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<title>linux-dev/arch/powerpc/kernel, branch master</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel development work - see feature branches</subtitle>
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<updated>2022-10-31T23:24:09Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/32: fix syscall wrappers with 64-bit arguments</title>
<updated>2022-10-31T23:24:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Schwab</name>
<email>schwab@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-31T14:47:35Z</published>
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With the introduction of syscall wrappers all wrappers for syscalls with
64-bit arguments must be handled specially, not only those that have
unaligned 64-bit arguments. This left out the fallocate() and
sync_file_range2() syscalls.

Fixes: 7e92e01b7245 ("powerpc: Provide syscall wrapper")
Fixes: e23750623835 ("powerpc/32: fix syscall wrappers with 64-bit arguments of unaligned register-pairs")
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87mt9cxd6g.fsf_-_@igel.home
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix clear of PACA_IRQS_HARD_DIS when returning to soft-masked context</title>
<updated>2022-10-26T13:38:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-22T05:22:07Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Commit a4cb3651a1743 ("powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix lost interrupts when
returning to soft-masked context") fixed the problem of pending irqs
being cleared when clearing the HARD_DIS bit, but then it didn't clear
the bit at all. This change clears HARD_DIS without affecting other bits
in the mask.

When an interrupt hits in a soft-masked section that has MSR[EE]=1, it
can hard disable and set PACA_IRQS_HARD_DIS, which must be cleared when
returning to the EE=1 caller (unless it was set due to a MUST_HARD_MASK
interrupt becoming pending). Failure to clear this leaves the
returned-to context running with MSR[EE]=1 and PACA_IRQS_HARD_DIS, which
confuses irq assertions and could be dangerous for code that might test
the flag.

This was observed in a hash MMU kernel where a kernel hash fault hits in
a local_irqs_disabled region that has EE=1. The hash fault also runs
with EE=1, then as it returns, a decrementer hits in the restart section
and the irq restart code hard-masks which sets the PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS
flag, which is not clear when the original context is returned to.

Reported-by: Sachin Sant &lt;sachinp@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: a4cb3651a1743 ("powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix lost interrupts when returning to soft-masked context")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sachin Sant &lt;sachinp@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221022052207.471328-1-npiggin@gmail.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/interrupt: Perf NMI should not take normal exit path</title>
<updated>2022-10-18T11:46:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-06T14:04:11Z</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:dc398a084d459f065658855454e09f2778f8c5cc</id>
<content type='text'>
NMI interrupts should exit with EXCEPTION_RESTORE_REGS not with
interrupt_return_srr, which is what the perf NMI handler currently does.
This breaks if a PMI hits after interrupt_exit_user_prepare_main() has
switched the context tracking to user mode, then the CT_WARN_ON() in
interrupt_exit_kernel_prepare() fires because it returns to kernel with
context set to user.

This could possibly be solved by soft-disabling PMIs in the exit path,
but that reduces our ability to profile that code. The warning could be
removed, but it's potentially useful.

All other NMIs and soft-NMIs return using EXCEPTION_RESTORE_REGS, so
this makes perf interrupts consistent with that and seems like the best
fix.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
[mpe: Squash in fixups from Nick]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221006140413.126443-3-npiggin@gmail.com

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64/interrupt: Prevent NMI PMI causing a dangerous warning</title>
<updated>2022-10-18T11:46:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-14T03:07:29Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
NMI PMIs really should not return using the normal interrupt_return
function. If such a PMI hits in code returning to user with the context
switched to user mode, this warning can fire. This was enough to cause
crashes when reproducing on 64s, because another perf interrupt would
hit while reporting bug, and that would cause another bug, and so on
until smashing the stack.

Work around that particular crash for now by just disabling that context
warning for PMIs. This is a hack and not a complete fix, there could be
other such problems lurking in corners. But it does fix the known crash.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221014030729.2077151-3-npiggin@gmail.com

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'random-6.1-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random</title>
<updated>2022-10-16T22:27:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-16T22:27:07Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull more random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld:
 "This time with some large scale treewide cleanups.

  The intent of this pull is to clean up the way callers fetch random
  integers. The current rules for doing this right are:

   - If you want a secure or an insecure random u64, use get_random_u64()

   - If you want a secure or an insecure random u32, use get_random_u32()

     The old function prandom_u32() has been deprecated for a while
     now and is just a wrapper around get_random_u32(). Same for
     get_random_int().

   - If you want a secure or an insecure random u16, use get_random_u16()

   - If you want a secure or an insecure random u8, use get_random_u8()

   - If you want secure or insecure random bytes, use get_random_bytes().

     The old function prandom_bytes() has been deprecated for a while
     now and has long been a wrapper around get_random_bytes()

   - If you want a non-uniform random u32, u16, or u8 bounded by a
     certain open interval maximum, use prandom_u32_max()

     I say "non-uniform", because it doesn't do any rejection sampling
     or divisions. Hence, it stays within the prandom_*() namespace, not
     the get_random_*() namespace.

     I'm currently investigating a "uniform" function for 6.2. We'll see
     what comes of that.

  By applying these rules uniformly, we get several benefits:

   - By using prandom_u32_max() with an upper-bound that the compiler
     can prove at compile-time is ≤65536 or ≤256, internally
     get_random_u16() or get_random_u8() is used, which wastes fewer
     batched random bytes, and hence has higher throughput.

   - By using prandom_u32_max() instead of %, when the upper-bound is
     not a constant, division is still avoided, because
     prandom_u32_max() uses a faster multiplication-based trick instead.

   - By using get_random_u16() or get_random_u8() in cases where the
     return value is intended to indeed be a u16 or a u8, we waste fewer
     batched random bytes, and hence have higher throughput.

  This series was originally done by hand while I was on an airplane
  without Internet. Later, Kees and I worked on retroactively figuring
  out what could be done with Coccinelle and what had to be done
  manually, and then we split things up based on that.

  So while this touches a lot of files, the actual amount of code that's
  hand fiddled is comfortably small"

* tag 'random-6.1-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random:
  prandom: remove unused functions
  treewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible
  treewide: use get_random_u32() when possible
  treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible, part 2
  treewide: use get_random_{u8,u16}() when possible, part 1
  treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 2
  treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-6.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2022-10-14T18:16:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-14T18:16:18Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:

 - Fix 32-bit syscall wrappers with 64-bit arguments of unaligned
   register-pairs. Notably this broke ftruncate64 &amp; pread/write64, which
   can lead to file corruption.

 - Fix lost interrupts when returning to soft-masked context on 64-bit.

 - Fix build failure when CONFIG_DTL=n.

Thanks to Nicholas Piggin, Jason A. Donenfeld, Guenter Roeck, Arnd
Bergmann, and Sachin Sant.

* tag 'powerpc-6.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/pseries: Fix CONFIG_DTL=n build
  powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix lost interrupts when returning to soft-masked context
  powerpc/32: fix syscall wrappers with 64-bit arguments of unaligned register-pairs
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix lost interrupts when returning to soft-masked context</title>
<updated>2022-10-13T11:29:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-13T06:44:18Z</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:a4cb3651a174366cc85a677da9e3681fbe97fdae</id>
<content type='text'>
It's possible for an interrupt returning to an irqs-disabled context to
lose a pending soft-masked irq because it branches to part of the exit
code for irqs-enabled contexts, which is meant to clear only the
PACA_IRQS_HARD_DIS flag from PACAIRQHAPPENED by zeroing the byte. This
just looks like a simple thinko from a recent commit (if there was no
hard mask pending, there would be no reason to clear it anyway).

This also adds comment to the code that actually does need to clear the
flag.

Fixes: e485f6c751e0a ("powerpc/64/interrupt: Fix return to masked context after hard-mask irq becomes pending")
Reported-by: Sachin Sant &lt;sachinp@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221013064418.1311104-1-npiggin@gmail.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-10-12T18:00:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-12T18:00:22Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.zx2c4.com/linux-dev/commit/?id=676cb4957396411fdb7aba906d5f950fc3de7cc9'/>
<id>urn:sha1:676cb4957396411fdb7aba906d5f950fc3de7cc9</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - hfs and hfsplus kmap API modernization (Fabio Francesco)

 - make crash-kexec work properly when invoked from an NMI-time panic
   (Valentin Schneider)

 - ntfs bugfixes (Hawkins Jiawei)

 - improve IPC msg scalability by replacing atomic_t's with percpu
   counters (Jiebin Sun)

 - nilfs2 cleanups (Minghao Chi)

 - lots of other single patches all over the tree!

