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<title>linux/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, branch v5.17</title>
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<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2021-11-04T15:32:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2021-11-04T15:32:38Z</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of driver core changes for 5.16-rc1.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while now with no reported
  problems.

  Included in here are:

   - big update and cleanup of the sysfs abi documentation files and
     scripts from Mauro. We are almost at the place where we can
     properly check that the running kernel's sysfs abi is documented
     fully.

   - firmware loader updates

   - dyndbg updates

   - kernfs cleanups and fixes from Christoph

   - device property updates

   - component fix

   - other minor driver core cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'driver-core-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (122 commits)
  device property: Drop redundant NULL checks
  x86/build: Tuck away built-in firmware under FW_LOADER
  vmlinux.lds.h: wrap built-in firmware support under FW_LOADER
  firmware_loader: move struct builtin_fw to the only place used
  x86/microcode: Use the firmware_loader built-in API
  firmware_loader: remove old DECLARE_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE()
  firmware_loader: formalize built-in firmware API
  component: do not leave master devres group open after bind
  dyndbg: refine verbosity 1-4 summary-detail
  gpiolib: acpi: Replace custom code with device_match_acpi_handle()
  i2c: acpi: Replace custom function with device_match_acpi_handle()
  driver core: Provide device_match_acpi_handle() helper
  dyndbg: fix spurious vNpr_info change
  dyndbg: no vpr-info on empty queries
  dyndbg: vpr-info on remove-module complete, not starting
  device property: Add missed header in fwnode.h
  Documentation: dyndbg: Improve cli param examples
  dyndbg: Remove support for ddebug_query param
  dyndbg: make dyndbg a known cli param
  dyndbg: show module in vpr-info in dd-exec-queries
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'x86_core_for_v5.16_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T14:56:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2021-11-02T14:56:47Z</published>
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Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Do not #GP on userspace use of CLI/STI but pretend it was a NOP to
   keep old userspace from breaking. Adjust the corresponding iopl
   selftest to that.

 - Improve stack overflow warnings to say which stack got overflowed and
   raise the exception stack sizes to 2 pages since overflowing the
   single page of exception stack is very easy to do nowadays with all
   the tracing machinery enabled. With that, rip out the custom mapping
   of AMD SEV's too.

 - A bunch of changes in preparation for FGKASLR like supporting more
   than 64K section headers in the relocs tool, correct ORC lookup table
   size to cover the whole kernel .text and other adjustments.

* tag 'x86_core_for_v5.16_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  selftests/x86/iopl: Adjust to the faked iopl CLI/STI usage
  vmlinux.lds.h: Have ORC lookup cover entire _etext - _stext
  x86/boot/compressed: Avoid duplicate malloc() implementations
  x86/boot: Allow a "silent" kaslr random byte fetch
  x86/tools/relocs: Support &gt;64K section headers
  x86/sev: Make the #VC exception stacks part of the default stacks storage
  x86: Increase exception stack sizes
  x86/mm/64: Improve stack overflow warnings
  x86/iopl: Fake iopl(3) CLI/STI usage
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<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Have ORC lookup cover entire _etext - _stext</title>
<updated>2021-10-27T09:07:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kristen Carlson Accardi</name>
<email>kristen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-13T17:57:42Z</published>
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When using -ffunction-sections to place each function in its own text
section (so it can be randomized at load time in the future FGKASLR
series), the linker will place most of the functions into separate .text.*
sections. SIZEOF(.text) won't work here for calculating the ORC lookup
table size, so the total text size must be calculated to include .text
AND all .text.* sections.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi &lt;kristen@linux.intel.com&gt;
[ alobakin: move it to vmlinux.lds.h and make arch-indep ]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;alexandr.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211013175742.1197608-5-keescook@chromium.org
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<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: wrap built-in firmware support under FW_LOADER</title>
<updated>2021-10-22T12:13:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis Chamberlain</name>
<email>mcgrof@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-21T15:58:38Z</published>
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The firmware loader built-in firmware is only available when FW_LOADER
is built-in, so tuck away the sections for built-in firmware under it.

This ensures no oddball user tries to uses these sections without
first enabling FW_LOADER=y.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211021155843.1969401-6-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Use linker magic instead of recasting ftrace_ops_list_func()</title>
<updated>2021-10-20T00:33:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-17T20:56:16Z</published>
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In an effort to enable -Wcast-function-type in the top-level Makefile to
support Control Flow Integrity builds, all function casts need to be
removed.

This means that ftrace_ops_list_func() can no longer be defined as
ftrace_ops_no_ops(). The reason for ftrace_ops_no_ops() is to use that when
an architecture calls ftrace_ops_list_func() with only two parameters
(called from assembly). And to make sure there's no C side-effects, those
archs call ftrace_ops_no_ops() which only has two parameters, as
ftrace_ops_list_func() has four parameters.

Instead of a typecast, use vmlinux.lds.h to define ftrace_ops_list_func() to
arch_ftrace_ops_list_func() that will define the proper set of parameters.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200614070154.6039-1-oscar.carter@gmx.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200617165616.52241bde@oasis.local.home
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211005053922.GA702049@embeddedor/

Requested-by: Oscar Carter &lt;oscar.carter@gmx.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: remove old check for GCC 4.9</title>
<updated>2021-09-13T17:18:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-10T23:40:47Z</published>
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Now that GCC 5.1 is the minimally supported version of GCC, we can
effectively revert commit 85c2ce9104eb ("sched, vmlinux.lds: Increase
STRUCT_ALIGNMENT to 64 bytes for GCC-4.9")

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'printk-for-5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux</title>
<updated>2021-09-02T01:41:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-02T01:41:13Z</published>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Optionally, provide an index of possible printk messages via
   &lt;debugfs&gt;/printk/index/. It can be used when monitoring important
   kernel messages on a farm of various hosts. The monitor has to be
   updated when some messages has changed or are not longer available by
   a newly deployed kernel.

 - Add printk.console_no_auto_verbose boot parameter. It allows to
   generate crash dump even with slow consoles in a reasonable time
   frame.

 - Remove printk_safe buffers. The messages are always stored directly
   to the main logbuffer, even in NMI or recursive context. Also it
   allows to serialize syslog operations by a mutex instead of a spin
   lock.

 - Misc clean up and build fixes.

* tag 'printk-for-5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
  printk/index: Fix -Wunused-function warning
  lib/nmi_backtrace: Serialize even messages about idle CPUs
  printk: Add printk.console_no_auto_verbose boot parameter
  printk: Remove console_silent()
  lib/test_scanf: Handle n_bits == 0 in random tests
  printk: syslog: close window between wait and read
  printk: convert @syslog_lock to mutex
  printk: remove NMI tracking
  printk: remove safe buffers
  printk: track/limit recursion
  lib/nmi_backtrace: explicitly serialize banner and regs
  printk: Move the printk() kerneldoc comment to its new home
  printk/index: Fix warning about missing prototypes
  MIPS/asm/printk: Fix build failure caused by printk
  printk: index: Add indexing support to dev_printk
  printk: Userspace format indexing support
  printk: Rework parse_prefix into printk_parse_prefix
  printk: Straighten out log_flags into printk_info_flags
  string_helpers: Escape double quotes in escape_special
  printk/console: Check consistent sequence number when handling race in console_unlock()
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<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Handle clang's module.{c,d}tor sections</title>
<updated>2021-08-11T19:19:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-31T02:31:08Z</published>
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A recent change in LLVM causes module_{c,d}tor sections to appear when
CONFIG_K{A,C}SAN are enabled, which results in orphan section warnings
because these are not handled anywhere:

ld.lld: warning: arch/x86/pci/built-in.a(legacy.o):(.text.asan.module_ctor) is being placed in '.text.asan.module_ctor'
ld.lld: warning: arch/x86/pci/built-in.a(legacy.o):(.text.asan.module_dtor) is being placed in '.text.asan.module_dtor'
ld.lld: warning: arch/x86/pci/built-in.a(legacy.o):(.text.tsan.module_ctor) is being placed in '.text.tsan.module_ctor'

Fangrui explains: "the function asan.module_ctor has the SHF_GNU_RETAIN
flag, so it is in a separate section even with -fno-function-sections
(default)".

Place them in the TEXT_TEXT section so that these technologies continue
to work with the newer compiler versions. All of the KASAN and KCSAN
KUnit tests continue to pass after this change.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1432
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/7b789562244ee941b7bf2cefeb3fc08a59a01865
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210731023107.1932981-1-nathan@kernel.org
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<title>printk: Userspace format indexing support</title>
<updated>2021-07-19T09:57:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Down</name>
<email>chris@chrisdown.name</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-15T16:52:53Z</published>
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We have a number of systems industry-wide that have a subset of their
functionality that works as follows:

1. Receive a message from local kmsg, serial console, or netconsole;
2. Apply a set of rules to classify the message;
3. Do something based on this classification (like scheduling a
   remediation for the machine), rinse, and repeat.

As a couple of examples of places we have this implemented just inside
Facebook, although this isn't a Facebook-specific problem, we have this
inside our netconsole processing (for alarm classification), and as part
of our machine health checking. We use these messages to determine
fairly important metrics around production health, and it's important
that we get them right.

