinlocks(0):

void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
{
	bust_spinlocks(1);
	...
	bust_spinlocks(0);
	console_flush_on_panic();
	...
}

bust_spinlocks(0) decrements oops_in_progress, so oops_in_progress
can go back to zero. Thus even re-entrant console drivers will simply
spin on port-&gt;lock spinlock. Given that port-&gt;lock may already be
locked either by a stopped CPU, or by the very same CPU we execute
panic() on (for instance, NMI panic() on printing CPU) the system
deadlocks and does not reboot.

Fix this by removing bust_spinlocks(0), so oops_in_progress is always
set in panic() now and, thus, re-entrant console drivers will trylock
the port-&gt;lock instead of spinning on it forever, when we call them
from console_flush_on_panic().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181025101036.6823-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Wang &lt;wonderfly@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.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>sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to &lt;linux/sched/debug.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-08T17:51:35Z</published>
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/debug.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/debug.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: 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: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sparc64: Send break twice from console to return to boot prom</title>
<updated>2017-02-23T16:27:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vijay Kumar</name>
<email>vijay.ac.kumar@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-01T19:34:39Z</published>
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Now we can also jump to boot prom from sunhv console by sending
break twice on console for both running and panicked kernel
cases.

Signed-off-by: Vijay Kumar &lt;vijay.ac.kumar@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk</title>
<updated>2017-02-23T01:33:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-23T01:33:34Z</published>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add Petr Mladek, Sergey Senozhatsky as printk maintainers, and Steven
   Rostedt as the printk reviewer. This idea came up after the
   discussion about printk issues at Kernel Summit. It was formulated
   and discussed at lkml[1].

 - Extend a lock-less NMI per-cpu buffers idea to handle recursive
   printk() calls by Sergey Senozhatsky[2]. It is the first step in
   sanitizing printk as discussed at Kernel Summit.

   The change allows to see messages that would normally get ignored or
   would cause a deadlock.

   Also it allows to enable lockdep in printk(). This already paid off.
   The testing in linux-next helped to discover two old problems that
   were hidden before[3][4].

 - Remove unused parameter by Sergey Senozhatsky. Clean up after a past
   change.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481798878-31898-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161227141611.940-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
[3] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170215044332.30449-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
[4] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217015932.11898-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
  printk: drop call_console_drivers() unused param
  printk: convert the rest to printk-safe
  printk: remove zap_locks() function
  printk: use printk_safe buffers in printk
  printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi contexts
  printk: always use deferred printk when flush printk_safe lines
  printk: introduce per-cpu safe_print seq buffer
  printk: rename nmi.c and exported api
  printk: use vprintk_func in vprintk()
  MAINTAINERS: Add printk maintainers
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: rename nmi.c and exported api</title>
<updated>2017-02-08T10:02:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-27T14:16:05Z</published>
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A preparation patch for printk_safe work. No functional change.
- rename nmi.c to print_safe.c
- add `printk_safe' prefix to some (which used both by printk-safe
  and printk-nmi) of the exported functions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161227141611.940-3-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Calvin Owens &lt;calvinowens@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>kernel/panic.c: add missing \n</title>
<updated>2017-01-25T00:26:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-24T23:18:29Z</published>
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When a system panics, the "Rebooting in X seconds.." message is never
printed because it lacks a new line.  Fix it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170119114751.2724-1-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>taint/module: Fix problems when out-of-kernel driver defines true or false</title>
<updated>2017-01-17T18:56:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Larry Finger</name>
<email>Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-02T02:25:25Z</published>
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Commit 7fd8329ba502 ("taint/module: Clean up global and module taint
flags handling") used the key words true and false as character members
of a new struct. These names cause problems when out-of-kernel modules
such as VirtualBox include their own definitions of true and false.

Fixes: 7fd8329ba502 ("taint/module: Clean up global and module taint flags handling")
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>taint/module: Clean up global and module taint flags handling</title>
<updated>2016-11-26T19:18:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-21T11:47:22Z</published>
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The commit 66cc69e34e86a231 ("Fix: module signature vs tracepoints:
add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE") updated module_taint_flags() to
potentially print one more character. But it did not increase the
size of the corresponding buffers in m_show() and print_modules().

We have recently done the same mistake when adding a taint flag
for livepatching, see
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cfba2c823bb984690b73572aaae1db596b54a082.1472137475.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com

Also struct module uses an incompatible type for mod-taints flags.
It survived from the commit 2bc2d61a9638dab670d ("[PATCH] list module
taint flags in Oops/panic"). There was used "int" for the global taint
flags at these times. But only the global tain flags was later changed
to "unsigned long" by the commit 25ddbb18aae33ad2 ("Make the taint
flags reliable").

This patch defines TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT that can be used to create
arrays and buffers of the right size. Note that we could not use
enum because the taint flag indexes are used also in assembly code.

Then it reworks the table that describes the taint flags. The TAINT_*
numbers can be used as the index. Instead, we add information
if the taint flag is also shown per-module.

Finally, it uses "unsigned long", bit operations, and the updated
taint_flags table also for mod-&gt;taints.

It is not optimal because only few taint flags can be printed by
module_taint_flags(). But better be on the safe side. IMHO, it is
not worth the optimization and this is a good compromise.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474458442-21581-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
[jeyu@redhat.com: fix broken lkml link in changelog]
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@redhat.com&gt;
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