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<updated>2022-12-20T02:13:45+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>efi: random: fix NULL-deref when refreshing seed</title>
<updated>2022-12-20T02:13:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johan Hovold</name>
<email>johan+linaro@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-16T09:15:14+00:00</published>
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Do not try to refresh the RNG seed in case the firmware does not support
setting variables.

This is specifically needed to prevent a NULL-pointer dereference on the
Lenovo X13s with some firmware revisions, or more generally, whenever
the runtime services have been disabled (e.g. efi=noruntime or with
PREEMPT_RT).

Fixes: e7b813b32a42 ("efi: random: refresh non-volatile random seed when RNG is initialized")
Reported-by: Steev Klimaszewski &lt;steev@kali.org&gt;
Reported-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;andersson@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Steev Klimaszewski &lt;steev@kali.org&gt;
Tested-by: Andrew Halaney &lt;ahalaney@redhat.com&gt; # sc8280xp-lenovo-thinkpad-x13s
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan+linaro@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T23:22:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T23:22:14+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - update unwinder to cope with module PLTs

 - enable UBSAN on ARM

 - improve kernel fault message

 - update UEFI runtime page tables dump

 - avoid clang's __aeabi_uldivmod generated in NWFPE code

 - disable FIQs on CPU shutdown paths

 - update XOR register usage

 - a number of build updates (using .arch, thread pointer, removal of
   lazy evaluation in Makefile)

 - conversion of stacktrace code to stackwalk

 - findbit assembly updates

 - hwcap feature updates for ARMv8 CPUs

 - instruction dump updates for big-endian platforms

 - support for function error injection

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (31 commits)
  ARM: 9279/1: support function error injection
  ARM: 9277/1: Make the dumped instructions are consistent with the disassembled ones
  ARM: 9276/1: Refactor dump_instr()
  ARM: 9275/1: Drop '-mthumb' from AFLAGS_ISA
  ARM: 9274/1: Add hwcap for Speculative Store Bypassing Safe
  ARM: 9273/1: Add hwcap for Speculation Barrier(SB)
  ARM: 9272/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_AA32I8MM
  ARM: 9271/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_AA32BF16
  ARM: 9270/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_FHM
  ARM: 9269/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_DotProd
  ARM: 9268/1: vfp: Add hwcap FPHP and ASIMDHP for FEAT_FP16
  ARM: 9267/1: Define Armv8 registers in AArch32 state
  ARM: findbit: add unwinder information
  ARM: findbit: operate by words
  ARM: findbit: convert to macros
  ARM: findbit: provide more efficient ARMv7 implementation
  ARM: findbit: document ARMv5 bit offset calculation
  ARM: 9259/1: stacktrace: Convert stacktrace to generic ARCH_STACKWALK
  ARM: 9258/1: stacktrace: Make stack walk callback consistent with generic code
  ARM: 9265/1: pass -march= only to compiler
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_boot_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T22:45:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T22:45:29+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 boot updates from Borislav Petkov:
 "A  of early boot cleanups and fixes.

   - Do some spring cleaning to the compressed boot code by moving the
     EFI mixed-mode code to a separate compilation unit, the AMD memory
     encryption early code where it belongs and fixing up build
     dependencies. Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional
     with the goal of removing it at some point (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - Skip realmode init code on Xen PV guests as it is not needed there

   - Remove an old 32-bit PIC code compiler workaround"

* tag 'x86_boot_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Remove x86_32 PIC using %ebx workaround
  x86/boot: Skip realmode init code when running as Xen PV guest
  x86/efi: Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional
  x86/boot/compressed: Only build mem_encrypt.S if AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y
  x86/boot/compressed: Adhere to calling convention in get_sev_encryption_bit()
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_check_sev_cbit() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_check_sev_cbit() into .text
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_load_idt() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_load_idt() into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Pull global variable reference into startup32_load_idt()
  x86/boot/compressed: Avoid touching ECX in startup32_set_idt_entry()
  x86/boot/compressed: Simplify IDT/GDT preserve/restore in the EFI thunk
  x86/boot/compressed, efi: Merge multiple definitions of image_offset into one
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_pe_entry() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_entry out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_pe_entry into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Move bootargs parsing out of 32-bit startup code
  x86/boot/compressed: Move 32-bit entrypoint code into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Rename efi_thunk_64.S to efi-mixed.S
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T22:31:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T22:31:47+00:00</published>
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Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "Another fairly sizable pull request, by EFI subsystem standards.

