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# bce79b0c 02-Feb-2024 Dawei Li <dawei.li@shingroup.cn>

arm64: remove unneeded BUILD_BUG_ON assertion

Since commit c02433dd6de3 ("arm64: split thread_info from task stack"),
CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK is enabled unconditionally for arm64. So
remove this

arm64: remove unneeded BUILD_BUG_ON assertion

Since commit c02433dd6de3 ("arm64: split thread_info from task stack"),
CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK is enabled unconditionally for arm64. So
remove this always-true assertion from arch_dup_task_struct.

Signed-off-by: Dawei Li <dawei.li@shingroup.cn>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202040211.3118918-1-dawei.li@shingroup.cn
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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# bc75d0c0 16-Oct-2023 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

arm64: Avoid cpus_have_const_cap() for ARM64_SSBS

In ssbs_thread_switch() we use cpus_have_const_cap() to check for
ARM64_SSBS, but this is not necessary and alternative_has_cap_*() would
be prefera

arm64: Avoid cpus_have_const_cap() for ARM64_SSBS

In ssbs_thread_switch() we use cpus_have_const_cap() to check for
ARM64_SSBS, but this is not necessary and alternative_has_cap_*() would
be preferable.

For historical reasons, cpus_have_const_cap() is more complicated than
it needs to be. Before cpucaps are finalized, it will perform a bitmap
test of the system_cpucaps bitmap, and once cpucaps are finalized it
will use an alternative branch. This used to be necessary to handle some
race conditions in the window between cpucap detection and the
subsequent patching of alternatives and static branches, where different
branches could be out-of-sync with one another (or w.r.t. alternative
sequences). Now that we use alternative branches instead of static
branches, these are all patched atomically w.r.t. one another, and there
are only a handful of cases that need special care in the window between
cpucap detection and alternative patching.

Due to the above, it would be nice to remove cpus_have_const_cap(), and
migrate callers over to alternative_has_cap_*(), cpus_have_final_cap(),
or cpus_have_cap() depending on when their requirements. This will
remove redundant instructions and improve code generation, and will make
it easier to determine how each callsite will behave before, during, and
after alternative patching.

The cpus_have_const_cap() check in ssbs_thread_switch() is an
optimization to avoid the overhead of
spectre_v4_enable_task_mitigation() where all CPUs implement SSBS and
naturally preserve the SSBS bit in SPSR_ELx. In the window between
detecting the ARM64_SSBS system-wide and patching alternative branches
it is benign to continue to call spectre_v4_enable_task_mitigation().

This patch replaces the use of cpus_have_const_cap() with
alternative_has_cap_unlikely(), which will avoid generating code to test
the system_cpucaps bitmap and should be better for all subsequent calls
at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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# de8a660b 02-Oct-2023 Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>

arm: Remove now superfluous sentinel elem from ctl_table arrays

This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) whic

arm: Remove now superfluous sentinel elem from ctl_table arrays

This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Removed the sentinel as well as the explicit size from ctl_isa_vars. The
size is redundant as the initialization sets it. Changed
insn_emulation->sysctl from a 2 element array of struct ctl_table to a
simple struct. This has no consequence for the sysctl registration as it
is forwarded as a pointer. Removed sentinel from sve_defatul_vl_table,
sme_default_vl_table, tagged_addr_sysctl_table and
armv8_pmu_sysctl_table.

This removal is safe because register_sysctl_sz and register_sysctl use
the array size in addition to checking for the sentinel.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

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# ca708599 12-Apr-2023 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

arm64: use XPACLRI to strip PAC

Currently we strip the PAC from pointers using C code, which requires
generating bitmasks, and conditionally clearing/setting bits depending
on bit 55. We can do bett

arm64: use XPACLRI to strip PAC

Currently we strip the PAC from pointers using C code, which requires
generating bitmasks, and conditionally clearing/setting bits depending
on bit 55. We can do better by using XPACLRI directly.

