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<title>objtool: Fix type of reloc::addend</title>
<updated>2022-05-09T07:16:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-17T15:03:40+00:00</published>
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commit c087c6e7b551b7f208c0b852304f044954cf2bb3 upstream.

Elf{32,64}_Rela::r_addend is of type: Elf{32,64}_Sword, that means
that our reloc::addend needs to be long or face tuncation issues when
we do elf_rebuild_reloc_section():

  - 107:  48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   movabs $0x0,%rax        109: R_X86_64_64        level4_kernel_pgt+0x80000067
  + 107:  48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   movabs $0x0,%rax        109: R_X86_64_64        level4_kernel_pgt-0x7fffff99

Fixes: 627fce14809b ("objtool: Add ORC unwind table generation")
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/20220419203807.596871927@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit c087c6e7b551b7f208c0b852304f044954cf2bb3 upstream.

Elf{32,64}_Rela::r_addend is of type: Elf{32,64}_Sword, that means
that our reloc::addend needs to be long or face tuncation issues when
we do elf_rebuild_reloc_section():

  - 107:  48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   movabs $0x0,%rax        109: R_X86_64_64        level4_kernel_pgt+0x80000067
  + 107:  48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   movabs $0x0,%rax        109: R_X86_64_64        level4_kernel_pgt-0x7fffff99

Fixes: 627fce14809b ("objtool: Add ORC unwind table generation")
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/20220419203807.596871927@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>objtool: Fix code relocs vs weak symbols</title>
<updated>2022-05-09T07:16:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-17T15:03:36+00:00</published>
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commit 4abff6d48dbcea8200c7ea35ba70c242d128ebf3 upstream.

Occasionally objtool driven code patching (think .static_call_sites
.retpoline_sites etc..) goes sideways and it tries to patch an
instruction that doesn't match.

Much head-scatching and cursing later the problem is as outlined below
and affects every section that objtool generates for us, very much
including the ORC data. The below uses .static_call_sites because it's
convenient for demonstration purposes, but as mentioned the ORC
sections, .retpoline_sites and __mount_loc are all similarly affected.

Consider:

foo-weak.c:

  extern void __SCT__foo(void);

  __attribute__((weak)) void foo(void)
  {
	  return __SCT__foo();
  }

foo.c:

  extern void __SCT__foo(void);
  extern void my_foo(void);

  void foo(void)
  {
	  my_foo();
	  return __SCT__foo();
  }

These generate the obvious code
(gcc -O2 -fcf-protection=none -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -c foo*.c):

foo-weak.o:
0000000000000000 &lt;foo&gt;:
   0:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   5 &lt;foo+0x5&gt;      1: R_X86_64_PLT32       __SCT__foo-0x4

foo.o:
0000000000000000 &lt;foo&gt;:
   0:   48 83 ec 08             sub    $0x8,%rsp
   4:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  9 &lt;foo+0x9&gt;      5: R_X86_64_PLT32       my_foo-0x4
   9:   48 83 c4 08             add    $0x8,%rsp
   d:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   12 &lt;foo+0x12&gt;    e: R_X86_64_PLT32       __SCT__foo-0x4

Now, when we link these two files together, you get something like
(ld -r -o foos.o foo-weak.o foo.o):

foos.o:
0000000000000000 &lt;foo-0x10&gt;:
   0:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   5 &lt;foo-0xb&gt;      1: R_X86_64_PLT32       __SCT__foo-0x4
   5:   66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00   nopw   %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
   f:   90                      nop

0000000000000010 &lt;foo&gt;:
  10:   48 83 ec 08             sub    $0x8,%rsp
  14:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  19 &lt;foo+0x9&gt;     15: R_X86_64_PLT32      my_foo-0x4
  19:   48 83 c4 08             add    $0x8,%rsp
  1d:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   22 &lt;foo+0x12&gt;    1e: R_X86_64_PLT32      __SCT__foo-0x4

Noting that ld preserves the weak function text, but strips the symbol
off of it (hence objdump doing that funny negative offset thing). This
does lead to 'interesting' unused code issues with objtool when ran on
linked objects, but that seems to be working (fingers crossed).

So far so good.. Now lets consider the objtool static_call output
section (readelf output, old binutils):

foo-weak.o:

Relocation section '.rela.static_call_sites' at offset 0x2c8 contains 1 entry:
    Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
0000000000000000  0000000200000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 .text + 0
0000000000000004  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1

foo.o:

Relocation section '.rela.static_call_sites' at offset 0x310 contains 2 entries:
    Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
0000000000000000  0000000200000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 .text + d
0000000000000004  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1

foos.o:

Relocation section '.rela.static_call_sites' at offset 0x430 contains 4 entries:
    Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
0000000000000000  0000000100000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 .text + 0
0000000000000004  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1
0000000000000008  0000000100000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 .text + 1d
000000000000000c  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1

So we have two patch sites, one in the dead code of the weak foo and one
in the real foo. All is well.

*HOWEVER*, when the toolchain strips unused section symbols it
generates things like this (using new enough binutils):

foo-weak.o:

Relocation section '.rela.static_call_sites' at offset 0x2c8 contains 1 entry:
    Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
0000000000000000  0000000200000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 foo + 0
0000000000000004  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1

foo.o:

Relocation section '.rela.static_call_sites' at offset 0x310 contains 2 entries:
    Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
0000000000000000  0000000200000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 foo + d
0000000000000004  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1

foos.o:

Relocation section '.rela.static_call_sites' at offset 0x430 contains 4 entries:
    Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
0000000000000000  0000000100000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 foo + 0
0000000000000004  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1
0000000000000008  0000000100000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 foo + d
000000000000000c  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1

And now we can see how that foos.o .static_call_sites goes side-ways, we
now have _two_ patch sites in foo. One for the weak symbol at foo+0
(which is no longer a static_call site!) and one at foo+d which is in
fact the right location.

This seems to happen when objtool cannot find a section symbol, in which
case it falls back to any other symbol to key off of, however in this
case that goes terribly wrong!

As such, teach objtool to create a section symbol when there isn't
one.

Fixes: 44f6a7c0755d ("objtool: Fix seg fault with Clang non-section symbols")
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/20220419203807.655552918@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 4abff6d48dbcea8200c7ea35ba70c242d128ebf3 upstream.

Occasionally objtool driven code patching (think .static_call_sites
.retpoline_sites etc..) goes sideways and it tries to patch an
instruction that doesn't match.

Much head-scatching and cursing later the problem is as outlined below
and affects every section that objtool generates for us, very much
including the ORC data. The below uses .static_call_sites because it's
convenient for demonstration purposes, but as mentioned the ORC
sections, .retpoline_sites and __mount_loc are all similarly affected.

Consider:

foo-weak.c:

  extern void __SCT__foo(void);

  __attribute__((weak)) void foo(void)
  {
	  return __SCT__foo();
  }

foo.c:

  extern void __SCT__foo(void);
  extern void my_foo(void);

  void foo(void)
  {
	  my_foo();
	  return __SCT__foo();
  }

These generate the obvious code
(gcc -O2 -fcf-protection=none -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -c foo*.c):

foo-weak.o:
0000000000000000 &lt;foo&gt;:
   0:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   5 &lt;foo+0x5&gt;      1: R_X86_64_PLT32       __SCT__foo-0x4

foo.o:
0000000000000000 &lt;foo&gt;:
   0:   48 83 ec 08             sub    $0x8,%rsp
   4:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  9 &lt;foo+0x9&gt;      5: R_X86_64_PLT32       my_foo-0x4
   9:   48 83 c4 08             add    $0x8,%rsp
   d:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   12 &lt;foo+0x12&gt;    e: R_X86_64_PLT32       __SCT__foo-0x4

Now, when we link these two files together, you get something like
(ld -r -o foos.o foo-weak.o foo.o):

foos.o:
0000000000000000 &lt;foo-0x10&gt;:
   0:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   5 &lt;foo-0xb&gt;      1: R_X86_64_PLT32       __SCT__foo-0x4
   5:   66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00   nopw   %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
   f:   90                      nop

0000000000000010 &lt;foo&gt;:
  10:   48 83 ec 08             sub    $0x8,%rsp
  14:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  19 &lt;foo+0x9&gt;     15: R_X86_64_PLT32      my_foo-0x4
  19:   48 83 c4 08             add    $0x8,%rsp
  1d:   e9 00 00 00 00          jmpq   22 &lt;foo+0x12&gt;    1e: R_X86_64_PLT32      __SCT__foo-0x4

Noting that ld preserves the weak function text, but strips the symbol
off of it (hence objdump doing that funny negative offset thing). This
does lead to 'interesting' unused code issues with objtool when ran on
linked objects, but that seems to be working (fingers crossed).

