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<updated>2024-04-10T14:19:31+00:00</updated>
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<title>init: open /initrd.image with O_LARGEFILE</title>
<updated>2024-04-10T14:19:31+00:00</updated>
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<name>John Sperbeck</name>
<email>jsperbeck@google.com</email>
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<published>2024-03-17T22:15:22+00:00</published>
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commit 4624b346cf67400ef46a31771011fb798dd2f999 upstream.

If initrd data is larger than 2Gb, we'll eventually fail to write to the
/initrd.image file when we hit that limit, unless O_LARGEFILE is set.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240317221522.896040-1-jsperbeck@google.com
Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck &lt;jsperbeck@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>modules: wait do_free_init correctly</title>
<updated>2024-03-26T22:21:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Changbin Du</name>
<email>changbin.du@huawei.com</email>
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<published>2024-02-27T02:35:46+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8f8cd6c0a43ed637e620bbe45a8d0e0c2f4d5130 ]

The synchronization here is to ensure the ordering of freeing of a module
init so that it happens before W+X checking.  It is worth noting it is not
that the freeing was not happening, it is just that our sanity checkers
raced against the permission checkers which assume init memory is already
gone.

Commit 1a7b7d922081 ("modules: Use vmalloc special flag") moved calling
do_free_init() into a global workqueue instead of relying on it being
called through call_rcu(..., do_free_init), which used to allowed us call
do_free_init() asynchronously after the end of a subsequent grace period.
The move to a global workqueue broke the gaurantees for code which needed
to be sure the do_free_init() would complete with rcu_barrier().  To fix
this callers which used to rely on rcu_barrier() must now instead use
flush_work(&amp;init_free_wq).

Without this fix, we still could encounter false positive reports in W+X
checking since the rcu_barrier() here can not ensure the ordering now.

Even worse, the rcu_barrier() can introduce significant delay.  Eric
Chanudet reported that the rcu_barrier introduces ~0.1s delay on a
PREEMPT_RT kernel.

  [    0.291444] Freeing unused kernel memory: 5568K
  [    0.402442] Run /sbin/init as init process

With this fix, the above delay can be eliminated.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240227023546.2490667-1-changbin.du@huawei.com
Fixes: 1a7b7d922081 ("modules: Use vmalloc special flag")
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Chanudet &lt;echanude@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Xiaoyi Su &lt;suxiaoyi@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>rootfs: Fix support for rootfstype= when root= is given</title>
<updated>2024-01-25T22:52:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Berger</name>
<email>stefanb@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-20T01:12:48+00:00</published>
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commit 21528c69a0d8483f7c6345b1a0bc8d8975e9a172 upstream.

Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.rst states:

  If CONFIG_TMPFS is enabled, rootfs will use tmpfs instead of ramfs by
  default.  To force ramfs, add "rootfstype=ramfs" to the kernel command
  line.

This currently does not work when root= is provided since then
saved_root_name contains a string and rootfstype= is ignored. Therefore,
ramfs is currently always chosen when root= is provided.

The current behavior for rootfs's filesystem is:

   root=       | rootfstype= | chosen rootfs filesystem
   ------------+-------------+--------------------------
   unspecified | unspecified | tmpfs
   unspecified | tmpfs       | tmpfs
   unspecified | ramfs       | ramfs
    provided   | ignored     | ramfs

rootfstype= should be respected regardless whether root= is given,
as shown below:

   root=       | rootfstype= | chosen rootfs filesystem
   ------------+-------------+--------------------------
   unspecified | unspecified | tmpfs  (as before)
   unspecified | tmpfs       | tmpfs  (as before)
   unspecified | ramfs       | ramfs  (as before)
    provided   | unspecified | ramfs  (compatibility with before)
    provided   | tmpfs       | tmpfs  (new)
    provided   | ramfs       | ramfs  (new)

This table represents the new behavior.

Fixes: 6e19eded3684 ("initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8244c75f-445e-b15b-9dbf-266e7ca666e2@landley.net/
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger &lt;stefanb@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231120011248.396012-1-stefanb@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init</title>
<updated>2023-12-03T06:31:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Krister Johansen</name>
<email>kjlx@templeofstupid.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-27T21:46:40+00:00</published>
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commit 8001f49394e353f035306a45bcf504f06fca6355 upstream.