When the logic was originally written to strip PACs from user pointers,
contemporary toolchains used for the kernel had assemblers which were
unaware of the PAC instructions. As stripping the PAC from userspace
pointers required unconditional clearing of a fixed set of bits (which
could be performed with a single instruction), it was simpler to
implement the masking in C than it was to make use of XPACI or XPACLRI.

When support for in-kernel pointer authentication was added, the
stripping logic was extended to cover TTBR1 pointers, requiring several
instructions to handle whether to clear/set bits dependent on bit 55 of
the pointer.

This patch simplifies the stripping of PACs by using XPACLRI directly,
as contemporary toolchains do within __builtin_return_address(). This
saves a number of instructions, especially where
__builtin_return_address() does not implicitly strip the PAC but is
heavily used (e.g. with tracepoints). As the kernel might be compiled
with an assembler without knowledge of XPACLRI, it is assembled using
the 'HINT #7' alias, which results in an identical opcode.

At the same time, I've split ptrauth_strip_insn_pac() into
ptrauth_strip_user_insn_pac() and ptrauth_strip_kernel_insn_pac()
helpers so that we can avoid unnecessary PAC stripping when pointer
authentication is not in use in userspace or kernel respectively.

The underlying xpaclri() macro uses inline assembly which clobbers x30.
The clobber causes the compiler to save/restore the original x30 value
in a frame record (protected with PACIASP and AUTIASP when in-kernel
authentication is enabled), so this does not provide a gadget to alter
the return address. Similarly this does not adversely affect unwinding
due to the presence of the frame record.

The ptrauth_user_pac_mask() and ptrauth_kernel_pac_mask() are exported
from the kernel in ptrace and core dumps, so these are retained. A
subsequent patch will move them out of <asm/compiler.h>.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230412160134.306148-3-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

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# 071c44e4 14-Feb-2023 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

sched/idle: Mark arch_cpu_idle_dead() __noreturn

Before commit 076cbf5d2163 ("x86/xen: don't let xen_pv_play_dead()
return"), in Xen, when a previously offlined CPU was brought back
online, it unexp

sched/idle: Mark arch_cpu_idle_dead() __noreturn

Before commit 076cbf5d2163 ("x86/xen: don't let xen_pv_play_dead()
return"), in Xen, when a previously offlined CPU was brought back
online, it unexpectedly resumed execution where it left off in the
middle of the idle loop.

There were some hacks to make that work, but the behavior was surprising
as do_idle() doesn't expect an offlined CPU to return from the dead (in
arch_cpu_idle_dead()).

Now that Xen has been fixed, and the arch-specific implementations of
arch_cpu_idle_dead() also don't return, give it a __noreturn attribute.

This will cause the compiler to complain if an arch-specific
implementation might return. It also improves code generation for both
caller and callee.

Also fixes the following warning:

vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_idle+0x25f: unreachable instruction

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/60d527353da8c99d4cf13b6473131d46719ed16d.1676358308.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

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# d6138b4a 16-Jan-2023 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

arm64/sme: Provide storage for ZT0

When the system supports SME2 there is an additional register ZT0 which
we must store when the task is using SME. Since ZT0 is accessible only
when PSTATE.ZA is se

arm64/sme: Provide storage for ZT0

When the system supports SME2 there is an additional register ZT0 which
we must store when the task is using SME. Since ZT0 is accessible only
when PSTATE.ZA is set just like ZA we allocate storage for it along with
ZA, increasing the allocation size for the memory region where we store
ZA and storing the data for ZT after that for ZA.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221208-arm64-sme2-v4-9-f2fa0aef982f@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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# ce514000 16-Jan-2023 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

arm64/sme: Rename za_state to sme_state

In preparation for adding support for storage for ZT0 to the thread_struct
rename za_state to sme_state. Since ZT0 is accessible when PSTATE.ZA is
set just li

arm64/sme: Rename za_state to sme_state

In preparation for adding support for storage for ZT0 to the thread_struct
rename za_state to sme_state. Since ZT0 is accessible when PSTATE.ZA is
set just like ZA itself we will extend the allocation done for ZA to
cover it, avoiding the need to further expand task_struct for non-SME
tasks.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221208-arm64-sme2-v4-1-f2fa0aef982f@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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# baa85152 15-Nov-2022 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

arm64/fpsimd: Track the saved FPSIMD state type separately to TIF_SVE

When we save the state for the floating point registers this can be done
in the form visible through either the FPSIMD V registe

arm64/fpsimd: Track the saved FPSIMD state type separately to TIF_SVE

When we save the state for the floating point registers this can be done
in the form visible through either the FPSIMD V registers or the SVE Z and
P registers. At present we track which format is currently used based on
TIF_SVE and the SME streaming mode state but particularly in the SVE case
this limits our options for optimising things, especially around syscalls.
Introduce a new enum which we place together with saved floating point
state in both thread_struct and the KVM guest state which explicitly
states which format is active and keep it up to date when we change it.

At present we do not use this state except to verify that it has the
expected value when loading the state, future patches will introduce
functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221115094640.112848-3-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

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# 8032bf12 10-Oct-2022 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function

This is a simple mechanical transformation done by:

@@
expression E;
@@
- prandom_u32_max
+ get_random_u32_below
(E)

Reviewed-

treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function

This is a simple mechanical transformation done by:

@@
expression E;
@@
- prandom_u32_max
+ get_random_u32_below
(E)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> # for xfs
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> # for damon
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> # for infiniband
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> # for arm
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> # for mmc
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

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# 81895a65 05-Oct-2022 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1

Rather than incurring a division or requesting too many random bytes for
the given range, use the prandom_u32_max() function, which only takes
t

treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1

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() & ((E) - 1))
+ prandom_u32_max(E * XXX_MAKE_SURE_E_IS_POW2)
|
- ((u64)(E) * get_random_u32() >> 32)
+ prandom_u32_max(E)
|
- ((T)get_random_u32() & ~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 & (LITERAL))

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

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# 2be9880d 19-Aug-2022 Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>

kernel: exit: cleanup release_thread()

Only x86 has own release_thread(), introduce a new weak release_thread()
function to clean empty definitions in other ARCHs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2

kernel: exit: cleanup release_thread()

Only x86 has own release_thread(), introduce a new weak release_thread()
function to clean empty definitions in other ARCHs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220819014406.32266-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> [csky]
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Brian Cain <bcain@quicinc.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> [powerpc]
Acked-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> [openrisc]
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Acked-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> [LoongArch]
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> [csky]
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Xuerui Wang <kernel@xen0n.name>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.osdn.me>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# 0c649914 09-May-2022 Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com>

arm64: Use do_kernel_power_off()

Kernel now supports chained power-off handlers. Use do_kernel_power_off()
that invokes chained power-off handlers. It also invokes legacy
pm_power_off() for now, whi

arm64: Use do_kernel_power_off()

Kernel now supports chained power-off handlers. Use do_kernel_power_off()
that invokes chained power-off handlers. It also invokes legacy
pm_power_off() for now, which will be removed once all drivers will
be converted to the new sys-off API.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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# 5bd2e97c 12-Apr-2022 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling

Add fn and fn_arg members into struct kernel_clone_args and test for
them in copy_thread (instead of testing for PF_KTHREAD | PF_IO_WORKER).
This allows any ta

fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling

Add fn and fn_arg members into struct kernel_clone_args and test for
them in copy_thread (instead of testing for PF_KTHREAD | PF_IO_WORKER).
This allows any task that wants to be a user space task that only runs
in kernel mode to use this functionality.

The code on x86 is an exception and still retains a PF_KTHREAD test
because x86 unlikely everything else handles kthreads slightly
differently than user space tasks that start with a function.

The functions that created tasks that start with a function
have been updated to set ".fn" and ".fn_arg" instead of
".stack" and ".stack_size". These functions are fork_idle(),
create_io_thread(), kernel_thread(), and user_mode_thread().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-4-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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# c5febea0 08-Apr-2022 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread

With io_uring we have started supporting tasks that are for most
purposes user space tasks that exclusively run code in kernel mode.