While for some kinds of issues we have counters, tracepoints, or metrics
with a stable interface which can reliably indicate the issue, in order
to react to production issues quickly we need to work with the interface
which most kernel developers naturally use when developing: printk.

Most production issues come from unexpected phenomena, and as such
usually the code in question doesn't have easily usable tracepoints or
other counters available for the specific problem being mitigated. We
have a number of lines of monitoring defence against problems in
production (host metrics, process metrics, service metrics, etc), and
where it's not feasible to reliably monitor at another level, this kind
of pragmatic netconsole monitoring is essential.

As one would expect, monitoring using printk is rather brittle for a
number of reasons -- most notably that the message might disappear
entirely in a new version of the kernel, or that the message may change
in some way that the regex or other classification methods start to
silently fail.

One factor that makes this even harder is that, under normal operation,
many of these messages are never expected to be hit. For example, there
may be a rare hardware bug which one wants to detect if it was to ever
happen again, but its recurrence is not likely or anticipated. This
precludes using something like checking whether the printk in question
was printed somewhere fleetwide recently to determine whether the
message in question is still present or not, since we don't anticipate
that it should be printed anywhere, but still need to monitor for its
future presence in the long-term.

This class of issue has happened on a number of occasions, causing
unhealthy machines with hardware issues to remain in production for
longer than ideal. As a recent example, some monitoring around
blk_update_request fell out of date and caused semi-broken machines to
remain in production for longer than would be desirable.

Searching through the codebase to find the message is also extremely
fragile, because many of the messages are further constructed beyond
their callsite (eg. btrfs_printk and other module-specific wrappers,
each with their own functionality). Even if they aren't, guessing the
format and formulation of the underlying message based on the aesthetics
of the message emitted is not a recipe for success at scale, and our
previous issues with fleetwide machine health checking demonstrate as
much.

This provides a solution to the issue of silently changed or deleted
printks: we record pointers to all printk format strings known at
compile time into a new .printk_index section, both in vmlinux and
modules. At runtime, this can then be iterated by looking at
&lt;debugfs&gt;/printk/index/&lt;module&gt;, which emits the following format, both
readable by humans and able to be parsed by machines:

    $ head -1 vmlinux; shuf -n 5 vmlinux
    # &lt;level[,flags]&gt; filename:line function "format"
    &lt;5&gt; block/blk-settings.c:661 disk_stack_limits "%s: Warning: Device %s is misaligned\n"
    &lt;4&gt; kernel/trace/trace.c:8296 trace_create_file "Could not create tracefs '%s' entry\n"
    &lt;6&gt; arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:144 _hpet_print_config "hpet: %s(%d):\n"
    &lt;6&gt; init/do_mounts.c:605 prepare_namespace "Waiting for root device %s...\n"
    &lt;6&gt; drivers/acpi/osl.c:1410 acpi_no_auto_serialize_setup "ACPI: auto-serialization disabled\n"

This mitigates the majority of cases where we have a highly-specific
printk which we want to match on, as we can now enumerate and check
whether the format changed or the printk callsite disappeared entirely
in userspace. This allows us to catch changes to printks we monitor
earlier and decide what to do about it before it becomes problematic.

There is no additional runtime cost for printk callers or printk itself,
and the assembly generated is exactly the same.

Signed-off-by: Chris Down &lt;chris@chrisdown.name&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt; # for module.{c,h}
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e42070983637ac5e384f17fbdbe86d19c7b212a5.1623775748.git.chris@chrisdown.name
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<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid orphan section with !SMP</title>
<updated>2021-06-02T19:43:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-06T00:14:11Z</published>
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With x86_64_defconfig and the following configs, there is an orphan
section warning:

CONFIG_SMP=n
CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y
CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST=y
CONFIG_KVM=y
CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y

ld: warning: orphan section `.data..decrypted' from `arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.o' being placed in section `.data..decrypted'
ld: warning: orphan section `.data..decrypted' from `arch/x86/kernel/kvm.o' being placed in section `.data..decrypted'

These sections are created with DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED, which
ultimately turns into __PCPU_ATTRS, which in turn has a section
attribute with a value of PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION + the section name. When
CONFIG_SMP is not set, the base section is .data and that is not
currently handled in any linker script.

Add .data..decrypted to PERCPU_DECRYPTED_SECTION, which is included in
PERCPU_INPUT -&gt; PERCPU_SECTION, which is include in the x86 linker
script when either CONFIG_X86_64 or CONFIG_SMP is unset, taking care of
the warning.

Fixes: ac26963a1175 ("percpu: Introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED")
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1360
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt; # build
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210506001410.1026691-1-nathan@kernel.org
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