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prctl: cfi: change the branch landing pad prctl()s to be more descriptive

2026-04-05T00:40:58Z

Per Linus' comments requesting the replacement of "INDIR_BR_LP" in the indirect branch tracking prctl()s with something more readable, and suggesting the use of the speculation control prctl()s as an exemplar, reimplement the prctl()s and related constants that control per-task forward-edge control flow integrity. This primarily involves two changes. First, the prctls are restructured to resemble the style of the speculative execution workaround control prctls PR_{GET,SET}_SPECULATION_CTRL, to make them easier to extend in the future. Second, the "indir_br_lp" abbrevation is expanded to "branch_landing_pads" to be less telegraphic. The kselftest and documentation is adjusted accordingly. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/CAHk-=whhSLGZAx3N5jJpb4GLFDqH_QvS07D+6BnkPWmCEzTAgw@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: Deepak Gupta Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley

prctl: rename branch landing pad implementation functions to be more explicit

2026-04-05T00:40:58Z

Per Linus' comments about the unreadability of abbreviations such as "indir_br_lp", rename the three prctl() implementation functions to be more explicit. This involves renaming "indir_br_lp_status" in the function names to "branch_landing_pad_state". While here, add _prctl_ into the function names, following the speculation control prctl implementation functions. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/CAHk-=whhSLGZAx3N5jJpb4GLFDqH_QvS07D+6BnkPWmCEzTAgw@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: Deepak Gupta Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley

Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-7.0-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux

2026-02-13T03:17:44Z

Pull RISC-V updates from Paul Walmsley: - Add support for control flow integrity for userspace processes. This is based on the standard RISC-V ISA extensions Zicfiss and Zicfilp - Improve ptrace behavior regarding vector registers, and add some selftests - Optimize our strlen() assembly - Enable the ISO-8859-1 code page as built-in, similar to ARM64, for EFI volume mounting - Clean up some code slightly, including defining copy_user_page() as copy_page() rather than memcpy(), aligning us with other architectures; and using max3() to slightly simplify an expression in riscv_iommu_init_check() * tag 'riscv-for-linus-7.0-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (42 commits) riscv: lib: optimize strlen loop efficiency selftests: riscv: vstate_exec_nolibc: Use the regular prctl() function selftests: riscv: verify ptrace accepts valid vector csr values selftests: riscv: verify ptrace rejects invalid vector csr inputs selftests: riscv: verify syscalls discard vector context selftests: riscv: verify initial vector state with ptrace selftests: riscv: test ptrace vector interface riscv: ptrace: validate input vector csr registers riscv: csr: define vtype register elements riscv: vector: init vector context with proper vlenb riscv: ptrace: return ENODATA for inactive vector extension kselftest/riscv: add kselftest for user mode CFI riscv: add documentation for shadow stack riscv: add documentation for landing pad / indirect branch tracking riscv: create a Kconfig fragment for shadow stack and landing pad support arch/riscv: add dual vdso creation logic and select vdso based on hw arch/riscv: compile vdso with landing pad and shadow stack note riscv: enable kernel access to shadow stack memory via the FWFT SBI call riscv: add kernel command line option to opt out of user CFI riscv/hwprobe: add zicfilp / zicfiss enumeration in hwprobe ...

Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-02-11T01:02:23Z

Pull VDSO updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Provide the missing 64-bit variant of clock_getres() This allows the extension of CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME to the vDSO and finally the removal of 32-bit time types from the kernel and UAPI. - Remove the useless and broken getcpu_cache from the VDSO The intention was to provide a trivial way to retrieve the CPU number from the VDSO, but as the VDSO data is per process there is no way to make it work. - Switch get/put_unaligned() from packed struct to memcpy() The packed struct violates strict aliasing rules which requires to pass -fno-strict-aliasing to the compiler. As this are scalar values __builtin_memcpy() turns them into simple loads and stores - Use __typeof_unqual__() for __unqual_scalar_typeof() The get/put_unaligned() changes triggered a new sparse warning when __beNN types are used with get/put_unaligned() as sparse builds add a special 'bitwise' attribute to them which prevents sparse to evaluate the Generic in __unqual_scalar_typeof(). Newer sparse versions support __typeof_unqual__() which avoids the problem, but requires a recent sparse install. So this adds a sanity check to sparse builds, which validates that sparse is available and capable of handling it. - Force inline __cvdso_clock_getres_common() Compilers sometimes un-inline agressively, which results in function call overhead and problems with automatic stack variable initialization. Interestingly enough the force inlining results in smaller code than the un-inlined variant produced by GCC when optimizing for size. * tag 'timers-vdso-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: vdso/gettimeofday: Force inlining of __cvdso_clock_getres_common() x86/percpu: Make CONFIG_USE_X86_SEG_SUPPORT work with sparse compiler: Use __typeof_unqual__() for __unqual_scalar_typeof() powerpc/vdso: Provide clock_getres_time64() tools headers: Remove unneeded ignoring of warnings in unaligned.h tools headers: Update the linux/unaligned.h copy with the kernel sources vdso: Switch get/put_unaligned() from packed struct to memcpy() parisc: Inline a type punning version of get_unaligned_le32() vdso: Remove struct getcpu_cache MIPS: vdso: Provide getres_time64() for 32-bit ABIs arm64: vdso32: Provide clock_getres_time64() ARM: VDSO: Provide clock_getres_time64() ARM: VDSO: Patch out __vdso_clock_getres() if unavailable x86/vdso: Provide clock_getres_time64() for x86-32 selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Add test for clock_getres_time64() selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Use UAPI system call numbers selftests: vDSO: vdso_config: Add configurations for clock_getres_time64() vdso: Add prototype for __vdso_clock_getres_time64()