The kernel

fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread

With io_uring we have started supporting tasks that are for most
purposes user space tasks that exclusively run code in kernel mode.

The kernel task that exec's init and tasks that exec user mode
helpers are also user mode tasks that just run kernel code
until they call kernel execve.

Pass kernel_clone_args into copy_thread so these oddball
tasks can be supported more cleanly and easily.

v2: Fix spelling of kenrel_clone_args on h8300
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-2-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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# 2e29b997 26-Apr-2022 Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@vivo.com>

arm64/sme: Fix NULL check after kzalloc

Fix following coccicheck error:
./arch/arm64/kernel/process.c:322:2-23: alloc with no test, possible model on line 326

Here should be dst->thread.sve_state.

arm64/sme: Fix NULL check after kzalloc

Fix following coccicheck error:
./arch/arm64/kernel/process.c:322:2-23: alloc with no test, possible model on line 326

Here should be dst->thread.sve_state.

Fixes: 8bd7f91c03d8 ("arm64/sme: Implement traps and syscall handling for SME")
Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@vivo.com>
Reviwed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220426113054.630983-1-wanjiabing@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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# 8bd7f91c 19-Apr-2022 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

arm64/sme: Implement traps and syscall handling for SME

By default all SME operations in userspace will trap. When this happens
we allocate storage space for the SME register state, set up the SVE

arm64/sme: Implement traps and syscall handling for SME

By default all SME operations in userspace will trap. When this happens
we allocate storage space for the SME register state, set up the SVE
registers and disable traps. We do not need to initialize ZA since the
architecture guarantees that it will be zeroed when enabled and when we
trap ZA is disabled.

On syscall we exit streaming mode if we were previously in it and ensure
that all but the lower 128 bits of the registers are zeroed while
preserving the state of ZA. This follows the aarch64 PCS for SME, ZA
state is preserved over a function call and streaming mode is exited.
Since the traps for SME do not distinguish between streaming mode SVE
and ZA usage if ZA is in use rather than reenabling traps we instead
zero the parts of the SVE registers not shared with FPSIMD and leave SME
enabled, this simplifies handling SME traps. If ZA is not in use then we
reenable SME traps and fall through to normal handling of SVE.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220419112247.711548-17-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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# b40c559b 19-Apr-2022 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

arm64/sme: Implement SVCR context switching

In SME the use of both streaming SVE mode and ZA are tracked through
PSTATE.SM and PSTATE.ZA, visible through the system register SVCR. In
order to conte

arm64/sme: Implement SVCR context switching

In SME the use of both streaming SVE mode and ZA are tracked through
PSTATE.SM and PSTATE.ZA, visible through the system register SVCR. In
order to context switch the floating point state for SME we need to
context switch the contents of this register as part of context
switching the floating point state.

Since changing the vector length exits streaming SVE mode and disables
ZA we also make sure we update SVCR appropriately when setting vector
length, and similarly ensure that new threads have streaming SVE mode
and ZA disabled.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220419112247.711548-14-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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# a9d69158 19-Apr-2022 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

arm64/sme: Implement support for TPIDR2

The Scalable Matrix Extension introduces support for a new thread specific
data register TPIDR2 intended for use by libc. The kernel must save the
value of TP

arm64/sme: Implement support for TPIDR2

The Scalable Matrix Extension introduces support for a new thread specific
data register TPIDR2 intended for use by libc. The kernel must save the
value of TPIDR2 on context switch and should ensure that all new threads
start off with a default value of 0. Add a field to the thread_struct to
store TPIDR2 and context switch it with the other thread specific data.

In case there are future extensions which also use TPIDR2 we introduce
system_supports_tpidr2() and use that rather than system_supports_sme()
for TPIDR2 handling.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220419112247.711548-13-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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# cf220ad6 09-Mar-2022 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

arm64/mte: Remove asymmetric mode from the prctl() interface

As pointed out by Evgenii Stepanov one potential issue with the new ABI for
enabling asymmetric is that if there are multiple places wher

arm64/mte: Remove asymmetric mode from the prctl() interface

As pointed out by Evgenii Stepanov one potential issue with the new ABI for
enabling asymmetric is that if there are multiple places where MTE is
configured in a process, some of which were compiled with the old prctl.h
and some of which were compiled with the new prctl.h, there may be problems
keeping track of which MTE modes are requested. For example some code may
disable only sync and async modes leaving asymmetric mode enabled when it
intended to fully disable MTE.

In order to avoid such mishaps remove asymmetric mode from the prctl(),
instead implicitly allowing it if both sync and async modes are requested.
This should not disrupt userspace since a process requesting both may
already see a mix of sync and async modes due to differing defaults between
CPUs or changes in default while the process is running but it does mean
that userspace is unable to explicitly request asymmetric mode without
changing the system default for CPUs.

Reported-by: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: Branislav Rankov <branislav.rankov@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220309131200.112637-1-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

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# 766121ba 16-Feb-2022 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

arm64/mte: Add userspace interface for enabling asymmetric mode

The architecture provides an asymmetric mode for MTE where tag mismatches
are checked asynchronously for stores but synchronously for

arm64/mte: Add userspace interface for enabling asymmetric mode

The architecture provides an asymmetric mode for MTE where tag mismatches
are checked asynchronously for stores but synchronously for loads. Allow
userspace processes to select this and make it available as a default mode
via the existing per-CPU sysfs interface.

Since there PR_MTE_TCF_ values are a bitmask (allowing the kernel to choose
between the multiple modes) and there are no free bits adjacent to the
existing PR_MTE_TCF_ bits the set of bits used to specify the mode becomes
disjoint. Programs using the new interface should be aware of this and
programs that do not use it will not see any change in behaviour.

When userspace requests two possible modes but the system default for the
CPU is the third mode (eg, default is synchronous but userspace requests
either asynchronous or asymmetric) the preference order is:

ASYMM > ASYNC > SYNC

This situation is not currently possible since there are only two modes and
it is mandatory to have a system default so there could be no ambiguity and
there is no ABI change. The chosen order is basically arbitrary as we do not
have a clear metric for what is better here.

If userspace requests specifically asymmetric mode via the prctl() and the
system does not support it then we will return an error, this mirrors
how we handle the case where userspace enables MTE on a system that does
not support MTE at all and the behaviour that will be seen if running on
an older kernel that does not support userspace use of asymmetric mode.

Attempts to set asymmetric mode as the default mode will result in an error
if the system does not support it.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <Vincenzo.Frascino@arm.com>
Tested-by: Branislav Rankov <branislav.rankov@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220216173224.2342152-5-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

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# 38e0257e 20-Dec-2021 D Scott Phillips <scott@os.amperecomputing.com>

arm64: errata: Fix exec handling in erratum 1418040 workaround

The erratum 1418040 workaround enables CNTVCT_EL1 access trapping in EL0
when executing compat threads. The workaround is applied when

arm64: errata: Fix exec handling in erratum 1418040 workaround

The erratum 1418040 workaround enables CNTVCT_EL1 access trapping in EL0
when executing compat threads. The workaround is applied when switching
between tasks, but the need for the workaround could also change at an
exec(), when a non-compat task execs a compat binary or vice versa. Apply
the workaround in arch_setup_new_exec().

This leaves a small window of time between SET_PERSONALITY and
arch_setup_new_exec where preemption could occur and confuse the old
workaround logic that compares TIF_32BIT between prev and next. Instead, we
can just read cntkctl to make sure it's in the state that the next task
needs. I measured cntkctl read time to be about the same as a mov from a
general-purpose register on N1. Update the workaround logic to examine the
current value of cntkctl instead of the previous task's compat state.

