litmus-rt.git/arch/alpha/lib, branch master

alpha: fix broken network checksum

2014-01-31T17:21:55+00:00

The patch 3ddc5b46a8e90f3c9251338b60191d0a804b0d92 breaks networking on
alpha (there is a follow-up fix 5cfe8f1ba5eebe6f4b6e5858cdb1a5be4f3272a6,
but networking is still broken even with the second patch).

The patch 3ddc5b46a8e90f3c9251338b60191d0a804b0d92 makes
csum_partial_copy_from_user check the pointer with access_ok. However,
csum_partial_copy_from_user is called also from csum_partial_copy_nocheck
and csum_partial_copy_nocheck is called on kernel pointers and it is
supposed not to check pointer validity.

This bug results in ssh session hangs if the system is loaded and bulk
data are printed to ssh terminal.

This patch fixes csum_partial_copy_nocheck to call set_fs(KERNEL_DS), so
that access_ok in csum_partial_copy_from_user accepts kernel-space
addresses.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

alpha: Prevent a NULL ptr dereference in csum_partial_copy.

2013-11-17T00:48:42+00:00

Introduced by 3ddc5b46a8e90f3c92 ("kernel-wide: fix missing validations
on __get/__put/__copy_to/__copy_from_user()").

Also fix some other places which could be problematic in a similar way,
although they hadn't been proved so, as far as I can tell.

Cc: Michael Cree 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

alpha: Eliminate compiler warning from memset macro

2013-11-17T00:33:09+00:00

Compiling with GCC 4.8 yields several instances of

crypto/vmac.c: In function ‘vmac_final’:
crypto/vmac.c:616:9: warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value]
  memset(&mac, 0, sizeof(vmac_t));
         ^
arch/alpha/include/asm/string.h:31:25: note: in definition of macro ‘memset’
     ? __builtin_memset((s),0,(n))          \
                         ^
Converting the macro to an inline function eliminates this problem.

However, doing only that causes problems with the GCC 3.x series.  The
inline function cannot be named "memset", as otherwise we wind up with
recursion via __builtin_memset.  Solve this by adjusting the symbols
such that __memset is the inline, and ___memset is the real function.

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson

kernel-wide: fix missing validations on get/put/__copy_to/__copy_from_user()

2013-09-11T22:58:18+00:00

I found the following pattern that leads in to interesting findings:

  grep -r "ret.*|=.*__put_user" *
  grep -r "ret.*|=.*__get_user" *
  grep -r "ret.*|=.*__copy" *

The __put_user() calls in compat_ioctl.c, ptrace compat, signal compat,
since those appear in compat code, we could probably expect the kernel
addresses not to be reachable in the lower 32-bit range, so I think they
might not be exploitable.

For the "__get_user" cases, I don't think those are exploitable: the worse
that can happen is that the kernel will copy kernel memory into in-kernel
buffers, and will fail immediately afterward.

The alpha csum_partial_copy_from_user() seems to be missing the
access_ok() check entirely.  The fix is inspired from x86.  This could
lead to information leak on alpha.  I also noticed that many architectures
map csum_partial_copy_from_user() to csum_partial_copy_generic(), but I
wonder if the latter is performing the access checks on every
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: David Miller 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: Use new generic strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user()

2012-08-19T15:41:18+00:00

Similar to x86/sparc/powerpc implementations except:
1) we implement an extremely efficient has_zero()/find_zero()
   sequence with both prep_zero_mask() and create_zero_mask()
   no-operations.
2) Our output from prep_zero_mask() differs in that only the
   lowest eight bits are used to represent the zero bytes
   nevertheless it can be safely ORed with other similar masks
   from prep_zero_mask() and forms input to create_zero_mask(),
   the two fundamental properties prep_zero_mask() must satisfy.

Tests on EV67 and EV68 CPUs revealed that the generic code is
essentially as fast (to within 0.5% of CPU cycles) of the old
Alpha specific code for large quadword-aligned strings, despite
the 30% extra CPU instructions executed.  In contrast, the
generic code for unaligned strings is substantially slower (by
more than a factor of 3) than the old Alpha specific code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Cree 
Acked-by: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Disintegrate asm/system.h for Alpha

2012-03-28T17:11:12+00:00

Disintegrate asm/system.h for Alpha.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org

atomic: use

2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00

This allows us to move duplicated code in 
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to 

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

alpha: change to new Makefile flag variables

2011-01-17T04:42:13+00:00

Signed-off-by: matt mooney 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

remove __attribute_used__

2008-01-28T22:21:18+00:00

Remove the deprecated __attribute_used__.

[Introduce __section in a few places to silence checkpatch /sam]

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg