kernel/linux.git/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c, branch linux-7.0.y

ARM: fix branch predictor hardening

2025-12-10T12:22:15+00:00

__do_user_fault() may be called with indeterminent interrupt enable state, which means we may be preemptive at this point. This causes problems when calling harden_branch_predictor(). For example, when called from a data abort, do_alignment_fault()->do_bad_area(). Move harden_branch_predictor() out of __do_user_fault() and into the calling contexts. Moving it into do_kernel_address_page_fault(), we can be sure that interrupts will be disabled here. Converting do_translation_fault() to use do_kernel_address_page_fault() rather than do_bad_area() means that we keep branch predictor handling for translation faults. Interrupts will also be disabled at this call site. do_sect_fault() needs special handling, so detect user mode accesses to kernel-addresses, and add an explicit call to branch predictor hardening. Finally, add branch predictor hardening to do_alignment() for the faulting case (user mode accessing kernel addresses) before interrupts are enabled. This should cover all cases where harden_branch_predictor() is called, ensuring that it is always has interrupts disabled, also ensuring that it is called early in each call path. Reviewed-by: Xie Yuanbin Tested-by: Xie Yuanbin Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle)

move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h

2024-10-02T21:23:23+00:00

asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h; might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header. auto-generated by the following: for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i done for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i done git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h

ARM: 9214/1: alignment: advance IT state after emulating Thumb instruction

2022-07-06T21:44:49+00:00

After emulating a misaligned load or store issued in Thumb mode, we have to advance the IT state by hand, or it will get out of sync with the actual instruction stream, which means we'll end up applying the wrong condition code to subsequent instructions. This might corrupt the program state rather catastrophically. So borrow the it_advance() helper from the probing code, and use it on CPSR if the emulated instruction is Thumb. Cc: Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle)

kernel/sysctl.c: rename sysctl_init() to sysctl_init_bases()

2022-01-22T06:33:36+00:00

Rename sysctl_init() to sysctl_init_bases() so to reflect exactly what this is doing. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129211943.640266-4-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Al Viro Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy Cc: Antti Palosaari Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Eric Biggers Cc: Iurii Zaikin Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Lukas Middendorf Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" Cc: Stephen Kitt Cc: Xiaoming Ni Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ARM: Snapshot thread flags

2021-11-30T23:06:43+00:00

Some thread flags can be set remotely, and so even when IRQs are disabled, the flags can change under our feet. Generally this is unlikely to cause a problem in practice, but it is somewhat unsound, and KCSAN will legitimately warn that there is a data race. To avoid such issues, a snapshot of the flags has to be taken prior to using them. Some places already use READ_ONCE() for that, others do not. Convert them all to the new flag accessor helpers. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Russell King Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130653.2037928-6-mark.rutland@arm.com

treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword

2020-08-23T22:36:59+00:00

Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary fall-through markings when it is the case. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.7/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva

treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage

2020-07-16T19:35:15+00:00

Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1] (or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings (e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized, either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes. In preparation for removing[2] the[3] macro[4], remove all remaining needless uses with the following script: git grep '\buninitialized_var\b' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u | \ xargs perl -pi -e \ 's/\buninitialized_var$([^$]+)\)/\1/g; s:\s*/\* (GCC be quiet|to make compiler happy) \*/$::g;' drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c was manually tweaked to avoid pathological white-space. No outstanding warnings were found building allmodconfig with GCC 9.3.0 for x86_64, i386, arm64, arm, powerpc, powerpc64le, s390x, mips, sparc64, alpha, and m68k. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/ Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky # drivers/infiniband and mlx4/mlx5 Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe # IB Acked-by: Kalle Valo # wireless drivers Reviewed-by: Chao Yu # erofs Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

maccess: rename probe_kernel_address to get_kernel_nofault

2020-06-18T18:14:40+00:00

Better describe what this helper does, and match the naming of copy_from_kernel_nofault. Also switch the argument order around, so that it acts and looks like get_user(). Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops"

2020-02-04T03:05:26+00:00

The most notable change is DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE macro split in seq_file.h. Conversion rule is: llseek => proc_lseek unlocked_ioctl => proc_ioctl xxx => proc_xxx delete ".owner = THIS_MODULE" line [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi_proc.c] [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix kernel/sched/psi.c] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122180545.36222f50@canb.auug.org.au Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191225172546.GB13378@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ARM: mm: alignment: use "u32" for 32-bit instructions

2019-10-09T22:29:45+00:00

Rather than using "unsigned long", use "u32" for 32-bit instructions in the alignment fault handler. Signed-off-by: Russell King