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Dave Martin 936eb65ca2 arm64: ptrace: Flush user-RW TLS reg to thread_struct before reading
When reading current's user-writable TLS register (which occurs
when dumping core for native tasks), it is possible that userspace
has modified it since the time the task was last scheduled out.
The new TLS register value is not guaranteed to have been written
immediately back to thread_struct in this case.

As a result, a coredump can capture stale data for this register.
Reading the register for a stopped task via ptrace is unaffected.

For native tasks, this patch explicitly flushes the TPIDR_EL0
register back to thread_struct before dumping when operating on
current, thus ensuring that coredump contents are up to date.  For
compat tasks, the TLS register is not user-writable and so cannot
be out of sync, so no flush is required in compat_tls_get().

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2017-06-22 15:58:20 +01:00
Documentation Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2017-05-26 16:45:13 -07:00
arch arm64: ptrace: Flush user-RW TLS reg to thread_struct before reading 2017-06-22 15:58:20 +01:00
block Merge branch 'nvme-4.12' of git://git.infradead.org/nvme into for-linus 2017-05-26 09:11:19 -06:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto crypto: skcipher - Add missing API setkey checks 2017-05-18 13:04:05 +08:00
drivers drivers/char: kmem: disable on arm64 2017-06-20 12:42:42 +01:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs fs/proc: kcore: use kcore_list type to check for vmalloc/module address 2017-06-20 12:42:57 +01:00
include ACPI/IORT: Remove iort_node_match() 2017-06-15 11:41:37 +01:00
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 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-27 09:14:24 -07:00
lib test_bpf: Add a couple of tests for BPF_JSGE. 2017-05-25 14:37:56 -04:00
mm mm: vmscan: scan until it finds eligible pages 2017-05-12 15:57:16 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-05-26 13:51:01 -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 sound fixes for 4.12-rc3 2017-05-26 09:03:09 -07:00
tools powerpc fixes for 4.12 #4 2017-05-27 09:28:34 -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
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.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
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MAINTAINERS TTY/Serial fixes for 4.12-rc3 2017-05-27 09:39:09 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.12-rc3 2017-05-28 17:20:53 -07:00
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.