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<updated>2018-06-14T03:21:18Z</updated>
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<title>Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables</title>
<updated>2018-06-14T03:21:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2018-06-14T03:21:18Z</published>
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The changes to automatically test for working stack protector compiler
support in the Kconfig files removed the special STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO
option that picked the strongest stack protector that the compiler
supported.

That was all a nice cleanup - it makes no sense to have the AUTO case
now that the Kconfig phase can just determine the compiler support
directly.

HOWEVER.

It also meant that doing "make oldconfig" would now _disable_ the strong
stackprotector if you had AUTO enabled, because in a legacy config file,
the sane stack protector configuration would look like

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE is not set
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR is not set
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO=y

and when you ran this through "make oldconfig" with the Kbuild changes,
it would ask you about the regular CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR (that had
been renamed from CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR to just
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR), but it would think that the STRONG version
used to be disabled (because it was really enabled by AUTO), and would
disable it in the new config, resulting in:

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y

That's dangerously subtle - people could suddenly find themselves with
the weaker stack protector setup without even realizing.

The solution here is to just rename not just the old RECULAR stack
protector option, but also the strong one.  This does that by just
removing the CC_ prefix entirely for the user choices, because it really
is not about the compiler support (the compiler support now instead
automatially impacts _visibility_ of the options to users).

This results in "make oldconfig" actually asking the user for their
choice, so that we don't have any silent subtle security model changes.
The end result would generally look like this:

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
  CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y

where the "CC_" versions really are about internal compiler
infrastructure, not the user selections.

Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>taint: add taint for randstruct</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:28:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2018-04-10T23:32:33Z</published>
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Since the randstruct plugin can intentionally produce extremely unusual
kernel structure layouts (even performance pathological ones), some
maintainers want to be able to trivially determine if an Oops is coming
from a randstruct-built kernel, so as to keep their sanity when
debugging.  This adds the new flag and initializes taint_mask
immediately when built with randstruct.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519084390-43867-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&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;
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<title>taint: consolidate documentation</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:28:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2018-04-10T23:32:29Z</published>
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This consolidates the taint bit documentation into a single place with
both numeric and letter values.  Additionally adds the missing TAINT_AUX
documentation.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519084390-43867-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&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;
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<title>taint: convert to indexed initialization</title>
<updated>2018-04-11T17:28:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T23:32:26Z</published>
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This converts to using indexed initializers instead of comments, adds a
comment on why the taint flags can't be an enum, and make sure that no
one forgets to update the taint_flags when adding new bits.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519084390-43867-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&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;
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<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2018-04-10T18:27:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T18:27:30Z</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "New features:

   - Tom Zanussi's extended histogram work.

     This adds the synthetic events to have histograms from multiple
     event data Adds triggers "onmatch" and "onmax" to call the
     synthetic events Several updates to the histogram code from this

   - Allow way to nest ring buffer calls in the same context

   - Allow absolute time stamps in ring buffer

   - Rewrite of filter code parsing based on Al Viro's suggestions

   - Setting of trace_clock to global if TSC is unstable (on boot)

   - Better OOM handling when allocating large ring buffers

   - Added initcall tracepoints (consolidated initcall_debug code with
     them)

  And other various fixes and clean ups"

* tag 'trace-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (68 commits)
  init: Have initcall_debug still work without CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
  init, tracing: Have printk come through the trace events for initcall_debug
  init, tracing: instrument security and console initcall trace events
  init, tracing: Add initcall trace events
  tracing: Add rcu dereference annotation for test func that touches filter-&gt;prog
  tracing: Add rcu dereference annotation for filter-&gt;prog
  tracing: Fixup logic inversion on setting trace_global_clock defaults
  tracing: Hide global trace clock from lockdep
  ring-buffer: Add set/clear_current_oom_origin() during allocations
  ring-buffer: Check if memory is available before allocation
  lockdep: Add print_irqtrace_events() to __warn
  vsprintf: Do not preprocess non-dereferenced pointers for bprintf (%px and %pK)
  tracing: Uninitialized variable in create_tracing_map_fields()
  tracing: Make sure variable string fields are NULL-terminated
  tracing: Add action comparisons when testing matching hist triggers
  tracing: Don't add flag strings when displaying variable references
  tracing: Fix display of hist trigger expressions containing timestamps
  ftrace: Drop a VLA in module_exists()
  tracing: Mention trace_clock=global when warning about unstable clocks
  tracing: Default to using trace_global_clock if sched_clock is unstable
  ...
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<title>lockdep: Add print_irqtrace_events() to __warn</title>
<updated>2018-04-06T12:56:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-03T14:31:47Z</published>
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Running a test on a x86_32 kernel I triggered a bug that an interrupt
disable/enable isn't being catched by lockdep. At least knowing where the
last one was found would be helpful, but the warnings that are produced do
not show this information. Even without debugging lockdep, having the WARN()
display the last place hard and soft irqs were enabled or disabled is
valuable.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'core-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-04-02T16:08:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-02T16:08:26Z</published>
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Pull misc core updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two changes:

  - add membarriers to Documentation/features/

  - fix a minor nit in panic printk formatting"

* 'core-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  panic: Add closing panic marker parenthesis
  Documentation/features, membarriers: Document membarrier-sync-core architecture support
  Documentation/features: Allow comments in arch features files
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<title>bug: use %pB in BUG and stack protector failure</title>
<updated>2018-03-10T00:40:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-09T23:50:59Z</published>
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The BUG and stack protector reports were still using a raw %p.  This
changes it to %pB for more meaningful output.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180301225704.GA34198@beast
Fixes: ad67b74d2469 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard.weinberger@gmail.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;
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<title>panic: Add closing panic marker parenthesis</title>
<updated>2018-03-08T11:01:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-06T09:49:12Z</published>
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Otherwise it looks unbalanced.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180306094920.16917-2-bp@alien8.de

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<title>kernel/panic.c: add TAINT_AUX</title>
<updated>2017-11-18T00:10:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-17T23:30:38Z</published>
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This is the gist of a patch which we've been forward-porting in our
kernels for a long time now and it probably would make a good sense to
have such TAINT_AUX flag upstream which can be used by each distro etc,
how they see fit.  This way, we won't need to forward-port a distro-only
version indefinitely.

Add an auxiliary taint flag to be used by distros and others.  This
obviates the need to forward-port whatever internal solutions people
have in favor of a single flag which they can map arbitrarily to a
definition of their pleasing.

The "X" mnemonic could also mean eXternal, which would be taint from a
distro or something else but not the upstream kernel.  We will use it to
mark modules for which we don't provide support.  I.e., a really
eXternal module.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170911134533.dp5mtyku5bongx4c@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.com&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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