  Most of the work was done by me, some of it in collaboration with the
  distro and bootloader folks (GRUB, systemd-boot), where the main focus
  has been on removing pointless per-arch differences in the way EFI
  boots a Linux kernel.

   - Refactor the zboot code so that it incorporates all the EFI stub
     logic, rather than calling the decompressed kernel as a EFI app.

   - Add support for initrd= command line option to x86 mixed mode.

   - Allow initrd= to be used with arbitrary EFI accessible file systems
     instead of just the one the kernel itself was loaded from.

   - Move some x86-only handling and manipulation of the EFI memory map
     into arch/x86, as it is not used anywhere else.

   - More flexible handling of any random seeds provided by the boot
     environment (i.e., systemd-boot) so that it becomes available much
     earlier during the boot.

   - Allow improved arch-agnostic EFI support in loaders, by setting a
     uniform baseline of supported features, and adding a generic magic
     number to the DOS/PE header. This should allow loaders such as GRUB
     or systemd-boot to reduce the amount of arch-specific handling
     substantially.

   - (arm64) Run EFI runtime services from a dedicated stack, and use it
     to recover from synchronous exceptions that might occur in the
     firmware code.

   - (arm64) Ensure that we don't allocate memory outside of the 48-bit
     addressable physical range.

   - Make EFI pstore record size configurable

   - Add support for decoding CXL specific CPER records"

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi: (43 commits)
  arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware
  arm64: efi: Execute runtime services from a dedicated stack
  arm64: efi: Limit allocations to 48-bit addressable physical region
  efi: Put Linux specific magic number in the DOS header
  efi: libstub: Always enable initrd command line loader and bump version
  efi: stub: use random seed from EFI variable
  efi: vars: prohibit reading random seed variables
  efi: random: combine bootloader provided RNG seed with RNG protocol output
  efi/cper, cxl: Decode CXL Error Log
  efi/cper, cxl: Decode CXL Protocol Error Section
  efi: libstub: fix efi_load_initrd_dev_path() kernel-doc comment
  efi: x86: Move EFI runtime map sysfs code to arch/x86
  efi: runtime-maps: Clarify purpose and enable by default for kexec
  efi: pstore: Add module parameter for setting the record size
  efi: xen: Set EFI_PARAVIRT for Xen dom0 boot on all architectures
  efi: memmap: Move manipulation routines into x86 arch tree
  efi: memmap: Move EFI fake memmap support into x86 arch tree
  efi: libstub: Undeprecate the command line initrd loader
  efi: libstub: Add mixed mode support to command line initrd loader
  efi: libstub: Permit mixed mode return types other than efi_status_t
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'random-6.2-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T00:22:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T00:22:22+00:00</published>
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Pull random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld:

 - Replace prandom_u32_max() and various open-coded variants of it,
   there is now a new family of functions that uses fast rejection
   sampling to choose properly uniformly random numbers within an
   interval:

       get_random_u32_below(ceil) - [0, ceil)
       get_random_u32_above(floor) - (floor, U32_MAX]
       get_random_u32_inclusive(floor, ceil) - [floor, ceil]

   Coccinelle was used to convert all current users of
   prandom_u32_max(), as well as many open-coded patterns, resulting in
   improvements throughout the tree.

   I'll have a "late" 6.1-rc1 pull for you that removes the now unused
   prandom_u32_max() function, just in case any other trees add a new
   use case of it that needs to converted. According to linux-next,
   there may be two trivial cases of prandom_u32_max() reintroductions
   that are fixable with a 's/.../.../'. So I'll have for you a final
   conversion patch doing that alongside the removal patch during the
   second week.

   This is a treewide change that touches many files throughout.

 - More consistent use of get_random_canary().

 - Updates to comments, documentation, tests, headers, and
   simplification in configuration.

 - The arch_get_random*_early() abstraction was only used by arm64 and
   wasn't entirely useful, so this has been replaced by code that works
   in all relevant contexts.

 - The kernel will use and manage random seeds in non-volatile EFI
   variables, refreshing a variable with a fresh seed when the RNG is
   initialized. The RNG GUID namespace is then hidden from efivarfs to
   prevent accidental leakage.

   These changes are split into random.c infrastructure code used in the
   EFI subsystem, in this pull request, and related support inside of
   EFISTUB, in Ard's EFI tree. These are co-dependent for full
   functionality, but the order of merging doesn't matter.

 - Part of the infrastructure added for the EFI support is also used for
   an improvement to the way vsprintf initializes its siphash key,
   replacing an sleep loop wart.