The code that checks for unknown boot options is unaware of the sysctl
alias facility, which maps bootparams to sysctl values.  If a user sets
an old value that has a valid alias, a message about an invalid
parameter will be printed during boot, and the parameter will get passed
to init.  Fix by checking for the existence of aliased parameters in the
unknown boot parameter code.  If an alias exists, don't return an error
or pass the value to init.

Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen &lt;kjlx@templeofstupid.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0a477e1ae21b ("kernel/sysctl: support handling command line aliases")
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen &lt;kjlx@templeofstupid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86/mm: Initialize text poking earlier</title>
<updated>2023-08-08T17:58:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-25T19:38:25+00:00</published>
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commit 5b93a83649c7cba3a15eb7e8959b250841acb1b1 upstream.

Move poking_init() up a bunch; specifically move it right after
mm_init() which is right before ftrace_init().

This will allow simplifying ftrace text poking which currently has
a bunch of exceptions for early boot.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221025201057.881703081@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: Move mm_cachep initialization to mm_init()</title>
<updated>2023-08-08T17:58:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-25T19:38:18+00:00</published>
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commit af80602799681c78f14fbe20b6185a56020dedee upstream.

In order to allow using mm_alloc() much earlier, move initializing
mm_cachep into mm_init().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221025201057.751153381@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>init, x86: Move mem_encrypt_init() into arch_cpu_finalize_init()</title>
<updated>2023-08-08T17:58:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-01T16:58:30+00:00</published>
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commit 439e17576eb47f26b78c5bbc72e344d4206d2327 upstream

Invoke the X86ism mem_encrypt_init() from X86 arch_cpu_finalize_init() and
remove the weak fallback from the core code.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613224545.670360645@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon &lt;daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>init: Invoke arch_cpu_finalize_init() earlier</title>
<updated>2023-08-08T17:58:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-01T16:58:30+00:00</published>
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commit 9df9d2f0471b4c4702670380b8d8a45b40b23a7d upstream

X86 is reworking the boot process so that initializations which are not
required during early boot can be moved into the late boot process and out
of the fragile and restricted initial boot phase.

arch_cpu_finalize_init() is the obvious place to do such initializations,
but arch_cpu_finalize_init() is invoked too late in start_kernel() e.g. for
initializing the FPU completely. fork_init() requires that the FPU is
initialized as the size of task_struct on X86 depends on the size of the
required FPU register buffer.

Fortunately none of the init calls between calibrate_delay() and
arch_cpu_finalize_init() is relevant for the functionality of
arch_cpu_finalize_init().

Invoke it right after calibrate_delay() where everything which is relevant
for arch_cpu_finalize_init() has been set up already.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe &lt;rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613224545.612182854@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon &lt;daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>init: Remove check_bugs() leftovers</title>
<updated>2023-08-08T17:58:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-01T16:58:30+00:00</published>
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commit 61235b24b9cb37c13fcad5b9596d59a1afdcec30 upstream

Everything is converted over to arch_cpu_finalize_init(). Remove the
check_bugs() leftovers including the empty stubs in asm-generic, alpha,
parisc, powerpc and xtensa.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson &lt;richard.henderson@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613224545.553215951@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon &lt;daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>init: Provide arch_cpu_finalize_init()</title>
<updated>2023-08-08T17:58:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-01T16:58:30+00:00</published>
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commit 7725acaa4f0c04fbefb0e0d342635b967bb7d414 upstream

check_bugs() has become a dumping ground for all sorts of activities to
finalize the CPU initialization before running the rest of the init code.

Most are empty, a few do actual bug checks, some do alternative patching
and some cobble a CPU advertisement string together....

Aside of that the current implementation requires duplicated function
declaration and mostly empty header files for them.

Provide a new function arch_cpu_finalize_init(). Provide a generic
declaration if CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_FINALIZE_INIT is selected and a stub
inline otherwise.

This requires a temporary #ifdef in start_kernel() which will be removed
along with check_bugs() once the architectures are converted over.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613224544.957805717@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon &lt;daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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