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Linus Torvalds 33c9e97290 x86: fix 32-bit case of __get_user_asm_u64() 
The code to fetch a 64-bit value from user space was entirely buggered,
and has been since the code was merged in early 2016 in commit
b2f680380d ("x86/mm/32: Add support for 64-bit __get_user() on 32-bit
kernels").

Happily the buggered routine is almost certainly entirely unused, since
the normal way to access user space memory is just with the non-inlined
"get_user()", and the inlined version didn't even historically exist.

The normal "get_user()" case is handled by external hand-written asm in
arch/x86/lib/getuser.S that doesn't have either of these issues.

There were two independent bugs in __get_user_asm_u64():

 - it still did the STAC/CLAC user space access marking, even though
   that is now done by the wrapper macros, see commit 11f1a4b975
   ("x86: reorganize SMAP handling in user space accesses").

   This didn't result in a semantic error, it just means that the
   inlined optimized version was hugely less efficient than the
   allegedly slower standard version, since the CLAC/STAC overhead is
   quite high on modern Intel CPU's.

 - the double register %eax/%edx was marked as an output, but the %eax
   part of it was touched early in the asm, and could thus clobber other
   inputs to the asm that gcc didn't expect it to touch.

   In particular, that meant that the generated code could look like
   this:

        mov    (%eax),%eax
        mov    0x4(%eax),%edx

   where the load of %edx obviously was _supposed_ to be from the 32-bit
   word that followed the source of %eax, but because %eax was
   overwritten by the first instruction, the source of %edx was
   basically random garbage.

The fixes are trivial: remove the extraneous STAC/CLAC entries, and mark
the 64-bit output as early-clobber to let gcc know that no inputs should
alias with the output register.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org   # v4.8+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-21 18:26:54 -07:00
arch x86: fix 32-bit case of __get_user_asm_u64() 2017-05-21 18:26:54 -07:00
block Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm 2017-05-12 15:43:10 -07:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
Documentation Staging driver fixes for 4.12-rc2 2017-05-20 09:02:27 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-21 11:45:26 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-05-20 16:12:30 -07:00
include This fixes a bug caused by not cleaning up the new instance unique triggers 2017-05-20 23:39:03 -07:00
init Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-10 10:30:46 -07:00
ipc mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-21 11:52:00 -07:00
lib dmaengine updates for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-09 15:40:28 -07:00
mm mm: vmscan: scan until it finds eligible pages 2017-05-12 15:57:16 -07:00
net xen: fixes for 4.12 rc2 2017-05-19 15:06:48 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: run cleanup routines when receiving SIGTERM 2017-05-11 21:43:30 -04:00
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.12-rc: 2017-05-19 15:03:24 -07:00
security Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-09 09:12:53 -07:00
sound drm/i915: Fix runtime PM for LPE audio 2017-05-15 14:44:11 +03:00
tools This fixes a bug caused by not cleaning up the new instance unique triggers 2017-05-20 23:39:03 -07:00
usr initramfs: provide a way to ignore image provided by bootloader 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Hold slots_lock when unregistering kvm io bus devices 2017-05-18 11:18:16 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Staging driver fixes for 4.12-rc2 2017-05-20 09:02:27 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: skip install/check of headers right under uapi directories 2017-05-18 02:17:45 +09:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.