 - The hardware RNG framework now always calls its correct random.c
   input function, add_hwgenerator_randomness(), rather than sometimes
   going through helpers better suited for other cases.

 - The add_latent_entropy() function has long been called from the fork
   handler, but is a no-op when the latent entropy gcc plugin isn't
   used, which is fine for the purposes of latent entropy.

   But it was missing out on the cycle counter that was also being mixed
   in beside the latent entropy variable. So now, if the latent entropy
   gcc plugin isn't enabled, add_latent_entropy() will expand to a call
   to add_device_randomness(NULL, 0), which adds a cycle counter,
   without the absent latent entropy variable.

 - The RNG is now reseeded from a delayed worker, rather than on demand
   when used. Always running from a worker allows it to make use of the
   CPU RNG on platforms like S390x, whose instructions are too slow to
   do so from interrupts. It also has the effect of adding in new inputs
   more frequently with more regularity, amounting to a long term
   transcript of random values. Plus, it helps a bit with the upcoming
   vDSO implementation (which isn't yet ready for 6.2).

 - The jitter entropy algorithm now tries to execute on many different
   CPUs, round-robining, in hopes of hitting even more memory latencies
   and other unpredictable effects. It also will mix in a cycle counter
   when the entropy timer fires, in addition to being mixed in from the
   main loop, to account more explicitly for fluctuations in that timer
   firing. And the state it touches is now kept within the same cache
   line, so that it's assured that the different execution contexts will
   cause latencies.

* tag 'random-6.2-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random: (23 commits)
  random: include &lt;linux/once.h&gt; in the right header
  random: align entropy_timer_state to cache line
  random: mix in cycle counter when jitter timer fires
  random: spread out jitter callback to different CPUs
  random: remove extraneous period and add a missing one in comments
  efi: random: refresh non-volatile random seed when RNG is initialized
  vsprintf: initialize siphash key using notifier
  random: add back async readiness notifier
  random: reseed in delayed work rather than on-demand
  random: always mix cycle counter in add_latent_entropy()
  hw_random: use add_hwgenerator_randomness() for early entropy
  random: modernize documentation comment on get_random_bytes()
  random: adjust comment to account for removed function
  random: remove early archrandom abstraction
  random: use random.trust_{bootloader,cpu} command line option only
  stackprotector: actually use get_random_canary()
  stackprotector: move get_random_canary() into stackprotector.h
  treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible
  treewide: use get_random_u32_{above,below}() instead of manual loop
  treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'edac_updates_for_6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras</title>
<updated>2022-12-12T22:47:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-12T22:47:31+00:00</published>
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Pull EDAC updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Make ghes_edac a simple module like the rest of the EDAC drivers and
   drop the forced built-in only configuration by disentangling it from
   GHES (Jia He)

 - The usual small cleanups and improvements all over EDAC land

* tag 'edac_updates_for_6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras:
  EDAC/i10nm: fix refcount leak in pci_get_dev_wrapper()
  EDAC/i5400: Fix typo in comment: vaious -&gt; various
  EDAC/mc_sysfs: Increase legacy channel support to 12
  MAINTAINERS: Make Mauro EDAC reviewer
  MAINTAINERS: Make Manivannan Sadhasivam the maintainer of qcom_edac
  EDAC/igen6: Return the correct error type when not the MC owner
  apei/ghes: Use xchg_release() for updating new cache slot instead of cmpxchg()
  EDAC: Check for GHES preference in the chipset-specific EDAC drivers
  EDAC/ghes: Make ghes_edac a proper module
  EDAC/ghes: Prepare to make ghes_edac a proper module
  EDAC/ghes: Add a notifier for reporting memory errors
  efi/cper: Export several helpers for ghes_edac to use
  EDAC/i5000: Mark as BROKEN
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2022-12-12T17:50:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-12T17:50:05+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "The highlights this time are support for dynamically enabling and
  disabling Clang's Shadow Call Stack at boot and a long-awaited
  optimisation to the way in which we handle the SVE register state on
  system call entry to avoid taking unnecessary traps from userspace.

