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Andy Lutomirski ff17bbe0bb x86/vdso: Prevent segfaults due to hoisted vclock reads 
GCC 5.5.0 sometimes cleverly hoists reads of the pvclock and/or hvclock
pages before the vclock mode checks.  This creates a path through
vclock_gettime() in which no vclock is enabled at all (due to disabled
TSC on old CPUs, for example) but the pvclock or hvclock page
nevertheless read.  This will segfault on bare metal.

This fixes commit 459e3a2153 ("gcc-9: properly declare the
{pv,hv}clock_page storage") in the sense that, before that commit, GCC
didn't seem to generate the offending code.  There was nothing wrong
with that commit per se, and -stable maintainers should backport this to
all supported kernels regardless of whether the offending commit was
present, since the same crash could just as easily be triggered by the
phase of the moon.

On GCC 9.1.1, this doesn't seem to affect the generated code at all, so
I'm not too concerned about performance regressions from this fix.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Reported-by: Duncan Roe <duncan_roe@optusnet.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-06-21 13:31:52 -07:00
arch x86/vdso: Prevent segfaults due to hoisted vclock reads 2019-06-21 13:31:52 -07:00
block block: fix page leak when merging to same page 2019-06-17 09:33:04 -06:00
certs treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 36 2019-05-24 17:27:11 +02:00
crypto treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
Documentation Char/Misc driver fixes for 5.2-rc6 2019-06-21 10:18:16 -07:00
drivers drm vmwgfx, panfrost, i915, imx fixes 2019-06-21 11:03:33 -07:00
fs SPDX update for 5.2-rc6 2019-06-21 09:58:42 -07:00
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init Char/Misc driver fixes for 5.2-rc4 2019-06-08 12:50:36 -07:00
ipc treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 441 2019-06-05 17:37:17 +02:00
kernel SPDX update for 5.2-rc6 2019-06-21 09:58:42 -07:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.