So far so good.. Now lets consider the objtool static_call output
section (readelf output, old binutils):

foo-weak.o:

Relocation section '.rela.static_call_sites' at offset 0x2c8 contains 1 entry:
    Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
0000000000000000  0000000200000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 .text + 0
0000000000000004  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1

foo.o:

Relocation section '.rela.static_call_sites' at offset 0x310 contains 2 entries:
    Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
0000000000000000  0000000200000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 .text + d
0000000000000004  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1

foos.o:

Relocation section '.rela.static_call_sites' at offset 0x430 contains 4 entries:
    Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
0000000000000000  0000000100000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 .text + 0
0000000000000004  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1
0000000000000008  0000000100000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 .text + 1d
000000000000000c  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1

So we have two patch sites, one in the dead code of the weak foo and one
in the real foo. All is well.

*HOWEVER*, when the toolchain strips unused section symbols it
generates things like this (using new enough binutils):

foo-weak.o:

Relocation section '.rela.static_call_sites' at offset 0x2c8 contains 1 entry:
    Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
0000000000000000  0000000200000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 foo + 0
0000000000000004  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1

foo.o:

Relocation section '.rela.static_call_sites' at offset 0x310 contains 2 entries:
    Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
0000000000000000  0000000200000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 foo + d
0000000000000004  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1

foos.o:

Relocation section '.rela.static_call_sites' at offset 0x430 contains 4 entries:
    Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
0000000000000000  0000000100000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 foo + 0
0000000000000004  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1
0000000000000008  0000000100000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 foo + d
000000000000000c  0000000d00000002 R_X86_64_PC32          0000000000000000 __SCT__foo + 1

And now we can see how that foos.o .static_call_sites goes side-ways, we
now have _two_ patch sites in foo. One for the weak symbol at foo+0
(which is no longer a static_call site!) and one at foo+d which is in
fact the right location.

This seems to happen when objtool cannot find a section symbol, in which
case it falls back to any other symbol to key off of, however in this
case that goes terribly wrong!

As such, teach objtool to create a section symbol when there isn't
one.

Fixes: 44f6a7c0755d ("objtool: Fix seg fault with Clang non-section symbols")
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/20220419203807.655552918@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>objtool: Fix SLS validation for kcov tail-call replacement</title>
<updated>2022-04-13T17:27:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-23T22:35:01+00:00</published>
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commit 7a53f408902d913cd541b4f8ad7dbcd4961f5b82 upstream.

Since not all compilers have a function attribute to disable KCOV
instrumentation, objtool can rewrite KCOV instrumentation in noinstr
functions as per commit:

  f56dae88a81f ("objtool: Handle __sanitize_cov*() tail calls")

However, this has subtle interaction with the SLS validation from
commit:

  1cc1e4c8aab4 ("objtool: Add straight-line-speculation validation")

In that when a tail-call instrucion is replaced with a RET an
additional INT3 instruction is also written, but is not represented in
the decoded instruction stream.

This then leads to false positive missing INT3 objtool warnings in
noinstr code.

Instead of adding additional struct instruction objects, mark the RET
instruction with retpoline_safe to suppress the warning (since we know
there really is an INT3).

Fixes: 1cc1e4c8aab4 ("objtool: Add straight-line-speculation validation")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220323230712.GA8939@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 7a53f408902d913cd541b4f8ad7dbcd4961f5b82 upstream.

Since not all compilers have a function attribute to disable KCOV
instrumentation, objtool can rewrite KCOV instrumentation in noinstr
functions as per commit:

  f56dae88a81f ("objtool: Handle __sanitize_cov*() tail calls")

However, this has subtle interaction with the SLS validation from
commit:

  1cc1e4c8aab4 ("objtool: Add straight-line-speculation validation")

In that when a tail-call instrucion is replaced with a RET an
additional INT3 instruction is also written, but is not represented in
the decoded instruction stream.

This then leads to false positive missing INT3 objtool warnings in
noinstr code.

Instead of adding additional struct instruction objects, mark the RET
instruction with retpoline_safe to suppress the warning (since we know
there really is an INT3).

Fixes: 1cc1e4c8aab4 ("objtool: Add straight-line-speculation validation")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220323230712.GA8939@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>objtool: Fix truncated string warning</title>
<updated>2022-01-24T18:09:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergei Trofimovich</name>
<email>slyich@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-20T23:37:48+00:00</published>
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On GCC 12, the build fails due to a possible truncated string:

    check.c: In function 'validate_call':
    check.c:2865:58: error: '%d' directive output may be truncated writing between 1 and 10 bytes into a region of size 9 [-Werror=format-truncation=]
     2865 |                 snprintf(pvname, sizeof(pvname), "pv_ops[%d]", idx);
          |                                                          ^~

In theory it's a valid bug:

    static char pvname[16];
    int idx;
    ...
    idx = (rel-&gt;addend / sizeof(void *));
    snprintf(pvname, sizeof(pvname), "pv_ops[%d]", idx);

There are only 7 chars for %d while it could take up to 9, so the
printed "pv_ops[%d]" string could get truncated.

In reality the bug should never happen, because pv_ops only has ~80
entries, so 7 chars for the integer is more than enough.  Still, it's
worth fixing.  Bump the buffer size by 2 bytes to silence the warning.

[ jpoimboe: changed size to 19; massaged changelog ]

Fixes: db2b0c5d7b6f ("objtool: Support pv_opsindirect calls for noinstr")
Reported-by: Adam Borowski &lt;kilobyte@angband.pl&gt;
Reported-by: Martin Liška &lt;mliska@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyich@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220120233748.2062559-1-slyich@gmail.com
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On GCC 12, the build fails due to a possible truncated string:

    check.c: In function 'validate_call':
    check.c:2865:58: error: '%d' directive output may be truncated writing between 1 and 10 bytes into a region of size 9 [-Werror=format-truncation=]
     2865 |                 snprintf(pvname, sizeof(pvname), "pv_ops[%d]", idx);
          |                                                          ^~

In theory it's a valid bug:

    static char pvname[16];
    int idx;
    ...
    idx = (rel-&gt;addend / sizeof(void *));
    snprintf(pvname, sizeof(pvname), "pv_ops[%d]", idx);

There are only 7 chars for %d while it could take up to 9, so the
printed "pv_ops[%d]" string could get truncated.

In reality the bug should never happen, because pv_ops only has ~80
entries, so 7 chars for the integer is more than enough.  Still, it's
worth fixing.  Bump the buffer size by 2 bytes to silence the warning.

[ jpoimboe: changed size to 19; massaged changelog ]

Fixes: db2b0c5d7b6f ("objtool: Support pv_opsindirect calls for noinstr")
Reported-by: Adam Borowski &lt;kilobyte@angband.pl&gt;
Reported-by: Martin Liška &lt;mliska@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyich@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220120233748.2062559-1-slyich@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2022-01-17T03:49:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-17T03:49:30+00:00</published>
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Pull signal/exit/ptrace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes deletes some dead code, makes a lot of cleanups
  which hopefully make the code easier to follow, and fixes bugs found
  along the way.

  The end-game which I have not yet reached yet is for fatal signals
  that generate coredumps to be short-circuit deliverable from
  complete_signal, for force_siginfo_to_task not to require changing
  userspace configured signal delivery state, and for the ptrace stops
  to always happen in locations where we can guarantee on all
  architectures that the all of the registers are saved and available on
  the stack.

  Removal of profile_task_ext, profile_munmap, and profile_handoff_task
  are the big successes for dead code removal this round.

  A bunch of small bug fixes are included, as most of the issues
  reported were small enough that they would not affect bisection so I
  simply added the fixes and did not fold the fixes into the changes
  they were fixing.

  There was a bug that broke coredumps piped to systemd-coredump. I
  dropped the change that caused that bug and replaced it entirely with
  something much more restrained. Unfortunately that required some
  rebasing.

  Some successes after this set of changes: There are few enough calls
  to do_exit to audit in a reasonable amount of time. The lifetime of
  struct kthread now matches the lifetime of struct task, and the
  pointer to struct kthread is no longer stored in set_child_tid. The
  flag SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP is removed. The field group_exit_task is
  removed. Issues where task-&gt;exit_code was examined with
  signal-&gt;group_exit_code should been examined were fixed.

  There are several loosely related changes included because I am
  cleaning up and if I don't include them they will probably get lost.