  Summary:

  ACPI:
   - Enable FPDT support for boot-time profiling
   - Fix CPU PMU probing to work better with PREEMPT_RT
   - Update SMMUv3 MSI DeviceID parsing to latest IORT spec
   - APMT support for probing Arm CoreSight PMU devices

  CPU features:
   - Advertise new SVE instructions (v2.1)
   - Advertise range prefetch instruction
   - Advertise CSSC ("Common Short Sequence Compression") scalar
     instructions, adding things like min, max, abs, popcount
   - Enable DIT (Data Independent Timing) when running in the kernel
   - More conversion of system register fields over to the generated
     header

  CPU misfeatures:
   - Workaround for Cortex-A715 erratum #2645198

  Dynamic SCS:
   - Support for dynamic shadow call stacks to allow switching at
     runtime between Clang's SCS implementation and the CPU's pointer
     authentication feature when it is supported (complete with scary
     DWARF parser!)

  Tracing and debug:
   - Remove static ftrace in favour of, err, dynamic ftrace!
   - Seperate 'struct ftrace_regs' from 'struct pt_regs' in core ftrace
     and existing arch code
   - Introduce and implement FTRACE_WITH_ARGS on arm64 to replace the
     old FTRACE_WITH_REGS
   - Extend 'crashkernel=' parameter with default value and fallback to
     placement above 4G physical if initial (low) allocation fails

  SVE:
   - Optimisation to avoid disabling SVE unconditionally on syscall
     entry and just zeroing the non-shared state on return instead

  Exceptions:
   - Rework of undefined instruction handling to avoid serialisation on
     global lock (this includes emulation of user accesses to the ID
     registers)

  Perf and PMU:
   - Support for TLP filters in Hisilicon's PCIe PMU device
   - Support for the DDR PMU present in Amlogic Meson G12 SoCs
   - Support for the terribly-named "CoreSight PMU" architecture from
     Arm (and Nvidia's implementation of said architecture)

  Misc:
   - Tighten up our boot protocol for systems with memory above 52 bits
     physical
   - Const-ify static keys to satisty jump label asm constraints
   - Trivial FFA driver cleanups in preparation for v1.1 support
   - Export the kernel_neon_* APIs as GPL symbols
   - Harden our instruction generation routines against instrumentation
   - A bunch of robustness improvements to our arch-specific selftests
   - Minor cleanups and fixes all over (kbuild, kprobes, kfence, PMU, ...)"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (151 commits)
  arm64: kprobes: Return DBG_HOOK_ERROR if kprobes can not handle a BRK
  arm64: kprobes: Let arch do_page_fault() fix up page fault in user handler
  arm64: Prohibit instrumentation on arch_stack_walk()
  arm64:uprobe fix the uprobe SWBP_INSN in big-endian
  arm64: alternatives: add __init/__initconst to some functions/variables
  arm_pmu: Drop redundant armpmu-&gt;map_event() in armpmu_event_init()
  kselftest/arm64: Allow epoll_wait() to return more than one result
  kselftest/arm64: Don't drain output while spawning children
  kselftest/arm64: Hold fp-stress children until they're all spawned
  arm64/sysreg: Remove duplicate definitions from asm/sysreg.h
  arm64/sysreg: Convert ID_DFR1_EL1 to automatic generation
  arm64/sysreg: Convert ID_DFR0_EL1 to automatic generation
  arm64/sysreg: Convert ID_AFR0_EL1 to automatic generation
  arm64/sysreg: Convert ID_MMFR5_EL1 to automatic generation
  arm64/sysreg: Convert MVFR2_EL1 to automatic generation
  arm64/sysreg: Convert MVFR1_EL1 to automatic generation
  arm64/sysreg: Convert MVFR0_EL1 to automatic generation
  arm64/sysreg: Convert ID_PFR2_EL1 to automatic generation
  arm64/sysreg: Convert ID_PFR1_EL1 to automatic generation
  arm64/sysreg: Convert ID_PFR0_EL1 to automatic generation
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'printk-for-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux</title>
<updated>2022-12-12T17:01:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-12T17:01:36+00:00</published>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add NMI-safe SRCU reader API. It uses atomic_inc() instead of
   this_cpu_inc() on strong load-store architectures.

 - Introduce new console_list_lock to synchronize a manipulation of the
   list of registered consoles and their flags.

   This is a first step in removing the big-kernel-lock-like behavior of
   console_lock(). This semaphore still serializes console-&gt;write()
   calbacks against:

      - each other. It primary prevents potential races between early
        and proper console drivers using the same device.

      - suspend()/resume() callbacks and init() operations in some
        drivers.

      - various other operations in the tty/vt and framebufer
        susbsystems. It is likely that console_lock() serializes even
        operations that are not directly conflicting with the
        console-&gt;write() callbacks here. This is the most complicated
        big-kernel-lock aspect of the console_lock() that will be hard
        to untangle.

