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@ 2015-07-03 19:44 Andy Lutomirski
  2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 01/17] selftests/x86: Add a test for 32-bit fast syscall arg faults Andy Lutomirski
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From: Andy Lutomirski @ 2015-07-03 19:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: x86, linux-kernel
  Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker, Rik van Riel, Oleg Nesterov,
	Denys Vlasenko, Borislav Petkov, Kees Cook, Brian Gerst, paulmck,
	Andy Lutomirski

This is the first big batch of x86 asm-to-C conversion patches.

The exit-to-usermode code is copied in several places and is written
in a nasty combination of asm and C.  It's not at all clear what
it's supposed to do, and the way it's structured makes it very hard
to work with.  For example, it's not even clear why syscall exit
hooks are called only once per syscall right now.  (It seems to be a
side effect of the way that rdi and rdx are handled in the asm loop,
and it seems reliable, but it's still pointlessly complicated.)  The
existing code also makes context tracking overly complicated and
hard to understand.  Finally, it's nearly impossible for anyone to
change what happens on exit to usermode, since the existing code is
so fragile.

I tried to clean it up incrementally, but I decided it was too hard.
Instead, this series just replaces the code.  It seems to work.

Context tracking in particular works very differently now.  The
low-level entry code checks that we're in CONTEXT_USER and switches
to CONTEXT_KERNEL.  The exit code does the reverse.  There is no
need to track what CONTEXT_XYZ state we came from, because we
already know.  Similarly, SCHEDULE_USER is gone, since we can
reschedule if needed by simply calling schedule() from C code.

The main things that are missing are that I haven't done the 32-bit
parts (anyone want to help?) and therefore I haven't deleted the old
C code.  I also think this may break UML for trivial reasons.

IRQ context tracking is still messy.  One the cleanup progresses
to the point that we can enter CONTEXT_KERNEL in syscalls before
enabling interrupts, we can fully clean up IRQ context tracking.

Once these land, I'll send some more :)

Note: we might want to backport patches 1 and 2.

Changes from v4:
 - Remove now-unused SAVE_EXTRA_REGS_RBP macro
 - Fix comment at the top of common.c
 - Decorate internal labels in error_entry with .L
 - Fix two mis-formatted asm lines
 - Undo inadvertent removal of R11 initialization in the sysexit path

I didn't rename the error_entry labels.

Changes from v3:
 - Add the syscall_arg_fault_32 test.
 - Fix a pre-existing bad syscall arg buglet.
 - Fix an asm glitch due to a bad rebase.
 - Fix a CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKDEP warning.
Borislav: the end result of this series differs from the v3.91 that I
only in the removal of a single trailing tab.  The badarg patch is in
a different place now, though, since we might want to backport it.

Changes from v2: Misplaced the actual list -- sorry.

Changes from v1:
 - Fix bisection failure by squashing the 64-bit native and compat syscall
   conversions together.  The intermediate state didn't built, and fixing
   it isn't worthwhile (the results will be harder to understand).
 - Replace context_tracking_assert_state with CT_WARN_ON and ct_state.
 - The last two patches are now.  I incorrectly thought that we weren't
   ready for them yet on 32-bit kernels, but I was wrong.

Andy Lutomirski (16):
  selftests/x86: Add a test for 32-bit fast syscall arg faults
  x86/entry/64/compat: Fix bad fast syscall arg failure path
  context_tracking: Add ct_state and CT_WARN_ON
  notifiers: Assert that RCU is watching in notify_die
  x86: Move C entry and exit code to arch/x86/entry/common.c
  x86/traps: Assert that we're in CONTEXT_KERNEL in exception entries
  x86/entry: Add enter_from_user_mode and use it in syscalls
  x86/entry: Add new, comprehensible entry and exit hooks
  x86/entry/64: Really create an error-entry-from-usermode code path
  x86/entry/64: Migrate 64-bit and compat syscalls to new exit hooks
  x86/asm/entry/64: Save all regs on interrupt entry
  x86/asm/entry/64: Simplify irq stack pt_regs handling
  x86/asm/entry/64: Migrate error and interrupt exit work to C
  x86/entry: Remove exception_enter from most trap handlers
  x86/entry: Remove SCHEDULE_USER and asm/context-tracking.h
  x86/irq: Document how IRQ context tracking works and add an assertion