  The original postings of these changes can be found at:
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6ha4zsd.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bl1kunjj.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r19opkx1.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org

  I trimmed back the last set of changes to only the obviously correct
  once. Simply because there was less time for review than I had hoped"

* 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (44 commits)
  ptrace/m68k: Stop open coding ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove unused regs argument from ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove second setting of PT_SEIZED in ptrace_attach
  taskstats: Cleanup the use of task-&gt;exit_code
  exit: Use the correct exit_code in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat
  exit: Fix the exit_code for wait_task_zombie
  exit: Coredumps reach do_group_exit
  exit: Remove profile_handoff_task
  exit: Remove profile_task_exit &amp; profile_munmap
  signal: clean up kernel-doc comments
  signal: Remove the helper signal_group_exit
  signal: Rename group_exit_task group_exec_task
  coredump: Stop setting signal-&gt;group_exit_task
  signal: Remove SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: During coredumps set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT in zap_process
  signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal
  signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  signal: Have the oom killer detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  exit: Move force_uaccess back into do_exit
  exit: Guarantee make_task_dead leaks the tsk when calling do_task_exit
  ...
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Pull signal/exit/ptrace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes deletes some dead code, makes a lot of cleanups
  which hopefully make the code easier to follow, and fixes bugs found
  along the way.

  The end-game which I have not yet reached yet is for fatal signals
  that generate coredumps to be short-circuit deliverable from
  complete_signal, for force_siginfo_to_task not to require changing
  userspace configured signal delivery state, and for the ptrace stops
  to always happen in locations where we can guarantee on all
  architectures that the all of the registers are saved and available on
  the stack.

  Removal of profile_task_ext, profile_munmap, and profile_handoff_task
  are the big successes for dead code removal this round.

  A bunch of small bug fixes are included, as most of the issues
  reported were small enough that they would not affect bisection so I
  simply added the fixes and did not fold the fixes into the changes
  they were fixing.

  There was a bug that broke coredumps piped to systemd-coredump. I
  dropped the change that caused that bug and replaced it entirely with
  something much more restrained. Unfortunately that required some
  rebasing.

  Some successes after this set of changes: There are few enough calls
  to do_exit to audit in a reasonable amount of time. The lifetime of
  struct kthread now matches the lifetime of struct task, and the
  pointer to struct kthread is no longer stored in set_child_tid. The
  flag SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP is removed. The field group_exit_task is
  removed. Issues where task-&gt;exit_code was examined with
  signal-&gt;group_exit_code should been examined were fixed.

  There are several loosely related changes included because I am
  cleaning up and if I don't include them they will probably get lost.

  The original postings of these changes can be found at:
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6ha4zsd.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bl1kunjj.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r19opkx1.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org

  I trimmed back the last set of changes to only the obviously correct
  once. Simply because there was less time for review than I had hoped"

* 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (44 commits)
  ptrace/m68k: Stop open coding ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove unused regs argument from ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove second setting of PT_SEIZED in ptrace_attach
  taskstats: Cleanup the use of task-&gt;exit_code
  exit: Use the correct exit_code in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat
  exit: Fix the exit_code for wait_task_zombie
  exit: Coredumps reach do_group_exit
  exit: Remove profile_handoff_task
  exit: Remove profile_task_exit &amp; profile_munmap
  signal: clean up kernel-doc comments
  signal: Remove the helper signal_group_exit
  signal: Rename group_exit_task group_exec_task
  coredump: Stop setting signal-&gt;group_exit_task
  signal: Remove SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: During coredumps set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT in zap_process
  signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal
  signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  signal: Have the oom killer detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  exit: Move force_uaccess back into do_exit
  exit: Guarantee make_task_dead leaks the tsk when calling do_task_exit
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_core_for_v5.17_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-01-13T00:31:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-13T00:31:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=64ad9461521b1a357846ef6cedc4bccd48a046e0'/>
<id>64ad9461521b1a357846ef6cedc4bccd48a046e0</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Get rid of all the .fixup sections because this generates
   misleading/wrong stacktraces and confuse RELIABLE_STACKTRACE and
   LIVEPATCH as the backtrace misses the function which is being fixed
   up.

 - Add Straight Line Speculation mitigation support which uses a new
   compiler switch -mharden-sls= which sticks an INT3 after a RET or an
   indirect branch in order to block speculation after them. Reportedly,
   CPUs do speculate behind such insns.

