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Mark Rutland dc55daff90 kcov: prefault the kcov_area
On many architectures the vmalloc area is lazily faulted in upon first
access.  This is problematic for KCOV, as __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc
accesses the (vmalloc'd) kcov_area, and fault handling code may be
instrumented.  If an access to kcov_area faults, this will result in
mutual recursion through the fault handling code and
__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc(), eventually leading to stack corruption
and/or overflow.

We can avoid this by faulting in the kcov_area before
__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() is permitted to access it.  Once it has been
faulted in, it will remain present in the process page tables, and will
not fault again.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: code cleanup]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment explaining kcov_fault_in_area()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fancier code comment from Mark]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504135535.53744-3-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-15 07:55:24 +09:00
arch mm: fix devmem_is_allowed() for sub-page System RAM intersections 2018-06-15 07:55:23 +09:00
block treewide: Use array_size() in vzalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto treewide: Use array_size() in sock_kmalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
Documentation platform-drivers-x86 for v4.18-1 2018-06-14 16:30:30 +09:00
drivers SCSI fixes on 20180613 2018-06-14 16:35:32 +09:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs exofs: avoid VLA in structures 2018-06-15 07:55:24 +09:00
include mm: fix race between kmem_cache destroy, create and deactivate 2018-06-15 07:55:23 +09:00
init Kbuild updates for v4.18 (2nd) 2018-06-13 08:40:34 -07:00
ipc treewide: kvmalloc() -> kvmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
kernel kcov: prefault the kcov_area 2018-06-15 07:55:24 +09:00
lib Kbuild updates for v4.18 (2nd) 2018-06-13 08:40:34 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm mremap: remove LATENCY_LIMIT from mremap to reduce the number of TLB shootdowns 2018-06-15 07:55:24 +09:00
net - Error path bug fix for overflow tests (Dan) 2018-06-12 18:28:00 -07:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.18 2018-06-12 13:11:26 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.18 (2nd) 2018-06-13 08:40:34 -07:00
security + Features 2018-06-14 16:11:28 +09:00
sound - Error path bug fix for overflow tests (Dan) 2018-06-12 18:28:00 -07:00
tools Additional power management updates for 4.18-rc1 2018-06-13 07:24:18 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt - Error path bug fix for overflow tests (Dan) 2018-06-12 18:28:00 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
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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 updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'asoc-4.17' into asoc-4.18 for compress dependencies 2018-04-26 12:24:28 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2018-06-14 16:21:46 +09:00
Makefile Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables 2018-06-14 12:21:18 +09:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

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.
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.