Ingo Molnar (1):
  uml: Fix do_signal() prototype

 arch/um/include/shared/kern_util.h              |   3 +-
 arch/um/kernel/process.c                        |   6 +-
 arch/um/kernel/signal.c                         |   8 +-
 arch/um/kernel/tlb.c                            |   2 +-
 arch/um/kernel/trap.c                           |   2 +-
 arch/x86/entry/Makefile                         |   1 +
 arch/x86/entry/calling.h                        |   3 -
 arch/x86/entry/common.c                         | 374 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S                       | 197 ++++---------
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S                |  46 ++-
 arch/x86/include/asm/context_tracking.h         |  10 -
 arch/x86/include/asm/signal.h                   |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h                    |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c                |   5 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p5.c                 |   5 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/winchip.c            |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/irq.c                           |  15 +
 arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c                        | 202 +------------
 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c                        |  28 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c                         |  87 ++----
 include/linux/context_tracking.h                |  15 +
 include/linux/context_tracking_state.h          |   1 +
 kernel/notifier.c                               |   2 +
 tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile            |   2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_arg_fault.c | 130 ++++++++
 25 files changed, 681 insertions(+), 472 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/entry/common.c
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/context_tracking.h
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_arg_fault.c

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2.4.3


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2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 04/17] context_tracking: Add ct_state and CT_WARN_ON Andy Lutomirski
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2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 05/17] notifiers: Assert that RCU is watching in notify_die Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-07 10:50   ` [tip:x86/asm] notifiers, RCU: Assert that RCU is watching in notify_die() tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 06/17] x86: Move C entry and exit code to arch/x86/entry/common.c Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-07 10:50   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/entry: Move C entry and exit code to arch/x86/ entry/common.c tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 07/17] x86/traps: Assert that we're in CONTEXT_KERNEL in exception entries Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-07 10:51   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/traps, context_tracking: Assert that we' re " tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 08/17] x86/entry: Add enter_from_user_mode and use it in syscalls Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-07 10:51   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/entry: Add enter_from_user_mode() " tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-14 23:00     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-07-14 23:04       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-14 23:28         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-12-21 20:50   ` [PATCH v5 08/17] x86/entry: Add enter_from_user_mode " Sasha Levin
2015-12-21 22:44     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 09/17] x86/entry: Add new, comprehensible entry and exit hooks Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-07 10:51   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/entry: Add new, comprehensible entry and exit handlers written in C tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-14 23:07     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-07-15 19:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-15 20:46         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-15 21:25           ` [PATCH] x86/entry: Fix _TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY check in prepare_exit_to_usermode Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-18  3:25             ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 10/17] x86/entry/64: Really create an error-entry-from-usermode code path Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-07 10:52   ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 11/17] x86/entry/64: Migrate 64-bit and compat syscalls to new exit hooks Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-07 10:52   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/entry/64: Migrate 64-bit and compat syscalls to the new exit handlers and remove old assembly code tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 12/17] x86/asm/entry/64: Save all regs on interrupt entry Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-07 10:52   ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 13/17] x86/asm/entry/64: Simplify irq stack pt_regs handling Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-07 10:53   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry/64: Simplify IRQ " tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 14/17] x86/asm/entry/64: Migrate error and interrupt exit work to C Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-07 10:53   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry/64: Migrate error and IRQ exit work to C and remove old assembly code tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-11 22:18     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-08-11 22:25       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-11 22:49         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-08-11 22:59           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-12  1:02             ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-12 13:13             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-08-11 22:38     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-08-11 22:51       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-11 23:22         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-08-11 23:33           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-12 13:32             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-08-12 14:59               ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-18 22:34                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-08-18 22:40                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-19 17:18                     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-08-19 18:02                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 15/17] x86/entry: Remove exception_enter from most trap handlers Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-07 10:53   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/entry: Remove exception_enter() " tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 16/17] x86/entry: Remove SCHEDULE_USER and asm/context-tracking.h Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-07 10:54   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/entry: Remove SCHEDULE_USER and asm/ context-tracking.h tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-03 19:44 ` [PATCH v5 17/17] x86/irq: Document how IRQ context tracking works and add an assertion Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-07 10:54   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/irq, context_tracking: Document how IRQ context tracking works and add an RCU assertion tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-14 23:26     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-07-14 23:33       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-18 13:23         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-07-18 14:10           ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-07 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 00/17] x86: Rewrite exit-to-userspace code Ingo Molnar
2015-07-07 16:03   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-07 17:55     ` [PATCH] x86/entry/64: Fix warning on compat syscalls with CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n Andy Lutomirski
2015-07-08  9:57       ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/entry/64: Fix IRQ state confusion and related warning on compat syscalls with CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL =n tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
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