 - The usual set of cleanups and improvements

* tag 'x86_core_for_v5.17_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  x86/entry_32: Fix segment exceptions
  objtool: Remove .fixup handling
  x86: Remove .fixup section
  x86/word-at-a-time: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/usercopy: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/usercopy_32: Simplify __copy_user_intel_nocache()
  x86/sgx: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/checksum_32: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/vmx: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/kvm: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/segment: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/fpu: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/xen: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/uaccess: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/futex: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/msr: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/extable: Extend extable functionality
  x86/entry_32: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/entry_64: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/copy_mc_64: Remove .fixup usage
  ...
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Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Get rid of all the .fixup sections because this generates
   misleading/wrong stacktraces and confuse RELIABLE_STACKTRACE and
   LIVEPATCH as the backtrace misses the function which is being fixed
   up.

 - Add Straight Line Speculation mitigation support which uses a new
   compiler switch -mharden-sls= which sticks an INT3 after a RET or an
   indirect branch in order to block speculation after them. Reportedly,
   CPUs do speculate behind such insns.

 - The usual set of cleanups and improvements

* tag 'x86_core_for_v5.17_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  x86/entry_32: Fix segment exceptions
  objtool: Remove .fixup handling
  x86: Remove .fixup section
  x86/word-at-a-time: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/usercopy: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/usercopy_32: Simplify __copy_user_intel_nocache()
  x86/sgx: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/checksum_32: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/vmx: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/kvm: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/segment: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/fpu: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/xen: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/uaccess: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/futex: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/msr: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/extable: Extend extable functionality
  x86/entry_32: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/entry_64: Remove .fixup usage
  x86/copy_mc_64: Remove .fixup usage
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kcsan.2022.01.09a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu</title>
<updated>2022-01-11T17:51:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-11T17:51:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=1be5bdf8cd5a194d981e65687367b0828c839c37'/>
<id>1be5bdf8cd5a194d981e65687367b0828c839c37</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull KCSAN updates from Paul McKenney:
 "This provides KCSAN fixes and also the ability to take memory barriers
  into account for weakly-ordered systems. This last can increase the
  probability of detecting certain types of data races"

* tag 'kcsan.2022.01.09a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (29 commits)
  kcsan: Only test clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte if arch defines it
  kcsan: Avoid nested contexts reading inconsistent reorder_access
  kcsan: Turn barrier instrumentation into macros
  kcsan: Make barrier tests compatible with lockdep
  kcsan: Support WEAK_MEMORY with Clang where no objtool support exists
  compiler_attributes.h: Add __disable_sanitizer_instrumentation
  objtool, kcsan: Remove memory barrier instrumentation from noinstr
  objtool, kcsan: Add memory barrier instrumentation to whitelist
  sched, kcsan: Enable memory barrier instrumentation
  mm, kcsan: Enable barrier instrumentation
  x86/qspinlock, kcsan: Instrument barrier of pv_queued_spin_unlock()
  x86/barriers, kcsan: Use generic instrumentation for non-smp barriers
  asm-generic/bitops, kcsan: Add instrumentation for barriers
  locking/atomics, kcsan: Add instrumentation for barriers
  locking/barriers, kcsan: Support generic instrumentation
  locking/barriers, kcsan: Add instrumentation for barriers
  kcsan: selftest: Add test case to check memory barrier instrumentation
  kcsan: Ignore GCC 11+ warnings about TSan runtime support
  kcsan: test: Add test cases for memory barrier instrumentation
  kcsan: test: Match reordered or normal accesses
  ...
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<pre>
Pull KCSAN updates from Paul McKenney:
 "This provides KCSAN fixes and also the ability to take memory barriers
  into account for weakly-ordered systems. This last can increase the
  probability of detecting certain types of data races"

