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<title>powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Don't discard .rela* for relocatable builds</title>
<updated>2023-03-17T07:45:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-02T02:04:54+00:00</published>
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commit 07b050f9290ee012a407a0f64151db902a1520f5 upstream.

Relocatable kernels must not discard relocations, they need to be
processed at runtime. As such they are included for CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
builds in the powerpc linker script (line 340).

However they are also unconditionally discarded later in the
script (line 414). Previously that worked because the earlier inclusion
superseded the discard.

However commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and
riscv") introduced an earlier use of DISCARD as part of the RO_DATA
macro (line 137). With binutils &lt; 2.36 that causes the DISCARD
directives later in the script to be applied earlier, causing .rela* to
actually be discarded at link time, leading to build warnings and a
kernel that doesn't boot:

  ld: warning: discarding dynamic section .rela.init.rodata

Fix it by conditionally discarding .rela* only when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
is disabled.

Fixes: 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105132349.384666-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger &lt;tom.saeger@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 07b050f9290ee012a407a0f64151db902a1520f5 upstream.

Relocatable kernels must not discard relocations, they need to be
processed at runtime. As such they are included for CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
builds in the powerpc linker script (line 340).

However they are also unconditionally discarded later in the
script (line 414). Previously that worked because the earlier inclusion
superseded the discard.

However commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and
riscv") introduced an earlier use of DISCARD as part of the RO_DATA
macro (line 137). With binutils &lt; 2.36 that causes the DISCARD
directives later in the script to be applied earlier, causing .rela* to
actually be discarded at link time, leading to build warnings and a
kernel that doesn't boot:

  ld: warning: discarding dynamic section .rela.init.rodata

Fix it by conditionally discarding .rela* only when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
is disabled.

Fixes: 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105132349.384666-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger &lt;tom.saeger@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT</title>
<updated>2023-03-17T07:45:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-02T02:04:53+00:00</published>
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commit 4b9880dbf3bdba3a7c56445137c3d0e30aaa0a40 upstream.

The powerpc linker script explicitly includes .exit.text, because
otherwise the link fails due to references from __bug_table and
__ex_table. The code is freed (discarded) at runtime along with
.init.text and data.

That has worked in the past despite powerpc not defining
RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT because DISCARDS appears late in the powerpc linker
script (line 410), and the explicit inclusion of .exit.text
earlier (line 280) supersedes the discard.

However commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and
riscv") introduced an earlier use of DISCARD as part of the RO_DATA
macro (line 136). With binutils &lt; 2.36 that causes the DISCARD
directives later in the script to be applied earlier [1], causing
.exit.text to actually be discarded at link time, leading to build
errors:

  '.exit.text' referenced in section '__bug_table' of crypto/algboss.o: defined in
  discarded section '.exit.text' of crypto/algboss.o
  '.exit.text' referenced in section '__ex_table' of drivers/nvdimm/core.o: defined in
  discarded section '.exit.text' of drivers/nvdimm/core.o

Fix it by defining RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT, which causes the generic
DISCARDS macro to not include .exit.text at all.

1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87fscp2v7k.fsf@igel.home/

Fixes: 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105132349.384666-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger &lt;tom.saeger@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 4b9880dbf3bdba3a7c56445137c3d0e30aaa0a40 upstream.

The powerpc linker script explicitly includes .exit.text, because
otherwise the link fails due to references from __bug_table and
__ex_table. The code is freed (discarded) at runtime along with
.init.text and data.

That has worked in the past despite powerpc not defining
RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT because DISCARDS appears late in the powerpc linker
script (line 410), and the explicit inclusion of .exit.text
earlier (line 280) supersedes the discard.

However commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and
riscv") introduced an earlier use of DISCARD as part of the RO_DATA
macro (line 136). With binutils &lt; 2.36 that causes the DISCARD
directives later in the script to be applied earlier [1], causing
.exit.text to actually be discarded at link time, leading to build
errors:

  '.exit.text' referenced in section '__bug_table' of crypto/algboss.o: defined in
  discarded section '.exit.text' of crypto/algboss.o
  '.exit.text' referenced in section '__ex_table' of drivers/nvdimm/core.o: defined in
  discarded section '.exit.text' of drivers/nvdimm/core.o

Fix it by defining RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT, which causes the generic
DISCARDS macro to not include .exit.text at all.

1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87fscp2v7k.fsf@igel.home/

Fixes: 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105132349.384666-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger &lt;tom.saeger@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: fix scv entry fallback flush vs interrupt</title>
<updated>2021-01-27T10:55:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-11T06:24:08+00:00</published>
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commit 08685be7761d69914f08c3d6211c543a385a5b9c upstream.

The L1D flush fallback functions are not recoverable vs interrupts,
yet the scv entry flush runs with MSR[EE]=1. This can result in a
timer (soft-NMI) or MCE or SRESET interrupt hitting here and overwriting
the EXRFI save area, which ends up corrupting userspace registers for
scv return.

Fix this by disabling RI and EE for the scv entry fallback flush.

Fixes: f79643787e0a0 ("powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.9+ which also have flush L1D patch backport
Reported-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho &lt;tuliom@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210111062408.287092-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 08685be7761d69914f08c3d6211c543a385a5b9c upstream.

The L1D flush fallback functions are not recoverable vs interrupts,
yet the scv entry flush runs with MSR[EE]=1. This can result in a
timer (soft-NMI) or MCE or SRESET interrupt hitting here and overwriting
the EXRFI save area, which ends up corrupting userspace registers for
scv return.

Fix this by disabling RI and EE for the scv entry fallback flush.

Fixes: f79643787e0a0 ("powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.9+ which also have flush L1D patch backport
Reported-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho &lt;tuliom@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210111062408.287092-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix alignment bug within the init sections</title>
<updated>2021-01-27T10:55:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ariel Marcovitch</name>
<email>arielmarcovitch@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-02T20:11:56+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2225a8dda263edc35a0e8b858fe2945cf6240fde ]

This is a bug that causes early crashes in builds with an .exit.text
section smaller than a page and an .init.text section that ends in the
beginning of a physical page (this is kinda random, which might
explain why this wasn't really encountered before).

The init sections are ordered like this:
  .init.text
  .exit.text
  .init.data

Currently, these sections aren't page aligned.

Because the init code might become read-only at runtime and because
the .init.text section can potentially reside on the same physical
page as .init.data, the beginning of .init.data might be mapped
read-only along with .init.text.

Then when the kernel tries to modify a variable in .init.data (like
kthreadd_done, used in kernel_init()) the kernel panics.

To avoid this, make _einittext page aligned and also align .exit.text
to make sure .init.data is always seperated from the text segments.

Fixes: 060ef9d89d18 ("powerpc32: PAGE_EXEC required for inittext")
Signed-off-by: Ariel Marcovitch &lt;ariel.marcovitch@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210102201156.10805-1-ariel.marcovitch@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2225a8dda263edc35a0e8b858fe2945cf6240fde ]

This is a bug that causes early crashes in builds with an .exit.text
section smaller than a page and an .init.text section that ends in the
beginning of a physical page (this is kinda random, which might
explain why this wasn't really encountered before).

The init sections are ordered like this:
  .init.text
  .exit.text
  .init.data

Currently, these sections aren't page aligned.

Because the init code might become read-only at runtime and because
the .init.text section can potentially reside on the same physical
page as .init.data, the beginning of .init.data might be mapped
read-only along with .init.text.

Then when the kernel tries to modify a variable in .init.data (like
kthreadd_done, used in kernel_init()) the kernel panics.

To avoid this, make _einittext page aligned and also align .exit.text
to make sure .init.data is always seperated from the text segments.

Fixes: 060ef9d89d18 ("powerpc32: PAGE_EXEC required for inittext")
Signed-off-by: Ariel Marcovitch &lt;ariel.marcovitch@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210102201156.10805-1-ariel.marcovitch@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use the common INIT_DATA_SECTION macro in vmlinux.lds.S</title>
<updated>2021-01-27T10:55:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Youling Tang</name>
<email>tangyouling@loongson.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-04T10:59:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fdcfeaba38e5b183045f5b079af94f97658eabe6 ]

Use the common INIT_DATA_SECTION rule for the linker script in an effort
to regularize the linker script.

Signed-off-by: Youling Tang &lt;tangyouling@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1604487550-20040-1-git-send-email-tangyouling@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit fdcfeaba38e5b183045f5b079af94f97658eabe6 ]

Use the common INIT_DATA_SECTION rule for the linker script in an effort
to regularize the linker script.

Signed-off-by: Youling Tang &lt;tangyouling@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1604487550-20040-1-git-send-email-tangyouling@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Handle .text.{hot,unlikely}.* in linker script</title>
<updated>2021-01-12T19:18:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>natechancellor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-04T20:59:53+00:00</published>
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commit 3ce47d95b7346dcafd9bed3556a8d072cb2b8571 upstream.

Commit eff8728fe698 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Add PGO and AutoFDO input
sections") added ".text.unlikely.*" and ".text.hot.*" due to an LLVM
change [1].

After another LLVM change [2], these sections are seen in some PowerPC
builds, where there is a orphan section warning then build failure:

$ make -skj"$(nproc)" \
       ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc64le-linux-gnu- LLVM=1 O=out \
       distclean powernv_defconfig zImage.epapr
ld.lld: warning: kernel/built-in.a(panic.o):(.text.unlikely.) is being placed in '.text.unlikely.'
...
ld.lld: warning: address (0xc000000000009314) of section .text is not a multiple of alignment (256)
...
ERROR: start_text address is c000000000009400, should be c000000000008000
ERROR: try to enable LD_HEAD_STUB_CATCH config option
ERROR: see comments in arch/powerpc/tools/head_check.sh
...

Explicitly handle these sections like in the main linker script so
there is no more build failure.

[1]: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79600
[2]: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92493

Fixes: 83a092cf95f2 ("powerpc: Link warning for orphan sections")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1218
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210104205952.1399409-1-natechancellor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3ce47d95b7346dcafd9bed3556a8d072cb2b8571 upstream.

Commit eff8728fe698 ("vmlinux.lds.h: Add PGO and AutoFDO input
sections") added ".text.unlikely.*" and ".text.hot.*" due to an LLVM
change [1].

After another LLVM change [2], these sections are seen in some PowerPC
builds, where there is a orphan section warning then build failure:

$ make -skj"$(nproc)" \
       ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc64le-linux-gnu- LLVM=1 O=out \
       distclean powernv_defconfig zImage.epapr
ld.lld: warning: kernel/built-in.a(panic.o):(.text.unlikely.) is being placed in '.text.unlikely.'
...
ld.lld: warning: address (0xc000000000009314) of section .text is not a multiple of alignment (256)
...
ERROR: start_text address is c000000000009400, should be c000000000008000
ERROR: try to enable LD_HEAD_STUB_CATCH config option
ERROR: see comments in arch/powerpc/tools/head_check.sh
...

Explicitly handle these sections like in the main linker script so
there is no more build failure.

[1]: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79600
[2]: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92493

Fixes: 83a092cf95f2 ("powerpc: Link warning for orphan sections")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1218
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210104205952.1399409-1-natechancellor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses</title>
<updated>2020-11-19T12:47:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-17T05:59:13+00:00</published>
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IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache after user accesses.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache after user accesses.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry</title>
<updated>2020-11-19T12:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-17T05:59:12+00:00</published>
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IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache on kernel entry.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache on kernel entry.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Split ELF_DETAILS from STABS_DEBUG</title>
<updated>2020-09-01T07:50:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-21T19:42:45+00:00</published>
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The .comment section doesn't belong in STABS_DEBUG. Split it out into a
new macro named ELF_DETAILS. This will gain other non-debug sections
that need to be accounted for when linking with --orphan-handling=warn.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821194310.3089815-5-keescook@chromium.org
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The .comment section doesn't belong in STABS_DEBUG. Split it out into a
new macro named ELF_DETAILS. This will gain other non-debug sections
that need to be accounted for when linking with --orphan-handling=warn.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821194310.3089815-5-keescook@chromium.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2020-06-05T19:39:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-05T19:39:30+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Support for userspace to send requests directly to the on-chip GZIP
   accelerator on Power9.

 - Rework of our lockless page table walking (__find_linux_pte()) to
   make it safe against parallel page table manipulations without
   relying on an IPI for serialisation.

 - A series of fixes &amp; enhancements to make our machine check handling
   more robust.

 - Lots of plumbing to add support for "prefixed" (64-bit) instructions
   on Power10.

 - Support for using huge pages for the linear mapping on 8xx (32-bit).

 - Remove obsolete Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support, and an associated sound
   driver.

 - Removal of some obsolete 40x platforms and associated cruft.

 - Initial support for booting on Power10.

 - Lots of other small features, cleanups &amp; fixes.

Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan,
Andrey Abramov, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, Bharata B Rao, Bulent
Abali, Cédric Le Goater, Chen Zhou, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe
JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Dmitry Torokhov, Emmanuel Nicolet, Erhard F.,
Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand, George Spelvin, Greg Kurz, Gustavo A.
R. Silva, Gustavo Walbon, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley,
Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Leonardo Bras, Madhavan
Srinivasan., Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Michael Neuling, Michal
Simek, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin,
Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pingfan Liu, Qian Cai, Ram Pai,
Raphael Moreira Zinsly, Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Segher
Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel Datwyler,
Wolfram Sang, Xiongfeng Wang.

* tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (299 commits)
  powerpc/pseries: Make vio and ibmebus initcalls pseries specific
  cxl: Remove dead Kconfig options
  powerpc: Add POWER10 architected mode
  powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Add MMA feature
  powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Enable Prefixed Instructions
  powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Advertise support for ISA v3.1 if selected
  powerpc: Add support for ISA v3.1
  powerpc: Add new HWCAP bits
  powerpc/64s: Don't set FSCR bits in INIT_THREAD
  powerpc/64s: Save FSCR to init_task.thread.fscr after feature init
  powerpc/64s: Don't let DT CPU features set FSCR_DSCR
  powerpc/64s: Don't init FSCR_DSCR in __init_FSCR()
  powerpc/32s: Fix another build failure with CONFIG_PPC_KUAP_DEBUG
  powerpc/module_64: Use special stub for _mcount() with -mprofile-kernel
  powerpc/module_64: Simplify check for -mprofile-kernel ftrace relocations
  powerpc/module_64: Consolidate ftrace code
  powerpc/32: Disable KASAN with pages bigger than 16k
  powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUEP by default on book3s/32
  powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUAP by default on book3s/32
  powerpc/8xx: Reduce time spent in allow_user_access() and friends
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Support for userspace to send requests directly to the on-chip GZIP
   accelerator on Power9.

 - Rework of our lockless page table walking (__find_linux_pte()) to
   make it safe against parallel page table manipulations without
   relying on an IPI for serialisation.

 - A series of fixes &amp; enhancements to make our machine check handling
   more robust.

 - Lots of plumbing to add support for "prefixed" (64-bit) instructions
   on Power10.

 - Support for using huge pages for the linear mapping on 8xx (32-bit).

 - Remove obsolete Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support, and an associated sound
   driver.

 - Removal of some obsolete 40x platforms and associated cruft.

 - Initial support for booting on Power10.

 - Lots of other small features, cleanups &amp; fixes.

Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan,
Andrey Abramov, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, Bharata B Rao, Bulent
Abali, Cédric Le Goater, Chen Zhou, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe
JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Dmitry Torokhov, Emmanuel Nicolet, Erhard F.,
Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand, George Spelvin, Greg Kurz, Gustavo A.
R. Silva, Gustavo Walbon, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley,
Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Leonardo Bras, Madhavan
Srinivasan., Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Michael Neuling, Michal
Simek, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin,
Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pingfan Liu, Qian Cai, Ram Pai,
Raphael Moreira Zinsly, Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Segher
Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel Datwyler,
Wolfram Sang, Xiongfeng Wang.

* tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (299 commits)
  powerpc/pseries: Make vio and ibmebus initcalls pseries specific
  cxl: Remove dead Kconfig options
  powerpc: Add POWER10 architected mode
  powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Add MMA feature
  powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Enable Prefixed Instructions
  powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Advertise support for ISA v3.1 if selected
  powerpc: Add support for ISA v3.1
  powerpc: Add new HWCAP bits
  powerpc/64s: Don't set FSCR bits in INIT_THREAD
  powerpc/64s: Save FSCR to init_task.thread.fscr after feature init
  powerpc/64s: Don't let DT CPU features set FSCR_DSCR
  powerpc/64s: Don't init FSCR_DSCR in __init_FSCR()
  powerpc/32s: Fix another build failure with CONFIG_PPC_KUAP_DEBUG
  powerpc/module_64: Use special stub for _mcount() with -mprofile-kernel
  powerpc/module_64: Simplify check for -mprofile-kernel ftrace relocations
  powerpc/module_64: Consolidate ftrace code
  powerpc/32: Disable KASAN with pages bigger than 16k
  powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUEP by default on book3s/32
  powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUAP by default on book3s/32
  powerpc/8xx: Reduce time spent in allow_user_access() and friends
  ...
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