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits)
  include/linux/entry-common.h: remove has_signal comment of arch_do_signal_or_restart() prototype
  proc: test how it holds up with mapping'less process
  mailmap: update Frank Rowand email address
  ia64: mca: use strscpy() is more robust and safer
  init/Kconfig: fix unmet direct dependencies
  ia64: update config files
  nilfs2: replace WARN_ONs by nilfs_error for checkpoint acquisition failure
  fork: remove duplicate included header files
  init/main.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
  proc: mark more files as permanent
  nilfs2: remove the unneeded result variable
  nilfs2: delete unnecessary checks before brelse()
  checkpatch: warn for non-standard fixes tag style
  usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file
  ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter
  percpu: add percpu_counter_add_local and percpu_counter_sub_local
  fs/ocfs2: fix repeated words in comments
  relay: use kvcalloc to alloc page array in relay_alloc_page_array
  proc: make config PROC_CHILDREN depend on PROC_FS
  fs: uninline inode_maybe_inc_iversion()
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/32: fix syscall wrappers with 64-bit arguments of unaligned register-pairs</title>
<updated>2022-10-12T13:49:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-12T03:53:34Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
powerpc 32-bit system call (and function) calling convention for 64-bit
arguments requires the next available odd-pair (two sequential registers
with the first being odd-numbered) from the standard register argument
allocation.

The first argument register is r3, so a 64-bit argument that appears at
an even position in the argument list must skip a register (unless there
were preceding 64-bit arguments, which might throw things off). This
requires non-standard compat definitions to deal with the holes in the
argument register allocation.

With pt_regs syscall wrappers which use a standard mapper to map pt_regs
GPRs to function arguments, 32-bit kernels hit the same basic problem,
the standard definitions don't cope with the unused argument registers.

Fix this by having 32-bit kernels share those syscall definitions with
compat.

Thanks to Jason for spending a lot of time finding and bisecting this
and developing a trivial reproducer. The perfect bug report.

Reported-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 7e92e01b72452 ("powerpc: Provide syscall wrapper")
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221012035335.866440-1-npiggin@gmail.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1</title>
<updated>2022-10-11T23:42:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-05T14:43:38Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.zx2c4.com/linux-dev/commit/?id=81895a65ec63ee1daec3255dc1a06675d2fbe915'/>
<id>urn:sha1:81895a65ec63ee1daec3255dc1a06675d2fbe915</id>
<content type='text'>
Rather than incurring a division or requesting too many random bytes for
the given range, use the prandom_u32_max() function, which only takes
the minimum required bytes from the RNG and avoids divisions. This was
done mechanically with this coccinelle script:

@basic@
expression E;
type T;
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u64;
@@
(
- ((T)get_random_u32() % (E))
+ prandom_u32_max(E)
|
- ((T)get_random_u32() &amp; ((E) - 1))
+ prandom_u32_max(E * XXX_MAKE_SURE_E_IS_POW2)
|
- ((u64)(E) * get_random_u32() &gt;&gt; 32)
+ prandom_u32_max(E)
|
- ((T)get_random_u32() &amp; ~PAGE_MASK)
+ prandom_u32_max(PAGE_SIZE)
)

@multi_line@
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
identifier RAND;
expression E;
@@

-       RAND = get_random_u32();
        ... when != RAND
-       RAND %= (E);
+       RAND = prandom_u32_max(E);

// Find a potential literal
@literal_mask@
expression LITERAL;
type T;
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
position p;
@@

        ((T)get_random_u32()@p &amp; (LITERAL))

// Add one to the literal.
@script:python add_one@
literal &lt;&lt; literal_mask.LITERAL;
RESULT;
@@

value = None
if literal.startswith('0x'):
        value = int(literal, 16)
elif literal[0] in '123456789':
        value = int(literal, 10)
if value is None:
        print("I don't know how to handle %s" % (literal))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif value == 2**32 - 1 or value == 2**31 - 1 or value == 2**24 - 1 or value == 2**16 - 1 or value == 2**8 - 1:
        print("Skipping 0x%x for cleanup elsewhere" % (value))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif value &amp; (value + 1) != 0:
        print("Skipping 0x%x because it's not a power of two minus one" % (value))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif literal.startswith('0x'):
        coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_expr("0x%x" % (value + 1))
else:
        coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_expr("%d" % (value + 1))

// Replace the literal mask with the calculated result.
@plus_one@
expression literal_mask.LITERAL;
position literal_mask.p;
expression add_one.RESULT;
identifier FUNC;
@@

-       (FUNC()@p &amp; (LITERAL))
+       prandom_u32_max(RESULT)

@collapse_ret@
type T;
identifier VAR;
expression E;
@@

 {
-       T VAR;
-       VAR = (E);
-       return VAR;
+       return E;
 }

@drop_var@
type T;
identifier VAR;
@@

 {
-       T VAR;
        ... when != VAR
 }

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt; # for ext4 and sbitmap
Reviewed-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt; # for drbd
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt; # for s390
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt; # for mmc
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt; # for xfs
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
</content>
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