 - Introduce new console_srcu lock that is used to safely iterate and
   access the registered console drivers under SRCU read lock.

   This is a prerequisite for introducing atomic console drivers and
   console kthreads. It will reduce the complexity of serialization
   against normal consoles and console_lock(). Also it should remove the
   risk of deadlock during critical situations, like Oops or panic, when
   only atomic consoles are registered.

 - Check whether the console is registered instead of enabled on many
   locations. It was a historical leftover.

 - Cleanly force a preferred console in xenfb code instead of a dirty
   hack.

 - A lot of code and comment clean ups and improvements.

* tag 'printk-for-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: (47 commits)
  printk: htmldocs: add missing description
  tty: serial: sh-sci: use setup() callback for early console
  printk: relieve console_lock of list synchronization duties
  tty: serial: kgdboc: use console_list_lock to trap exit
  tty: serial: kgdboc: synchronize tty_find_polling_driver() and register_console()
  tty: serial: kgdboc: use console_list_lock for list traversal
  tty: serial: kgdboc: use srcu console list iterator
  proc: consoles: use console_list_lock for list iteration
  tty: tty_io: use console_list_lock for list synchronization
  printk, xen: fbfront: create/use safe function for forcing preferred
  netconsole: avoid CON_ENABLED misuse to track registration
  usb: early: xhci-dbc: use console_is_registered()
  tty: serial: xilinx_uartps: use console_is_registered()
  tty: serial: samsung_tty: use console_is_registered()
  tty: serial: pic32_uart: use console_is_registered()
  tty: serial: earlycon: use console_is_registered()
  tty: hvc: use console_is_registered()
  efi: earlycon: use console_is_registered()
  tty: nfcon: use console_is_registered()
  serial_core: replace uart_console_enabled() with uart_console_registered()
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pstore-v6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2022-12-12T16:31:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-12T16:31:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=059c4a341df7dbaab0a30a8e5420b619518f8887'/>
<id>urn:sha1:059c4a341df7dbaab0a30a8e5420b619518f8887</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull pstore updates from Kees Cook:
 "A small collection of bug fixes, refactorings, and general
  improvements:

   - Reporting improvements and return path fixes (Guilherme G. Piccoli,
     Wang Yufen, Kees Cook)

   - Clean up kmsg_bytes module parameter usage (Guilherme G. Piccoli)

   - Add Guilherme to pstore MAINTAINERS entry

   - Choose friendlier allocation flags (Qiujun Huang, Stephen Boyd)"

* tag 'pstore-v6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  pstore: Avoid kcore oops by vmap()ing with VM_IOREMAP
  pstore/ram: Fix error return code in ramoops_probe()
  pstore: Alert on backend write error
  MAINTAINERS: Update pstore maintainers
  pstore/ram: Set freed addresses to NULL
  pstore/ram: Move internal definitions out of kernel-wide include
  pstore/ram: Move pmsg init earlier
  pstore/ram: Consolidate kfree() paths
  efi: pstore: Follow convention for the efi-pstore backend name
  pstore: Inform unregistered backend names as well
  pstore: Expose kmsg_bytes as a module parameter
  pstore: Improve error reporting in case of backend overlap
  pstore/zone: Use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate zone buffer
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware</title>
<updated>2022-12-08T17:33:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-28T14:39:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=e8dfdf3162eb549d064b8c10b1564f7e8ee82591'/>
<id>urn:sha1:e8dfdf3162eb549d064b8c10b1564f7e8ee82591</id>
<content type='text'>
Unlike x86, which has machinery to deal with page faults that occur
during the execution of EFI runtime services, arm64 has nothing like
that, and a synchronous exception raised by firmware code brings down
the whole system.

With more EFI based systems appearing that were not built to run Linux
(such as the Windows-on-ARM laptops based on Qualcomm SOCs), as well as
the introduction of PRM (platform specific firmware routines that are
callable just like EFI runtime services), we are more likely to run into
issues of this sort, and it is much more likely that we can identify and
work around such issues if they don't bring down the system entirely.

Since we already use a EFI runtime services call wrapper in assembler,
we can quite easily add some code that captures the execution state at
the point where the call is made, allowing us to revert to this state
and proceed execution if the call triggered a synchronous exception.

Given that the kernel and the firmware don't share any data structures
that could end up in an indeterminate state, we can happily continue
running, as long as we mark the EFI runtime services as unavailable from
that point on.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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