* tag 'kcsan.2022.01.09a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (29 commits)
  kcsan: Only test clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte if arch defines it
  kcsan: Avoid nested contexts reading inconsistent reorder_access
  kcsan: Turn barrier instrumentation into macros
  kcsan: Make barrier tests compatible with lockdep
  kcsan: Support WEAK_MEMORY with Clang where no objtool support exists
  compiler_attributes.h: Add __disable_sanitizer_instrumentation
  objtool, kcsan: Remove memory barrier instrumentation from noinstr
  objtool, kcsan: Add memory barrier instrumentation to whitelist
  sched, kcsan: Enable memory barrier instrumentation
  mm, kcsan: Enable barrier instrumentation
  x86/qspinlock, kcsan: Instrument barrier of pv_queued_spin_unlock()
  x86/barriers, kcsan: Use generic instrumentation for non-smp barriers
  asm-generic/bitops, kcsan: Add instrumentation for barriers
  locking/atomics, kcsan: Add instrumentation for barriers
  locking/barriers, kcsan: Support generic instrumentation
  locking/barriers, kcsan: Add instrumentation for barriers
  kcsan: selftest: Add test case to check memory barrier instrumentation
  kcsan: Ignore GCC 11+ warnings about TSan runtime support
  kcsan: test: Add test cases for memory barrier instrumentation
  kcsan: test: Match reordered or normal accesses
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: Add a missing comma to avoid string concatenation</title>
<updated>2021-12-15T17:33:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-15T17:24:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=1fb466dff904e4a72282af336f2c355f011eec61'/>
<id>1fb466dff904e4a72282af336f2c355f011eec61</id>
<content type='text'>
Recently the kbuild robot reported two new errors:

&gt;&gt; lib/kunit/kunit-example-test.o: warning: objtool: .text.unlikely: unexpected end of section
&gt;&gt; arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.o: warning: objtool: oops_end() falls through to next function show_opcodes()

I don't know why they did not occur in my test setup but after digging
it I realized I had accidentally dropped a comma in
tools/objtool/check.c when I renamed rewind_stack_do_exit to
rewind_stack_and_make_dead.

Add that comma back to fix objtool errors.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202112140949.Uq5sFKR1-lkp@intel.com
Fixes: 0e25498f8cd4 ("exit: Add and use make_task_dead.")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Recently the kbuild robot reported two new errors:

&gt;&gt; lib/kunit/kunit-example-test.o: warning: objtool: .text.unlikely: unexpected end of section
&gt;&gt; arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.o: warning: objtool: oops_end() falls through to next function show_opcodes()

I don't know why they did not occur in my test setup but after digging
it I realized I had accidentally dropped a comma in
tools/objtool/check.c when I renamed rewind_stack_do_exit to
rewind_stack_and_make_dead.

Add that comma back to fix objtool errors.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202112140949.Uq5sFKR1-lkp@intel.com
Fixes: 0e25498f8cd4 ("exit: Add and use make_task_dead.")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>exit: Rename complete_and_exit to kthread_complete_and_exit</title>
<updated>2021-12-13T18:04:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-22T17:15:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=cead18552660702a4a46f58e65188fe5f36e9dfe'/>
<id>cead18552660702a4a46f58e65188fe5f36e9dfe</id>
<content type='text'>
Update complete_and_exit to call kthread_exit instead of do_exit.

Change the name to reflect this change in functionality.  All of the
users of complete_and_exit are causing the current kthread to exit so
this change makes it clear what is happening.

Move the implementation of kthread_complete_and_exit from
kernel/exit.c to to kernel/kthread.c.  As this function is kthread
specific it makes most sense to live with the kthread functions.

There are no functional change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<pre>
Update complete_and_exit to call kthread_exit instead of do_exit.

Change the name to reflect this change in functionality.  All of the
users of complete_and_exit are causing the current kthread to exit so
this change makes it clear what is happening.

Move the implementation of kthread_complete_and_exit from
kernel/exit.c to to kernel/kthread.c.  As this function is kthread
specific it makes most sense to live with the kthread functions.

There are no functional change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>exit: Rename module_put_and_exit to module_put_and_kthread_exit</title>
<updated>2021-12-13T18:04:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-03T17:00:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=ca3574bd653aba234a4b31955f2778947403be16'/>
<id>ca3574bd653aba234a4b31955f2778947403be16</id>
<content type='text'>
Update module_put_and_exit to call kthread_exit instead of do_exit.

Change the name to reflect this change in functionality.  All of the
users of module_put_and_exit are causing the current kthread to exit
so this change makes it clear what is happening.  There is no
functional change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Update module_put_and_exit to call kthread_exit instead of do_exit.

Change the name to reflect this change in functionality.  All of the
users of module_put_and_exit are causing the current kthread to exit
so this change makes it clear what is happening.  There is no
functional change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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