prctl: add arch-agnostic prctl()s for indirect branch tracking

2026-01-29T09:36:32Z

Three architectures (x86, aarch64, riscv) have support for indirect branch tracking feature in a very similar fashion. On a very high level, indirect branch tracking is a CPU feature where CPU tracks branches which use a memory operand to transfer control. As part of this tracking, during an indirect branch, the CPU expects a landing pad instruction on the target PC, and if not found, the CPU raises some fault (architecture-dependent). x86 landing pad instr - 'ENDBRANCH' arch64 landing pad instr - 'BTI' riscv landing instr - 'lpad' Given that three major architectures have support for indirect branch tracking, this patch creates architecture-agnostic 'prctls' to allow userspace to control this feature. They are: - PR_GET_INDIR_BR_LP_STATUS: Get the current configured status for indirect branch tracking. - PR_SET_INDIR_BR_LP_STATUS: Set the configuration for indirect branch tracking. The following status options are allowed: - PR_INDIR_BR_LP_ENABLE: Enables indirect branch tracking on user thread. - PR_INDIR_BR_LP_DISABLE: Disables indirect branch tracking on user thread. - PR_LOCK_INDIR_BR_LP_STATUS: Locks configured status for indirect branch tracking for user thread. Reviewed-by: Mark Brown Reviewed-by: Zong Li Signed-off-by: Deepak Gupta Tested-by: Andreas Korb # QEMU, custom CVA6 Tested-by: Valentin Haudiquet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251112-v5_user_cfi_series-v23-13-b55691eacf4f@rivosinc.com [pjw@kernel.org: cleaned up patch description, code comments] Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley

rseq: Add prctl() to enable time slice extensions

2026-01-22T10:11:17Z

Implement a prctl() so that tasks can enable the time slice extension mechanism. This fails, when time slice extensions are disabled at compile time or on the kernel command line and when no rseq pointer is registered in the kernel. That allows to implement a single trivial check in the exit to user mode hotpath, to decide whether the whole mechanism needs to be invoked. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251215155708.858717691@linutronix.de

vdso: Remove struct getcpu_cache

2026-01-14T07:56:40Z

The cache parameter of getcpu() is useless nowadays for various reasons. * It is never passed by userspace for either the vDSO or syscalls. * It is never used by the kernel. * It could not be made to work on the current vDSO architecture. * The structure definition is not part of the UAPI headers. * vdso_getcpu() is superseded by restartable sequences in any case. Remove the struct and its header. As a side-effect this gets rid of an unwanted inclusion of the linux/ header namespace from vDSO code. [ tglx: Adapt to s390 upstream changes */ Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Heiko Carstens # s390 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230-getcpu_cache-v3-1-fb9c5f880ebe@linutronix.de

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-10-03T01:44:54Z

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet completes the removal of this legacy IDR API - "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place - "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support" from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the delaytop monitoring tool - "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of EFI and KHO - "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere 150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark - plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits) Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode() kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc() MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get() panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect() checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name() kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO) ...

kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit

2025-09-28T18:36:12Z

If a process calls prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) at the same time that the parent process exits, the child will write to me->pdeath_sig at the same time the parent is reading it. Since there is no synchronization, this is a data race. Worse, it is possible that a subsequent call to getppid() can continue to return the previous parent process ID without the parent death signal being delivered. This happens in the following scenario: parent child forget_original_parent() prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGKILL) sys_prctl() me->pdeath_sig = SIGKILL; getppid(); RCU_INIT_POINTER(t->real_parent, reaper); if (t->pdeath_signal) /* reads stale me->pdeath_sig */ group_send_sig_info(t->pdeath_signal, ...); And in the following: parent child forget_original_parent() RCU_INIT_POINTER(t->real_parent, reaper); /* also no barrier */ if (t->pdeath_signal) /* reads stale me->pdeath_sig */ group_send_sig_info(t->pdeath_signal, ...); prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGKILL) sys_prctl() me->pdeath_sig = SIGKILL; getppid(); /* reads old ppid() */ As a result, the following pattern is racy: pid_t parent_pid = getpid(); pid_t child_pid = fork(); if (child_pid == -1) { /* handle error... */ return; } if (child_pid == 0) { if (prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGKILL) != 0) { /* handle error */ _exit(126); } if (getppid() != parent_pid) { /* parent died already */ raise(SIGKILL); } /* keep going in child */ } /* keep going in parent */ If the parent is killed at exactly the wrong time, the child process can (wrongly) stay running. I didn't manage to reproduce this in my testing, but I'm pretty sure the race is real. KCSAN is probably the best way to spot the race. Fix the bug by holding tasklist_lock for reading whenever pdeath_signal is being written to. This prevents races on me->pdeath_sig, and the locking and unlocking of the rwlock provide the needed memory barriers. If prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) happens before the parent exits, the signal will be sent. If it happens afterwards, a subsequent getppid() will return the new value. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250913-fix-prctl-pdeathsig-race-v1-1-44e2eb426fe9@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Mateusz Guzik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths

2025-09-23T03:10:59Z

The usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64()->do_prlimit() path is very broken. sys_prlimit64() does get_task_struct(tsk) but this only protects task_struct itself. If tsk != current and tsk is not a leader, this process can exit/exec and task_lock(tsk->group_leader) may use the already freed task_struct. Another problem is that sys_prlimit64() can race with mt-exec which changes ->group_leader. In this case do_prlimit() may take the wrong lock, or (worse) ->group_leader may change between task_lock() and task_unlock(). Change sys_prlimit64() to take tasklist_lock when necessary. This is not nice, but I don't see a better fix for -stable. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250915120917.GA27702@redhat.com Fixes: 18c91bb2d872 ("prlimit: do not grab the tasklist_lock") Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton