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<title>linux.git/kernel/Makefile, branch v6.1.168</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>kernel/numa.c: Move logging out of numa.h</title>
<updated>2024-06-12T09:03:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-11T18:27:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d7a73e3f089204aee3393687e23fd45a22657b08 ]

Moving these stub functions to a .c file means we can kill a sched.h
dependency on printk.h.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Stable-dep-of: f9f67e5adc8d ("x86/numa: Fix SRAT lookup of CFMWS ranges with numa_fill_memblks()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d7a73e3f089204aee3393687e23fd45a22657b08 ]

Moving these stub functions to a .c file means we can kill a sched.h
dependency on printk.h.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Stable-dep-of: f9f67e5adc8d ("x86/numa: Fix SRAT lookup of CFMWS ranges with numa_fill_memblks()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cfi: Fix CFI failure with KASAN</title>
<updated>2022-12-31T12:33:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-22T22:57:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=810f2cfdfe4e072555781fa5dd188949195dda16'/>
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[ Upstream commit cf8016408d880afe9c5dc495af40dc2932874e77 ]

When CFI_CLANG and KASAN are both enabled, LLVM doesn't generate a
CFI type hash for asan.module_ctor functions in translation units
where CFI is disabled, which leads to a CFI failure during boot when
do_ctors calls the affected constructors:

  CFI failure at do_basic_setup+0x64/0x90 (target:
  asan.module_ctor+0x0/0x28; expected type: 0xa540670c)

Specifically, this happens because CFI is disabled for
kernel/cfi.c. There's no reason to keep CFI disabled here anymore, so
fix the failure by not filtering out CC_FLAGS_CFI for the file.

Note that https://reviews.llvm.org/rG3b14862f0a96 fixed the issue
where LLVM didn't emit CFI type hashes for any sanitizer constructors,
but now type hashes are emitted correctly for TUs that use CFI.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1742
Fixes: 89245600941e ("cfi: Switch to -fsanitize=kcfi")
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221222225747.3538676-1-samitolvanen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit cf8016408d880afe9c5dc495af40dc2932874e77 ]

When CFI_CLANG and KASAN are both enabled, LLVM doesn't generate a
CFI type hash for asan.module_ctor functions in translation units
where CFI is disabled, which leads to a CFI failure during boot when
do_ctors calls the affected constructors:

  CFI failure at do_basic_setup+0x64/0x90 (target:
  asan.module_ctor+0x0/0x28; expected type: 0xa540670c)

Specifically, this happens because CFI is disabled for
kernel/cfi.c. There's no reason to keep CFI disabled here anymore, so
fix the failure by not filtering out CC_FLAGS_CFI for the file.

Note that https://reviews.llvm.org/rG3b14862f0a96 fixed the issue
where LLVM didn't emit CFI type hashes for any sanitizer constructors,
but now type hashes are emitted correctly for TUs that use CFI.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1742
Fixes: 89245600941e ("cfi: Switch to -fsanitize=kcfi")
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221222225747.3538676-1-samitolvanen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kmsan: disable instrumentation of unsupported common kernel code</title>
<updated>2022-10-03T21:03:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-15T15:03:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=79dbd006a6d6f51777ba4948046561b6d9270504'/>
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<content type='text'>
EFI stub cannot be linked with KMSAN runtime, so we disable
instrumentation for it.

Instrumenting kcov, stackdepot or lockdep leads to infinite recursion
caused by instrumentation hooks calling instrumented code again.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-13-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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EFI stub cannot be linked with KMSAN runtime, so we disable
instrumentation for it.

Instrumenting kcov, stackdepot or lockdep leads to infinite recursion
caused by instrumentation hooks calling instrumented code again.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-13-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: remove platform_has() infrastructure</title>
<updated>2022-08-01T05:42:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-22T06:38:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=a870544ca9d215449e91ebc01e35d80b23151c78'/>
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The only use case of the platform_has() infrastructure has been
removed again, so remove the whole feature.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt; # Arm64 guest using Xen
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220622063838.8854-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
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The only use case of the platform_has() infrastructure has been
removed again, so remove the whole feature.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt; # Arm64 guest using Xen
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220622063838.8854-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: add platform_has() infrastructure</title>
<updated>2022-06-06T06:06:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-02T13:05:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=2130a790ca49763f724ec45cf93b9dd765e2023e'/>
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Add a simple infrastructure for setting, resetting and querying
platform feature flags.

Flags can be either global or architecture specific.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt;
Tested-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt; # Arm64 only
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
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Add a simple infrastructure for setting, resetting and querying
platform feature flags.

Flags can be either global or architecture specific.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt;
Tested-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt; # Arm64 only
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2022-05-27T00:13:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-27T00:13:43+00:00</published>
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Pull modules updates from  Luis Chamberlain:

 - It was time to tidy up kernel/module.c and one way of starting with
   that effort was to split it up into files. At my request Aaron Tomlin
   spearheaded that effort with the goal to not introduce any functional
   at all during that endeavour. The penalty for the split is +1322
   bytes total, +112 bytes in data, +1210 bytes in text while bss is
   unchanged. One of the benefits of this other than helping make the
   code easier to read and review is summoning more help on review for
   changes with livepatching so kernel/module/livepatch.c is now pegged
   as maintained by the live patching folks.

   The before and after with just the move on a defconfig on x86-64:

     $ size kernel/module.o
        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       38434    4540     104   43078    a846 kernel/module.o

     $ size -t kernel/module/*.o
        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       4785     120       0    4905    1329 kernel/module/kallsyms.o
      28577    4416     104   33097    8149 kernel/module/main.o
       1158       8       0    1166     48e kernel/module/procfs.o
        902     108       0    1010     3f2 kernel/module/strict_rwx.o
       3390       0       0    3390     d3e kernel/module/sysfs.o
        832       0       0     832     340 kernel/module/tree_lookup.o
      39644    4652     104   44400    ad70 (TOTALS)

 - Aaron added module unload taint tracking (MODULE_UNLOAD_TAINT_TRACKING),
   to enable tracking unloaded modules which did taint the kernel.

 - Christophe Leroy added CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC
   which lets architectures to request having modules data in vmalloc
   area instead of module area. There are three reasons why an
   architecture might want this:

    a) On some architectures (like book3s/32) it is not possible to
       protect against execution on a page basis. The exec stuff can be
       mapped by different arch segment sizes (on book3s/32 that is 256M
       segments). By default the module area is in an Exec segment while
       vmalloc area is in a NoExec segment. Using vmalloc lets you muck
       with module data as NoExec on those architectures whereas before
       you could not.

    b) By pushing more module data to vmalloc you also increase the
       probability of module text to remain within a closer distance
       from kernel core text and this reduces trampolines, this has been
       reported on arm first and powerpc folks are following that lead.

    c) Free'ing module_alloc() (Exec by default) area leaves this
       exposed as Exec by default, some architectures have some security
       enhancements to set this as NoExec on free, and splitting module
       data with text let's future generic special allocators be added
       to the kernel without having developers try to grok the tribal
       knowledge per arch. Work like Rick Edgecombe's permission vmalloc
       interface [0] becomes easier to address over time.

       [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201120202426.18009-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/#r

 - Masahiro Yamada's symbol search enhancements

* tag 'modules-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (33 commits)
  module: merge check_exported_symbol() into find_exported_symbol_in_section()
  module: do not binary-search in __ksymtab_gpl if fsa-&gt;gplok is false
  module: do not pass opaque pointer for symbol search
  module: show disallowed symbol name for inherit_taint()
  module: fix [e_shstrndx].sh_size=0 OOB access
  module: Introduce module unload taint tracking
  module: Move module_assert_mutex_or_preempt() to internal.h
  module: Make module_flags_taint() accept a module's taints bitmap and usable outside core code
  module.h: simplify MODULE_IMPORT_NS
  powerpc: Select ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC on book3s/32 and 8xx
  module: Remove module_addr_min and module_addr_max
  module: Add CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC
  module: Introduce data_layout
  module: Prepare for handling several RB trees
  module: Always have struct mod_tree_root
  module: Rename debug_align() as strict_align()
  module: Rework layout alignment to avoid BUG_ON()s
  module: Move module_enable_x() and frob_text() in strict_rwx.c
  module: Make module_enable_x() independent of CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
  module: Move version support into a separate file
  ...
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<pre>
Pull modules updates from  Luis Chamberlain:

 - It was time to tidy up kernel/module.c and one way of starting with
   that effort was to split it up into files. At my request Aaron Tomlin
   spearheaded that effort with the goal to not introduce any functional
   at all during that endeavour. The penalty for the split is +1322
   bytes total, +112 bytes in data, +1210 bytes in text while bss is
   unchanged. One of the benefits of this other than helping make the
   code easier to read and review is summoning more help on review for
   changes with livepatching so kernel/module/livepatch.c is now pegged
   as maintained by the live patching folks.

   The before and after with just the move on a defconfig on x86-64:

     $ size kernel/module.o
        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       38434    4540     104   43078    a846 kernel/module.o

     $ size -t kernel/module/*.o
        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       4785     120       0    4905    1329 kernel/module/kallsyms.o
      28577    4416     104   33097    8149 kernel/module/main.o
       1158       8       0    1166     48e kernel/module/procfs.o
        902     108       0    1010     3f2 kernel/module/strict_rwx.o
       3390       0       0    3390     d3e kernel/module/sysfs.o
        832       0       0     832     340 kernel/module/tree_lookup.o
      39644    4652     104   44400    ad70 (TOTALS)

 - Aaron added module unload taint tracking (MODULE_UNLOAD_TAINT_TRACKING),
   to enable tracking unloaded modules which did taint the kernel.

 - Christophe Leroy added CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC
   which lets architectures to request having modules data in vmalloc
   area instead of module area. There are three reasons why an
   architecture might want this:

    a) On some architectures (like book3s/32) it is not possible to
       protect against execution on a page basis. The exec stuff can be
       mapped by different arch segment sizes (on book3s/32 that is 256M
       segments). By default the module area is in an Exec segment while
       vmalloc area is in a NoExec segment. Using vmalloc lets you muck
       with module data as NoExec on those architectures whereas before
       you could not.

    b) By pushing more module data to vmalloc you also increase the
       probability of module text to remain within a closer distance
       from kernel core text and this reduces trampolines, this has been
       reported on arm first and powerpc folks are following that lead.

    c) Free'ing module_alloc() (Exec by default) area leaves this
       exposed as Exec by default, some architectures have some security
       enhancements to set this as NoExec on free, and splitting module
       data with text let's future generic special allocators be added
       to the kernel without having developers try to grok the tribal
       knowledge per arch. Work like Rick Edgecombe's permission vmalloc
       interface [0] becomes easier to address over time.

       [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201120202426.18009-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/#r

 - Masahiro Yamada's symbol search enhancements

* tag 'modules-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (33 commits)
  module: merge check_exported_symbol() into find_exported_symbol_in_section()
  module: do not binary-search in __ksymtab_gpl if fsa-&gt;gplok is false
  module: do not pass opaque pointer for symbol search
  module: show disallowed symbol name for inherit_taint()
  module: fix [e_shstrndx].sh_size=0 OOB access
  module: Introduce module unload taint tracking
  module: Move module_assert_mutex_or_preempt() to internal.h
  module: Make module_flags_taint() accept a module's taints bitmap and usable outside core code
  module.h: simplify MODULE_IMPORT_NS
  powerpc: Select ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC on book3s/32 and 8xx
  module: Remove module_addr_min and module_addr_max
  module: Add CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC
  module: Introduce data_layout
  module: Prepare for handling several RB trees
  module: Always have struct mod_tree_root
  module: Rename debug_align() as strict_align()
  module: Rework layout alignment to avoid BUG_ON()s
  module: Move module_enable_x() and frob_text() in strict_rwx.c
  module: Make module_enable_x() independent of CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
  module: Move version support into a separate file
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>static_call: Don't make __static_call_return0 static</title>
<updated>2022-04-05T07:59:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-14T11:49:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=8fd4ddda2f49a66bf5dd3d0c01966c4b1971308b'/>
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System.map shows that vmlinux contains several instances of
__static_call_return0():

	c0004fc0 t __static_call_return0
	c0011518 t __static_call_return0
	c00d8160 t __static_call_return0

arch_static_call_transform() uses the middle one to check whether we are
setting a call to __static_call_return0 or not:

	c0011520 &lt;arch_static_call_transform&gt;:
	c0011520:       3d 20 c0 01     lis     r9,-16383	&lt;== r9 =  0xc001 &lt;&lt; 16
	c0011524:       39 29 15 18     addi    r9,r9,5400	&lt;== r9 += 0x1518
	c0011528:       7c 05 48 00     cmpw    r5,r9		&lt;== r9 has value 0xc0011518 here

So if static_call_update() is called with one of the other instances of
__static_call_return0(), arch_static_call_transform() won't recognise it.

In order to work properly, global single instance of __static_call_return0() is required.

Fixes: 3f2a8fc4b15d ("static_call/x86: Add __static_call_return0()")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/30821468a0e7d28251954b578e5051dc09300d04.1647258493.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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System.map shows that vmlinux contains several instances of
__static_call_return0():

	c0004fc0 t __static_call_return0
	c0011518 t __static_call_return0
	c00d8160 t __static_call_return0

arch_static_call_transform() uses the middle one to check whether we are
setting a call to __static_call_return0 or not:

	c0011520 &lt;arch_static_call_transform&gt;:
	c0011520:       3d 20 c0 01     lis     r9,-16383	&lt;== r9 =  0xc001 &lt;&lt; 16
	c0011524:       39 29 15 18     addi    r9,r9,5400	&lt;== r9 += 0x1518
	c0011528:       7c 05 48 00     cmpw    r5,r9		&lt;== r9 has value 0xc0011518 here

So if static_call_update() is called with one of the other instances of
__static_call_return0(), arch_static_call_transform() won't recognise it.

In order to work properly, global single instance of __static_call_return0() is required.

Fixes: 3f2a8fc4b15d ("static_call/x86: Add __static_call_return0()")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/30821468a0e7d28251954b578e5051dc09300d04.1647258493.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: Move all into module/</title>
<updated>2022-04-04T19:57:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aaron Tomlin</name>
<email>atomlin@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-22T14:03:31+00:00</published>
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No functional changes.

This patch moves all module related code into a separate directory,
modifies each file name and creates a new Makefile. Note: this effort
is in preparation to refactor core module code.

Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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No functional changes.

This patch moves all module related code into a separate directory,
modifies each file name and creates a new Makefile. Note: this effort
is in preparation to refactor core module code.

Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kprobes: Use rethook for kretprobe if possible</title>
<updated>2022-03-29T02:38:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-26T02:27:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=73f9b911faa74ac5107879de05c9489c419f41bb'/>
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Use rethook for kretprobe function return hooking if the arch sets
CONFIG_HAVE_RETHOOK=y. In this case, CONFIG_KRETPROBE_ON_RETHOOK is
set to 'y' automatically, and the kretprobe internal data fields
switches to use rethook. If not, it continues to use kretprobe
specific function return hooks.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/164826162556.2455864.12255833167233452047.stgit@devnote2
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Use rethook for kretprobe function return hooking if the arch sets
CONFIG_HAVE_RETHOOK=y. In this case, CONFIG_KRETPROBE_ON_RETHOOK is
set to 'y' automatically, and the kretprobe internal data fields
switches to use rethook. If not, it continues to use kretprobe
specific function return hooks.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/164826162556.2455864.12255833167233452047.stgit@devnote2
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: add in-kernel support for decompressing</title>
<updated>2022-01-12T02:45:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-05T21:55:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=b1ae6dc41eaaa98bb75671e0f3665bfda248c3e7'/>
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Current scheme of having userspace decompress kernel modules before
loading them into the kernel runs afoul of LoadPin security policy, as
it loses link between the source of kernel module on the disk and binary
blob that is being loaded into the kernel. To solve this issue let's
implement decompression in kernel, so that we can pass a file descriptor
of compressed module file into finit_module() which will keep LoadPin
happy.

To let userspace know what compression/decompression scheme kernel
supports it will create /sys/module/compression attribute. kmod can read
this attribute and decide if it can pass compressed file to
finit_module(). New MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_DATA flag indicates that the
kernel should attempt to decompress the data read from file descriptor
prior to trying load the module.

To simplify things kernel will only implement single decompression
method matching compression method selected when generating modules.
This patch implements gzip and xz; more can be added later,

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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Current scheme of having userspace decompress kernel modules before
loading them into the kernel runs afoul of LoadPin security policy, as
it loses link between the source of kernel module on the disk and binary
blob that is being loaded into the kernel. To solve this issue let's
implement decompression in kernel, so that we can pass a file descriptor
of compressed module file into finit_module() which will keep LoadPin
happy.

To let userspace know what compression/decompression scheme kernel
supports it will create /sys/module/compression attribute. kmod can read
this attribute and decide if it can pass compressed file to
finit_module(). New MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_DATA flag indicates that the
kernel should attempt to decompress the data read from file descriptor
prior to trying load the module.

To simplify things kernel will only implement single decompression
method matching compression method selected when generating modules.
This patch implements gzip and xz; more can be added later,

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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