Fixes: d49f7d7376d0 ("arm64: Move handling of erratum 1418040 into C code")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.9.x
Signed-off-by: D Scott Phillips <scott@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211220234114.3926-1-scott@os.amperecomputing.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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# 4f62bb7c 29-Nov-2021 Madhavan T. Venkataraman <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com>

arm64: Make __get_wchan() use arch_stack_walk()

To enable RELIABLE_STACKTRACE and LIVEPATCH on arm64, we need to
substantially rework arm64's unwinding code. As part of this, we want to
minimize the

arm64: Make __get_wchan() use arch_stack_walk()

To enable RELIABLE_STACKTRACE and LIVEPATCH on arm64, we need to
substantially rework arm64's unwinding code. As part of this, we want to
minimize the set of unwind interfaces we expose, and avoid open-coding
of unwind logic outside of stacktrace.c.

Currently, __get_wchan() walks the stack of a blocked task by calling
start_backtrace() with the task's saved PC and FP values, and iterating
unwind steps using unwind_frame(). The initialization is functionally
equivalent to calling arch_stack_walk() with the blocked task, which
will start with the task's saved PC and FP values.

Currently __get_wchan() always performs an initial unwind step, which
will stkip __switch_to(), but as this is now marked as a __sched
function, this no longer needs special handling and will be skipped in
the same way as other sched functions.

Make __get_wchan() use arch_stack_walk(). This simplifies __get_wchan(),
and in future will alow us to make unwind_frame() private to
stacktrace.c. At the same time, we can simplify the try_get_task_stack()
check and avoid the unnecessary `stack_page` variable.

The change to the skipping logic means we may terminate one frame
earlier than previously where there are an excessive number of sched
functions in the trace, but this isn't seen in practice, and wchan is
best-effort anyway, so this should not be a problem.

Other than the above, there should be no functional change as a result
of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Madhavan T. Venkataraman <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com>
[Mark: rebase atop wchan changes, elaborate commit message, fix includes]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129142849.3056714-6-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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# 86bcbafc 29-Nov-2021 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

arm64: Mark __switch_to() as __sched

Unlike most architectures (and only in keeping with powerpc), arm64 has
a non __sched() function on the path to our cpu_switch_to() assembly
function.

It is exp

arm64: Mark __switch_to() as __sched

Unlike most architectures (and only in keeping with powerpc), arm64 has
a non __sched() function on the path to our cpu_switch_to() assembly
function.

It is expected that for a blocked task, in_sched_functions() can be used
to skip all functions between the raw context switch assembly and the
scheduler functions that call into __switch_to(). This is the behaviour
expected by stack_trace_consume_entry_nosched(), and the behaviour we'd
like to have such that we an simplify arm64's __get_wchan()
implementation to use arch_stack_walk().

This patch mark's arm64's __switch_to as __sched. This *will not* change
the behaviour of arm64's current __get_wchan() implementation, which
always performs an initial unwind step which skips __switch_to(). This
*will* change the behaviour of stack_trace_consume_entry_nosched() and
stack_trace_save_tsk() to match their expected behaviour on blocked
tasks, skipping all scheduler-internal functions including
__switch_to().

Other than the above, there should be no functional change as a result
of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Madhavan T. Venkataraman <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129142849.3056714-4-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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# 42a20f86 29-Sep-2021 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked

Having a stable wchan means the process must be blocked and for it to
stay that way while performing stack unwinding.

Suggested-by: Peter Zij

sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked

Having a stable wchan means the process must be blocked and for it to
stay that way while performing stack unwinding.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> [arm]
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> [arm64]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211008111626.332092234@infradead.org

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# 9fcb2e93 14-Sep-2021 Dan Li <ashimida@linux.alibaba.com>

arm64: Mark __stack_chk_guard as __ro_after_init

__stack_chk_guard is setup once while init stage and never changed
after that.

Although the modification of this variable at runtime will usually
ca

arm64: Mark __stack_chk_guard as __ro_after_init

__stack_chk_guard is setup once while init stage and never changed
after that.

Although the modification of this variable at runtime will usually
cause the kernel to crash (so does the attacker), it should be marked
as __ro_after_init, and it should not affect performance if it is
placed in the ro_after_init section.

Signed-off-by: Dan Li <ashimida@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1631612642-102881-1-git-send-email-ashimida@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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